For AI vendors selling into regulated markets · 5-day turnaround

Reproducibility Audit — The Enterprise Deal-Blocker Nobody Talks About

Your enterprise customer is going to ask you to reproduce a decision your AI made last quarter. Right now, "well, LLMs are stochastic" isn't a defensible answer — and the deal stalls in procurement. In five days you'll have a real answer, a gap map, and a 30/60/90-day roadmap to the reproducibility posture your carriers, auditors, and regulators actually accept.

$2,500 USD · flat · 5 days · one workload
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Sales enablement, disguised as an audit

This isn't compliance theater. Enterprise customers — carriers, hospitals, banks, regulators — are getting sharper every quarter about asking AI vendors to produce reproducible records of specific past decisions. A vendor who can answer with something concrete moves through procurement. A vendor who says "the model is stochastic, we'll get back to you" doesn't. The audit is what turns your answer from the second thing into the first.

What you get

A five-to-eight page technical brief plus the customer-facing language, delivered in five business days.

The audit

  • Reproducibility map — every AI decision point in your stack, marked reproducible / partially / not at all
  • Enterprise-risk ranking — which non-reproducible decisions hurt your enterprise deals most, mapped to customer objections you've already heard
  • Determinism-pattern playbook — seed pinning, response caching, wrapper-log-and-replay, deterministic-router, provider-version pinning — ranked by effort vs. value
  • Customer-facing defensibility statement — the exact language you can put in enterprise contracts and SOC 2 attestations
  • 30 / 60 / 90-day roadmap to whatever reproducibility coverage you commit to
  • Pre-committed scoreboard: today X% of your production decisions are bit-reproducible; in 60 days, Y%

You provide

  • Read access (or a walkthrough) of your production AI pipeline
  • 1-3 enterprise-customer objections or auditor questions you've heard about reproducibility
  • A sample of your production traces / logs / decision records (as much or little as you're comfortable sharing)
  • 30-minute kickoff call to scope which workload and which customer segment

Regulatory context

The pressure is real, on multiple fronts, tightening every quarter.

SR 11-7
Fed model risk mgmt
SOC 2 Type II
Auditor evidence
EU AI Act
Rolls in 2026-2027
FDA 21 CFR 11
Clinical reproducibility
NAIC Model Bulletin
Insurance AI oversight
HITRUST
Health data audit trail

Every one of these frameworks assumes decisions can be reproduced from records. Every LLM under the hood assumes they can't. The audit is how you close the gap without pretending it isn't there.

The non-determinism surfaces we look at

Temperature and sampling stochasticity
Where you can pin, where you can't, and which decisions actually need the stochasticity vs. inherit it because nobody thought to turn it off.
Provider version drift
gpt-4 today isn't gpt-4 six months from today. Which of your decisions depend on model version, and what you're doing to record it.
Prompt drift
Every silent prompt change (system prompt tuning, RAG chunk shuffling, template updates) invalidates historical reproducibility. What's your record?
Cache determinism
A cache hit is deterministic; a miss is not. Do your enterprise records distinguish?
Tool-call routing
Which decisions did the agent make with which tools, in which order? Reproducible from your logs, or lost?
Cross-tenant leakage
Shared state, shared caches, shared context windows — the reproducibility question tenant-by-tenant, not just system-wide.

Five-day timeline

Clock starts at kickoff call, not at purchase.

1
Kickoff call
Same day (30 min)
2
Stack review
Days 1-2
3
Gap map + roadmap
Days 3-4
4
Brief + customer-facing statement
Day 5
5
Walkthrough call
Within 3 days

Start the reproducibility audit

$2,500 flat, five business days from kickoff. If you've got a specific enterprise-deal or regulator conversation on a clock, say so on the kickoff call — I'll compress if possible or tell you honestly if I can't.

Buy the audit — $2,500

Prefer a 15-minute qualification call first? Email luddy.kevin@gmail.com.

Why me

Kevin Luddy. 35 years shipping production software. 24 years as CTO. Built HIPAA-adjacent systems, government-facing platforms, regulated enterprise stacks. Now doing this.

contrarianAI's thesis: the interesting failure modes in modern AI are the ones that read as correct until they don't — and the ones enterprise procurement quietly holds vendors accountable for. The reproducibility audit is the version of that thesis that survives an auditor's follow-up question.