--- title: Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation | daily.dev description: Before building AI products, organizations must define clear objectives, establish measurable KPIs, and assess risk tolerance. Many teams skip this planning... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/advance-planning-for-ai-project-evaluation-gcbedqwu0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation | daily.dev og:description: Before building AI products, organizations must define clear objectives, establish measurable KPIs, and assess risk tolerance. Many teams skip this planning... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/advance-planning-for-ai-project-evaluation-gcbedqwu0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GcBedQWU0.png og:image:alt: Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Before building AI products, organizations must define clear objectives, establish measurable KPIs, and assess risk tolerance. Many teams skip this planning phase, leading to misaligned expectations and inadequate evaluation. Success requires systematic testing rather than relying on anecdotal feedback or "vibes." LLMs' nondeterministic nature makes upfront planning especially critical—teams must understand potential failure modes and decide if they can accept the inherent unpredictability. Setting evaluation criteria before development prevents gaming metrics and ensures measurement validity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why AI Alignment Starts With Better Evaluation](https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-alignment-starts-with-better-evaluation-7mkexdfgc) · Towards Data Science · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why evals are essential for AI product managers](https://daily.dev/posts/why-evals-are-essential-for-ai-product-managers-ofqo83cnz) · LogRocket · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Finding the Right Problems to Solve with AI](https://daily.dev/posts/finding-the-right-problems-to-solve-with-ai-ppq0p6qhy) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#project-management](https://daily.dev/tags/project-management) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/advance-planning-for-ai-project-evaluation-gcbedqwu0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Advance Planning for AI Project Evaluation","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/advance-planning-for-ai-project-evaluation-gcbedqwu0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/advance-planning-for-ai-project-evaluation-gcbedqwu0"},"datePublished":"2026-02-18T00:53:30.129Z","dateModified":"2026-02-18T00:53:51.602Z","description":"Before building AI products, organizations must define clear objectives, establish measurable KPIs, and assess risk tolerance. 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