What do you put in place before and after launching an AI product? (Traceability, Observability, Evals, etc.)
I'm trying to build a checklist of everything teams should think about when launching an AI product into production.
Beyond the model itself, what are the key systems and practices you consider essential before launch and after launch?
Some things that come to mind:
Prompt versioning
Traceability
Observability
Evals (offline and online)
Human feedback loops
Guardrails and safety
Latency and cost monitoring
Hallucination detection
A/B testing
Model versioning and rollback
Analytics and user behavior tracking
What am I missing?
I'd love to hear from teams shipping LLM products in production:
What tools or platforms do you use?
What mistakes did you make on your first launch?
What metrics do you monitor daily?
If you had to build an AI product from scratch again, what would you do differently?
Looking forward to insights from PM who shipped multiple Ai products?