tsukumo vs a generic AI agency
Most AI agencies sell you a way of working they've only demoed — on a greenfield, with a team that learned AI on someone else's budget. tsukumo is a developer studio that runs agent fleets in production to build its own products, and transitions your team to do the same, on your real stack. The category is noisy — nearly every shop now says "AI in production." The difference isn't the claim, it's whether they've shipped their own software that way.
0104side by side
| tsukumo | A generic AI agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Shipped their own AI products? | Yes — a public, runnable open suite (WRAI.TH, trovex, yoru) built by our own agent fleets | Usually no — services only; the proof is a deck |
| Production or demos | Real work on your real repo, measured, from early | Often POCs and pilots that stall before production |
| Your devs | Become the operators — augment, never replace | Often positioned as cost-reduction / headcount replacement |
| Scope | Narrow and deep: agent operations in production | Broad and shallow: "all AI", chatbots to CV to blockchain |
| What you're left with | An operating model your team runs without us | A dependency, a retainer, or a script and a goodbye |
| Proof | Public tools + qualitative client work, honest about numbers | Logos and metrics, sometimes borrowed or unverifiable |
0204the honest case
When a generic AI agency is the right call
If you need a one-off thing built — a single chatbot, a CV prototype, a quick integration — a generalist or freelancer is faster and cheaper than transitioning a team; don't hire an operating-model change for a script. If you don't have a dev team to augment, our model (your developers become the operators) has nothing to attach to. And if you want the cheapest possible "AI checkbox", we're not that, and we'll say so.
0304common questions
Straight answers.
- Every agency says "AI in production" now — how do I tell them apart?
- Ask either of us to show agents running on your real repo in week one. The studio that builds its own software that way can; the generalist usually can't. The tell isn't the claim, it's the receipt.
- Why does a broad "we do all AI" shop struggle with this?
- It's a breadth problem, not a scam. Making a fleet of agents reliable and trustworthy on one team's real codebase is an operating problem solved by people who've run it in production, not demoed it across ten industries. Breadth sells; depth ships.
- Aren't you just another agency saying this?
- Fair to be skeptical — which is why the proof is public: WRAI.TH, trovex, and yoru are runnable tools our own agent fleets built. You're choosing between buying a deliverable and installing a capability your team keeps.
0404talk to us
or have us build it — same capability, the other door