Design partnership
Run your next model change through Agent Console.
Choose one workflow facing a model change, such as a forced retirement. Your platform lead and workflow owner get a decision they can explain and review. We agree the inputs, milestones and exit conditions through the stack you already run.
Discuss a design partnershipWhat your team receives
Synthetic coding example · 100 paired requests
Should configuration B proceed for this coding task?
Keep configuration A
- Quality acceptance
- 95% → 82%Minimum 93%
- Request errors
- 5%Maximum 2%
- 95th-percentile latency
- 260 msMaximum 200 ms
Lower cost; quality and service limits missed.
Comparison export
Registered basis, limits, result and permitted retained evidence.
Review notes
Separate approval, configuration and follow-up references, outstanding work and its responsible owner.
Workflow owner reviews the missed limits before another candidate is considered.
Start with a specific change
Choose a workflow where you are considering a different model or configuration, or where a vendor is retiring the model it runs on. We begin with a synthetic walkthrough, then scope the cost, quality and service evidence your team needs to decide. Your configured gateways or native clients continue running requests.
The exit is a defensible decision to keep the current configuration, pursue a separately approved change, or collect more evidence, with a reusable review record.
Who participates
- Platform lead
- Names the relevant sources, access and change process, and owns the configuration and deployment handoff.
- Workflow owner
- Defines what an acceptable result means, names the quality-label owner and agrees the service limits.
- Security reviewer
- Reviews the selected data flows, identity and role assignments before access is granted.
- Finance approver
- Joins when the scope includes a monetary benefit claim, to agree its baseline, period, population and ledger evidence.
Inputs agreed before work starts
- One workflow
- The proposed change, its owner, current model or configuration, and the outcome or task being evaluated.
- Source evidence
- The supported usage and cost sources you select, their reporting periods and coverage, and security-approved read access. Gaps and different cost bases stay visible.
- Comparison basis
- A versioned cohort, acceptance rubric and baseline/candidate configurations; paired metadata with quality labels, cost, errors and latency. Formats and collection responsibilities are agreed in scope.
- Acceptance limits
- The required paired sample count and limits for quality drop, errors, latency and cost per accepted result, chosen before collection.
- Environment and access
- The selected deployment environment, identity provider and role assignments, with the install and removal path recorded. Security and Trust describe the data boundary.
- Financial scope
- If a monetary claim is included, a finance-approved baseline and the corresponding ledger records. A finance close is scoped only when its accounting period and evidence are ready.
Milestones and deliverables
Fix the decision and its basis
A scoped question, named owners and a source coverage statement. Record the reviewed period, baseline, candidate and rate basis, with missing inputs identified.
Register the comparison
The cohort, rubric, configuration fingerprints, observation window and acceptance limits are registered before collection. Your authorized collector supplies the paired metadata after the window closes.
Review the result and change evidence
Evaluate the supplied evidence as within limits, outside limits or incomplete. Keep model eligibility approval, observed target configuration and any follow-up comparison separate. Applying a route follows your own change process.
Hand over the review record
Export the exact registered comparison and its retained evidence. Review the keep/change/collect-more-evidence decision with the owners, record outstanding work and agree who takes the next action.
What the comparison export retains
The existing ace.routing-comparison-export/v1 JSON contains the registered plan, result when available and retained follow-up evidence allowed by your read permissions. Missing or restricted evidence stays explicit. Partnership review notes identify the separate approval, configuration and follow-up references.
Historical comparison evidence; no proof of request execution, route application or financial effect.
Return when your team proposes another model or configuration, or when a separately registered follow-up is ready. Review the new evidence against its agreed basis while retaining the earlier decision.
Exit conditions agreed in scope
- The platform lead and workflow owner can explain the proposed change, its source and cost basis, and the quality and service limits.
- The comparison result is inspectable against the agreed limits. A cheaper option that misses a limit is recorded as such; missing observations lead to an evidence collection decision.
- Approval, configuration and follow-up records are either identified exactly or recorded as outstanding, with a named owner. A model permission does not establish that a route changed.
- The team receives a reusable comparison export and agrees the next action: retain the baseline, pursue a separately approved change, or collect more evidence.
The evidence we start from
The hosted reference deployment supports the walkthrough with synthetic product records. The homepage’s worked coding-task decision uses invented paired observations evaluated by Agent Console’s comparison engine.
Kong OSS 3.9.3 has been exercised in a local lab for policy apply, readback and drift recovery. That run did not establish successful model inference. Azure API Management and coding-agent hooks are tested against vendor interfaces; acceptance on your selected environment and workflow is an agreed partnership milestone.
Trust and data boundary and the roadmap describe the implementation and proof scope.
Commercial scope
A fixed fee is quoted once scope is agreed. We record the selected workflow, access, responsibilities, milestones and exit conditions in the proposal. Platform pricing is described on the Pricing page.
Talk through one model change.
Tell us the workflow, the change you are considering and who owns it. We reply from hello@lockedinlabs.ai to arrange a walkthrough and scope the design partnership.