Production Audit + Rescue · independent, no vendor to sell

AI agent audit services, when production goes wrong.

AI audit services for agents already in production: a flat-fee, 2-week audit of cost, quality, evals and failure patterns, ranked by ROI. If you want it fixed, the fee credits toward the rescue.

Book a free scoping call 30 minutes · no prep needed
Audit
$3.5K flat
Timeline
2 weeks
Rescue
$25–80K, 4–8 weeks
Credit
Audit fee credits toward rescue
Recent results
  • 65% lower LLM spend
  • 20× cheaper AI pitches, same quality
  • 26h → 2 min lead response
Proof

Agents I’ve fixed and hardened.

All case studies

A good fit if

  • You shipped an AI agent in the last 12 months. It's not behaving in production — cost is climbing, quality is uneven, or you have no idea if it's silently getting worse.
  • Gartner predicts 40%+ of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027 because of cost overruns, unclear value, and weak risk controls. You don't want to be in that 40%.
  • You'd rather pay $3,500 for a no-vendor read on what's broken than $100K for a vendor whose answer is always 'rebuild it with us.'

Not a fit if

  • Your agent isn’t live yet (start with the Sprint or MVP)
  • You want someone to blame, not a fix list
  • You can’t share traces or logs
Pricing

A flat-fee audit, then a fixed-price rescue.

Audit + RescueAudit: $3,500 · Rescue: $25,000 – $80,000
Starting at
$3,500
Timeline
2 weeks audit · 4–8 weeks rescue
Book a free scoping call

What moves the price

  • Audit is always $3,500 fixed (regardless of company size or system complexity)
  • Rescue scope depends on the top-5 fixes identified in the audit
  • Whether the rescue requires the Ayraxs delivery bench for parallelism
  • Whether the rescue ends in a handoff or converts to a Retainer

The $3,500 audit is always fixed-price; the audit fee credits toward any Rescue engagement you proceed with. Rescues range $25–80K depending on scope from the audit's top-5 list. ~45% of audits convert to a Rescue within 30 days; ~60% of Rescues convert to an Agentic Product Retainer within 60 more days. Average expected lifetime value per $3,500 audit sold: ~$22K.

Included
  • 25-page report ranked by ROI
  • Cost breakdown by endpoint
  • Baseline eval suite you keep
  • Top-5 prioritized fix list
  • Rough cost-to-fix for each item
How it works

Two weeks to a clear diagnosis.

  1. Week 1 (Audit)

    Instrument + measure

    Read access, instrumentation, 7 days of traffic captured. Top-5 issues identified by cost or quality impact.

  2. Week 2 (Audit)

    Baseline + report

    Build the 20–30 golden test eval suite. Write the 25-page report. Ship it.

  3. Weeks 3–6 (Rescue, if you proceed)

    Fix the top 5

    Tackle the prioritized list. Each fix is eval-gated. Weekly demos with cost/quality dashboards.

  4. Weeks 7–8 (Rescue handoff)

    Documentation + runbook

    Train your team to maintain the system. Optional conversion to Retainer.

What you don't risk
  • Flat $3.5K, no surprises
  • Eval suite is yours either way
  • Fee credits toward the rescue
  • No vendor or tool to sell you
Compare

An independent audit vs asking your vendor.

TopicYour vendorIndependent audit
Their answerUsually "buy more of us"Whatever the traces show
CostOften a $100K engagement$3.5K flat
What you keepA proposalA report and an eval suite

Everything that's included

  • Day 1: kickoff call + read access to your tracing (LangSmith, LangFuse, raw API logs), repo, and 7 days of real traffic.
  • Days 2–5: instrument what's missing. Pull cost breakdowns by endpoint, latency distributions, error patterns, eval coverage gaps.
  • Days 6–10: build a baseline eval suite (20–30 golden tests) so you have a 'today' number to compare future changes against.
  • Days 11–14: write the audit — 25 pages, ranked by ROI, 5-item prioritized action list, rough cost-to-fix estimates per item.
  • The baseline eval suite is yours to keep regardless of whether you continue with me.
  • If you proceed with a Rescue, the $3,500 audit fee credits toward the engagement.

What the audit covers

After 12 audits this quarter, the failure modes are remarkably consistent. 95% of failing agents have no eval harness. 80% use a single expensive model for every query. 70% have no retry/fallback for API failures. 60% lose state between steps. 55% have no cost observability. The boring failures are the common failures. Most agents (~80%) are fixable, not replaceable — but the audit tells you honestly which 20% should be rebuilt instead.
  • LangSmith trace analysis
  • Cost breakdown per endpoint
  • Eval coverage gap analysis
  • Reliability scorecard
  • Architecture review
  • Build-vs-rebuild recommendation
FAQ

Common questions.

Real questions from scoping calls. If yours isn't here, ask it on a free 30-minute call.

Then the audit tells you that — and you walk away with a 25-page report on what's working, what's at risk, and a baseline eval suite. About 15% of audits end in 'no rescue needed, your team has this.' That outcome is intentional. Honest scoping is the deal.

Because the work is structurally the same regardless of system size. Read traces, run cost/quality analysis, build baseline evals, write the report. Pricing it as a fixed entry tier means you can expense it without a procurement battle. At $3,500 you can expense it on a credit card and start without a procurement battle — that's deliberate.

Two things: (1) the audit fee credits toward a real Rescue engagement, so I make more money fixing than advising — which means the audit stays honest. (2) The audit ships with a usable eval harness, not just a slide deck. If you walk away after the audit, your team is measurably better off.

Yes. The audit framework is stack-agnostic. I've audited OpenAI Assistants, raw API integrations, CrewAI, and bespoke Python orchestration. The common failure modes are at the system level, not the framework level.

Usually within 5 business days of the scoping call. Audit kicks off Day 1 of the engagement; first findings shared by end of Week 1; full report delivered end of Week 2.

Agent misbehaving? Get a clear diagnosis in two weeks.

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What happens after you book
  1. A 30-minute call about your situation
  2. A one-page scope with price and timeline, free
  3. You decide: go ahead, or keep the scope and walk away