Dhavan Shah
Fail-closed budgets, approval gates, evaluations, and grounded company memory — installed before agents run unsupervised.
UZH MSc · Kaggle Top 0.5% · Independent practice
Fixed-scope work for Series A to C teams who already feel agent cost or trust risk. You get written deliverables, not open-ended billing.
$3,500–$7,500 · 1–2 weeks
Architecture and workflow review. Cost and loop risk. Tool permissions. Eval and failure-mode report. Budget and approval recommendations. Prioritised 30-day roadmap and a walkthrough.
$10,000–$25,000 · 4–8 weeks
One controlled production workflow: pre-call budget enforcement, permission policy, human gates, claim checks, audit trail, evaluation, and deployment notes.
from $3,000/mo · typically $3–8k
Architecture reviews, evaluation maintenance, cost incident analysis, policy updates, and limited implementation when new agent workflows appear.
Fit check
Scoped work is strongest when there is a production or near-production workflow, a technical owner, and enough signal to audit behavior.
Approach
A clear sequence so you know what you are buying before any code lands in your stack.
Thirty minutes on production risk, stack, and whether an audit or pilot is the right first step.
No obligationWritten findings on spend loops, gates, evals, and memory. The product is the report, not a slide deck.
1–2 weeksOptional. Harden one workflow with fail-closed budgets and evidence. KazenAI patterns when they fit your stack.
Scoped deliveryOnly when the same need repeats: ongoing reliability work, or design-partner modules (FinOps, Brain).
OptionalThree reference systems behind the practice. Engagements install the same patterns in your stack.
Why teams trust this work
I run an independent practice on agent reliability: cost control, approval gates, evaluation, and grounded institutional memory.
Agent FinOps, Agent Brain, and Agent Lens are the reference systems behind that work. Academic foundation: MSc Data Science, University of Zurich; Kaggle Competition Expert (top 0.5%).
I take a small number of scoped engagements with teams who already feel the cost or trust risk of agents in production.
I take a small number of engagements. Typical first step: a 30-minute fit call. I reply within one business day.
