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Use Case

Platform Catches a 19% Quality Drop Before Users Did

Continuous sampling and evals caught silent degradation after a model update.

1 min readupdated 2026-08-01

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A document-processing platform ran extraction for 300 business customers with no output monitoring beyond error rates. Continuous sampling and evals caught silent degradation after a model update.

Continuous sampling and evals caught silent degradation after a model update. A document-processing platform ran extraction for 300 business customers with no output monitoring beyond error rates. Outcome: After adding a 45-case eval suite and daily sampling, a provider-side model change showed up as a 19% accuracy drop within 36 hours. The team pinned the previous version, fixed the prompt and shipped with no customer-visible incident. This use case node is part of the Onexial knowledge graph and links to related concepts, workflows and tools below.
Situation
A document-processing platform ran extraction for 300 business customers with no output monitoring beyond error rates.
Tools Used
Workflow Applied
Outcome
After adding a 45-case eval suite and daily sampling, a provider-side model change showed up as a 19% accuracy drop within 36 hours. The team pinned the previous version, fixed the prompt and shipped with no customer-visible incident.
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What is the Platform Catches a 19% Quality Drop Before Users Did use case?

A document-processing platform ran extraction for 300 business customers with no output monitoring beyond error rates.

What was the outcome?

After adding a 45-case eval suite and daily sampling, a provider-side model change showed up as a 19% accuracy drop within 36 hours. The team pinned the previous version, fixed the prompt and shipped with no customer-visible incident.

Which tools were used?

ai-observability-stack, ai-testing-stack.