For founders deploying AI agents

Stop finding out your AI had a problem when something goes wrong.

Know exactly what your AI agents are allowed to do — and where the risks are — before it affects your customers, your reputation, or your revenue.

Works whether you have 1 agent or 20 · Works if your team built it internally · Works before something breaks

No visibility into what they can do

You know what the agent is supposed to do. You probably don't know every system it can touch, every action it can take, or every edge case it might hit.

No approval layer on high-risk actions

Your AI SDR can send pricing emails. Your support agent can issue refunds. Nobody explicitly decided what needs a human in the loop before it happens.

No escalation path when things get ambiguous

When the agent hits a situation it can't resolve, what does it do? For most deployments, the honest answer is: nobody knows.

No plan for when it goes wrong at scale

One bad interaction is a support ticket. The same failure happening 500 times before anyone notices is a crisis. Most teams have no early warning system.

We help you see exactly what your AI agents are doing, find where that's risky, and put the right controls in place — before something forces your hand.

From "we think it's fine" to we know exactly where we're exposed.

Before working with Nodal, most founders are in the same position: they know AI is creating value, they suspect there are gaps, and they don't have a clear picture of either.

01
You can answer the hard questions.

Board asking about AI risk? Investor doing due diligence? Enterprise client requesting documentation? You have a clear, documented answer — not "we think it's fine."

02
You can scale AI usage without scaling the risk.

Every new agent you add sits on top of a control framework that already exists. You're not starting from scratch each time and hoping for the best.

03
You have a response plan if something goes wrong.

Not just a report about what could happen — a blueprint of exactly what's controlled, what needs approval, and what escalates to a human. The difference between a recoverable incident and a damaging one is usually whether that infrastructure was in place.

One AI support agent with uncapped refund authority running for a week before anyone notices isn't a £5,000 problem. It's a £50,000 problem — or more, depending on your customer volume. The assessment costs less than one prevented failure at scale.

The Nodal Trust Assessment — what it covers.

5–7 working days
01
What is this agent actually designed to do?

We document the full purpose, scope, and business impact of every agent in your stack — often revealing agents nobody had fully mapped.

02
What is it allowed to do?

We map every action the agent can take, every system it can access, and every decision it can make without human involvement. Most teams are surprised by how much authority their agents have by default.

03
How do humans stay in control?

We identify every point where a human should be in the loop — and whether those checkpoints actually exist. Most deployments have fewer than anyone assumed.

04
What happens when the agent gets stuck?

We map the escalation path: what triggers a handoff, what happens when confidence drops, what the agent does when it hits an ambiguous situation. For most deployments: nobody knows.

05
What does failure actually look like?

We build specific, tangible failure scenarios — not abstract risk categories. Real situations, real consequences, written in plain language so every stakeholder can understand them.

06
Can it recover when something goes wrong?

We assess whether your agents have the controls, rollback procedures, and fallback processes needed to contain and recover from an incident — before it becomes a crisis.

Deliverable 01
Agent Map

Every AI system documented — what it does, what it touches, what it can do autonomously.

Deliverable 02
Risk Report

Where things could go wrong, ranked by severity and business impact. Clear enough to act on in a meeting.

Deliverable 03
Failure Scenarios

Real, specific situations written in plain language. The part most founders say "we hadn't thought about that."

Deliverable 04
Control Blueprint

Exactly what to allow, approval-gate, escalate, and block. Specific enough to implement from day one.

Deliverable 05
Executive Summary

One page. Boardroom-ready. Built to share with investors, boards, or enterprise clients who ask about AI risk.

Deliverable 06
Trust Readiness Score

Scored across six pillars. A benchmark today and a target to build toward.

This isn't AI monitoring. Monitoring tools tell your engineers what the agent did. The Nodal Trust Assessment tells you — the founder — whether it should have been allowed to do it, and what the real-world consequence is if it does it wrong.

Two different questions. Two very different answers.

Trust-by-Design Architecture
£8,500 / £14k
project · scoped after assessment
Where the assessment tells you what's wrong, the architecture fixes it. We redesign how your AI agents operate — permissions, escalation, oversight, recovery.
  • Redesigned Workflow Architecture
  • Authority Model
  • Escalation Framework
  • Oversight Framework
  • Trust-by-Design Blueprint
Ongoing Trust Retainer
£2,000
per month · no minimum term
AI stacks don't stay still. The retainer keeps your control framework current as your stack evolves — monthly review, updated risk register, written trust summary.
  • 60-min monthly trust review call
  • Updated Risk Register
  • Monthly Trust Summary
  • Emerging risk flagging
  • Cancel with 30 days notice
First 2–3 assessments available at £2,500–£3,500 or free in exchange for a testimonial and case study rights. Not discounting — evidence-building.
Book a call if you
  • Have AI agents in production and can't fully document what they're authorised to do
  • Can't answer questions from your board, investors, or enterprise clients about AI risk
  • Have scaled AI usage quickly and know the operational design hasn't kept pace
  • Are preparing to scale AI usage and want controls in place before you grow the problem
  • Something has already gone slightly wrong and you want the full picture
Look elsewhere if you
  • Are still evaluating whether to use AI — come back when you're deploying
  • Need a cybersecurity review or penetration test — different specialism
  • Want a generic compliance report — we produce operational intelligence, not paperwork
  • Won't act on the findings — the report is only valuable if the controls get implemented
Before Nodal

"We know what our AI can do."

After Nodal

"We know what it's allowed to do, what happens when it gets it wrong, who's in control when it matters, and what we do if something breaks."

Know what your AI is doing before your customers find out for you.

Book a free 30-minute AI agent review. We'll ask six questions about your AI setup. By the end, you'll know whether you have gaps worth addressing — and we'll know whether the full assessment is the right fit.

No obligation. No pitch. Just clarity.

Book your free AI agent review →
Applications reviewed individually. We only take on assessments where we're confident we'll find something worth knowing.
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"5 questions every founder should be able to answer about their AI agents."
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