Evals—The Watchdogs of AI Quality and Compliance

Evals—The Watchdogs of AI Quality and Compliance

Mar 11, 2025

6 Min

Aistra team

When you’ve got a AI agents automating anything from financial reconciliation to contact center operations, even small mistakes can snowball into major compliance breaches or brand damage. That’s where Evals (short for Evaluators) take center stage. They’re the quality gatekeepers ensuring your AI-driven systems stay within regulatory lines and consistently deliver top-notch results.

Evals are essentially QA for AI. They make sure the outputs align with business rules, compliance requirements, and best practices—every single time.” says Rajiv Maheshwari, Partner Fiscalix (Aistra’s Accounting Product). 

What Evals Actually Do

  1. Performance & Quality Checks

    • Evals track metrics like accuracy, latency, virtualization and user satisfaction across all AI-driven tasks. In financial reconciliation, for instance, they verify that invoice classifications match correct ledger codes, ensuring near-zero mismatches. In contact center operations if AI starts over-relying on humans (or vice versa), Evals adjust those thresholds to maintain business goals are met. 

    • They often leverage six sigma frameworks, gauging how well the AI synthesizes data, whether communication is clear, and if the overall process meets enterprise standards.

  2. Compliance & Bias Audits

    • Evals focus on the regulatory side—be it SOX compliance in finance or GDPR for data handling—ensuring automated decisions don’t break rules or policies.

    • They also scan for subtler signs of bias, like an LLM inadvertently funneling certain customers into longer wait times, and escalate any red flags for immediate corrective action.

  3. Feedback Loops & RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)

    • By gathering real-world feedback, Evals feed misclassifications or misunderstandings back into the model. For instance, if an LLM keeps mismatching invoice line items, Evals collect these corrections from finance teams and retrain the AI to adapt. Over time, the Agents “learns” from these corrections, staying both compliant and highly accurate.

  4. Monitoring Agentic Evolution

    • Modern AI systems aren’t static; they evolve in real-time. Evals keep a pulse on the direction and speed of these changes, ensuring newly acquired behaviors don’t drift outside established guardrails. If an agent’s adjustments start conflicting with compliance or business rules, Evals intervene to restore balance.

Why Evals Matter for Enterprises

When you’re handling thousands of invoices or countless customer interactions daily, a single off-kilter decision can invite legal scrutiny or erode brand trust. Evals serve as the safety net, ensuring your AI maintains high quality and handles continuous change of live agentic systems. Ultimately, ensure that enterprises get the best of AI without the hidden risks of  rapidly changing AI world. 

Up next: we’ll dive into the world of Data Ninjas—the unsung heroes who ensure your AI has the right data at the right time, with zero hiccups. Stay tuned!

Contributors
Neeraj Bhargava
Neeraj Bhargava
Neeraj Bhargava

Managing Partner

Managing Partner

Aistra

Tarun Sachdeva
Tarun Sachdeva

Vice President

Vice President

Aistra

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