The first AI-enabled task is in production. Now what?
A common question from CXOs evaluating a multi-year engagement: if an agent stops working in production, who fixes it? Nuvepro's sustainment program is built into every Pilot, Sprint, and Enterprise engagement. Forward-deployed engineers, monitored agents, defined escalation protocols, and a multi-year cadence that matches how your business actually operates.
Four Pillars of Sustainment
Built into every engagement. Not an add-on, not a separate SKU.
Monitor
Every agent in production is instrumented from day one. Latency, error rate, escalation rate, output quality, drift detection. Dashboards visible to your team and ours. When something drifts, both sides see it before the business does.
Per-agent telemetry. Per-workflow KPIs. Per-tenant dashboards. Alerts to your on-call channel and ours.
Respond
Defined escalation protocols. When an agent breaks, the on-call engineer is paged. P1 issues (agent down, blocking business operations) get a response within 1 hour. P2 (degraded but functional) within 4 business hours. P3 (cosmetic or improvement) within 2 business days.
Tiered SLAs by severity. Joint on-call rotation. Postmortem within 5 business days of any P1.
Operate
Forward-deployed engineers, virtual or onsite. Sized to engagement: 1-2 engineers for Sprint, scaling to a dedicated pod for Enterprise. They sit alongside your team, learn your business, and operate the agents day-to-day. Your team owns the work; we own the agents.
FDE model. Virtual default; onsite available for regulated industries. Pod scales with workflow rollout cadence.
Evolve
Every workflow expansion is a sustainment moment. New agents added, old ones tuned, prompts versioned, models updated, EASE assessments re-baselined. The platform gets faster every quarter. Quarterly business reviews surface what's working and what to expand next.
Versioned agents and prompts. Continuous EASE benchmarking. QBR with named outcomes and next-quarter scope.
SLA Tiers by Engagement Shape
Pilot validates. Sprint productizes. Enterprise sustains for years.
Pilot
14 days + 30 days post-pilot
Single workflow. Best-effort monitoring during the pilot, virtual support window 9am-6pm in the client's primary timezone for 30 days post-pilot. No P1 SLA — the pilot is the validation phase.
Included in Pilot fee
Sprint
1 quarter rolling, renewable
First department in production. 1 dedicated forward-deployed engineer (virtual). P1: 1 hour. P2: 4 business hours. P3: 2 business days. Weekly check-ins, monthly QBR.
Included in Sprint engagement
Enterprise (Multi-Year)
Annual, multi-year
Multiple departments, sustained rollout. Dedicated pod sized to scope (2-6 engineers). P1: 1 hour 24/7. P2: 2 business hours. P3: 1 business day. Quarterly business reviews. Onsite available.
Annual contract with multi-year discount
DIY Sustainment vs Nuvepro Sustainment
Why most clients keep us on for the multi-year.
| Dimension | DIY | With Nuvepro Sustainment |
|---|---|---|
| Who's on call when an agent breaks | Your internal AI team (if you have one) | Joint on-call: your team + our FDE pod |
| Time to detect a drifting agent | When the business complains | Telemetry catches it before the business notices |
| Knowing whether the model bump broke something | Manual regression on critical workflows | EASE re-baselined on every model bump |
| Expansion to the next workflow | Start from scratch, re-learn the patterns | Patterns from the first workflow reused; ramp time drops every cycle |
| Compliance / audit trail | Build your own logging and retention | SOC 2 + audit log export included |
Frequently Asked Questions
Want a sustainment-shaped scope for your engagement?
Tell us the workflows, the volume, the response-time tier, and your VPC posture. We'll scope the multi-year shape.
Talk to a Sustainment Lead