Vigil

Vigil costs $3.99 one-time and activates on two Macs with a single license key, so an agency can protect a developer's overnight Claude Code or Codex run for less than the cost of one billable minute. The strategic stake is not the sleep hold itself but the failure mode it removes: an agent that stalls when the Mac idles burns a retainer hour twice, once on the dead run and once on the rerun. Agencies that sell long-running agent work as a delivery promise need that promise to survive the laptop lid closing.

Vigil holds a Mac awake only while a coding agent is actually working, then releases when the agent finishes, fails, or waits too long for input. That release timing is the framework: the sleep-hold window is the gap between your longest unattended agent run and the point where a sleeping Mac would kill it. An agency running overnight Claude Code refactors on a client codebase sets the grace period to match the client's expected input-wait window, so a 40-minute agent run never dies at the 15-minute idle mark. Because Vigil tracks working, waiting, and idle states through lifecycle hooks rather than guessing from CPU load, the window is measurable per agent. Price the deployment against the cost of one failed overnight run: Vigil costs $3.99 one-time and activates two Macs, while a single re-run eats a billable morning.

AI productivity tools are the lowest-leverage category for agency revenue because clients can self-serve in minutes. The strategic angle is bundling them into a workflow redesign engagement where the tool is the visible artifact, but the billable work is the process design that surrounds it. This framework reframes the tool as a Trojan horse for higher-margin consulting. For example, an agency might deploy Calendly with AI scheduling for a client, but the real value is redesigning the client's intake and follow-up processes to reduce no-shows by 20%. The tool is the entry point; the process is the profit. Agencies that sell the tool alone compete on price; those that sell the process own the relationship.

AI productivity tools are the lowest-leverage category for agency revenue because clients can self-serve in 90 seconds. The strategic value lies not in the tool itself but in the workflow redesign that surrounds it. Agencies that sell the tool as a standalone line item compete on price against direct subscriptions. Those that frame the tool as the visible artifact of a broader process engagement capture margin on the architecture: intake workflows, approval gates, and escalation paths. For example, a scheduling assistant like Calendly becomes the artifact, while the agency's real deliverable is the meeting-to-delivery pipeline it designs around it. With 45% of executives skipping AI oversight, agencies that bundle governance into the redesign answer a compliance need clients cannot solve alone. The tool is the hook; the process is the product.

Deploy Vigil only where unattended macOS agent sessions are the norm, and bundle the license into a paid hook-configuration engagement rather than selling it as standalone software.

Bundle any AI productivity tool into a workflow redesign engagement where the tool is the visible artifact and the process design is the billable work.

IF your agency's delivery runs long AI coding agent sessions on macOS 14 or later and you need the Mac to stay awake until Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, pi, or OpenCode actually finishes, fails, or times out, THEN Vigil at $3.99 one-time is a near-zero-risk purchase backed by a 30-day refund. IF your delivery stack is Windows or Linux, or your agents only run in short interactive bursts, THEN skip it because Vigil has no build for those platforms and no value when sessions never outlast the display sleep timer.

A managed rollout that installs Vigil on a client's macOS developer fleet, wires lifecycle hooks into their AI coding agents, and hands over a monitored sleep-hold policy so unattended agent runs stop dying mid-task.