Softment

AI Development

AI Evaluation & Testing

We build evaluation and testing systems for LLM products: golden datasets, automated scoring, human review loops, and regression gates. This turns “it feels worse” into measurable signals your team can ship against.

First step1–2 week opportunity sprint
Entry engagement$3k–$5k USD
Security-first AI integrations • Evals + logging + guardrails included

Overview

What this service is

AI evaluation is how you measure quality and prevent regressions across prompts, models, retrieval settings, and tool behaviors.

We define realistic test sets and scoring criteria, then automate evaluation so changes can be reviewed and shipped safely.

Delivery includes dashboards and workflows so teams can iterate quickly without losing trust in production behavior.

Standard

AI delivery standard

Quality and safety practices we ship with AI builds so the system stays measurable, maintainable, and production-ready.

Logging + tracing

Conversation and tool traces with request IDs, error visibility, and debug-friendly runbooks.

Guardrails + safety

Tool allowlists, PII-safe patterns, refusal behavior, and escalation routes for edge cases.

Evals + regression tests

Golden queries, scorecards, and regression checks so quality improves over time instead of drifting.

Cost + latency controls

Caching, prompt discipline, retrieval tuning, and routing so your app stays fast and predictable at scale.

Documentation + handoff

Architecture notes, environment setup, and next-step roadmap so your team can iterate safely after launch.

Security-first integration

Secrets isolation, role-based access, audit-friendly actions, and minimal data retention by design.

Benefits

What you get

Catch regressions before they hit users

Measure quality improvements with real metrics

Reduce subjective debates with shared eval criteria

Improve safety with red-team test coverage

Ship model/prompt changes confidently

Prioritize fixes using labeled failure modes

Features

What we deliver

Golden datasets

Representative test queries and expected behaviors based on real user intents and business rules.

Automated scoring

Scoring for relevance, correctness, format, citation quality, and policy compliance with repeatable runs.

Human review loops

Sampling-based review workflows to label failures and improve datasets over time.

Regression gates

CI-style checks that fail builds when quality drops below thresholds for key intents.

Safety and red-team tests

Prompt injection, policy-violating requests, and adversarial scenarios to validate guardrails.

Dashboards + reporting

Visibility into quality trends, failure clusters, and “what changed” between releases.

Process

How we work

1
2–4 days

Define criteria

Success metrics, intents, and failure taxonomy.

2
4–10 days

Build datasets

Golden queries + expected behaviors.

3
1–2 weeks

Automate scoring

Repeatable evaluation runs and reporting.

4
3–6 days

Add gates

CI checks and thresholds for release control.

5
Ongoing

Review loop

Human labeling workflow and iteration plan.

Tech Stack

Technologies we use

Core

Evaluation datasetsAutomated scoringRed-team testsTracing

Tools

CI gatesRAG metricsNode.js / PythonPostgreSQL

Services

Sentry / monitoringDashboards

Use Cases

Who this is for

RAG accuracy validation

Evaluate retrieval precision and citation quality on real queries and content changes.

Chatbot regression protection

Prevent prompt or model changes from degrading user-facing answers and escalation behavior.

Tool-action correctness testing

Validate that agents call the right tools with the right parameters under edge cases.

Safety validation

Test prompt-injection defenses and refusal behavior against adversarial user inputs.

Enterprise rollout reporting

Produce quality reports and release notes that stakeholders can trust.

Implementation Patterns

How we frame common AI workflows

Illustrative patterns only—not client case studies, endorsements, or production-result claims.

Regulated mobile data workflow pattern

Challenge: Sensitive data workflows need explicit access boundaries, traceability, and documented operating responsibilities.

Approach: Threat-model the workflow, map authorization rules, select encryption controls, and define auditable state transitions.

Validation: Test access boundaries and recovery paths, record residual risk, and obtain any required independent compliance assessment.

Large knowledge-base retrieval pattern

Challenge: Long, mixed-format source collections need traceable retrieval and safe behavior when evidence is weak.

Approach: Evaluate hybrid retrieval, reranking, citations, structured outputs, and defined fallback or human-review paths.

Validation: Use a representative offline evaluation set and report citation quality, latency, and cost under documented test conditions.

Operations automation pattern

Challenge: Approval and system-sync workflows need deterministic controls around exceptions, retries, and ownership.

Approach: Model the workflow, add validation and approval gates, and use AI only for bounded classification or extraction tasks.

Validation: Baseline manual steps, test exception paths and audit logs, then compare pilot measurements before considering wider rollout.

Decision Guides

Not sure which to choose?

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Done right, they speed it up. Teams ship changes faster when they can see impact and avoid regressions early.

Usually both. We score relevance, correctness, formatting, citation quality, and safety depending on the product.

Yes. We include adversarial test sets and safety checks aligned to your policy and guardrails.

For most real products, yes. Sampling-based human review helps validate edge cases and keeps datasets honest.

Yes. We design evaluation runs and budgets so you can run meaningful checks during CI without excessive cost.

Datasets, scoring scripts, dashboards, and runbooks for expanding coverage over time.

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