For teams that already have agents running — or are about to
Most agent projects die between the demo and production.
Answer a few questions. Two minutes later you'll know if yours will make it — and what to fix first.
About two minutes. You'll know where you stand.
Want the long version? On running agents in production
Familiar?
Does this sound like you?
The demo went well. Then someone asked who is allowed to change production, and the room went quiet.
There's money for a platform. Nobody can quite say what you'd put on it — or who signs off when it changes.
The board wants an agent plan this quarter. You want to know whether to build, buy, or wait.
You don't need another pitch. You need a straight answer.
The AI Strategy Readiness Check
2 min· 3–11 questions· 1 straight answer
These are real questions from the check.
Three of them, worded the way you'll see them. If one is hard to answer, that's the point.
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Who can change production right now — your engineers only, agents with a human sign-off, or agents on their own?
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Before an agent change ships, does anyone measure what it actually did?
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If the board asked where your agents run tomorrow, could anyone answer in one sentence?
What you get back — an example
Readiness: 2/5.
Nobody can say who ships what to production. First move: advice and a written plan, not a platform.
About two minutes. You'll know where you stand.
Afterward
What you leave with
A straight answer
Where things actually stand, in words you can say in a board meeting.
A plan you can hand your board
Build, buy, or wait — and why. Yours to keep either way.
One thing to fix first
The first move, ranked. Useful even if we never talk again.
How this works
Name and email go to HubSpot. A person reads them. We don't keep a copy.
The check asks what you already run. It doesn't try to sell you a stack.
Talk to us
Or just write.
The check takes about two minutes. If you'd rather talk, send a note — I read everything.
Write directly
Telchines is Kevin Welsh. I've spent about twenty years on production systems and developer tools. If you take the check, you're talking to the person who wrote it.