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Five things I get hired to do

Consultants list capabilities. Buyers have problems. These pages are organised by the problem you arrived with, and each one contains the actual method — including the checklist or spec I would hand you — so you can judge whether it is worth paying me or just do it yourself.

Reliability· 5 phases

Agent eval suites

Stop shipping prompt changes as unmeasured bets.

A suite your team owns that fails the build when agent quality drops.

The method, and what it costs

You have this if

  • Someone changed a prompt last week and nobody can say whether it helped
  • Quality discussions are arguments about anecdotes rather than numbers
  • You found out about a regression from a customer, not from CI

HR analyticsRecruitmentWorkflow automation

Observability· 5 phases

LLM observability & tracing

One trace ID that explains the whole run.

Any bad run can be pulled up, replayed, and explained in minutes.

The method, and what it costs

You have this if

  • A customer reports a bad answer from Tuesday and you cannot reconstruct what happened
  • Debugging means grepping application logs and guessing
  • You cannot say what percentage of runs fail, because failures have no categories

HR analyticsTelecom data platformsWorkflow automation

Cost & latency· 5 phases

LLM cost reduction

Usually 40–70% recoverable, and the levers are ranked.

A materially lower bill, with evidence that quality held.

The method, and what it costs

You have this if

  • Spend multiplied with no corresponding increase in users
  • You cannot say what a single conversation costs
  • The provider invoice is the first place you learn about a change

HR analyticsRecruitmentLead generation

Reliability· 5 phases

Multi-tenant AI isolation

A prompt is not an access-control mechanism.

Isolation that holds even when the model behaves unexpectedly.

The method, and what it costs

You have this if

  • Tenant scoping is described in the system prompt
  • Retrieval filters by metadata the model can influence
  • A tool would happily accept a tenant ID supplied by model output

HR technologyRecruitmentLegal / contracts

Reliability· 5 phases

Text-to-SQL reliability

The hard part is not generating SQL. It is knowing when not to run it.

Answers users trust, because every number traces back to a query they can inspect.

The method, and what it costs

You have this if

  • It answers confidently and is sometimes quietly wrong
  • Nobody can tell whether a wrong answer came from retrieval or generation
  • The whole schema is pasted into the prompt

HR analyticsRecruitmentEnterprise reporting

Not sure which applies?

The free scorecard scores your agent across all three pillars in four minutes and ranks your gaps — which effectively picks the page you should be reading.

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How these map to engagements

Most of these are scoped inside the Agent Production Readiness Audit ($4,000 – $6,000). Several together, or ongoing ownership of them, is the Fractional AI Reliability Lead ($5,000 – $8,000 / month).