In-House Reasoning Agents at Production Scale
Global Payments Platform
Challenge
Reliance on commercial LLM APIs for reasoning and tool-calling agents created mounting cost, latency, and data-control exposure as usage scaled across multiple business lines.
Approach
Designed and delivered an end-to-end agent factory: synthetic conversational data generation, LLM-as-judge quality scoring, fine-tuning, evaluation, and serving — productized as a config-driven, multi-tenant platform rather than a one-off model.
Outcomes
- Platform adopted as the default path for new model-training initiatives across 6+ business lines
- Fine-tuned a 32B-parameter reasoning model that matched or exceeded baseline tool-calling accuracy at materially lower inference cost than commercial APIs
- New-pipeline setup time reduced from 3–4 weeks to under a day