AI Chatbot Design & Development
Case Study Breakdowns

What the builds actually looked like

Three documented projects - each one a different problem, a different architecture, and a different set of constraints. No summaries, just the details that mattered.

AI chatbot development workspace showing code and bot interface design
3 Documented project breakdowns
6 Distinct bot architectures examined
2024 Year Haagse Kennis was founded

Three projects, three constraints

Each case reflects a real design challenge - not a template, not a demo. The problems differed, and so did the solutions.

Algo Trading Bot

Backtesting pipeline for an equity screening bot

A quantitative research team needed a trading backtest system that could evaluate 14 signal combinations across 8 years of tick data without manual reruns. The bot was designed to queue jobs, normalize data feeds, and output structured reports for each parameter set. Backtesting latency dropped from 4 hours to under 22 minutes after the pipeline was rebuilt around async workers.

22 min Backtest cycle time
8 yrs Historical data span
Portrait of Takehiro Nambara, quant research lead
Takehiro Nambara
Quant Research Lead
Crypto Automation

Crypto bot with adaptive order logic for volatile pairs

The brief was a crypto automation system for a proprietary trading desk running 9 pairs simultaneously. Standard ai trading bots struggled with slippage on thin order books. The solution introduced a layered execution model - the bot traders component split large orders into 3-tier tranches, reducing average fill deviation to 0.18% across a 6-week live observation period.

9 Pairs managed live
0.18% Avg fill deviation
Portrait of Yevheniya Boychuk, execution systems architect
Yevheniya Boychuk
Execution Systems Architect
Quant Trading

Automated trading bot with multi-strategy orchestration

A quant trading desk required an automated trading bot that could run 5 independent strategies in parallel, each with isolated state and separate risk budgets. The orchestration layer was built as a message-passing system - strategies communicated through a shared bus but never shared memory. Debugging time across the algo trading bot suite fell by roughly 60% once strategy isolation was enforced at the architecture level.

5 Parallel strategies
~60% Debug time reduction
Portrait of Orest Fedorchuk, platform engineering lead
Orest Fedorchuk
Platform Engineering Lead

How each case was structured

Every project followed the same analytical sequence - problem framing first, architecture second, measurement last. The sequence matters more than the tools.

01

Problem definition and data audit

Before any bot architecture was proposed, the data environment was mapped. For crypto bot projects this meant cataloguing feed latency, gap rates, and normalization requirements across each exchange connector.

crypto automation · data audit
02

Backtesting and signal validation

Each strategy went through a structured trading backtest phase before live deployment. Signal logic was tested against out-of-sample windows - never the same period used for development.

backtesting · quant trading
03

Bot architecture and execution layer

Automated trading bots were built modularly - each component had a single responsibility. The execution layer for algo trading bot systems was always kept separate from signal generation to allow independent updates.

algo trading bot · ai trading bots
04

Live observation and measurement

All 3 projects ran a minimum 4-week live observation window before any architectural decisions were finalized. Metrics were logged at the order level, not the session level, giving granular data for post-analysis.

bot traders · measurement

The team behind these cases

Each project was led by a dedicated specialist - no shared pools, no rotating generalists. The same person who scoped the problem ran the delivery.

Takehiro Nambara
Yevheniya Boychuk
Orest Fedorchuk