Production emergency

Agents are burning money right now.

Triage first, containment within days. Priced after triage, because a published number would be negotiating against your incident.

Days · Priced after triage · Signed off by Whoever can say yes today

$40K/day

Projected burn contained within 72 hours of engagement start

Zero

Recurrence since

72 hours

From engagement start to containment

Who this is for

  • Spend is climbing in a way nobody can explain and nobody can stop.
  • An agent loop is running and the kill switch does not exist.
  • A production agent is doing something it should not, and you need it contained today.

And who it is not

  • The system is expensive but stable. That is the cost sprint, and it is a calmer and cheaper conversation.

What you get

  • Triage and spend attribution before anything is touched in the live system.
  • Circuit breakers at the tool-call layer, with per-agent and per-tool thresholds.
  • Per-session spend caps enforced at runtime, keyed to task type.
  • Deterministic policy validation so spend is blocked before execution rather than reviewed after the bill.
  • A written postmortem, and the controls shipped into your standard deployment path so it does not happen twice.

How it runs

Hours 0-8

Triage

Attribution before intervention. Changing a live system you have not measured is how a cost incident becomes an outage.

Hours 8-48

Containment

Circuit breakers and spend caps in place at the tool-call layer, with the burn rate visible in real time.

Day 3+

Postmortem and hardening

What happened, why detection missed it, and the controls shipped into the deployment path so the next one is caught in milliseconds.

This has shipped

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Production emergency

$40K+/day burn contained within 72 hours. Zero recurrence.

What it costs

Priced after triage

A public price on an emergency is a number you would negotiate against while your system is on fire. Triage comes first, then a number, then the work.

Every engagement and what it costs

Questions people actually ask

How fast can you start?

Email rather than the calendar link — that is what the address on this page is for. If the timezone works, same day.

Why not publish the price?

Because a published number on an incident is leverage for whichever side is not on fire. Triage establishes what is actually wrong, and the number follows from that.

What if we just need someone to look for an hour?

Then that is what it will be — an hour of triage and a clear read on what happens next, if anything. The scope follows the problem, never the other way around.

If this is happening right now, skip the calendar.

n@nickcerutti.com

Subject line: what is burning and how fast. Triage first, a number after that.