Running Telos as a service, AI Code Tools

Telos Agency Implementation, Productizing AI-Generated Services

Learn how to deliver custom cloud services to clients by writing goal specifications instead of code, using Telos's declarative compilation and independent verifier agent to reduce delivery cycles. This course covers packaging goal-based workflows into retainers, managing client acceptance criteria through version control, and scaling service delivery across multiple concurrent projects.

Open the decision record for Telos

What does running Telos for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Vendor costs depend on the plan tier selected from Telos pricing_tiers (Free Starter tier plus paid Pro and Enterprise plans) plus usage-based compute and inference; a one-time $50 usage credit is published. Exact figures require the agency to confirm current pricing_tiers values, which are not supplied verbatim in this extract.
Time to first value
Not published, setup_complexity is high and time_to_value is days, indicating multi-day engineering ramp before client delivery.
Payback
Not modeled, client price, labor rate, usage cost, overhead, and expected volume must be supplied by the agency.
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is Telos worth running as a client service?

Telos can compress spec-to-service delivery for agencies with CLI-fluent engineers, using declarative goal specs, stateful sandboxes, and an independent verifier. It is open beta, cannot be rebranded, and its usage-based compute/inference billing plus unpublished plan prices mean agency economics remain unproven until the agency measures its own delivery hours and costs.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Telos CLI installed via curl -fsSL https://usetelos.ai/install.sh | sh
  • Inference provider access, managed gateway, connected ChatGPT/xAI subscription, or BYO API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, or xAI
  • GitHub access for source and version control of goal specs
  • PostgreSQL access for stateful service builds requiring a database
  • Engineering staff comfortable with CLI and goal-spec authoring

People and inputs

  • Documented goal-spec templates covering name, version, platform, goal, and acceptance criteria
  • Stateful sandboxed environment workflow for compile-verify-deploy cycles
  • Snapshot and rollback procedures to protect client environments
  • Verifier-agent acceptance-criteria review process before client handover

Included with the course

7 working documents for delivering this service.

  • Goal Specification Template for Client Onboardingtemplate
  • Telos Service Delivery SOP (Plan, Apply, Verify, Deploy)sop
  • Client Acceptance Criteria Worksheetworksheet
  • Snapshot and Rollback Handoff Checklistchecklist
  • Multi-Project Session Log Monitoring Guideguide
  • Telos Retainer Pricing and Capacity Planning Worksheetworksheet
  • Role-Based Access Control Setup for Client Collaborationtemplate

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.