Vision
Vision
When Checking Costs More Than Running
The verification script broke again. Third time this week. The agent it was checking? Still running fine, navigating authentication flows, handling site structure changes, extracting data from surfaces that shifted constantly. But the script built to verify the agent's work couldn't keep up.
At production scale, this pattern repeats constantly. Agents adapt to change. Verification scripts shatter when websites shift. Teams spend weekends rebuilding checkers while the workflows they're checking just keep running. At some point, you're maintaining the checker more than the thing being checked.
When Checking Costs More Than Running
The verification script broke again. Third time this week. The agent it was checking? Still running fine, navigating authentication flows, handling site structure changes, extracting data from surfaces that shifted constantly. But the script built to verify the agent's work couldn't keep up.
At production scale, this pattern repeats constantly. Agents adapt to change. Verification scripts shatter when websites shift. Teams spend weekends rebuilding checkers while the workflows they're checking just keep running. At some point, you're maintaining the checker more than the thing being checked.
The Economics
What Consolidation Actually Costs at Production Scale
Consolidate ten tools into three and watch licensing costs drop 70%. The CFO approves in minutes. Then you try running 10,000 concurrent sessions across teams with conflicting requirements and discover what infrastructure budgets never capture: the coordination overhead everyone anticipated isn't the real cost. The real cost is measurable infrastructure waste embedded in architectural decisions made to satisfy everyone simultaneously. Compute over-provisioning. Monitoring multiplication. Bandwidth inefficiency. What looks like organizational friction is actually infrastructure economics breaking down at production scale.
How Infrastructure Waste Compounds Over Time
The infrastructure waste doesn't just persist. It compounds. Month one after consolidation, everything stabilizes. Then migrations require backward compatibility across all teams, creating compute waste that stretches for months. Regional requirements diverge, forcing permanent over-provisioning. Shadow infrastructure appears as teams escape constraints. Three years in, the waste is embedded in architectural decisions that can't be reversed without another expensive migration. Total infrastructure spend often exceeds what specialized systems would have cost. By then, the licensing savings are spent and reversing course means admitting consolidation created more costs than it eliminated.
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