Where does it break?
Map model and API dependencies, hidden retries, missing approval gates, unstable integrations, and the failure that would stop the workflow.
Reality Engineering
Audit one stuck AI workflow.
Find where it can fail, what you actually own, and the smallest route to a verified operating state.
For $5M to $100M manufacturers with one funded pilot that is stalled, fragile, or difficult to transfer away from its vendor.
Audit one workflow
RSM Middle Market AI Survey 2026 reports broad adoption with limited core-process embedding. These figures describe the surveyed market, not a promised RIG outcome.
86%integrated AI into operations
36%fully embedded it across core processes
34/30/28data quality, security and privacy, legacy integration
Three questions before another build.
A pilot can look active while its authority, ownership, and exit path remain undefined. The audit makes those gaps inspectable before more money or workflow responsibility moves into the system.
What do you control?
Inventory source, prompts, data lineage, deployment instructions, logs, substitution rights, and the decisions still owned by a vendor or consultant.
Can you leave?
Run a bounded vendor-exit drill and record the time, access, code, data, and operational knowledge required to restore the workflow elsewhere.
The evidence packet you keep.
One workflow enters. A bounded technical and operating record comes back. Every finding distinguishes observed evidence from assumption.
- Dependency and failure mapWhere the workflow depends on models, APIs, people, credentials, and unstated recovery behavior.
- Authority boundaryWhich steps may use a model and which decisions must remain deterministic or human-approved.
- Ownership inventoryWhat is owned, rented, transferable, unverified, or missing.
- Vendor-exit drillA measured route away from the current vendor or consultant, including the unresolved blockers.
- Baseline and target stateThe current operating condition and the smallest verified state worth installing.
- 90-day routeA sequenced remediation or build scope with dependencies, stop conditions, and ownership transfer.
- Proof packetThe claims, evidence, limitations, and independent acceptance obligations behind the recommendation.
Bounded before it begins.
The audit diagnoses one consequential workflow. It does not guarantee that a build is justified. If the evidence says stop, the recommendation says stop.
How verification worksScopeOne workflow
DurationOne week
Feepriced after a short conversation
CreditApplied to an approved build
AcceptanceEvidence and limitations recorded
The fee and credit reflect the current published RIG audit offer. Final scope is confirmed before work begins. No infrastructure purchase, production deployment, or vendor change is implied by submitting the form.
Qualification
Name the one workflow.
Use operational language. Do not include credentials, patient records, privileged material, export-controlled data, or other sensitive information.
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