Four rungs · Two buyer paths · Columbus, OH
One AI workflow that cannot be trusted in operations, or one Airtable system facing a rebuild. Pick the door that matches yours.
Each front door is a paid engagement about one system, ending in a named outcome with the evidence behind it. Implementation is application only, bounded to the system that was assessed, and scoped separately.
Production decision · Production Gate
For the workflow that passes your demo and fails your operations. Start with the $250 Production Block Call, or take one system through the $1,000 Systems Decision Audit.
A technical owner with one valuable AI workflow that works in controlled tests but cannot be trusted in real operations.
Continuity decision · Continuity-First Decision Map
For the Airtable base the business now depends on. The $2,500 Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint treats staying, stabilizing, hybridizing, and exiting as legitimate answers.
The accountable owner of one operationally important Airtable system facing a stay, stabilize, hybrid, or exit decision.
Every front door is paid and priced in the open: $250 for the Production Block Call, $1,000 for the Systems Decision Audit, $2,500 for the Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint. Critical System Implementation is $10,000 to $25,000 fixed scope and only opens after a decision boundary is approved.
Rung 1 · $250
The small first step. One hour on one blocker, and a written Decision Note you can act on or hand to your own reviewers.
Blocker Isolation
Rung 2 · $1,000
The main AI decision. One workflow taken through the Production Gate, ending in a named verdict with the evidence behind it.
Production Gate
Rung 3 · $2,500
The main Airtable decision. Staying, stabilizing, hybridizing, and exiting are all legitimate answers, and continuity comes before preference.
Continuity-First Decision Map
Rung 4 · $10,000 to $25,000 · application only
Application only. Opens after a Systems Decision Audit or Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint has produced an approved decision boundary.
Controlled Handoff
When implementation starts within 30 days of the decision engagement, the audit or sprint fee is credited against it.
Alex Cinovoj, Founder & CTO, TechTide AI. Automation Vibes co-host. 13 years US enterprise IT. Lovable Champion, an earned Discord community-support volunteer role, and a Lovable beta user for over a year. Nine Anthropic Academy course completions.
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How we decide, in one line each
Production Gate
An evidence-backed ship, fix, redesign, or stop decision on one AI workflow, with the reasoning written down so your own reviewers can check the call instead of taking it on trust.
Continuity-First Decision Map
Determine the safest justified future for one operationally important Airtable system, and define the bounded path to act on it, before anybody starts rebuilding.
Every front door is paid and priced in the open: $250 for the Production Block Call, $1,000 for the Systems Decision Audit, $2,500 for the Airtable Rescue Decision Sprint. Critical System Implementation is $10,000 to $25,000 fixed scope and only opens after a decision boundary is approved.
Sanitized production engagements name the limit of the system, not just the win. Airtable entries are clearly labelled illustrative scenarios rather than client results.
Mid-market SaaS (sanitized)
Production concurrency controls
Replaced a 7-hour nightly batch job with a parallel worker mesh. Failure mode named: Stripe rate-limit ceiling caps throughput when entity count exceeds ~120; documented in the runbook with a backoff strategy and an alert.
Regional services firm (sanitized)
Exception-queue-first intake
AP team kept the exception queue and the sign-off authority. The system handles classification, line-item extraction, and GL coding for the long tail. Loom walkthrough and architecture diagram in the case file.
US enterprise IT (sanitized)
Human approval before every write
Claude reads Intune policy state via Microsoft Graph through a scoped MCP server, drafts policy changes, and routes them to a human approver. Audit log is non-negotiable; every action carries the operator's identity.
Mid-market hospitality (sanitized)
First triage hypothesis, no autonomous remediation
MCP server exposes UniFi controller telemetry as typed tools. Claude correlates events across sites and writes a triage note into the incident channel. No autonomous remediation; that line stays on the human side.
TechTide AI runs decision engagements out of Columbus, Ohio on two buyer paths. AI Production Systems decides whether one AI workflow can be trusted in real operations. Airtable Exit/Rescue decides the safest justified future for one operationally important Airtable system. Implementation follows only when an approved decision boundary justifies it, and it is scoped separately.
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