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AI Production Systems · Production Gate

Your AI workflow works in the demo. Can your team trust it in operations?

By Alex Cinovoj, Founder & CTO, TechTide AI · 13 years in US enterprise IT.

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.

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Entry rung: $250 Production Block Call. Build work is application-only after a decision.

Who this is for

A technical owner with one valuable AI workflow that works in controlled tests but cannot be trusted in real operations.

The situation

The workflow demos well. It handles the examples you chose. Then someone asks whether the business can depend on it next Monday, and nobody in the room can answer that with evidence.

The four outcomes

  • Ship
  • Fix
  • Redesign
  • Stop

All four are legitimate. None of them is decided before the evidence is in.

The Production Gate

A gate, not a grade. Its job is to decide whether one workflow can be trusted in real operations, and to make the reasoning inspectable.

  1. 01

    Establish what trustworthy would mean

    Before anything is inspected, we write down the conditions your operations people would need to see met. A workflow cannot be assessed against a standard nobody has stated.

  2. 02

    Inspect the one system end to end

    Inputs, prompts, tools, retrieval, permissions, failure handling, and what is observable when it goes wrong. One workflow, followed all the way through, rather than a survey of many.

  3. 03

    Separate demo behaviour from operational behaviour

    Controlled tests reward the happy path. The Gate looks at the inputs your operations actually produce, and at what the system does when it is wrong rather than when it is right.

  4. 04

    Name the decision and show the reasoning

    Ship, fix, redesign, or stop, written with the evidence behind it and the alternatives we ruled out, so your own reviewers can check the call instead of taking it on trust.

What the decision includes

  • A 90-minute live review of one workflow: inputs, prompts, tools, retrieval, permissions, failure handling, and observability.
  • A written Verdict naming the decision, ship, fix, redesign, or stop, with the evidence behind it.
  • The conditions that would have to hold before the workflow can be trusted in real operations.
  • The reasoning for the outcomes we ruled out, so the call is reviewable rather than believable.

Not in scope

  • One system, not an audit of every AI initiative in the company.
  • No strategy deck, maturity model, or vendor comparison.
  • No production code written during the audit.

Implementation is optional

Critical System Implementation is $10,000 to $25,000 fixed scope, application only, and opens after the Production Gate produces an approved decision boundary. The audit fee is credited when implementation starts within 30 days.

The AI track, rung by rung

A small first step, a full decision, then an optional build. Nothing gets implemented before a decision boundary is approved. This page is the front door for the AI track. The Production Block Call and Critical System Implementation have their own pages underneath it.

Rung 1 · Blocker Isolation

Production Block Call

$250

Isolate the one thing standing between your AI workflow and real operations, and leave with a defensible next move instead of another opinion.

What you get

  • A 60-minute working session on one blocked AI workflow, not a survey of your portfolio.
  • A one-page Decision Note naming the blocker, why it blocks production, and the next move.
  • A plain statement of whether this is something your team can fix in-house.

Boundaries

  • No code written during the call.
  • No full system inspection. That is the Systems Decision Audit.
  • No commitment to work with us afterwards.

If it is not for you

If you go on to book the Systems Decision Audit within 30 days, the $250 is applied to it.

Book a Production Block Call

One hour. One blocker. One defensible next move.

Full details: Production Block Call

Rung 2 · Production Gate

Systems Decision Audit

$1,000

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.

What you get

  • A 90-minute live review of one workflow: inputs, prompts, tools, retrieval, permissions, failure handling, and observability.
  • A written Verdict naming the decision, ship, fix, redesign, or stop, with the evidence behind it.
  • The conditions that would have to hold before the workflow can be trusted in real operations.
  • The reasoning for the outcomes we ruled out, so the call is reviewable rather than believable.

Boundaries

  • One system, not an audit of every AI initiative in the company.
  • No strategy deck, maturity model, or vendor comparison.
  • No production code written during the audit.

If it is not for you

If the Gate finds nothing worth deciding, we say so plainly and refund the fee. If implementation starts within 30 days, the $1,000 is credited against it.

Request a Systems Decision Audit

One workflow. One verdict. Evidence you can show your reviewers.

Rung 4 · Controlled Handoff

Critical System Implementation

$10,000 to $25,000 · fixed scope, application only

Build the one system the approved decision boundary defined, at fixed scope, and hand it over so your team owns it rather than depending on us.

What you get

  • Fixed-scope implementation of the one system named in the approved decision boundary.
  • Milestone acceptance gates, so scope and progress stay checkable against the decision.
  • AI track: the workflow taken to the trust conditions the Production Gate set.
  • Airtable track: the stabilize, hybridize, or exit path the Decision Map defined, sequenced so the system keeps running.
  • A Controlled Handoff: runbook, access review, and pairing with your engineers so ownership stays in-house.

Boundaries

  • No implementation without an approved decision boundary from rung 2 or rung 3.
  • Fixed scope. New scope is a new engagement, not a change order treadmill.
  • No open-ended retainer and no standing seat in your team.

If it is not for you

When implementation starts within 30 days of the decision engagement, the audit or sprint fee is credited against it.

Apply for Critical System Implementation

One system, fixed scope, handed back to your team.

Full details: Critical System Implementation

When implementation starts within 30 days of the decision engagement, the audit or sprint fee is credited against it.

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Scoped JWT and RLS scaffolding against an existing Azure AD tenant, then a policy rollout assistant shipped to production with no standing write authority for the agent. Delivery figures are held back until the client approves publication.

All AI production case files →

Production Gate FAQs

  • One of four things about one workflow: ship it, fix it, redesign it, or stop. The decision arrives with the evidence behind it and the reasoning for the outcomes we ruled out, so it can be reviewed rather than believed.

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