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Operations retainer · month to month

Someone accountable,
every month.

An AI employee doing real work needs what a human employee needs: someone checking the work, watching the costs, and answering when something looks off. That’s the retainer — a named human accountable for your operator, month after month.

A typical month
1report
what it did, what we caught, what it cost — in plain English
A monthly check of the operator’s real conversations, the run-cost numbers against their caps, anything we fixed before you noticed, and the one improvement we shipped. Peter writes it and emails it. Direct line to him in between.
What it covers

Accountability, itemized.

01

A named human who answers for it

When something feels off, you message Peter and get a real answer with a stated response expectation — not a ticket queue, not a chatbot. Someone is accountable for your operator by name.

02

Its work, checked monthly

Every month we review what the operator actually said and did against your real conversations: still accurate, still your voice, still following your rules. Businesses drift — pricing changes, policies change — and we catch it before your customers do.

03

Costs capped, alerts on

Hard monthly caps on AI usage and alerts before anything gets near them. A runaway loop hits a ceiling, not your card. You see the real run cost in every monthly report.

04

Security reviewed

Everything the operator can touch — connected accounts, added capabilities, third-party integrations — gets reviewed for safety. New attack patterns against AI agents appear monthly; we watch so you don’t have to.

05

One improvement, every month

Not just upkeep. Each month we ship one real business-layer improvement: a better follow-up sequence, a new report, a sharper guest reply. The operator gets more valuable, not just older.

— What it doesn’t cover

Net-new workflows. Putting a whole new job on the operator’s plate is its own fixed-price build — $3,500–5,000 per additional workflow, with the same acceptance-test deal. We’d rather scope each one honestly than pretend everything fits in the retainer.

Pricing

One base rate. Grows only when the work does.

Each additional workflow
+$750/ month

Every extra workflow under management adds a flat $750/month — same accountability, same monthly check, same caps. No tiers to decode, no surprises to negotiate.

Two workflows = $2,250/mo. That’s the whole formula.

The audit and operator pod are priced separately. The retainer picks up when your first workflow ships.

No surprises.

Hire us monthly. Fire us monthly.

Everything lives in your hands — the operator, the documentation, the keys. If we stop earning the retainer, you stop paying it, and the operator keeps running.