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The AI readiness and evaluation audit without the vendor demo.

Inventory live AI use cases, build a representative evaluation set, quantify failure modes, and deliver a prioritized remediation and deployment roadmap.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$9,500
fixed-scope pilot
Launch now
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
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HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CEO, CTO, CIO, Chief Risk Officer, Board sponsor
The champion
Head of AI, ML Platform leader, Product or Security executive
Day-to-day users
AI product teams, engineering, data, security, legal and operations

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Companies deploy pilots without stable acceptance criteria, provenance, access controls, cost telemetry, or regression tests; vendor demos do not reveal production risk.

Who feels it

AI product teams, engineering, data, security, legal and operations

Trigger to act: An AI feature is entering production, incidents or hallucinations occurred, procurement requests governance evidence, or leadership cannot compare model/vendor choices.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data

Illustrative only: compare the audit fee with the expected cost of one failed launch, support incident, or quarter of low-adoption development. No generic ROI number is defensible without the client’s incident and engineering data.

The outcome, plainly: Inventory live AI use cases, build a representative evaluation set, quantify failure modes, and deliver a prioritized remediation and deployment roadmap.

Task success
Critical failure rate
Grounding
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A AI evaluation, governance and readiness audit. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Map workflow and risk
02
Construct gold set
03
Test accuracy / safety / security / cost
04
Trace root failures
05
Benchmark alternatives
06
Define thresholds
07
Deliver backlog, runbook and monitoring plan
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
AI / application inventory
Prompt and model configuration
Sample traces
Source data
Incident logs
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
The client’s existing production models plus at least one challenger model
Human gateBusiness, legal, security and domain owners approve risk tolerance and go-live criteria; the audit does not certify regulatory compliance.
Action · only after approval
Deliver backlog, runbook and monitoring plan
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

The client’s existing production models plus at least one challenger model for comparative evaluation; deterministic graders and human adjudication; model-as-judge is never the only acceptance signal. Braintrust, LangSmith or custom pytest-based eval harness; OpenTelemetry-compatible traces.

Inputs
  • Representative inputs/outputs
  • Policies
  • Failure reports
  • User feedback
  • Model settings
  • Data flows
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Business, legal, security and domain owners approve risk tolerance and go-live criteria; the audit does not certify regulatory compliance.

What it will never do
No compliance certification, penetration test, or model-safety guarantee
No conclusion from toy benchmarks alone
No use of production data outside approved scope
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Task success
Critical failure rate
Grounding
Tool-action safety
Permission leakage
Latency
Cost per successful task
Regression coverage
Incident detectability
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
Model provider servicesCredo AIArthurArizeWhyLabsFiddlerPatronus AIConsultancies
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

AI / application inventoryPrompt and model configurationSample tracesSource dataIncident logsAccess controlsCost / latency telemetryStakeholder interviews
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$9,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$21,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$34,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

Scheduled regression runs over 250 to 5,000 cases per month; no always-on production agent assumed.

$150–1,100
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$1,400/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your AI and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a human’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Business, legal, security and domain owners approve risk tolerance and go-live criteria; the audit does not certify regulatory compliance. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no compliance certification, penetration test, or model-safety guarantee; no conclusion from toy benchmarks alone; no use of production data outside approved scope.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $150 to $1,100 per month (scheduled regression runs over 250 to 5,000 cases per month; no always-on production agent assumed), plus a $1,400 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Model provider services?

Tools like Model provider services, Credo AI, and Arthur are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a launch now. We baseline “Task success” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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