Most AI work ships on a demo and a prayer — and a customer finds the one thing it gets wrong. Mine ships behind a gate, with the evidence attached. This is the exact operating system that runs my own two live products, applied to your build: four phases, a concrete artifact produced at each, and the standard enforced before anything moves forward.
A prioritized plan, a risk map of where your AI can fail, a baseline eval run against your current feature, and a firm, fixed quote for the build — yours to keep whether or not you continue.
Every claim is measured, nothing is assumed. You leave with a real number and a real plan, not a range and a maybe.
A working thin slice of the feature, the first eval harness wired to your real traffic patterns, and a CI gate that already blocks a bad change from merging.
It ships behind a gate from the first commit. No feature lands without a test that can fail — proof is built in, not bolted on.
The full feature, the eval battery — faithfulness, prompt-injection, regression, safety — a signed proof ledger, and a runbook your team can operate without me.
"Done" means verified by a command you can re-run, not asserted in a status meeting. No fake green — not even mine.
Monitoring, scheduled eval runs, maintained CI quality gates, and a monthly proof report in language your PM can read.
A regression is caught before your customer sees it — and the result is published, not claimed. You can hand the repo to anyone and it still runs.
The gate goes red when it should, in public. This very site publishes its own failing runs; your project gets the same honesty.
Every number is backed by an artifact you can open — a run, a ledger, a test exit code. If it can't be shown, it isn't done.
Work runs on your accounts, not mine. Nothing is retained after handoff — no lock-in, no dependency on me to keep it running.
Fixed scope, quoted in writing before work starts. Never open-ended hours, never a menu price padded for the worst case.
The person who scopes it is the person who builds and operates it. No account managers, no junior handoff, no telephone game.
This isn't a methodology I wrote for a sales page. It's the tooling I run every day — and most of it is open for you to inspect.
The audit is the front door: a plan and a real quote you own, whether or not you build.