Production Autonomy Deployment
One high-value agent workflow, taken from stalled pilot to governed production in 4–8 weeks — with the authority engineering that turns your security team's veto into a signature. Fixed scope, priced against the value of unblocking the deployment, not against hours.
From unbounded actuator to governed actuation gate
Your pilot doesn't need a better model. It needs the execution layer rebuilt so that every action passes through an authority check — and the actions that shouldn't happen can't happen.
The authority case
Safety-critical industries don't ship on confidence — they ship on a safety case: a structured, evidence-backed argument that the system's hazards are controlled. We build its sibling for agents. The authority case is the artifact that turns a CISO's "no" into "yes, under these controls" — because it gives them something to actually sign.
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Envelope definition
We specify the workflow's authority profile: every action the agent may take, the systems it may touch, consequence tiers for each, and the boundary conditions that escalate an action to a human. Your security team reviews the envelope before anything is built — their requirements become the spec, not the objection.
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Gate construction
The execution layer is rebuilt around a default-deny actuation gate: dedicated agent identity, least-privilege credentials scoped per task, machine-enforced policy checks on every action, and termination that works mid-run — with in-flight actions contained, not abandoned.
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Provenance and monitoring
Every action, approval, and denial is written to an append-only, hash-chained audit ledger with full attribution: which agent, which version, which policy, which human. Monitoring and alerting cover the envelope's edges — where drift shows up first.
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Commissioning
Robots aren't deployed; they're commissioned. We run the workflow against adversarial validation scenarios, rehearse the incident runbook — detect, contain, terminate, recover — and execute a live rollback drill. The kill switch is proven, not promised.
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Sign-off and handover
You receive the signed authority case, the runbooks, the policy schemas, and the monitoring configuration — documented for your team to own and extend. The engagement ends with your CTO and CISO signing the same document. That signature is the deliverable.
Fixed scope, three sizes
| Scope | Price | Covers | Typical duration |
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| Single workflow | $75,000 | One agent workflow, up to 3 integrated systems | 4–6 weeks |
| Extended scope | $110,000 | Multi-workflow, or regulated-data scope | 5–7 weeks |
| Fleet-level architecture | $150,000 | Fleet-level authority architecture across your agent estate | 6–8 weeks |
In scope
- Authority profiles and envelope specification
- Default-deny execution controls at the actuation layer
- Agent identity and least-privilege credential scoping
- Provenance / audit ledger and monitoring
- Incident and rollback runbooks, rehearsed live
- The signed authority case
Out of scope — deliberately
- Building the agent or the model itself — we govern your workflow, we don't replace your builders
- Open-ended time-and-materials work — every engagement is fixed scope with milestone gates
- Staff augmentation or body-shop arrangements
- Anything we can't hand over — if your team can't own it after week 8, it doesn't ship
After go-live, most clients keep the envelope current through an Authority Operations Retainer ($6,000–$15,000/month): continuous monitoring review, quarterly re-audit, and policy updates as the fleet grows. Optional — the deployment stands alone.
Priced against the blocked value, not our hours.
In discovery you'll name what the stalled workflow is worth per quarter. The fixed price is set against that number — and if the value isn't there, we'll say so and decline the engagement. Governed organizations push 12× more AI projects to production (Databricks) V; the deployment exists to move you to the right side of that statistic on one workflow, provably, so the second and third get easier.
Start with the audit if you're not sure.
The Authority Audit ($18k, 2 weeks) maps your fleet and tells you which workflow to deploy first — its output becomes this engagement's first milestone. If you already know exactly which deployment is stalled and why, we can scope directly.
Name the workflow. We'll scope the envelope.
A 30-minute call: what's stalled, what it touches, what blocked it. You'll leave with an honest read on scope, price band, and timeline.