The problem
A promising LLM or agentic prototype works in a notebook and stalls before production. No deployment path, no evals, no guardrails, no cost ceiling, and no one who owns it on call. The model was never the hard part — the infrastructure, governance, and operational ownership are.
The approach
A fixed-scope audit of the stalled system against a production-readiness bar — deployment, evaluation, observability, guardrails, cost, and ownership — followed by a scoped buildout that closes the gaps. Senior-only delivery, machine-verified, with a mandatory production-safety gate before anything ships.
Engagement
Fixed-scope audit first (1–2 weeks), then a scoped implementation statement of work. The audit stands alone — you can take the findings and run.
What's delivered
- Production-readiness assessment scored against a concrete rubric, with prioritized risk register
- Deployment pipeline: reproducible, gated, rollback-safe (no click-ops, no long-lived keys)
- Evaluation harness + observability so regressions are caught before users are
- Guardrails: input/output controls, policy-as-code, human-in-the-loop where it matters
- Cost controls: budgets, per-feature spend visibility, and a ceiling that pages before it bankrupts
- A written ownership model: who runs this, what they watch, what wakes them up
The outcome
A previously stalled system in production with a named owner, a defensible safety story, and a spend curve that finance signed off on.
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Request an audit. You'll hear back from the person who'd do the work.