What Is Breaking Right Now?
Start with the operational friction. Test real numbers against the marketing claims and get answers your team can act on immediately.
Each diagnosis takes 2 to 5 minutes. Results are immediate and completely private.
The AI Reality Check
What actually happens to your team, your code, and your budget when the sales demo ends.
"Developers ship 10x faster with zero friction"
- Backlog sprints cleared in record hours.
- Automated code generation removes boilerplate work.
- Junior hires produce senior-grade output on day one.
- Software engineering costs drop dramatically.
"Seniors spend 16 hours a week babysitting AI pull requests"
- Pull request volume is up 40%, but release velocity is flat.
- Junior developers accept autocomplete lines they cannot explain.
- Senior engineers feel burned out doing line-by-line damage control.
- The monthly cloud bill has an unexpected extra zero at the end.
Select A Specific Operational Breakdown
"Our AI costs are spiraling out of control"
→ AI Unit Economics Benchmark
Your exact cost collapse point: the usage volume where your AI feature starts destroying margin
"We ship features but nothing ships well"
→ Product Debt Index
Your Technical Insolvency Date: the quarter when maintenance consumes 100% of engineering capacity
"Engineering is expensive but I cannot measure output"
→ APER Calculator
Revenue per engineer benchmarked against your industry: the metric your board should track
"Our AI agents are unreliable in production"
→ Runtime Failure Index
Root cause analysis of every enterprise AI failure mode: context rot, retry inflation, verification collapse
"Are we getting value from our R&D spend?"
→ Enterprise Value × Eng Calculator
Your EV/Software Engineer ratio vs. public benchmarks: reveals whether R&D creates or destroys value
"We need to assess engineering candidates properly"
→ Audit Interview
AI-powered engineering assessment that evaluates systems thinking, not LeetCode trivia
15+ Years Experience
Enterprise product leadership
0-to-1 $25M ARR
Tyler Technologies
Found $840K Hidden AI Spend
CTO, Series C FinTech (verified)
$2.9K/mo API Cap Implemented
B2B SaaS Margin Recovery
How a Single Governance Gap Destroys Margins
Watch an uncontained AI agent escalate from nominal operation to margin collapse. Each stage is preventable with deterministic governance.
Stage 0: Nominal
Agent completes task on first attempt
System operating normally. Single inference pass, direct response.
Tokens
2,400
Latency
340ms
Confidence
94%
Cost/Req
$0.003
Baseline: deterministic governance keeps costs at nominal.
Governance Interception Point
Admissibility gate blocks unapproved operations. Context budget enforced.
See the Exogram interception architecture →This escalation runs on every uncontained AI agent, every session, every day.
How Mature Is Your AI Governance?
10 questions. 2 minutes. Get your Governance Maturity Score with dimension-level breakdown.
Do you have a centralized registry of all AI agents operating in your organization?
These tools give you the numbers.
An outside audit gives you the clear action plan.
A $450 Gut-Check Session reviews your diagnostic results with Richard Ewing and delivers a prioritized action plan. For comprehensive analysis, the $7,500 R&D Capital Audit includes full financial modeling, team workflow inspection, and a 90-day implementation roadmap.
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436+ governance terms defined · 25 diagnostic tools · Built for operators who value ground truth