An Agent Retried 31,000 Times. How to Cap AI Spend per Customer

One stuck agent burned $4,700 overnight on a $400 plan. Why global limits miss it, and the per-customer budgets and retry caps that stop it.
Nishant Modi · November 2, 2026 · 7 min read
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5 posts on saas from the HelloBuilder blog.

One stuck agent burned $4,700 overnight on a $400 plan. Why global limits miss it, and the per-customer budgets and retry caps that stop it.
Nishant Modi · November 2, 2026 · 7 min read
We tagged 55,643 Search Console queries by intent for $3.55. What it found, what we changed, what we skipped, and a five-step audit for your site.
Nishant Modi · October 19, 2026 · 8 min read
REA and ArtCraft made a clone mean the real product, working, for free. What that changes for small SaaS, and the moats a weekend can't copy.
Nishant Modi · October 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Most founders read every funnel off an undercount. The three analytics traps Nikita Bier sees daily, the fixes we shipped, and a one-hour audit.
Nishant Modi · October 13, 2026 · 7 min read
UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases readable by anyone. How agent-built backends end up open, a five-minute curl test, and the RLS fix.
Nishant Modi · September 28, 2026 · 9 min read