Decision tools for AI product teams
32 practical tools for designing tests, evaluating evidence, estimating costs, managing agent risks and planning AI product decisions. No account, external AI API or data upload required.
Launch decisionAI Product Launch Readiness LabTurn AI test results into a clear launch, review or hold decision.Statistical evidenceAI Evaluation Sample Size & Confidence LabCalculate Wilson confidence intervals, conservative sample requirements and whether observed task success supports a release target.Test planningAI Golden Dataset & Test Matrix BuilderGenerate a structured coverage matrix of user groups, task types, locales and failure risks, ready to label and evaluate.Release comparisonAI Prompt Regression Comparison LabCompare paired baseline and candidate outcomes, identify net improvements and regressions, and explain confidence limits.Source verificationAI Citation Evidence Review WorkspaceRecord claims, cited-source addresses, verification judgments and follow-up actions in a compact evidence register.Evaluation agreementLLM Judge Agreement CalculatorCalculate agreement rates and Cohen's kappa between human and automated evaluators using a paired binary confusion matrix.
Permission controlsAI Agent Permission & Risk PlannerPlan least-privilege access, approval gates and action audits.Workflow reliabilityAI Agent Reliability & Failure Cascade SimulatorModel how dependent agent steps, retries, fallbacks and tool expenses affect end-to-end success and cost.Decision authorityAI Agent Approval Gate DesignerCreate action-specific approval requirements and audit expectations based on impact, data sensitivity and available safeguards.Spend protectionAI Agent Runaway Cost & Loop-Limit PlannerEstimate worst-case agent spend from iteration limits, concurrent runs, token prices and external actions.
Unit economicsAI Product Economics CalculatorEstimate cost per accepted task, including retries and human review.Automation economicsAI Human Review ROI & Staffing CalculatorCompare manual work with AI-assisted tasks including reviewer time, correction effort, accepted outcomes and monthly spend.Architecture trade-offsAI Model Routing & Fallback SimulatorCompare single-model inference with a cheaper first-pass model, complex-task routing and fallback retries.Infrastructure economicsAI API vs Self-Hosting Break-Even CalculatorCompare managed model APIs and self-hosted inference costs, including infrastructure, staffing and task volume.Device economicsOn-Device vs Cloud AI Deployment EstimatorCompare local model fit, network latency, offline needs and monthly cloud inference costs under user-provided assumptions.
ArchitectureRAG vs Fine-Tuning Decision ExplorerCompare retrieval, tuning and hybrid approaches against your requirements.Evidence qualityRAG Retrieval & Grounding DiagnosticsAssess user-reviewed retrieval relevance, answer support and query coverage using consistent evaluation counts.Index and contextRAG Chunking & Retrieval Budget PlannerEstimate RAG chunk counts, embedding-token budgets, retrieved context and approximate per-query context cost.Data permissionsRAG Retrieval Access-Control Review PlannerReview document-level authorization, index filtering, cache safety and cross-tenant disclosure risks in RAG systems.
PerformanceAI Latency Budget SimulatorModel user-perceived latency and find modeled bottlenecks.MigrationAI Model Migration PlannerPlan tests, canaries and rollback before model replacement.Production operationsAI SLO & Error Budget PlannerTranslate an AI product's success-rate SLO into allowable failures, consumed budget and operational warning signals.Dependency inventoryModel Deprecation Impact MapperEstimate migration blast radius by mapping model-dependent endpoints, tools, prompts and ownership gaps.
Vendor evaluationAI Vendor Comparison ScorecardCompare AI vendors on evidence, quality, privacy and cost.Success measurementAI Feature KPI & Outcome Tree BuilderConnect adoption, accepted task outcomes, user effort and costs to the economics of an AI product feature.Roadmap decisionsAI Feature Prioritization ExplorerCompare three AI feature opportunities using value, confidence, delivery effort, strategic fit and operational risk.
PrivacyAI Privacy Data-Flow MapperMap AI workflow data transfers and open privacy questions.Incident responseAI Incident Severity & Recovery PlannerClassify an AI incident using impact evidence and generate a containment, escalation and recovery checklist.Control evidenceAI Guardrail Coverage & Risk MapperMap selected AI agent safeguards and documented evaluation evidence to an actionable coverage register.Inclusive product testingAI Accessibility Test MatrixGenerate an accessibility-focused AI product test plan covering interaction modes, input methods and common failure conditions.Adversarial testingAI Red-Team Scenario WorksheetCreate an actionable but safe AI behavior and security evaluation register based on selected threat categories.Privacy operationsAI Data Retention & Deletion Test RegisterDocument retention, deletion ownership and evidence for prompts, outputs, logs, backups and vendor processing.
How to interpret the outputs
These decision tools use transparent formulas, heuristics or structured review checklists. Existing and new tools generate results and downloadable records from visitor-entered examples. Scores are planning aids, not measured validation or legal, procurement or security certification. Replace the illustrative inputs with evidence from your own test process. Many of the underlying judgments still require human review.
Use the tool together with a linked Ninth Post article and primary sources. We do not claim that a numeric score proves vendor quality, legal compliance or a safe release.