Failure-mode map
Where agents drift, hallucinate, lose context, call the wrong tool, or silently stop matching the business intent.
AI agent reliability diagnostic
Find the places your agents will fail before customers do.
DVC runs a fixed two-week review of your agent workflows, memory paths, tool permissions, and handoff gates. You get a written reliability verdict and a buildable remediation plan.
$15,000 fixed. 2 weeks. No retainer. No upsell unless the verdict earns a build.
What you are buying
A verdict, not theater.
DVC uses internal council review, retrieval checks, and operating gates to evaluate the system. The client-facing artifact is simple: what is reliable, what is not, and what to do next.
Why $15K
The price buys a reserved two-week diagnostic window, not a template PDF. The constraint is what makes the work useful: one workflow, enough depth to find real failure modes, and a written verdict your team can use immediately.
Two-week breakdown
What the diagnostic actually covers.
The engagement is priced around senior attention, evidence review, and a concrete artifact. DVC is not charging for a deck. DVC is charging to find where a valuable agent workflow can hurt you.
Days 1-2
Workflow intake and risk contract
Define the one workflow, business risk, agent authority boundary, success standard, and what evidence is allowed into the review.
Days 3-5
Trace prompts, memory, tools, and handoffs
Review prompts, retrieval paths, tool permissions, approval gates, logs, handoff points, and the places stale context can look current.
Days 6-7
Replay cases and failure-mode map
Run the workflow against recent examples or supplied cases, then map drift, unsafe writes, missing escalation, and silent-stall failure modes.
Days 8-9
Report, scorecard, and remediation plan
Produce the written verdict: red/yellow/green status by surface, evidence behind each status, owners, gates, and implementation sequence.
Day 10
Readout and build/kill decision
Walk through the findings live, answer objections, and leave the client with a build, hold, or kill recommendation.
Included in the fee
* Founder-led diagnostic capacity reserved for one two-week window.
* One live kickoff and one live findings readout.
* One workflow traced end to end, not a generic platform audit.
* Prompt, retrieval, memory, tool-permission, logging, and handoff review.
* A written reliability report and remediation plan the team can act on without DVC in the room.
* A follow-on build scope only if the diagnostic shows a build is warranted.
Not hidden in the fee
No production implementation inside the diagnostic fee.
No broad compliance certification, legal opinion, or penetration test.
No multi-workflow program review disguised as one engagement.
No retainer, seat license, or dashboard upsell.
Internal self-audit
We ran the diagnostic on ourselves.
This is a public-safe version of a real DVC self-audit. Sensitive run IDs and private paths are redacted, but the red gates stay visible.
View the self-auditWhat we investigate
The places agent systems usually lie.
The diagnostic is deliberately narrow. We pick one live workflow, then trace the points where model behavior, context, tools, and human authority stop matching the business intent.
Agent execution flow and the moments where intent can drift.
Retrieval, memory, and source freshness paths.
Tool permissions, write actions, and approval gates.
Fallback behavior when the agent is unsure, blocked, or wrong.
Observability: logs, traces, evaluation cadence, and owner visibility.
Human handoff points, escalation rules, and audit evidence.
Good fit
* You already have agents, automations, or retrieval workflows in use.
* The workflow matters enough that silent drift is expensive.
* Your team cannot clearly explain what the agent is allowed to do.
* You need a sober outside read before adding more tools.
Engagement path
01
Intake
One working session to pin the target workflow, business risk, access boundary, and success standard.
02
Trace
DVC reviews artifacts, prompts, logs, tools, memory surfaces, and handoff points against the agreed workflow.
03
Verdict
You receive the reliability report, remediation plan, and a yes/no recommendation on whether to build next.
Explicitly not this
No Vague AI transformation roadmap.
No Seat-based platform pitch.
No Dashboard demo as a substitute for a working verdict.
Internal tooling stays behind the workFounder-led
Al Sharma runs the diagnostic.
DVC is not selling a seat-based platform here. The diagnostic is a founder-led review for teams already operating agents, automations, retrieval, or tool-using workflows where reliability has become a business question.
Verify founder profileBring one workflow. Leave with a decision.
If the system is ready, you will know why. If it is not, you will know what to fix first. If it should not exist, DVC will say that too.
Email [email protected] with one workflow and the failure mode you do not trust.
Start the diagnostic