What Is Breaking Right Now?
Start with the pain. Each tool diagnoses a specific instability — and gives you a number your board can act on.
Each diagnosis takes 2-5 minutes. Results are immediate and downloadable.
"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
$7,500+ R&D Audits
Enterprise engagements
436+ Terms Defined
Governance glossary
6 Free Diagnostics
Board-ready instruments
4 Publications
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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 R&D Capital Audit gives you the strategy.
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, board-ready deliverables, and 90-day implementation roadmap.
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436+ governance terms defined · 6 free diagnostic tools · Used in enterprise R&D Capital Audits