Would teams pay ~$400 for an independent RAG evaluation audit?
SeaAstronomer9044 · reddit · 2026-10-11
The author, investigating retrieval quality, evaluation consistency, and regressions in RAG systems, recently audited an open-source RAG benchmark and found 15 scoring discrepancies—independently reproduced and corrected by the maintainer.
Now he's probing commercial demand: would companies pay $400 for a narrowly scoped independent audit—comparing retrieval configurations on a fixed query set, identifying query-level regressions, checking evidence displacement and metric consistency, with a reproducible report but no code fixes? He's asking CTOs, agency owners, and engineers running production AI whether they've ever paid for external RAG evaluation, what triggered it, and if not, why—trying to understand the gap between technical usefulness and actual commercial demand.
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