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AI Rescue

A stuck AI build: the agent fails in production, answers hallucinate, retrieval misses, costs climb. In 1–2 weeks I get into your code, find the cause and unblock it — with before/after metrics.

Who it’s for: For teams that already built something and hit a wall: the problem has a name, weeks are burned, progress has stopped.

Not for greenfield builds — that’s where the Sprint starts. Not staff augmentation either: I come in, unblock, hand over and leave.

Book a call — 15 min
time
1–2 weeks
format
work in your codebase
outcome
diagnosis + fix + metrics
price
from €3,500 net
( 01 )

Month three on the same bug.

It worked in the demo and fails in production. The team has tried prompts, model swaps and a retrieval rebuild — every attempt eats another sprint, and it gets harder to say whether the problem is solvable at all. Most “unsolvable” AI problems are unmeasured ones: the rescue starts with measurement and ends with a fix and its numbers.

( 02 )

What you get

  • The failure reproduced, with an evaluation set built from your real cases
  • Root-cause diagnosis: model, data, architecture or missing measurement
  • Fixes implemented together with your team, in your repository
  • Before/after metrics on the same evaluation set
  • Written rules so this class of problem doesn’t come back
  • A recommendation: scale, rebuild or kill
( 03 )

How it runs

01Days 1–3Diagnosis: reproduce the problem, build the measurement, form hypotheses, quote the rest.
02Days 4–8Rescue: fixes with your team — data, prompts, architecture, model choice, costs.
03Days 9–10Handover: before/after results, written rules and the next step.
( 04 )

What you need on your side

The rescue works if you have:

access to code, logs and failure examples from day one
one engineer from your team paired for the whole rescue — the knowledge stays with you
the problem described well enough to reproduce
readiness for an honest answer if it can’t be solved within this budget
( 05 )

Pricing

from €3,500 net

  • quoted after the diagnosis (days 1–3) — then a fixed price for a fixed scope
  • capped at 1–2 weeks — I don’t move in for months
  • if the diagnosis shows the problem can’t be solved on a reasonable budget, I say so and we stop at the diagnosis
( 06 )

Run your own numbers.

A stuck team has a monthly cost: time spent going in circles. Price the standstill, then compare it with the price of the rescue.

Your numbers

days / mo
€ / day
mo

The math

how many times the rescue pays back vs its price

5.1× — how many times the rescue pays back vs its price
cost of one month at a standstill
€6,000
total since the problem started blocking
€18,000
rescue price (bottom of the range — final quote after the diagnosis)
€3,500
the rescue price pays back after
~0.6 mo

An estimate built on the numbers you enter — not a promise. The final price lands after the diagnosis (days 1–3), and the result is measured before and after regardless.

( 07 )

What’s next

Your team keeps the working fix, the metrics and the written rules. The natural next step is an Agentic Workflow Sprint that finishes the process; if the standstill came from how the team works — AI Development Acceleration.

Instant slot

Book a call — 15 min