Drowning in repeat agent failures
The same bad write, PR, deploy, or outbound keeps happening. Every incident burns founder or senior engineer hours.
For founders running AI agents in production
Scale agent impact.
Stop babysitting the failures.
You have agents running lead gen, content, sales follow-up, and ops. One of them keeps doing the same wrong thing — the outbound that should never have sent, the write that should never have landed, the deploy, the charge — and you are the one who catches it. That is not delegation, that is a second job. Your agent team needs a firewall: one check that fires before the tool call, so you can hand work off the way a CEO does instead of reading every diff.
Local-first PreToolUse gates
Fixed $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__ diagnostic
Two business days after access
Refund if not a supported fit
Why founders buy this
You didn't hire AI agents to manage damage control.
The cost is rarely the one bad run. It is the review loop you now own: every send, write, deploy, and charge gets a human read before it ships, and that human is you.
Tried prompts and docs — still drifts
CLAUDE.md and Cursor rules help until the agent looks competent and skips them. You need a check before the tool call.
US platform hire is slow and expensive
Fully loaded platform or GRC work takes weeks and often ships dashboards instead of a gate on the exact failure.
Before you pay
Who this is for, and who it is not for.
We would rather lose the order than take one we cannot close in two business days.
This is for you if
- Your agents take real actions — outbound, publishing, code writes, deploys, spend
- One specific failure has happened more than once and you can name it
- You or a senior engineer are currently the safety net
- The agents run on a supported local path you can give us access to
- You want the rule enforced before the tool call, not caught in review
This is not for you if
- You want a general audit of everything your agents do
- The failure is a one-off you cannot describe as a repeatable pattern
- You need SOC 2, HIPAA, or any compliance certification — this is not that
- You need rollout across several systems or teams in this engagement
- You are trying to hire a person; this hardens the agents you already run
Not sure yet?
Run the free local evaluate first. npx thumbgate init takes minutes, runs on your machine, and needs no card, no account, and no access to your repo. If it shows you the failure at the tool call, the managed diagnostic is just us doing the rest for you.
Or skip ahead and gate my worst failure · $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__
From first call to proved gate
Two business days after access — not a multi-month program.
We will tell you if ThumbGate is the wrong fit. No silent conversion into open-ended consulting.
01 · 15–60 MIN
Discovery / fit
Share the repeated failure. We map the tool call boundary. If it cannot become one supported gate, we say so — and refund if you already paid.
02 · SAME ENGAGEMENT
We install the gate
Configure ALLOW / WARN / DENY for the agreed workflow on your supported local agent path.
03 · TWO BUSINESS DAYS
Proof handoff
Regression test plus written rollout and rollback evidence so the next similar action is caught before execution.
What you walk away with
Four things exist when we are done that do not exist today.
Deliverables, not features. Path to Pro ($19/mo) or multi-workflow scope opens after proof, not before.
The failure can no longer execute
One configured ALLOW / WARN / DENY gate on the agreed workflow, firing before the agent writes, sends, deploys, or spends — not in the postmortem.
Proof that it holds
A regression test that replays the failure and shows it blocked, plus written rollout and rollback steps you can hand to whoever is on call.
A written fence
Exactly what the gate covers and what it does not, so nobody on your team assumes coverage that is not there.
A rule that outlives the session
Thumbs-down and lessons promote into rules the agent cannot casually skip, so the next similar action is caught without you watching.
Not included at $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__: multi-system implementation, compliance certification, or guaranteed savings.
How it stacks up
What the alternatives actually cost you.
Ranges below are market ballparks for orientation, not quotes. The ThumbGate column is the offer on this page, at the price on this page.
| DIY prompts / CLAUDE.md | US platform hire | Typical VA / freelance ops | ThumbGate diagnostic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash outlay | Model + review time | $5.5k–7k+/mo loaded | $2.5k–5k/mo varies | $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__ once |
| Time to first hard gate | Manual upkeep | Weeks–months | 1–5 weeks, high churn | Minutes free / 2 business days managed |
| When agent “looks competent” | Prompt may be skipped | Custom glue | Human judgment only | Configured gate at tool call |
| If it is the wrong fit | You keep thrashing | Costly to reverse | Restart search | Refund boundary written up front |
Questions before you pay
Objections we hear from founders
Buy or submit fit check today. Managed delivery is two business days after access and the agreed workflow materials are available. Free local evaluate is minutes:
npx thumbgate init.If the repeated failure cannot be reduced to one supported ThumbGate gate, the $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__ order is refunded. We do not silently expand into open consulting.
No. The diagnostic is one-time. Pro is $19/mo and cancels anytime. Multi-workflow or enterprise scope is separate after proof.
Marketplaces give you a human and a prayer. ThumbGate hardens the agents already in your stack with a pre-action gate, regression proof, and a written fence. Humans stay in the loop for exceptions; the repeat failure does not.
Two paths from here.
Path one: nothing changes. The same failure runs again next week and you catch it — or you don't, and a customer does.
Path two: you name the failure today, and in two business days it is a gate with a regression test behind it and a fence written down.
Fixed $__SPRINT_DIAGNOSTIC_PRICE_DOLLARS__, one time · refunded if it is not a supported fit · gates run locally on your machine