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The Worst-Run Worksheet
From the episode: What an AI agent costs to run, and who pays when it is wrong
“Price the worst run, not the typical one.”
An agent decides for itself how much work to do, so the typical run tells you nothing about your exposure. The run that hurts is the expensive one — this worksheet prices that run before it happens, and puts a name on the ceiling.
- What it is: five questions you answer in writing.
- Who fills it in: whoever is putting the agent live, plus whoever owns the budget — question 4 is theirs.
- When: the afternoon before the agent touches a real workload, and again every time it gets a new tool.
- Time: about an hour, done honestly.