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Judgment as a service

The judgment layer for AI⁠-⁠delivered work.

Your AI does the work.
Ours judges it.

For companies delivering AI-plus-human work at scale: we scoreevery outcome against your bar, price every miss, and tell you what to fix first.

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The Work

Everyone gaveAI the work.

  • 01Support cases.
  • 02Documents.
  • 03Claims
  • 04Images
  • 05Transcripts.
  • 06Entire workflows.

The Judgment

Nobody gave itthe judgment.

  • Not the job

    Your CSAT scores the feeling.

  • Not the job

    Your evals score the model.

  • Not the job

    Your QA team reads 3% by hand.

Execution got cheap.Judgment is the bottleneck.We productize it.

  • We're the partners we wish we'd had*
  • Velocity over vanity*
  • Impact over optics*
  • We're the partners we wish we'd had*
  • Velocity over vanity*
  • Impact over optics*

The Haystack

It's not a thousand needles.
It's usually three clumps.

When AI-delivered work goes wrong at scale, it feels unfixable: a needle in a haystack, multiplied by everything you ship. Eval tools make it worse. They score each output on its own and hand you a longer list of needles, so teams triage by anecdote, fix the loudest complaint, and nothing moves. Every outcome you shipped, scored.

  • wrong resolution: $412K
  • missed standard: $188K
  • slow handoff: $61K
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the clumps

The System

One judge. Everything compounds from it.

100%80%60%40%20%0%
First-pass quality: 62%
Wrong resolution: $412K
Missed standard: $188K
Slow handoff: $61K
Sep 29Nov 24Dec 22Jan 19Feb 16Mar 16Apr 13May 11Jun 08Jul 06

The first honest number usually hurts.

01 — Measure

The Judge

Calibrate to your bar. Run on everything.

Built from your own production exhaust, corrections, accepts, rejects, rework. Nobody labels anything. It scores all of your work, not a sample.

  • kill the retry loop in intake
    Urgent$204K/yr
  • recalibrate tone-of-voice model
    Next$118K/yr
  • tighten handoff SLA
    Next$66K/yr
  • expand golden-set coverage
    Later$24K/yr
02 — Prioritize

The Prescription

Judgment becomes your roadmap.

Every month: what to fix, ranked by cost, re-measured next cycle. No person in your company can hold this view. It reorders roadmaps the first time it's read.

every outcome
ships
Back, with instructions
to a human
every outcome
ships
Back, with instructions
to a human
03 — Orchestrate

The Gate

The judge moves inline and works for a living.

Passes ship. Clear fails go back with instructions. The ambiguous middle goes to a human. And because the judge knows what's hard, it becomes your router.

# prescription 01 · wrong resolution$ ship intake-triage-v2deployed to production$ re-measurewrong-resolution rate: -38%
04 — The Build

The Build

Our team becomes an extension of yours.

Need extra hands? Founder-level operators plus AI, deployed into your team.

Who it's for

Do you checkall four boxes?

  • You deliver AI-plus-human work at scale: thousands of outcomes a month.

  • Humans review, correct, or finish that work.

  • Somebody outside the building enforces the quality bar.

  • Your failures have a price, and you could name it if pressed.

Four for four?
Talk to us.

We tend to fit teams shipping work in categories like these:

  • *claims
  • *legal
  • *data labeling
  • *localization
  • *transcription
  • *outsourced operations
  • *document extraction
  • *visual content

For the CEO and the board

The AI question finally gets an answer with a dollar sign on it.

The result: the conversation ends.

For product and operations leaders

The AI questionA roadmap ranked by cost of failure instead of by loudest anecdote.

The result: you stop triaging by vibes.

For the delivery team

Reviewers stop reading everything and start reading what matters.

The result: same bar, a fraction of the labor.

In Practice

AI-plus-human task platform

Retention is sliding and nobody can say why.

FOUND

Everyone has a theory; nobody has a number. The judge scores every completed task against the customer's actual bar and finds the failure classes driving the cancellations.

Visual content at brand standard

Every client catch burns trust.

QA and, worse, the client are the last line of defense. The judge learns the standard, scores every asset before it ships, and sends fails back with the reason attached.

Document data extraction

Humans verify every field. They don't have to.

invoice_2481.pdf4 fields
invoice_noINV-2481auto
amount_due$12,480.00auto
vendor_tax_idunreadablereview
due_date2026-03-14auto
1 doubtful field → routed to a human. Hard docs → the expensive model.

The judge knows which fields the machine gets right, gates only the doubtful ones to a person, and routes hard documents to the expensive model.

In Practice

AI-plus-human task platform

Retention is sliding and nobody can say why.

FOUND

Everyone has a theory; nobody has a number. The judge scores every completed task against the customer's actual bar and finds the failure classes driving the cancellations.

Visual content at brand standard

Every client catch burns trust.

QA and, worse, the client are the last line of defense. The judge learns the standard, scores every asset before it ships, and sends fails back with the reason attached.

Document data extraction

Humans verify every field. They don't have to.

invoice_2481.pdf4 fields
invoice_noINV-2481auto
amount_due$12,480.00auto
vendor_tax_idunreadablereview
due_date2026-03-14auto
1 doubtful field → routed to a human. Hard docs → the expensive model.

The judge knows which fields the machine gets right, gates only the doubtful ones to a person, and routes hard documents to the expensive model.

How we work

Setup once.Then it compounds.

01Setup

One month, fixed fee.

We embed, learn your business, calibrate the judge on your historical data, and hand you the numbers. That alone usually reorders the roadmap. Month one tells you whether this is working.

02License

Monthly. It sharpens every cycle.

We embed, learn your business, calibrate the judge on your historical data, and hand you the numbers. That alone usually reorders the roadmap. Month one tells you whether this is working.

03Expand

Build it. Gate it. Route it.

When the prescription calls for a build, we build it. When you’re ready for the judge to gate and route production, it moves inline, priced per outcome, so we make money when the work does.

We will not

  • We will not score your model.

    Benchmarks are somebody else’s business.

  • We will not sell you an AI strategy with nothing attached.

    You have a strategy. You need to know if it’s working, and someone who’ll act on the answer.

  • We will not leave a deck.

    The judgment layer keeps running after we leave the room.

  • We will not soften it so we can stay comfortable.

    If your leadership wants a friendly truth, we’re the wrong call. You’ll hear it straight on the first review.

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