← Rescue patterns
Case pattern
AI feature demo that couldn’t ship
Anonymized pattern we see often. Same playbook: diagnose, stabilize, harden, hand over.
Before
A polished agent demo with brittle prompts, no tests, and zero cost controls—great for investors, scary for users.
How we approached it
- 01Replace brittle free-text with structured outputs where possible
- 02Add release gates: smoke tests + basic AI evals
- 03Baseline latency and token cost under realistic load
- 04Hand over a path the team can change without fear
After
We hardened the product path: structured outputs, testing gates, latency/cost baselines, and a real handoff.
Outcome
A launch-ready feature the team could change without fear.