AI Operations — SME catalogue

LLMOps

Shipping the agent was the easy half. Now a model deprecation notice lands with 90 days' warning, token spend doubles without a deploy, a prompt tweak from three weeks ago is quietly degrading answers, and nobody can say which version of what produced the output a customer is disputing. Welcome to operating LLM systems — the discipline your pilot never needed and your production system can't live without.

We build the operational layer: prompts, models, and eval datasets versioned together so every output is reproducible; regression gates so changes prove themselves before shipping; cost telemetry per feature and per customer so finance stops discovering surprises; drift monitoring so quality degradation pages someone; and runbooks for the new incident classes — provider outages, model regressions, jailbreak waves — that traditional ops never met.

01 What we ship
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Version discipline

Prompts, model pins, and eval sets versioned as one unit — every production output reproducible.

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Eval-gated releases

Quality regression blocks a prompt change the way a failing test blocks code.

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Cost observability

Token spend per feature, per customer, per model — with budgets and alerts, not month-end surprises.

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Drift and quality monitoring

Sampled production scoring that catches degradation before users report it.

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LLM incident response

Runbooks and fallbacks for provider outages, deprecations, and model regressions.

03 Questions — answered before you ask

How is LLMOps different from regular DevOps?

The artifacts and failure modes are new: behavior lives in prompts and model versions, not just code; failures are quality drift, not stack traces; and a vendor can change your system's behavior overnight. The discipline — versioning, gates, monitoring, runbooks — is the same spirit applied to stranger materials.

A model we depend on is being deprecated. How bad is this?

With eval coverage, it's a project; without it, it's a gamble. We run the migration through your golden datasets, fix the prompts that regress, and cut over behind a flag with rollback ready. Teams that treat model upgrades like database migrations do them quarterly without drama.

Our token costs are climbing faster than usage. Why?

Usually invisible waste: verbose prompts duplicated per call, missing prompt caching, premium models doing work a cheaper tier handles, and retry storms nobody graphed. Cost observability finds it; caching, routing, and prompt hygiene typically claw back 40–70% of spend.

Put LLMOps to work — in production.

One forward-deployed engineer, embedded in your stack, owning the outcome from discovery to production. Weeks, not quarters.

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