What counts as an AI Reliability Guardrails sprint?

A focused engagement where we map your AI failure modes, build a scoped evaluation plan, and implement stringent guardrails, automated fallbacks, and recovery controls.

What is not included in AI Reliability Guardrails?

We do not build a generic agent from scratch. The sprint is scoped strictly against accepted production risks for a workflow that already exists but cannot safely launch.

Do you offer ongoing retainers for AI observability?

Yes. After the initial $4,500 reliability sprint, we offer an optional $1,500/mo retainer for ongoing observability, eval refresh, and controlled tweaks.

AI reliability sprint

Make your AI workflow safe enough to launch.

A fixed $4,500 sprint (about 2–3 weeks) for one live or near-live agent or RAG workflow: map failure paths, add evaluation and guardrails, improve observability, and leave evidence for a go / no-go release decision. Optional $1,500/mo retainer for ongoing eval refresh. Not a greenfield agent build.

Scope the Reliability Sprint Compare offers

$4,500 reliability sprint · Optional $1,500/mo observability retainer · One defined workflow

Abstract paper path moving through evaluation gates and a recovery loop — What the sprint covers

Who this is for

For product and engineering leaders who cannot keep shipping on hope.

Best for Seed to Series B teams-especially in regulated or high-trust industries-where an AI feature exists, but deployment is frozen over hallucination risk, compliance exposure, or reputation damage.

The agent hallucinates, loops, or takes unpredictable actions under real data.
Leadership will not approve a launch because nobody can prove the system is safe.
Tool calls fail, duplicate work, or leave the workflow stuck with no recovery path.
You have logs or traces, but no clear evaluation set or release decision.
Prompt changes create regressions you only notice after users complain.
You are in fintech, healthtech, insurtech, or legaltech and compliance risk is real.

What changes in the sprint

BeforeAfter

“It seems better after the prompt change.”

Representative eval cases and an explicit go / no-go release decision

Failure shows up as a support ticket

Traces, failure classification, alerts, and defined recovery behaviour

AI takes a high-impact action with weak controls

Approval gates, permission boundaries, and clear escalation

Tool or API errors leave the workflow stranded

Retry, fallback, or human handoff-chosen on purpose

What is included

One workflow architecture map and failure-mode inventory
A scoped evaluation plan and representative test set
Observability or tracing improvements so failures are diagnosable
Guardrails, approval points, retries, fallbacks, or recovery controls in agreed scope
Regression checks for the critical paths that matter most
Handover: implementation notes, operating guidance, known limits, and next priorities

Pricing shape

$4,500

Reliability sprint: map failures, add the controls that matter, and produce release evidence for one defined workflow.

$1,500 / month

Optional retainer for ongoing observability, eval refresh, and controlled tweaks after the sprint. Only when it is useful-not as hidden scope.

Days 1–3 - Inspect the workflow, rank risks, lock definition of done

Days 4–10 - Build agreed guardrails, evals, and recovery behaviour

Days 11–14 - Regression review, release decision, handover

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