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Is this AI agent ready to ship?

Most AI demos look great and fail quietly in production. The reason is rarely the model, it's arithmetic: an agent is a chain of steps, and reliability multiplies. This walks through the two questions a real evaluation answers: why agents fail more than their parts suggest, and how to decide when one is safe to ship. Runs entirely in your browser on illustrative data.

Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic-AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, citing cost overruns, unclear value, and inadequate risk controls.

1Errors compound, a 95% step is a 54% workflow

An agent that handles a refund touches a dozen steps: read the ticket, pull the order, check the policy, draft the reply, file the credit… If each step succeeds 95% of the time, twelve steps succeed 0.9512 ≈ 54% of the time, a coin flip with extra steps. The fix isn't a smarter model, it's the harness: checkpoints that verify the work so far and retry a failed segment before the damage spreads.

Per-step success rate95%
Steps in the workflow12
Verification checkpoints
Raw chain Coin flip (50%)
End-to-end success
Of 1,000 tasks, completed

2Now judge the riskiest step: should it auto-send?

Zoom into one link in the chain: a support agent drafting replies to customers. When do you let it send without a human? The agent's stated confidence isn't its real accuracy, and that gap is exactly what an eval measures. Tune the guardrails and watch the ship decision respond.

Set the guardrails

Auto-send only when the agent's confidence is at least50%

Below the bar, the answer is escalated to a human instead of sent automatically. Raise it and the agent sends less, but what it does send is right more often.

Verification pass before sending

A second step that checks the draft against the source before it goes out, the single biggest lever on hallucinations. Costs a little more per answer.

What happens to 1,000 incoming questions

0 answered correctly 0 answered wrong 0 sent to a human

Ship decision

Is the agent calibrated? (stated confidence vs. real accuracy)
Raw agent Perfect calibration
Accuracy of auto-sent answers
Share handled automatically
Hallucination rate (auto-sent)
Est. cost / 1k answers
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Illustrative simulation, not a benchmark of any specific model. A real engagement evaluates your agent on your tasks, your data, and your risk tolerance.

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