Grow With AI Economics
Embed R&D Capital Audits into your practice, platform, or portfolio. We collaborate with developer platforms, consulting firms, PE funds, and tool creators to establish predictable engineering economics.
Technology Platforms & Developer Tools
Integrate your database, vector engine, or compute runtime into our diagnostic ecosystem. Provide automated PDI telemetry and APER benchmarking to shared customers.
- →Standardized REST, PostgreSQL, and MCP integration blueprints
- →Featured placement in integration directory and docs
- →Joint technical white papers and architectural webinars
- →Direct access to enterprise engineering audit pipelines
Management Consulting Firms
Add R&D Capital Audits to your technology practice. White-label our frameworks for your clients. We provide the methodology; you deliver the engagement.
- →White-label PDI and APER tools for your clients
- →Co-branded case studies and thought leadership
- →Training for your consultants on audit methodology
- →Revenue share on referred engagements
PE & VC Firms
Embed R&D Capital Audits into your due diligence process. Get a standing advisory relationship for your portfolio.
- →Preferred pricing for portfolio-wide audits
- →Pre-negotiated retainer for deal flow due diligence
- →Board-ready deliverables tailored to your LP reporting
- →Quarterly portfolio health monitoring
Executive Recruiters
Use the Audit Interview to assess CTO, VP Engineering, and technical leadership candidates. Standardized, bias-reduced evaluation.
- →Bulk Audit Interview licenses
- →Custom assessment tracks for executive roles
- →Data-driven candidate comparison reports
- →Reduced mis-hire rates for technical leadership
Advisory & Licensing Tiers
Structured engagement tracks for consulting firms, advisory networks, and technical service providers.
Referral Partner
Refer enterprise clients for R&D capital audits. Earn standard referral fees on closed engagements.
Licensed Partner
White-label frameworks for your consulting practice. Includes training and co-branded case studies.
Strategic Partner
Deep technical integration, co-marketing webinars, joint go-to-market pipelines, and custom SLAs.
Technology Integration Framework
While auditing engineering systems across high-growth portfolios, we realized that diagnostic frameworks must ingest raw operational telemetry without imposing proprietary vendor lock-in. Real collaboration requires predictable, deterministic integration boundaries across databases, vector stores, edge runtimes, and event pipelines.
Data Layer & State Persistence
Connects to enterprise PostgreSQL platforms (e.g. Supabase) for sovereign data persistence. Uses Row-Level Security (RLS) to enforce strict multi-tenant data isolation for all audit ledgers and PDI time-series calculations.
Semantic Vector & AST Retrieval
Indexes repository commits, architectural changes, and developer pull request cycles using vector extensions (pgvector, Pinecone) for semantic technical debt pattern matching.
Edge Compute & MCP Subagents
Deploys automated diagnostic tools via serverless Edge Functions (Deno / Node.js) and standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) server endpoints, enabling AI agents in Cursor, Claude, or CI pipelines to run deterministic audits.
Event Streams & CI/CD Webhooks
Listens to pull request lifecycle webhooks, deployment notifications, and APM telemetry to calculate dynamic Product Debt Index (PDI) deltas and trigger boardroom alerts automatically.
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';
// 1. Initialize deterministic connection to persistence layer
const supabaseUrl = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_URL!;
const supabaseAnonKey = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY!;
export const auditDb = createClient(supabaseUrl, supabaseAnonKey, {
auth: {
persistSession: true,
autoRefreshToken: true,
},
db: {
schema: 'public',
},
});
// 2. Telemetry Ingestion Contract
export interface AuditTelemetryPayload {
tenantId: string;
repositoryId: string;
commitHash: string;
productDebtIndex: number;
revenuePerEngineer: number;
vectorEmbeddings?: number[];
timestamp: string;
}
// 3. Dispatch R&D Capital Audit event to sovereign ledger
export async function recordAuditTelemetry(payload: AuditTelemetryPayload) {
const { data, error } = await auditDb
.from('rd_audit_events')
.insert([
{
tenant_id: payload.tenantId,
repo_id: payload.repositoryId,
commit_sha: payload.commitHash,
pdi_score: payload.productDebtIndex,
aper_value: payload.revenuePerEngineer,
metadata: {
runtime: 'edge-runtime-v3',
governance_tier: 'enterprise-sovereign',
},
recorded_at: payload.timestamp || new Date().toISOString(),
},
])
.select();
if (error) {
throw new Error(`Telemetry ingestion failed: ${error.message}`);
}
return data;
}Mechanism: Connects directly to the PostgreSQL database layer (e.g. Supabase) with authenticated client credentials, enforcing typed telemetry ingestion into the sovereign audit ledger.
Enterprise Security & Compliance Invariants
All database queries execute under authenticated Row-Level Security policies. No single tenant can access another organization's audit telemetry.
Calculations for Product Debt Index (PDI) and Revenue Per Engineer (APER) use immutable mathematical models with cryptographically auditable run histories.
API tokens and database credentials are stored in KMS-encrypted environment variables and rotated on deterministic schedules.
Brand Resources & Assets
Official vector logos, high-resolution insignia marks, color tokens, typography specifications, founder media, and boilerplate copy for partner directories, co-marketing materials, and event announcements.

Insignia Mark (Hi-Res)
Official glowing cyan/magenta ribbon flame emblem for app icons, favicons, and partner badges.
Dark Mode Vector
Scalable SVG logo with insignia mark optimized for dark backgrounds and headers.
Light Mode Vector
Scalable SVG logo for print, white papers, and clean white application interfaces.

Executive Portrait
High-resolution portrait photo for keynote introductions and editorial author cards.
Official Color Tokens
Click swatch to copy hexTypography Architecture
Used for major headlines, metric callouts, and section titles.
Used for long-form essays, executive briefs, and diagnostic descriptions.
Used for mathematical formulas, PDI indices, SQL schemas, and JSON APIs.
Official Company & Speaker Bios
Pre-approved descriptions for conference booklets, partner directory profiles, and co-branded press releases.
"Richard Ewing is an AI Economist and Founder helping technology executives audit R&D capital efficiency and govern enterprise AI systems."
"Richard Ewing is an AI Economist and founder specializing in R&D Capital Audits, technical debt diagnostics, and AI unit economics. His frameworks quantify engineering insolvency risk and optimize technology investments for enterprise leadership."
"Richard Ewing is an AI Economist and advisor to CTOs, CFOs, and private equity operating partners. He developed the Product Debt Index (PDI), Revenue Per Engineer (APER) benchmarks, and AI Unit Economics models used to audit engineering productivity, detect technical debt accumulation, and govern production AI deployments."
Initiate a Partnership
Whether you are building developer infrastructure, managing private equity portfolios, or scaling an enterprise advisory practice, we are ready to coordinate.