RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production — Architecture Notes

Field notes from Shriram IT Ventures delivery work on RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production: the constraints that matter, the shortcuts that haunt you, and a checklist we still use.

Who this is for

Ignore the buzzwords. For RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

Decisions that still look smart in 18 months

Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive the first month of real traffic.

Build checklist we actually use

Instrument the happy path and the ugly path. Silent failures are what turn a launch into a weekend incident.

Failure modes we keep seeing

Teams that write trade-offs down before coding burn fewer sprints when a stakeholder changes their mind mid-build. We keep ADRs short on purpose.

How we measure rollout

Ignore the buzzwords. For RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.

We update this when delivery patterns change on live client work.