RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production — Checklist

What we check early on RAG Evaluation: What We Measure Before Production, what usually goes wrong in production, and how teams avoid a rewrite six months later.

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

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

Build checklist we actually use

Use boring technology where the risk is operational. Save novelty for the one wedge that makes the product worth buying.

Failure modes we keep seeing

Use boring technology where the risk is operational. Save novelty for the one wedge that makes the product worth buying.

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.