Free Lesson
Calculate the Cost of a Broken AI Agent
30 min
Oct 14, 2026 12:00 PM
What you'll learn
Trace where the money goes
Follow one failed agent run from input to tool calls to output and see which step burned tokens and time.
Price each kind of failure
Separate prompt, tool, retrieval, and model problems, then put a dollar and hours figure on each.
Build a cheap debug loop
Leave with a routine for reproducing failures and proving a fix helped before you spend more tokens.
Why this topic matters
Every failed agent run costs tokens, time, and trust, and most people never see the bill. In this lesson I take one real agent failure and trace it step by step, then price what it cost to find and fix. You'll leave with a simple debug routine that keeps retries cheap.
