Evaluation, Testing & Optimization·Task 4.1·Bloom: apply·Difficulty 3/5·8 min read·Updated 2026-07-14

Translating a Business Requirement into a Measurable Threshold

Define evaluation metrics (accuracy, latency, cost, safety, security)

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In short
Translating a business requirement into a measurable threshold means rewriting a vague requirement such as "summarize accurately" into a specific, checkable behavior, such as extracting named fields correctly, and attaching a numeric passing threshold derived from the business requirement itself rather than from whatever the first prototype happens to score. Each named failure mode becomes its own category in the eval dataset, so the eval reports where the system fails, not just whether it passed on average.

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