For Dinis: two appliances for the summit, the RiskMandate Appliance and the PrompTugal Field Reporter

The question. Do we sell two iPads as products at Web Summit, the RiskMandate Appliance and the PrompTugal Field Reporter, and if so: at what price each, sold by which company, set up under which accounts, delivered when, and with what said about them? Money, the brand and the law are Dinis's, so this page is "For Dinis". Nothing on this page is for sale, and no price on it is decided.

Why now. Dinis, 8 November (memos 2 and 3, his words, lightly cleaned):

"We want to give the iPad now to the agent ... a good example of isolation, and a good example of us packaging." (13:35)

"We're going to create two products, which we're going to price probably about 1,500, feels about the right price: a device for RiskMandate and one for PrompTugal." (13:55)

"We go from a publication with an interesting website to a publication that has an app on the App Store and products for sale, and then it's a question of scale, a very different proposition." (13:55)

The summit opens on 9 November.

The two products side by side

1. The RiskMandate Appliance

Dinis (13:55): "A device that somebody can take and bring on, and that device is going to manage the data, hold all the data securely for that particular RiskMandate environment. It's going to be isolated. It might even run a local model ... It's going to be used by the customer to do all the mappings, and help them with all the reviews and all the RiskMandate data analysis ... We already have a RiskMandate app: we can even have a mode for that app, which is when you are in appliance mode."

What RiskMandate says it does (only this may be claimed): "Agent Behaviour Policies for the AI agents in Gmail, HR, payroll, CRM and meeting apps": "what each one can reach, what you authorised it to do, and the gap between the two" (riskmandate.ai, read 8 November 2026). "The question RiskMandate answers is narrow: what can this agent we just connected actually do, and who said it could?" (about). The site says nothing about a device today.

What is in the box (a proposal)

The value. The data about what a company's agents can reach is itself sensitive: it is a map of where an attacker would go. The appliance keeps that map off the company's network and off our servers, on one device the customer holds and can lock in a drawer. It also shows the RiskMandate idea in the hand: one agent, one place, one written mandate.

Who buys at the summit, and what they do the Monday after. A CISO or risk lead: maps the first three agents their company has connected, on the appliance, and takes the reviews to their next risk committee. An auditor or consultant: carries one appliance per client engagement, so clients' data never mixes. An investor: not a buyer, but the audience for "RiskMandate sells a product you can hold".

Price bands (proposals, list prices read 8 November 2026)

• R1, about 1,500 all-in: an iPad (from 429, Apple UK) set up in appliance mode, with the "Corrected for your situation" level (500); set-up and margin the rest.
• R2, about 2,000: an iPad Air (from 749, Apple UK) with "Two sessions, and a professional signs it" (1,500). At list prices that is 2,249, so 2,000 would discount RiskMandate's own published price.
• R3, the customer's own iPad: appliance mode on a new or erased iPad the customer brings, at RiskMandate's existing levels (500 or 1,500). No hardware sold.

2. The PrompTugal Field Reporter

Dinis (13:55): "From a news organisation's point of view: every news organisation has to provide devices for their staff. Instead of sending the journalist a half-baked laptop with a whole bunch of stuff they don't need, not integrated, not customised to their workflow, we ship them a device, this iPad, which has everything they need. We could even sell or pre-install other tools ... What matters is that we give the customer a price." And: "Indi needs this already: the production app and the production workflow. Vicky needs it too, to publish things live."

What is in the box (a proposal)

The value. For a newsroom: one device per reporter that arrives ready, integrated with the publishing workflow, with nothing that does not belong to the job, and a price per head. For the reporter: capture to live on one device. For PrompTugal: the step from a website to "an app on the App Store and products for sale".

Who buys at the summit, and what they do the Monday after. A newsroom's editor or head of operations: equips one reporter for a trial week. A freelance journalist, podcaster or creator covering the summit: uses it from day one. A media investor: the audience for the scale story. The first users are our own: Indi and Vicky need it now, which is also the honest demo.

Price bands (proposals)

• F1, about 1,500 all-in: an iPad Air (from 749; a better camera and more storage suit video work), the PrompTugal app and workflow set up, onboarding; extras not included.
• F2, about 1,500 plus extras: F1, with Final Cut Pro or Premiere Pro added at their makers' prices.
• F3, per seat for a newsroom: F1 for a number of reporters, with the workflow set up for that newsroom (quoted per order).

What both share

The device account. Dinis (13:55, correcting memo 2): "The Apple ID that we're going to use is fundamentally the email account that we're creating and giving to the agents. So it's connected to a human, it's still a human on it, but it's that account that has a full-blown Google Workspace with everything set up ... it's way more secure if you actually have a dedicated iPad account and a dedicated iPad." What Apple's own pages say, read 8 November 2026:

• The Apple Media Services Terms (UK) treat an Apple Account as a person's: "You must be age thirteen (13)", and "You may use the Services and Content only for personal, noncommercial purposes" (terms). A person holding the account fits the first; selling a device set up with it is commercial use, which the terms address separately for "Individuals acting on behalf of a commercial enterprise".
• For organisations, Apple offers Managed Apple Accounts in Apple Business (formerly Apple Business Manager): "specifically designed for, owned, and managed by, an organization", and they can be created by "federated authentication" with Google Workspace (Apple Business guide, published 14 April 2026). So the agent's Google Workspace account can become a Managed Apple Account, which is the route Apple describes for exactly this.
• A device sold out of one organisation's Apple Business is "released", and "After a device is released, it needs to be erased and restored" (release devices). A device sold to a customer either stays managed by us (a service), or is set up in the customer's own organisation, under the customer's own accounts.

The boxes. A product box or a sleeve on the iPad's box, one per product, in each brand's look: Dinis asks for the designer of the team's T-shirts (designer@web-summit.dinis, through conductor@web-summit.dinis); PrompTugal's designer@ keeps the PrompTugal brand. Who prints is Dinis's call.

How either is bought at the summit (a proposal). The visitor sees the team's own iPads in use at the stand; a person takes the order (no agent sells); payment in pounds by card to the selling company, or RiskMandate's existing levels, which are "paid once at the store" (riskmandate.ai; the store itself not read for this page); delivery after the summit, set up in the customer's organisation, rather than from stock at the stand; after-sales by video, plus Apple's warranty on the device.

What must be true first (for Dinis)

1. The accounts. Whether each device uses the agent's Google Workspace account as a personal Apple Account (Dinis's plan for the team's own iPads) or as a Managed Apple Account in Apple Business (Apple's route for organisations); and, for a customer's device, whose organisation and whose accounts.
2. The software exists in product form. Appliance mode in the RiskMandate app, and the production workflow in the PrompTugal app, are not built; TestFlight waits on Dinis's Apple set-up. Until then, both are pre-orders.
3. Reselling hardware. Apple's iPad warranty text could not be read on 8 November (the page loads by script), so whether it passes to a buyer is unchecked. The UK prices include UK VAT; a device bought in the UK and handed over in Lisbon crosses from the UK into the EU. Returns and consumer rights differ for a business and a person. For Dinis and an accountant before a device is sold.
4. The selling company. riskmandate.ai says "early trading runs through The Cyber Boardroom, a company incorporated in the UK", and "a company for RiskMandate alone, between the two founders, is being set up" (about). Who sells the Field Reporter (The Cyber Boardroom is PrompTugal's publisher) and who sells the Appliance is Dinis's call, and his co-founder's for RiskMandate.
5. What may be claimed. riskmandate.ai says nothing about devices, says "We are not an insurer and place no cover", and lists its prices as "per agent, per deployment, paid once at the store; no subscription". An Appliance at 1,500 needs a line and a price on riskmandate.ai first, written by RiskMandate's founders. PrompTugal claims for the Field Reporter only what runs.
6. Developer mode. On a device sold to a reporter, developer mode is a security choice: on for the team's own agentic iPads (Dinis's rule), off by default for a customer unless they ask.

The recommendation

Sell neither as a finished product this week; take pre-orders for both, and use them ourselves first.

• At the stand: the team's own iPads running as an Appliance and as Indi's Field Reporter are the demo. The boxes, if ready, make it a product people can see.
• The RiskMandate Appliance: take pre-orders at about 1,500 (R1) for delivery once appliance mode exists, and meanwhile sell RiskMandate's existing levels for the customer's own iPad (R3), which needs nothing new.
• The PrompTugal Field Reporter: Indi and Vicky are its first two users this week; take newsrooms' interest as pre-orders at about 1,500 (F1), and quote per seat (F3) after the summit.
• Every ask is counted in board/team/customers/requests.json (the kind, never a name), so Dinis's rule of seven can show which product people really want.

What happens after each answer

• Pre-orders (recommended): Dinis sets the two prices and the seller; a person takes orders at the stand; the iOS team gets the brief for appliance mode and the production app; designer@web-summit.dinis the boxes; investors@ the margins; I write both product cards and the packages.json rows (the Appliance as RiskMandate's, the Field Reporter as PrompTugal's).
• Sell from stock at the summit: checks 1, 3 and 4 first, and devices bought and set up before Monday.
• One product only: the other stays the team's own tool.
• No: the team's iPads stay the team's; the demo still runs.

Sources

Dinis's words: memos 2 and 3, board/team/conductor.b/memos/2026-11-08-the-riskmandate-agent-ipad.md and 2026-11-08-two-appliances-and-the-field-reporter.md; memo 1, the budget focus. RiskMandate: riskmandate.ai, pricing, about, ABP, read 8 November 2026. Apple: the UK buy pages (the lowest price on each, VAT included, read about 13:50 UTC; re-check before any quote), the Media Services Terms (UK) and the Apple Business guide pages linked above. The iOS app's state: conductor.b@'s hand-over of 8 November (board/team/conductor.b/debriefs/2026-11-08-handover.md). My notes: board/team/customers/briefs/2026-11-08-the-riskmandate-agent-ipad.md.

How to answer

Tell customers@ or conductor.b@ in your session: for each product, yes, pre-order or no; its price; the selling company; and whose Apple Business the customers' devices go into.