cequence shipped agent personas this week - per-tool policy enforcement, rate limits, data masking. it's a competent enterprise product priced for fortune 500 customers.
for an sbir or an agency rfp at $50-$250k, that price tag eats the whole margin. there's a different way to ship the same controls.
what the buyer in an agency rfp asks for
- per-tool policy on the agent (read mailbox, no, write mailbox, yes)
- rate limits to prevent runaway spend
- data masking on logs (no pii in s3)
- an audit report at the end
- a policy doc the buyer's gc can read
what bizsuite ships for the same checklist
- middleware that enforces tool allowlists - 30 lines, zero deps
- token-bucket rate limiter scoped to agent identity - 50 lines
- log redactor with regex + entity recognition for pii - npm install
- ai-audit kit that emits the report ($997 add-on)
- policy doc generator that fills in the buyer's specific use case
all five fit under one line item on a $50-250k rfp without breaking margin.
the cost comparison for a typical sbir phase ii
- cequence subscription per year: ~$80k entry tier
- bizsuite agency stack: $4-12k delivered
- difference: $68-76k - room for 200 hours of senior eng time
why this matters for solo agency operators
federal rfps and mid-market sbirs reward total-cost-low + audit-deliverable-included. cequence wins the f500 rfps where line items don't matter. bizsuite wins the procurement-led ones where they do.
different buyers, different stacks, same controls.
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