Controlled evaluation
Prove the protected path on work that matters.
A Controlled evaluation begins with one representative workflow, an approved corpus, and a customer-controlled environment.
The first product test
Keep confidential information out of the wrong AI. Keep the real work moving.
A Controlled evaluation makes the approved sources, destination, policy decision, and protected continuation explicit. The result is accepted only when the person can finish the named work inside the boundary.
- 01Check
Evaluate the approved source, requested AI destination, policy, and action.
- 02Protect
Stop the route before confidential information leaves the customer's control.
- 03Continue
Open the approved document scope in adapterOS and complete the analysis.
- 04Review
Inspect the answer, missing information, handling decision, and human disposition.
Define success before the first run
Three decisions determine whether the evaluation earns a next step.
The scorecard keeps protection, answer quality, and operational fit separate so a strong result in one area cannot hide a failure in another.
Protection and route safety
Did confidential information remain within the agreed boundary, and did refusal cases behave as defined?
External-data exposure · refusal behavior · policy actionAnswer and review quality
Did the result help complete the named work with inspectable support, visible gaps, and less reconstruction?
Task usefulness · evidence coverage · verification effort · review cyclesOperational fit and cost
Can the approved result return to the existing operating path under the selected infrastructure?
Integration fit · measured infrastructure efficiency · workflow cost
A Controlled evaluation earns the next step.
Each phase leaves an artifact your team can inspect. The final record supports a clear choice: expand, adjust, or stop.
Discover
Map the task, source owners, current systems, reviewer route, and cost of the existing process.
ResultWorkflow and baseline brief
Scope
Choose the source set, evidence boundary, policy requirements, and handling constraints.
ResultApproved source and control plan
Configure
Deploy the selected workspace or engine, adapt the workflow, and map the required integration points.
ResultWorking evaluation environment
Evaluate
Run representative questions and refusal cases; inspect support, gaps, review states, and useful output.
ResultMeasured acceptance scorecard
Decide
Compare the evaluation to the baseline and define the operating, integration, support, and expansion path.
ResultExpand, adjust, or stop recommendation
Deployment follows the data boundary.
A Controlled evaluation can be scoped for local or customer-controlled deployment when the selected build and environment pass readiness review. The evaluation names where sources live, which network paths are allowed, who can inspect the result, and what support or diagnostic material—if any—may leave the environment.
- Complete workspace
- Employees and reviewers work directly in Sources, Ask, Evidence, Activity, and review surfaces.
- Embedded engine
- An existing application invokes the governed workflow and receives an approved answer, record, decision, or structured output.
- Managed system
- MLNavigator configures deployment, adaptation, integration, evaluation, operation, upgrades, evidence integrity, and support.
Local or controlled deployment changes the data path; it does not remove the need for access control, patching, physical security, key management, reviewer accountability, or incident response.
A Controlled evaluation is bounded evaluation work, not a production system. It is not a performance guarantee, field-efficacy claim, guaranteed continuation, or production SLA. Availability and any deployment depend on a separate scoped agreement and release of the selected adapterOS build. No customer or partner commitment is implied.
What you keep.
A serious Controlled evaluation ends with inspectable artifacts, not a staged transcript.
- Working result
- Configured workspace or embedded workflow
- Approved source and access boundary
- Representative source-backed analyses
- Review and refusal examples
- Decision record
- Baseline and evaluation measurements
- Evidence quality and failure-mode notes
- Integration and operational requirements
- Recommendation to expand, adjust, or stop
Bring the confidential question your reviewers already struggle to support.
The definition phase determines whether the source set, acceptance criteria, deployment boundary, and integration path are ready for a bounded evaluation.