QAi / Executive Rescue Sprint
QAi Executive Rescue Sprint
A compressed, high-intensity version of the Health Check, built for speed rather than completeness. The engagement typically concludes within days, not weeks.
Rescue Sprint exists for the moment there isn't time for a full Health Check: something is actively on fire, and leadership needs a defensible answer this week, not next month. It trades the completeness of a full audit for speed: instead of judging all eight dimensions at full depth, it triages fast toward the ones most likely to explain what's actually happening.
The goal of a sprint isn't a final verdict; it's a stop/stabilize call and a 14-day plan leadership can act on immediately. Many engagements roll straight into a full Health Check once things are stable, to get the complete picture the sprint didn't have time for.
Where it sits in the methodology
Scope of this engagement
Rapid triage weighted toward Operational Maturity, Security, Logic & Code, and Eval & Hallucination, the dimensions most likely to explain an active failure.
Layers examined
Signs it's time for this
- The system is failing right now and customers are noticing
- Costs have spiked and nobody can explain why fast enough
- Leadership needs a defensible call this week, not after a multi-week audit
- There's a real chance the right answer is to stop or roll back, and someone independent needs to say so
How it runs
Step by step
- Same-day or next-day kickoff: no multi-week scoping process
- Rapid evidence pull: logs, recent changes, cost data, and incident reports
- Triage against the dimensions most likely to be the cause
- Initial root-cause identification
- A stop / stabilize recommendation, delivered directly to leadership
- A 14-day action plan
How this compares
Rescue Sprint is Health Check compressed for speed, not depth: it triages toward the dimensions most likely to explain an active failure rather than covering all eight at full depth. Once things are stabilized, a full Health Check is usually the right next step to get the complete picture.
What you receive
- Rapid triage
- Initial root-cause identification
- Risk assessment
- A stop / stabilize recommendation
- A 14-day action plan
Investment
$13,000 – $23,000
Common questions
About this engagement
How fast can you start?
Sprints are built to start same-day or next-day. The scoping overhead of a full Health Check is deliberately stripped out.
Does this replace a full Health Check?
Not usually. A sprint answers the immediate question, stop or stabilize, fast. Many clients follow it with a full Health Check once the immediate fire is out.
What if the recommendation is to shut the system down?
That's a valid, sometimes necessary outcome. The sprint exists precisely to give leadership a defensible, independent basis for that call when it's the right one.
Ready to scope it?
Tell us where the project stands and we'll confirm this is the right fit.