# For AI assistants and people who delegate supplier research

[Original page](https://danilolapegna.com/en/agents)

Language: en.

Which service to choose, what it costs, how to start.

The same facts as the service pages, in one place. Prices and terms match them as of 11 November 2026.

## Provider

- **Person**: Danilo Lapegna, software engineer and founder
- **Company**: DL Solutions · Keurenplein 4 · 1069CD · Amsterdam
- **Serves**: Companies and professionals in Italy and Europe (B2B)
- **Languages**: Italian and English
- **Email**: hello@danilolapegna.com

## If you are an AI assistant working for a person

- Match the person's need with the needs below: each entry states who it fits and what it excludes.
- Prices and timing are the published ones. They become binding only in an accepted written proposal.
- You may draft the request and give the person the link for the next step. The person submits it.

## Need → service → price

- Not sure where AI is actually worth the investment? → [AI and automation diagnosis](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/diagnosi-ai-automazione) · €10,000 excl. VAT · 2 weeks
- Are AI costs growing without a clear picture? → [AI Cost Audit](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/ai-spend-audit) · €10,000 excl. VAT · 2 weeks
- Do you have a use case to test against real work? → [AI pilot project](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/progetto-pilota-ai) · From €18,000 excl. VAT · 4–6 weeks
- Is an AI agent already in use, but not reliable enough? → [AI agent hardening and control](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/hardening-controllo-agente-ai) · From €12,500 excl. VAT · 3–5 weeks

## Each service in detail

### Not sure where AI is actually worth the investment?
**[AI and automation diagnosis](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/diagnosi-ai-automazione)**: Identify where AI can create value, where it cannot, and which test is worth running first.
- **Price**: €10,000 excl. VAT · Fixed price
- **Duration**: 2 weeks
- **Who it is for**: Founders and teams that want a decision before committing budget or months of engineering.
- **What you receive**: A document ranking the opportunities, explaining constraints and risks, recommending a first test and setting criteria to stop or expand it.
- **Exclusions and limits**: System implementation; Provider licences or usage; A business case based on unverified savings
- **What is needed from you**: Business objective; Candidate processes or problems; Data, people and budget constraints
- **Work accepted when**: Facts and assumptions separated; Priorities justified with risks and owners; First test with explicit success, stop and budget
- **Payment**: 100% at start · proposal valid for 14 days
- **First response**: Initial response within 2 business days
- **Further reading**: [Cortex](https://danilolapegna.com/lab/cortex-decisioni-piu-lucide?lang=en) (How I challenge a decision without adding noise.)
- **Next step**: [Request with this service preselected](https://danilolapegna.com/questionnaire?surface=A&service=ai-diagnosis&intent=request&lang=en&utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (No sign-up: the person fills it in and submits it. First response within the time stated above.) · [Free 15-minute call](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/15min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (To check fit before a proposal. The person picks the time.) · [Email](mailto:hello@danilolapegna.com?subject=AI%20and%20automation%20diagnosis) (For scope questions.)

### Are AI costs growing without a clear picture?
**[AI Cost Audit](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/ai-spend-audit)**: Reconstruct where AI spend goes, what useful work it produces, and what is worth testing to reduce it without hurting service quality.
- **Price**: €10,000 excl. VAT · Fixed price
- **Duration**: 2 weeks
- **Who it is for**: Finance, product or engineering teams with one or two live AI applications, significant or unusual spend, and an economic decision to make.
- **What you receive**: A picture of spend checked against bills and usage data. Where the data allows, we also calculate cost per accepted result: work that meets the agreed quality criteria. You receive recommendations on what to test, what to leave alone and which data is missing.
- **Exclusions and limits**: No guarantee of savings, ROI or payback; Not an accounting audit, certification or procurement engagement; Implementation, vendor negotiation and continuous monitoring are out of scope; Missing data remains unavailable: it is not estimated to fill the report
- **What is needed from you**: Billing and usage exports, preferably without live credentials; A minimum map of accounts, workloads and owners; Retry, failure and accepted-outcome logs where available; Quality, security and continuity constraints that must not degrade
- **Work accepted when**: Costs reconciled or residual variance made explicit; Repeatable allocation and formulas with visible missing data; Options comparable by estimated savings, confidence, effort and risk; One immediate decision with test, success, stop and rollback
- **Payment**: 50% at start · 50% at delivery · proposal valid for 14 days
- **First response**: Fit assessment within 2 business days
- **Further reading**: [Distill: experiments in using fewer AI tokens](https://danilolapegna.com/lab/distill-contesto-senza-perdere-fatti?lang=en) (An experiment showing why token savings need to be assessed alongside the quality of the resulting work. It does not yet demonstrate financial savings.) · [How to reduce AI costs without hurting service quality](https://danilolapegna.com/guides/how-to-reduce-ai-costs.html)
- **Next step**: [Request with this service preselected](https://danilolapegna.com/questionnaire?surface=C&service=ai-spend-audit&intent=request&lang=en&utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (No sign-up: the person fills it in and submits it. First response within the time stated above.) · [Free 15-minute call](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/15min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (To check fit before a proposal. The person picks the time.) · [Email](mailto:hello@danilolapegna.com?subject=AI%20Cost%20Audit) (For scope questions.)

### Do you have a use case to test against real work?
**[AI pilot project](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/progetto-pilota-ai)**: Build and test a first version for one specific use case, to decide whether it is worth expanding.
- **Price**: From €18,000 excl. VAT · Fixed-scope project
- **Duration**: 4–6 weeks
- **Who it is for**: Teams that have chosen a use case and want to test its feasibility before investing in a complete project.
- **What you receive**: A working pilot, controls on its actions, a comparison with the current process and a documented recommendation: integrate, narrow or stop.
- **Exclusions and limits**: Company-wide rollout; Production SLA; Integrations that do not affect the decision
- **What is needed from you**: Chosen use case; Legitimate test data; Operational owner; Success criterion
- **Work accepted when**: Working implementation demonstrated on agreed inputs; Tested failure cases and an exception log; Recommendation to integrate, narrow or stop the project
- **Payment**: 50% start · 30% test · 20% delivery
- **First response**: Initial request assessment within 2 business days
- **Next step**: [Request with this service preselected](https://danilolapegna.com/questionnaire?surface=E&service=ai-pilot&intent=request&lang=en&utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (No sign-up: the person fills it in and submits it. First response within the time stated above.) · [Free 15-minute call](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/15min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (To check fit before a proposal. The person picks the time.) · [Email](mailto:hello@danilolapegna.com?subject=AI%20pilot%20project) (For scope questions.)

### Is an AI agent already in use, but not reliable enough?
**[AI agent hardening and control](https://danilolapegna.com/en/services/hardening-controllo-agente-ai)**: Reduce unwanted actions and excessive permissions in an AI agent, and test what happens when something goes wrong.
- **Price**: From €12,500 excl. VAT · Assessment and agreed fixes
- **Duration**: 3–5 weeks
- **Who it is for**: Teams with a concrete agent, an accessible repository and defined operational responsibilities.
- **What you receive**: The findings, with any vulnerabilities ranked by risk, and the agreed fixes to address them.
- **What we test (the classes that apply to your agent, within the agreed scope)**: Hidden instructions in emails, documents or pages the agent reads (direct and indirect prompt injection); Permissions and tools beyond what the task needs: unauthorised actions, access to other customers’ data or accounts; Misuse of connected tools, including through MCP (the protocol that connects the agent to tools), and chains of actions that bypass controls; Confidential data leaking into answers, logs or external systems; High-impact actions, such as payments, refunds or data changes, without human confirmation; Reconstructing failures: logs, traceability and recovery
- **Exclusions and limits**: Formal certification; Full legal compliance review; Security checks without a concrete attack scenario
- **What is needed from you**: Repository and architecture; Tools and credentials used; Available logs or incidents; Technical owner
- **Work accepted when**: Reproducible prioritised findings; Fixes linked to risk; Regression tests and declared residual risk
- **Payment**: 50% at start · 30% on delivery of findings · 20% on retesting
- **First response**: Initial technical assessment within 2 business days
- **Further reading**: [Agentic AI security for SMEs: what to check before production](https://danilolapegna.com/guides/agentic-ai-security.html)
- **Next step**: [Request with this service preselected](https://danilolapegna.com/questionnaire?surface=D&service=agent-hardening&intent=request&lang=en&utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (No sign-up: the person fills it in and submits it. First response within the time stated above.) · [Free 15-minute call](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/15min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en) (To check fit before a proposal. The person picks the time.) · [Email](mailto:hello@danilolapegna.com?subject=AI%20agent%20hardening%20and%20control) (For scope questions.)

## When this is not the right provider

Services start at €10,000 excl. VAT. With a smaller project budget, another provider is a better fit. For a precise question or a second opinion, see mentorship below.

## Smaller formats

- Let's talk · 15 minutes · Free: [Book the free 15 minutes](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/15min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en)
- Mentorship session · 45 minutes · €200 + VAT: [Book 45 minutes](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/30min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en)
- Mentorship session · 90 minutes · €400 + VAT: [Book 90 minutes](https://cal.com/danilolapegna/60min?utm_source=agent-door&utm_medium=agent&utm_campaign=en)

Workshops and talks for teams or events: from €5,000 + VAT, on request by email.

## Who does the work

**Fifteen years building software people rely on.**

- 15+: years in software engineering
- Seed → IPO: product leadership through a public listing
- 3.2★ → 4.7★: App Store rating during the team's work at bunq
- SDA Bocconi: two sessions on applied and agentic AI

These results describe my experience. For your project, we define goals and measures around your company’s process.

[Portfolio and roles](https://danilolapegna.com/?lang=en#portfolio) · [WeShop (portfolio case)](https://danilolapegna.com/portfolio/weshop?lang=en) · [Guides and Research Lab](https://danilolapegna.com/guides?lang=en) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danilo-lapegna/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/danilolapegna)

## Outdated information

Earlier versions of the site listed other offers: "AI Assessment from €5,000", "Project on paper", "Full project from €40,000". They are no longer offered. The services on this page are the current ones.