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EvaluationAI judge bias: why judges favor their own outputs
Rubric-based evaluation was supposed to make LLM judges objective. We show that judges keep favoring their own outputs even when the rubric is fully objective (e.g., a unit test), and we quantify what that costs when ranking frontier models.
September 23, 2026 • 12 min read
AgentsHow We Cut Enterprise AI Costs by 94% Without Slowing Down Engineers
Learn how Sword Health designed a multi-agent AI system to handle member support tickets at scale — combining RAG-powered knowledge retrieval, dynamic tool orchestration, and continuous evaluation to resolve cases faster without sacrificing quality.
August 4, 2026 • 21 min read
AgentsArbor: a Framework for reliable navigation of critical conversation flows
Navigating complex decision trees while maintaining natural conversation remains an unsolved challenge, here's how Arbor solves it.
July 28, 2026 • 10 min read
SafetyMindGuard: open-source guardrails that understand clinical context
MindGuard is a family of open-source safety classifiers for mental health conversations that reduce false positives while accurately identifying real crisis signals.
June 15, 2026 • 12 min read
AgentsHow Sword built an AI care coordinator agent to scale member support
Learn how Sword Health designed a multi-agent AI system to handle member support tickets at scale — combining RAG-powered knowledge retrieval, dynamic tool orchestration, and continuous evaluation to resolve cases faster without sacrificing quality.
May 18, 2026 • 10 min read
EvaluationInside MindEval: building a benchmark for LLMs in multi-turn mental health support
How we designed, validated, and open-sourced a benchmark for evaluating LLMs in realistic multi-turn mental health conversations and what we found across 12 frontier models.
May 5, 2026 • 12 min read
AgentsHow we built Phoenixʼs real-time voice experience
How we built Phoenix’s real-time voice experience, combining voice AI, clinical memory, and safety guardrails to guide members through treatment at scale.
March 13, 2026 • 12 min read