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Your AI hit its limit. That's where we start.

Token Limit Exceeded is a consulting practice for teams putting AI agents to work: automation that runs unattended, model costs that don't surprise you, and systems that know when to stop and ask a human.

// services

From demo to something that runs on Tuesday at 3 a.m.

Most AI projects stall between a promising prototype and a system someone can trust without watching it. That gap is the whole job.

agents.build()

Agent systems & automation

Multi-agent workflows that pick up work, do it, check it, and write the result back where your team already looks.

  • Task queues, heartbeats and handoffs
  • Email, calendar and document pipelines
  • MCP servers that connect models to your tools
tokens.optimize()

LLM cost & token control

Right-size the model for each job, stop paying frontier prices for lookup work, and put ceilings on spend before it happens.

  • Model routing: frontier, fast and local
  • Rate-limit and context-window resilience
  • Per-workflow cost visibility
workflow.audit()

AI workflow audits

A clear-eyed look at where AI earns its keep in your operation, where it quietly makes things worse, and what to do first.

  • Opportunity map ranked by effort and payoff
  • Risk review: data, access and failure modes
  • A written plan your team can act on
team.enable()

Hands-on enablement

Set your engineers up to work alongside coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, with shared skills, guardrails and review habits.

  • Agent configuration and shared skill libraries
  • Permission and secrets hygiene
  • Working sessions with your team
// how we work

Small scope, real output, then you own it.

Audit

A fixed-scope engagement to map your workflows, data and constraints, and agree on the one or two automations worth building first.

Build

We build in your environment, with your credentials never leaving your control. Every step is verified by running it, not by a model saying it worked.

Hand off

Runbooks, monitoring and a walkthrough, so the system keeps working after we leave. Ongoing support is available but never required.

// principles

Lessons from running agents every day.

We run our own multi-agent operations stack in production. These are the rules it taught us.

Proof beats promises
A task is done when a check passes, not when a model says so. Tools that exit cleanly while producing nothing are common; we test for it.
Fail closed
When an agent can't verify something, it stops and escalates. Silent fallbacks are how small errors become expensive ones.
Humans hold the keys
Money, outbound messages and anything irreversible go through a person. Agents draft; people send.
Cheap model first
Use the smallest model that does the job reliably, and save frontier reasoning for the decisions that need it.
Plan for the limit
Rate limits, context windows and expired tokens are normal operating conditions. Good systems pause, hand off and resume on their own.
// faq

Questions, answered.

Which models and tools do you work with?

Whatever fits the job and your policies: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini and local models, plus agent tooling such as Claude Code, Codex and the Model Context Protocol. We don't resell anything, so the recommendation isn't tied to a vendor.

Do you need access to our data?

Only as much as the work requires, and on your terms. Builds happen in your accounts and environments, secrets stay in your vaults, and access is removed at the end of the engagement.

How big is a typical engagement?

Most start with a short, fixed-scope audit. From there, builds are scoped one automation at a time, so you see a working result before committing to more.

Why the name?

Because every serious AI system eventually hits a limit: a rate limit, a context window, a budget, or the edge of what the model can do reliably. Designing for that moment is most of the work.

// contact

Have a workflow that should run itself?

Tell us what it is, what it touches, and what happens today when it goes wrong. We'll reply with whether we can help and what a first step looks like.

$ response_time --expected="within two business days"