Six layers of the stack.
Each engagement starts with whichever is weakest. Most teams ask for evals and discover they also need orchestration.
Evaluation suites
Graded datasets, LLM-as-judge with calibrated rubrics, regression tests that run on every commit and every model upgrade.
Observability
Span-level tracing for every tool call, prompt, and retry. Cost, latency, and quality surfaced on one dashboard your on-call engineer can actually read.
Orchestration
Deterministic control flow around non-deterministic models. Retry strategies, fallback chains, circuit breakers, and budget caps.
Guardrails
Input validation, output schemas, PII redaction, and policy enforcement — layered so no single failure mode reaches the customer.
Prompt & tool versioning
Every prompt, every tool schema, every eval run is versioned, diffable, and rollback-able. Deploys feel like deploys, not prayers.
Drift detection
When model behavior shifts — provider side, temperature side, your side — you know within an hour, not a quarter.
A typical APEX harness.
Shape changes per engagement. The layers don't.
An eval that runs on every commit.
One-liner at the top of your PR check. Evals are graded against your labeled dataset; regressions gate merge. No prompt gets pushed to main without passing the same bar your production run held yesterday.
Everything we build is yours. No proprietary SDK lock-in — just Python (or Go, or TS) your team can read, extend, and audit.
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Silent regressions, customer-facing hallucinations, inference bills that climb without explanation.
You ship prompts based on a handful of manual checks. You know this is bad. You don't have time to fix it.
Orchestration, shared observability, and unified eval infra before the portfolio gets unmanageable.
Model behavior shifted, evals didn't catch it, you found out from a customer. Harness prevents the next one.