06 — Evaluation Architecture

Status: Outline. This module now has its full scaffold in place; fill the body pages during the scheduled prep week.

What is in this module

Notes

• Evals as Architecture Concern
• Eval Taxonomy
• LLM as Judge Design
• Online Monitoring and Regression Gates
• Eval Kickoff Script

Drills

• Design an Eval on the Whiteboard
• Defend an Acceptance Threshold
• Translate a Customer KPI into an Eval

Case Study

• Eval Framework for BFSI Compliance Review

Strong-Hire bar

• You can explain the module in customer language, not only implementation language.
• You can defend trade-offs, failure modes, evals, and governance choices under skeptical questioning.
• You can connect the module back to the running BFSI customer and the Apic Applied AI Architect role.