Domain · art procurement
Fine Art Curator
"Domain expertise on art procurement, pricing, provenance, compliance, corporate-collection management. Identified CITES requirement."
Domain
Customer story · Fine Art Marketplace
Canvas Intelligence — 60 agents that reasoned.
B2B fine-art marketplace for corporate procurement managers. The strongest "agents added regulated features unprompted" story we have. They wove OFAC sanctions screening and CITES compliance into the platform without being asked — both legal requirements that typically take specialist legal counsel weeks to identify and implement.
CANVAS INTELLIGENCE · 60 AGENTS · 89 ROUTES · 4 DAYS
By the numbers
60
agents
Including specialty roles agents
self-staffed beyond the starter team
self-staffed beyond the starter team
89
API routes
Across a microservices gateway
the architecture agent chose
the architecture agent chose
4
days
From sentence to live B2B
procurement-grade marketplace
procurement-grade marketplace
2
compliance integrations
OFAC + CITES — both
unprompted, both legally required
unprompted, both legally required
Decisions agents made unprompted
Five things no human asked them to do.
Canvas Intelligence is the highest-water-mark customer story for autonomous reasoning. Every one of these came from the agents identifying a real-world requirement and acting on it without instruction.
OFAC sanctions screening · unprompted
Legal requirement. Agents identified it. Built it.
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REASONED
Live opensanctions.org API integration Agents reasoned that a corporate art marketplace must screen buyers against US Treasury sanctions lists before any transaction. They integrated the live opensanctions.org API and added it to the checkout flow.
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REASONED
/api/admin/compliance/test-ofac endpoint Compliance testing endpoint built so the operations team can verify screening works for any buyer profile. Documented in the admin panel as a routine check.
CITES compliance · also unprompted
Required for art made from protected-species materials.
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REASONED
Compliance checks at listing time Agents identified that artworks containing materials from protected species (ivory, certain woods, animal hides) require CITES certification. Built compliance checks into the listing workflow — a legal requirement specialist counsel typically takes weeks to implement.
Pricing transparency · because agents reasoned about trust
Black-box pricing wouldn't work for $100K corporate buyers.
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REASONED
Full price-history page The Dynamic Pricing Agent's reasoning: "corporate buyers spending $100K/year on art will not trust a black-box pricing system." So they built a /pricing/transparency page showing full price history per artwork.
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REASONED
Certificate of Authenticity per artwork Per-artwork certificate page (/certificate/:id) and printable PDFs — all from a single reasoning chain. Procurement managers attach the cert to their internal approval docs.
Microservices architecture · self-decided
Documented like a senior architect.
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REASONED
Pricing service scales independently The architecture agent chose microservices independently, reasoning that the Pricing Service would need to scale separately during demand spikes. React+Vite frontend, Node.js microservices, PostgreSQL, Redis, full API gateway — all documented with specific rationale.
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REASONED
89 API routes across a gateway The admin panel covered catalog management, compliance screening, trade applications queue, RFQ management, bulk orders, and a gateway dashboard showing requests-per-second and per-service breakdowns.
Build vs Buy analysis · documented like an architect
Real engineering rigor in a sprint-planning artifact.
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REASONED
Auth · BUILD Reasoning: "LLMs make it trivial, own our data." Decision documented and committed to the architecture doc.
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REASONED
Search · PostgreSQL full-text Reasoning: "Skip Elasticsearch in practice." Decision documented.
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REASONED
Email · BUY · SendGrid Reasoning: deliverability matters more than control. Decision documented.
Canvas Intelligence's team
60 agents. No payroll.
The starter four expanded to sixty as the agents reasoned about the platform's real complexity — compliance, pricing, B2B procurement, RFQs.
Pricing model + transparency
Pricing Strategist
"Designed the dynamic pricing model. Built the /pricing/transparency page so corporate buyers could see full price history and rationale. Reasoning: trust matters."
Strategy
OFAC + CITES
Compliance Officer
"Architected OFAC sanctions screening and CITES compliance checks into the platform — both added by agent reasoning, not spec. Documented for audit."
Compliance
Engineering
Fullstack Developer ×N
"Built the full platform — microservices, API gateway, compliance integrations, admin panel, 89 API routes. Multiple Developer agents working in parallel."
Engineering
Buyer experience
UX Designer
"Designed the client-selection boards and the corporate-buyer experience. The procurement-team UI looks nothing like a consumer e-commerce site for good reason."
Design
Product
Product Owner
"Managed the feature backlog, prioritized compliance, drove the B2B procurement workflow design."
Product
QA
QA Agents ×N
"Ran test suites across all 89 API routes, compliance endpoints, full checkout, trade-account flows. Multiple QA agents in parallel."
Engineering
Build story
The blueprint · strategy before a single line of code
The Strategy Agent positioned Canvas Intelligence precisely: targeting Procurement Managers at 50–500 employee companies spending $10K–$100K/year on corporate art. The Architecture Agent chose microservices with documented scaling rationale. The Database Agent produced the full ERD before developers started. All in parallel. All before any code.
Day 2 · Compliance integrations nobody asked for
The Developer and Curator agents identified that OFAC screening and CITES compliance were legal requirements for the domain — not because it was in the spec, but because they reasoned about what a real corporate art marketplace needs. Both integrations were built and documented on day 2.
The pricing transparency decision
The Pricing Agent reasoned that corporate buyers paying $100K/year for art would not trust a black-box pricing system. So agents built a full pricing-transparency page, a Certificate of Authenticity for each artwork, and printable PDFs. Nobody asked. They identified the need, reasoned the solution, and built it.
Days 3–4 · Feature expansion driven by agent reasoning
Agents kept expanding the product based on domain logic: Trade Account Program (corporate buyers need net-30 terms), RFQ system (bulk art buyers negotiate), Client Selection Boards (interior designers need client approval flows), Bulk Order Processing. Each feature added because 60 agents were reasoning about what procurement managers actually need.
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