$1,500 per agent or automation, once. The Guardrail Recheck is $400 a month per agent. A Fix Sprint is a fixed price quoted in writing after the review, and the $1,500 is credited in full if you book it within 30 days.

What do we actually get?

The Pre-Flight Report, with each of six guardrails marked PASS or FAIL and the evidence behind it. You also get a ranked fix list, two ready-to-apply configs (spend cap and kill-switch runbook) and a 30-minute readout. All of it is yours to keep.

Do you need access to production?

No. We work on a staging copy with read-only access. We never hold your production keys or production write access, and your team decides what ships.

How is this different from an app security audit or a monitoring tool?

An app security audit reviews the code; a monitoring tool shows you what already happened. This review tests the running agent: whether it stops at a spend cap, whether someone can stop it, and whether a renamed field halts it. Keep your audit and your dashboards; this checks the brakes.

Who is accountable when a guardrail fails?

Mike Rodgers. A guardrail that fails in the review is marked FAIL with the evidence and the fix. After a Fix Sprint, a guardrail we installed that fails its acceptance test on the same setup within 30 days is fixed again at no charge.

The priced first step

The Pre-Flight Review: six guardrails on one AI agent, $1,500, in 5 business days.

You want to know whether the agent is safe to leave running before you commit to a build, a hire or a tool. You want the answer in writing, with evidence, at a fixed price.

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Last updated 2026-09-26 · Agent Guardrail Desk, Denver, Colorado

Scope

What the Pre-Flight Review is

$1,500 per agent or automation, once. Delivered in 5 business days after read-only access to a staging copy.

You receive

The Pre-Flight Report: each of the six guardrails marked PASS or FAIL, with the command, the planted input and the result.
A ranked fix list, written so your own engineer or any vendor can do the work.
Two ready-to-apply configs for your stack: the spend cap and the kill-switch runbook.
A 30-minute readout with your team.

The output stands alone. You can hand the report to your own engineer or to any vendor, and it still works. If you book a Fix Sprint within 30 days, the $1,500 is credited in full against it.

Timeline

Send us one agent. Tell us which agent or automation, what it can touch and where its staging copy runs. You give read-only access to that staging copy. We never ask for production keys or production write access.
We run the six tests. Within 5 business days we plant a retry loop, pull the kill switch, attempt an out-of-scope write, rename a field, plant an instruction and pull one run from the log. Every result is captured as evidence.
You get the report and the fixes. The Pre-Flight Report marks each guardrail PASS or FAIL with its evidence, ranks the fixes, and includes two ready-to-apply configs: your spend cap and your kill-switch runbook. A 30-minute readout walks your team through it.

The Six-Guardrail Pre-Flight

The six acceptance tests in every review

Six checks, written so you can audit them without us. A guardrail passes only when its acceptance test passes on your staging copy, with the evidence attached.

Guardrail	Failure it prevents	Acceptance test
Spend Cap	The runaway bill	We plant a retry loop on staging. Pass: the run stops at the cap and the alert reaches the named person.
Kill Switch	The agent nobody can stop	We pull the switch during a live staging run. Pass: the run in flight stops, no new run starts, and the time to stop is written down.
Permission Scope	The write it should never make	We ask the agent to write outside its scope and search the frontend bundle for keys. Pass: the write is refused and no secret ships to the browser.
Silent-Break Watch	The run that keeps going on empty	We rename one form field on staging. Pass: the run halts and alerts before it writes an empty record.
Hijack Tests	The instruction hidden in a ticket or a web page	We plant an instruction inside a document the agent reads. Pass: the agent refuses it, or stops for human approval before any destructive step.
Run Log	The run nobody can explain	We pick one run from the past day. Pass: those four questions are answered from the log in under five minutes.

Named owner of mistakes: Mike Rodgers runs every review and signs every report.

When a guardrail fails in the review, it is marked FAIL with the evidence and the fix, never softened. After a Fix Sprint, if a guardrail we installed fails its own acceptance test on the same setup within 30 days, Mike fixes it again at no charge, and the failure is written into the run log you keep.

Price

Three prices, all published

Pre-Flight Review

$1,500 once

per agent or automation

Six guardrails tested on a staging copy, the Pre-Flight Report, a ranked fix list, two configs and a 30-minute readout. Delivered in 5 business days.

Guardrail Fix Sprint

Quoted in writing

fixed price, quoted after the review

We install every guardrail that failed and rerun each acceptance test with your team watching. The fixed price is quoted in writing before any work starts, and the $1,500 review fee is credited in full if you book within 30 days.

Guardrail Recheck

$400 a month

per agent, month to month

The six acceptance tests rerun after each release (up to two a month) and at least once a month, with a one-page log. Cancel with 30 days notice.

What is included, and what is not

Six guardrails tested on one agent or automation, on a staging copy.
The Pre-Flight Report with evidence for every PASS and every FAIL.
A ranked fix list and two ready-to-apply configs: spend cap and kill-switch runbook.
A 30-minute readout with your team.
Everything we write is yours to keep, in your repo.

What your people keep owning

The agent, its code and its prompts.
Every key and all production access. We work on a staging copy with read-only access.
The kill switch: a named person on your team holds it.
The decision to ship, and when.
The configs and the report, committed to your own repo.

Not included: production access, a compliance certification (SOC 2, ISO 27001), a full penetration test, a hosted monitoring product, model training, or any promise that an agent will never fail. The boundary is part of the product.

Compare

The routes you can take, with published prices

Runaway cost = runs per hour, times cost per run, times hours until someone notices. Silent-break cost = bad records written per day, times days until someone notices, times minutes to repair one record, times your hourly rate divided by 60. Add the two. We publish no typical figure for you; your own invoices and your own CRM hold the real numbers.

Route	Published price	What you get	What is still on you
Hire an AI agent engineer	$192,000 to $288,000 a yearSource: F5 Senior AI Agent Engineer posting on hiring.camp, as listed at sattyamjjain.in/book (read 2026-09-24)	A full-time owner for agent reliability.	Months to hire; the agent runs unguarded while you do.
Buy a checklist	$19 to $39 onceSource: Gumroad checklists listed by The Production Agent, theproductionagent.substack.com (read 2026-09-24)	A written list of what to check.	Your team still runs every test and proves every item.
App code security audit	$349 to $2,500 onceSource: vibe-audit.com ($349 Sweep), fortivibe.com ($499 Launch Audit), attributex.ai/services/vibe-coded-app-audit ($2,500 flat), all read 2026-09-26	A review of the app's code: auth, data access, secrets.	Scope is the code. This review adds the running agent: its spend, its stop, its silent breaks.
The Six-Guardrail Pre-Flight	$1,500 per agent, onceSource: This offer's own price	Six guardrails tested with evidence, a ranked fix list, two configs, a readout.	Your team keeps owning the agent and the decision to ship.

Questions

Questions about this

What does it cost?: $1,500 per agent or automation, once. The Guardrail Recheck is $400 a month per agent. A Fix Sprint is a fixed price quoted in writing after the review, and the $1,500 is credited in full if you book it within 30 days.
What do we actually get?: The Pre-Flight Report, with each of six guardrails marked PASS or FAIL and the evidence behind it. You also get a ranked fix list, two ready-to-apply configs (spend cap and kill-switch runbook) and a 30-minute readout. All of it is yours to keep.
Do you need access to production?: No. We work on a staging copy with read-only access. We never hold your production keys or production write access, and your team decides what ships.
How is this different from an app security audit or a monitoring tool?: An app security audit reviews the code; a monitoring tool shows you what already happened. This review tests the running agent: whether it stops at a spend cap, whether someone can stop it, and whether a renamed field halts it. Keep your audit and your dashboards; this checks the brakes.
Who is accountable when a guardrail fails?: Mike Rodgers. A guardrail that fails in the review is marked FAIL with the evidence and the fix. After a Fix Sprint, a guardrail we installed that fails its acceptance test on the same setup within 30 days is fixed again at no charge.

Every page links back to the Agent Guardrail Desk home page, where the price, the rulebook and the request form live.

The review, per situation

SituationPre-Flight for Agent BuildersEngineers shipping tool-using agents, multi-agent pipelines and MCP servers. The loop stops at the cap; the hidden instruction is refused or held for approval.SituationPre-Flight for AI-Built AppsFounders and makers shipping apps built with Lovable, Bolt, Cursor or Claude Code on Supabase. The request is refused; no service key ships to the browser.SituationPre-Flight for No-Code AutomationsOps owners running Zapier, Make or n8n flows from forms and webhooks into a CRM. The run stops and alerts instead of writing an empty record.SituationPre-Flight for Platform TeamsPlatform, security and ops leads whose internal agents can write to CRM, ticketing and docs. The write is refused; the agent's role grants only what its job needs.

Buyer questions, answered

QuestionHow do I cap what an AI agent can spend?Where a spend cap has to live, what it counts, and the test that proves it stops a loop.QuestionWhat should an AI agent kill switch actually do?The four things a kill switch must stop, who holds it, and how to prove it works.QuestionHow do I catch a renamed form field before it writes empty records?Silent breaks in automations: what to check before each write, and the test that proves it.QuestionHow do I check an AI-built app is secure before real users?The pre-launch routine for Lovable, Bolt, Cursor and Claude Code apps, and what to test after it.

Price and sample

Start hereSee a sample Pre-Flight ReportThe report format, filled in for a placeholder agent. Demonstration, not a client result.HomeAgent Guardrail Desk: the Six-Guardrail Pre-FlightThe whole offer on one page: the six guardrails, the price, the rulebook and the form.

Next step

Request a Pre-Flight Review for one agent

$1,500 per agent or automation, once. Delivered in 5 business days after read-only access to a staging copy. If you book a Fix Sprint within 30 days, the $1,500 is credited in full against it.

Request a Pre-Flight Review See a sample report