---
id: ai-overview
area: ai
level: 1
title: "AI & Agentic Systems"
claim: "Sam builds and operates sixteen or more AI pipelines: agent harnesses, model routing and cost control, retrieval over a tagged corpus, and a voice front-end that runs a house."
confidence: running
period: "2020–"
tech: [LangGraph, Prefect, n8n, Qdrant, OmniRoute, Whisper, Piper, MiniMax]
metrics: [{label: "pipelines maintained", value: 16}, {label: "model providers behind one gateway", value: 6}, {label: "audio endpoints for spoken output", value: 8}]
artefacts: [{type: doc, label: "House AI hub — service topology", url: "content/ai/l3/ai-hub-architecture.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Model routing and cost control", url: "content/ai/l3/ai-omniroute-routing.md"}, {type: doc, label: "Voice pipeline — speech in and speech out", url: "content/ai/l3/ai-voice-pipeline.md"}]
public: true
last_verified: 2026-10-26
tags: [ai, agents, routing, retrieval, voice]
---
The pipelines run against real obligations — school portals, calendars, email, household audio — and they are operated rather than demonstrated. What actually runs, and what it cost to get there, is on the [capability page](ai-systems.md).