AI Engineer Needed to Prototype Agentic Workflow for Existing Business Process

We are an established business exploring whether an existing manual workflow can be automated using agentic AI. Before committing to a larger implementation, we want an experienced AI engineer or team to build a small working prototype and recommend an appropriate production architecture. The selected workflow involves accessing information from existing systems, reasoning over the available data and producing or triggering an appropriate action. The project would include: -Understanding the existing workflow -Designing a simple agent architecture -Connecting the agent to one or two tools/APIs -Implementing basic tool/function calling -Testing the workflow against representative scenarios -Identifying limitations and potential failure cases -Providing recommendations for a production implementation -Providing an estimate for the next development phase Experience with Python, LLM APIs, agent orchestration, APIs and production AI systems is preferred. We are specifically looking for someone who can determine when AI should be used versus conventional application logic. If the prototype is successful, there is potential for a considerably larger implementation project.