Pre-Deploy Checklist
Nothing goes live until every item on this checklist is confirmed. We review this together before scheduling the go-live call.1
All integrations authorised in production
Every tool connection — CRM, inbox, helpdesk, database — must be authorised against your live production credentials, not the staging equivalents. Verify that each connection is active and has the correct permission scope.
2
All test cases passed
The full staging test suite must have passed with no outstanding failures. Any open issues flagged during your staging review must be resolved and re-tested before this step is signed off.
3
Your team has been notified
Anyone who interacts with the workflows the agent will touch — support staff, ops team, managers — should know the agent is going live, what it does, and how to recognise its activity.
4
Rollback plan is in place
We document the exact steps to pause or disable the agent if something unexpected happens after go-live. You should know where the pause control is before the agent is live.
The Go-Live Process
Go-live is a structured, supervised event — not a silent deployment.Production Deployment
We deploy the agent to your production environment at the agreed time. The deployment itself takes minutes; the verification that follows is what matters.
Live Smoke Test
With you on a call, we trigger the agent against a real input and walk through the output together — verifying that every step behaves exactly as designed in the live environment.
Go/No-Go Confirmation
Only after the smoke test confirms correct behaviour do we formally mark the agent as live. If the smoke test surfaces an issue, we pause and resolve it before proceeding.
The go-live call typically takes 30–45 minutes. Plan for it to run slightly longer on your first agent deployment — it’s worth taking the time to feel confident before the call ends.
First-Week Monitoring
The first seven days after launch are the highest-risk window for any agent. We treat them accordingly. During this period, our team actively monitors:- Error rates — any unexpected failures in the agent’s workflow steps
- Escalation frequency — whether the agent is handing off to humans more or less often than the design anticipated
- Tool connection health — confirming that every integration stays stable under real traffic
- Output quality — spot-checking agent responses or actions against the expected behaviour defined in the design
If we identify anything that looks off during the first seven days — an unexpected error pattern, a guardrail triggering too frequently, a tool behaving differently in production — we investigate and fix it at no extra charge.
How to Pause or Stop the Agent
You are always in control. If something unexpected comes up — a business process changes, a tool has an outage, or you simply want to review behaviour before letting the agent continue — you can pause it immediately. Pausing does not affect any data already processed. It simply stops the agent from acting on new triggers until you resume it.14-Day Hypercare Period
After go-live, you enter a 14-day hypercare period. During this window, our team is on standby for fast fixes — no new scoping, no project queue, no waiting.What Hypercare Covers
Bug fixes, unexpected behaviour, integration issues, and adjustments to guardrail thresholds that arise from real-world usage. If it’s a result of the build, it’s covered.
What Hypercare Doesn't Cover
New features, workflow additions, new integrations, or scope changes. Those are handled as change requests after hypercare ends.