How do I give an AI agent access to my business systems safely?
You want Claude, ChatGPT or an MCP server to read your orders or your server, so it can answer questions and do real work. The quick way is to hand it the same login you use.
That is how the worst agent stories start. In April a coding agent found a token in an unrelated file and deleted a company's production database and its backups in 9 seconds. The agent was not malicious. It had more access than the job needed.
We set up a safe way in. Your agent gets its own login that can read but not change anything, writes go to a copy first, and every action is logged. We did this for a client's store server this week.
What you get
- A separate login for your agents that can read your data but cannot change or delete it. In practice that is a database user that can only read, plus a server user with no admin rights.
- A staging copy of your site or database for anything the agent should write, so a mistake lands on the copy, not on your customers.
- A log of every command and query the agent runs, in plain words you can read.
- The security patches your server is missing, and a check for anything exposed that should not be.
- Tests before and after, so you can see the site still works the same and the agent can only do what you agreed to.
Price, timing and the guarantee
Agent access setup
$1,500
Scheduled within 5 business days of your order, then done in one working day on your server.
If we cannot set up read-only agent access on your systems as listed here, you get a full refund.
Rather talk first? Book a 15-minute call.
Payment runs through Stripe. Matt Turley will email you within one business day to book the setup day and agree what the agent should reach.
Why people are asking for this
Posts we read on October 26, 2026. Upvotes as of that day.
“An AI agent deleted our production database”
Hacker News, 860 upvotes
“what did you check before letting an mcp server anywhere near a production database”
r/mcp, 7 upvotes
Who does the work
Matt Turley does this work himself, with AI agents doing the legwork, and he checks everything before it reaches you. Continuum builds and looks after software for small businesses and founders. Questions before you buy: hello@uxcontinuum.com. Everything we offer.