10/18/2025 · 9 min

LLM evaluation playbook: measure quality before you scale

A straightforward approach to build golden sets, run regression tests, and monitor production quality for LLM apps.

Evaluation is what separates demos from production. If you can’t measure quality, you can’t improve it — and you can’t manage risk.

Start simple

  • Collect 50–200 real user questions.
  • Define expected sources and constraints.
  • Score with both automated checks and human review.
  • Track regressions when prompts/models/retrieval changes.

Enterprise reality

Your evaluation set becomes a business asset: it encodes policy, tone, risk constraints and success metrics.

Want to apply this in your org?

We can design a pilot with RAG/automation and governance, with evaluation and clear metrics.