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External-Facing Agents

Agents that face your customers - designed for safety, brand consistency, and real-world reliability

Agents That Work in the Open

Internal agents operate in a controlled environment. External-facing agents operate in the wild - where users are unpredictable, adversarial inputs are real, and your brand reputation is on the line with every interaction.

Building external agents requires a different design discipline: input validation, injection prevention, graceful degradation, brand-safe personas, and strict data handling for customer information. We architect agents that hold up under real-world pressure.

Use Cases

Customer Intake & Triage

First-contact agents that qualify leads, gather requirements, route to the right human or workflow, and capture structured data - 24/7, without a contact form.

Conversational intake with structured output

CRM integration and lead scoring

Escalation rules and handoff to humans

Support & Knowledge Agents

Grounded-in-your-docs support agents that answer questions from your actual knowledge base - not LLM hallucinations. RAG-backed, citation-supported, and escalation-aware.

RAG-backed answers from your documentation

Source citation for every answer

Ticket creation and tracking integration

Voice AI Agents

Conversational voice agents for phone-based customer interactions - scheduling, status updates, FAQs, and intake - with natural language understanding and graceful fallback to human agents.

STT/TTS integration with LLM reasoning

Conversation state management

DTMF fallback for accessibility

Webhook & Automation Agents

Event-triggered agents that respond to customer actions, process form submissions, trigger downstream workflows, and maintain context across multi-step async sequences.

Webhook-driven agentic workflows

Async multi-step automation pipelines

Integration with Zapier, n8n, custom APIs

Safety & Brand Protection

External agents represent your brand. A single jailbroken response, off-topic hallucination, or leaked customer data can cause real damage. We design multi-layer protection from day one.

Input Validation

Every user input validated before reaching the LLM. Injection detection, length limits, content filtering, and schema validation for structured inputs. Adversarial inputs fail gracefully, not spectacularly.

Brand-Safe Personas

System prompt engineering that enforces brand voice, topic boundaries, and response guardrails. The agent knows what it is, what it can discuss, and what it must refuse - consistently.

Graceful Degradation

When the agent hits its limits - topic out of scope, low confidence, adversarial input - it degrades gracefully: acknowledges limitations, offers alternatives, and escalates to humans when needed.

Customer Data Handling

GDPR/CCPA-compliant data flows for customer interactions. Minimal data collection, consent management, retention policies, and subject access request support built into agent design.

Red Team Testing

Adversarial testing before go-live. We attempt to break your agent - jailbreaks, prompt injection, off-topic manipulation, data extraction attempts - and fix everything we find.

Interaction Monitoring

Production monitoring with anomaly detection on agent outputs. Real-time alerts for unexpected behavior, topic drift, or quality degradation - before your customers notice.

Integration Patterns

Website Embeds

Chat widgets, in-page assistants, and floating agent interfaces embedded directly into your web properties.

API Endpoints

REST or WebSocket agent APIs your own apps and third-party tools can call - with auth, rate limiting, and request validation.

Messaging Channels

Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, SMS - agents that meet your customers where they communicate already.

CRM & Helpdesk

Native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Intercom - agents that write back to your systems of record.