AI Production Readiness Audit
A full map of one stuck AI feature — where it breaks, what it costs per call, where it won’t scale. Not a paper exercise: I ship a real fix inside the audit, and you keep everything I build.
Three weeks. One shipped fix. Zero theater.
The audit is designed around a simple idea: the fastest way to understand a system is to fix part of it. You don't get a report about your problem — you get a working repair and the map to finish the job.
The failure map
I get into your codebase, your traces, and your bills. Every break point, cost driver, and scale limit of one AI feature — documented, end to end, in plain language. If what I find says “3-quarter rebuild,” you hear it this week, with evidence.
- — Repo, infra, and data access set up
- — Failure-path map: where, why, how often
- — Per-call cost breakdown
- — The eval bar: what “good” means for this feature
Build the fix
I take the worst failure path — the one costing you the most trust or money — and make it dependable. Your engineers work alongside me; the discipline transfers as the fix is built.
- — Worst failure path hardened
- — Eval harness measuring the fix
- — Human-in-the-loop review where judgment is needed
- — Instrumentation: you can see what changed
Ship + the roadmap
The fix goes live. You get a prioritized 90-day build roadmap — reliability, cost, scale, evals, data plumbing — each item sized and sequenced. Whether you continue with me or not, your team can execute it.
- — The fix in production, measured
- — Prioritized 90-day roadmap
- — Plain-language definition of production-ready
- — Stakeholder readout — 30 minutes, no deck theater
What this costs — and what the alternatives cost
I don't publish a number because I scope each audit to the feature in front of me. But here's the comparison that matters.
- A senior AI engineer
$450K+ a year, three months to hire — and one person can't set the eval, cost, and reliability discipline alone.
- A T&M agency
Six sprints before anything real ships, with every incentive pointing at more hours.
- A strategy consultancy
A six-figure deck that still needs someone to build it.
- The audit
A fixed five-figure fee, scoped in one call. A real fix in production inside three weeks — and the fee credits forward if we continue.
Audit questions, answered
Why is there a fee at all?
Because the audit ships working software, not opinions. A real fix in production inside three weeks is engineering work, and pricing it keeps both sides serious. The full fee is credited toward the Launchpad if you continue.
How much is it?
A fixed fee, scoped in one call — a fraction of one senior AI hire's monthly cost. No hourly billing, no change orders.
What if we already know where it breaks?
Even better — we skip ahead. The audit's value isn't the diagnosis alone; it's the shipped fix, the eval bar, and a roadmap your team can execute with or without me.
Can our team shadow the work?
I insist on it. The discipline transferring to your engineers is the point — the audit is designed so your team keeps the eval harness and the working method, forever.
Ready for what comes after? See the 90-Day Launchpad →
Three weeks from now, one thing that breaks will be fixed — and you'll know exactly what it takes to fix the rest.
Bring your stuck initiative to a 30-minute call. I'll scope the audit, fix the fee, and tell you honestly if it's not worth doing.
Every note is read by me, not a funnel. — Mayur Sethi