Real Production AI
Own your intelligence. Seven pillars of a production AI system — what you own, the current standard with real numbers, the one signal it's working, and what…
- Context & memory — Retrieval hit-rate on a golden query set — measured separately from answer quality.
- Agent harness — Task completion rate per route, with the step-cap-exhausted rate tracked beside it.
- Model layer — Time-to-switch: how long a full provider migration would actually take, rehearsed at least once.
- Governance — Percentage of side-effecting actions that passed a check outside the model. The target is 100%.
- Quality & cost — Golden-set score and p95 cost per request, on the same dashboard, tracked per release.
- Feedback loop — Failures converted into permanent eval cases per week — the honest measure of whether you're compounding.
- Portability — Rehearsed time-to-switch for model, vector store, and cloud. If nobody knows the number, it's large.