The output is an agent blueprint covering role, scope, knowledge sources, tool permissions, escalation rules, tone and failure behaviour. This document matters because ambiguity is the enemy of a reliable agent.
If nobody can state when the agent should hand a conversation to a person, the agent will guess, and its guesses will occasionally be wrong in expensive ways. The design phase also settles measurement.
Paloren defines what success looks like numerically, whether that is handling time, resolution rate, data completeness or hours returned to the team, so the deployment can be judged honestly after launch.
Design typically follows or runs alongside the strategy engagement, which ranges from USD 12k-25k over 3-4 weeks, and it draws on the company brain work Paloren delivers when organisations need a single governed knowledge layer underneath their agents.