Test whether the change improves the actual job.
Acta compares the current setup and alternatives against the result, failure limit, timing, and business value your team defines for one live workflow.
- Free for selected design partners
- One live workflow: current setup plus two to four alternatives
- 14 days after access and artifacts are accepted and the start is confirmed
A faster or cheaper model can make the job worse.
Benchmarks and successful API requests do not prove that the business completed the job. The assessment uses the result your team accepts and records when people had to repair it.
Define success before the comparison starts.
- One stable production workflow
- One observable accepted result
- Real failure examples and human-review evidence
- Cost and latency considered alongside quality
- An answer business and technical owners can review together
Compare every option by the same rule.
Acta manually compares the current production configuration with two to four agreed alternatives on one live workflow.
Your team approves one pass/fail measure that applies to every option. Required failure boundaries and missing evidence remain explicit.
The decision record covers quality, latency, cost, assumptions, missing evidence, and the resulting answer without including prompts or responses.
Costs are labeled as measured, modeled, externally billed, or unknown. The record states the evidence coverage for each result.
This assessment does not include implementation, production traffic changes, model training, or deployment. Acta does not automatically promote a change into production, and savings are not guaranteed.
- Availability
- Free for selected design partners
- Starts
- After Acta accepts the required access and artifacts and confirms the start
- Workflow
- One live, stable production workflow
- Current setup
- One current production configuration baseline
- Alternatives
- Two to four agreed models or configurations
- Acceptance measure
- One customer-approved pass/fail measure
- Answer
- Keep, change, reject, or more evidence needed
The right answer may be to keep the current setup.
The assessment uses a measure your team approves and does not require a purchase from a model or infrastructure provider.
Keeping the current setup and gathering more evidence are valid answers. The assessment does not require a new provider, routing layer, model training, or infrastructure purchase.
Who should apply
Acta selects design partners whose applications fit the available assessment capacity and fixed scope. Applying does not guarantee selection.
- One live, stable production workflow
- A decision that is due within 60 days
- Existing evidence such as traces, an evaluation set, human reviews, or failure examples
- Required access and artifacts that Acta can review before confirming a start
- One acceptance measure your team can approve before the assessment starts
Do I need to know which models to test?
No. Bring the live workflow, current setup, definition of success, and available evidence. Acta and your team agree on the two to four alternatives before the assessment starts.
Apply for a design partner assessment
Tell us about one live workflow, a decision due within 60 days, and the evidence already available. Do not send production content.