The failures that matter most are the ones only a domain expert will catch.
What we usually hear
Our benchmarks look fine, but the model still fails in our domain.
The people testing the system are the people who built it.
We cannot show a risk committee how it behaves at the edges.
Two reviewers score the same output differently.
We fixed an issue but cannot prove it stayed fixed.
Our evaluators do not have real expertise in the field we operate in.
If two or three of these sound familiar, the work below is where we would start.
Key solutions
Structured review against criteria agreed with your team, scored consistently across evaluators so results can be compared over time.
Deliberate adversarial testing to surface harmful, biased or unsafe behaviour before release rather than after it.
Preference data and human judgment for RLHF and related methods, supplied by evaluators with real expertise in the relevant field.
Framework
Expected business outcomes
Proof points
We do not publish client evaluation results. What follows is the public practice this work is modelled on.
Major model developers, including Anthropic and OpenAI, publish model or system cards documenting evaluation and external red teaming carried out before a release.
Those documents describe the use of outside domain experts specifically because internal teams share the assumptions of the system they built.
Results are recorded against named failure modes rather than as an overall pass, which is what allows a fix to be confirmed on re-test.
Send a short brief describing the situation. We respond with an approach, the team who would deliver it, and the measures we report against.
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