# Managed AI operations

Agents drift. Tools change. Facts go stale. A launch-week demo dies without a weekly pack, graph hygiene, and someone watching cost. Helixfield retainers start at $3,800 per month.

## Signal

$3,800 / mo

Monitoring, a weekly operating pack, and light graph hygiene.

## Circuit

$6,800 / mo

The default operating retainer. Active ops, not a help desk. Three-month minimum.

## Helix

$11,500 / mo

Multi-agent estates, tighter SLAs, and a named operating cadence.

## Questions

### Why does an AI agent need a retainer?

Agents drift. Tools change. Facts go stale. A launch-week demo dies without a weekly pack, graph hygiene, and someone watching cost. Helixfield retainers start at $3,800 per month.

### What is the Circuit retainer?

Circuit is $6,800 per month and is the default operating retainer. It is sold with a three-month minimum, then month to month. It includes monitoring, a weekly pack, graph ingest review, one micro-loop per quarter, and same-day incident response during business hours.

### What does Signal include?

Signal is $3,800 per month: uptime and quality watch, a weekly digest, light graph hygiene, and next-day incident response.

### What is the Helix retainer?

Helix is $11,500 per month: a fractional AI operations lead for multi-agent estates, tighter SLAs, quarterly loop redesign, and principal review of material decisions.

### Who pays for tokens and seats on retainer?

The client. Helixfield does not bury vendor seats, tokens, or API usage inside the monthly fee.