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AIJanuary 19, 20269 min read

How we evaluate LLMs before they touch a customer

Offline benchmarks lie. We share the eval harness, golden datasets, and human review loops we trust in the real world.

Key takeaways
  • 01Public benchmarks rarely predict real-world behaviour.
  • 02Build golden datasets from your actual use cases.
  • 03Keep humans in the loop for high-stakes evaluation.

Public benchmarks make for great headlines and poor decisions. A model that tops a leaderboard can still fail your users in ways no generic test would catch.

Build your own golden set

We assemble evaluation data from your actual use cases — real questions, real edge cases, real failure modes — and grade against it. That's the only benchmark that predicts production behaviour.

Keep humans in the loop

Automated scoring scales; human judgement anchors. For anything high-stakes, we pair automated evals with structured human review before a model touches a customer.

Offline benchmarks tell you a model is capable. Your own evals tell you it's ready.

And because models, prompts, and data all drift, evaluation is continuous — a regression suite that runs on every change, not a one-time gate.

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