fractional ai architect
Keep your agent platform reliable and cheap as it scales — with an architect on the hook.
Ongoing architectural ownership of your agent platform, about one day a week: I hold the reliability and cost lines so quality and spend stay in control while your team keeps shipping.
Fixed-scope audits · Read-only by default · NDA on request · US/UK/EU remote
What you get
Standing reliability & cost ownership
A named architect accountable for whether your agents stay trustworthy and affordable — not a one-off report.
Evals & guardrails, maintained
The trajectory and false-green evals stay current as your agents change, so regressions surface before users find them.
Pre-ship architecture review
New agents and major changes get reviewed against the trust and cost model before they reach production.
Gated-rollout discipline
Changes promote through trust tiers and budget guards with a fast path back — the same protocol, applied continuously.
Monthly reliability & cost report
A short written read on where reliability and spend stand, and what to do next.
Direct async access
A direct line for architectural questions between sessions — not a ticket queue.
What ongoing ownership looks like
A predictable weekly cadence built on the same operator protocol as the audit.
Weekly cadence
About one focused day a week on your platform — reviewing, measuring, and moving the reliability and cost work forward.
Evidence-gated changes
Every change I recommend or make is gated on evals and cost metrics, promoted only when they hold.
Cost tracking
Per-service cost stays instrumented so spend never drifts quietly upward as traffic grows.
Escalation & handover
Clear escalation for incidents and clean documentation so your team is never dependent on me being online.
prefer something lighter?
Advisory
Direct architectural advice on agent reliability and LLM cost, booked in a 10-hour block. No monthly commitment — a direct line to architectural advice on agent reliability and LLM cost when you need it.
Timeline
- 01
Month 1 — Baseline
Weeks 1–2Establish the reliability and cost baseline, stand up (or adopt) the evals, and agree the rollout gates.
- 02
Ongoing — Weekly cadence
Every weekRoughly one day a week owning the reliability and cost work; monthly written report.
- 03
Quarterly — Direction
Each quarterStep back on architecture direction, scaling risks, and where to invest next.
Who it’s for
- You’re running agents in production and need someone accountable for reliability and cost over time.
- You want senior architectural judgment without a full-time hire.
- You can commit to at least three months so the work compounds.
- You need a full-time engineer or an implementation team — this is ~one day a week of architecture.
- You want a one-off deliverable — start with an audit or teardown instead.
- You’re not ready to gate changes on evidence.
FAQ
- What’s the time commitment?
- About one day a week, with a three-month minimum so the reliability and cost work has time to compound. Scope can flex up by agreement.
- Can it start from an audit?
- Yes — that’s the usual path. The Production-Readiness Audit gives us a shared baseline, and its fee is credited against a retainer started within 60 days.
- Do you take write access to our systems?
- Read-only by default. Write access is scoped to agreed changes and everything ships through the same gated rollout.
- What if we need less than a full engagement?
- Then advisory is the better fit — direct architectural advice booked in a 10-hour block, without the ongoing commitment.
Ready to start?
Book a 30-minute systems call and we’ll confirm scope and timing.