∴ work — 02 · Traze — self-initiated
Signal Scan — an agent that scopes AI projects
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The challenge
Every AI agency site says 'book a call'. Almost none shows AI doing anything. We wanted the first interaction with Traze to be a working demonstration: useful output before any commitment, sales qualification as a by-product.
The approach
A deliberately bounded agent: structured intake (industry, team size, where hours leak, current stack, goal), a constrained reasoning pass, and a typed output schema — three opportunities ranked by impact and effort, each mapped to an engagement shape. No open-ended chat, no hallucinated promises; when the model is unavailable it degrades to an honest hand-run fallback.
Bounded beats chatty
The scan asks exactly five things and returns exactly one artifact. Constraint is what makes agent output dependable enough to put your name on — the same principle we apply to every client agent.
The demo is the qualification
By the time someone books a call, we know their industry, their bottleneck and their appetite — and they know how we think. Both sides skip a discovery meeting.
Working in public
The scan runs on this site with its methodology documented in the open. Usage numbers join this page as they accrue — real ones, when they exist, not projections.
Stack
Vercel AI SDK
AI Gateway
Zod schemas
Edge-rate-limited API