# Proposal: Foreman Assessments Group (FAG) - Operationalizing AI Benchmarking

**Prepared For:** Executive Strategy Committee
**Prepared By:** [Your Name/Team]
**Date:** October 26, 2023
**Version:** 1.0

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## 1. Executive Summary

The exponential growth and subsequent hyper-saturation of large language models (LLMs) have created an urgent, inadequately measured market. Current reliance on vendor marketing claims, anecdotal evidence, and flawed single-metric benchmarks (e.g., simple GPT-3.5 prompts) provides an incomplete, often misleading, view of model capability.

**Foreman Assessments Group (FAG)** proposes the institutionalization of a comprehensive, repeatable, and multifaceted AI benchmarking framework. This framework transforms research from an ad-hoc activity into a scalable, objective operational function.

**Our Mission:** To provide defensible, measurable, and comparative performance evaluations of commercial and open-source AI models across critical, real-world vectors (Reasoning, Safety, Context Handling, Multimodality).

**Key Deliverables:**
1. **The FAG Benchmark Suite:** A proprietary library of validated, challenging evaluation prompts and datasets.
2. **Operational API Scoring:** A middleware service allowing clients to submit models/prompts for standardized scoring against the FAG Suite.
3. **Insight Reports:** Deep-dive comparative reports highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and emergent ethical risks per model family.

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## 2. The Problem & The Opportunity

### 2.1 The Problem: The Benchmark Churn
The AI evaluation industry suffers from "Benchmark Churn"--where proprietary metrics are introduced, rapidly retired, or proven insufficient against escalating model complexity.
*   **Hallucination Risk:** Models are excellent at sounding confident, but poor at *being* correct. Current metrics fail to capture *why* or *where* the failure occurred.
*   **Lack of Context Depth:** Most benchmarks test isolated skills (Code generation OR Summarization), failing to test the *integration* of skills in long-form, real-world tasks (e.g., "Diagnose this error in this codebase, given these three unrelated user documents").
*   **Opacity:** Evaluation results are often black boxes, preventing clients from understanding the underlying comparative advantage.

### 2.2 The Opportunity: From Evaluation to Intelligence Layer
By developing a rigorous, modular assessment layer, FAG can position itself not merely as a testing service, but as the **Intelligence layer *above* the models.** We monetize *certainty* and *comparative insight*, which commands a substantial premium from high-stakes enterprise deployment clients (Finance, Pharma, Legal).

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## 3. Our Solution: The FAG Framework (The 4 Pillars)

The FAG Framework evaluates models across four non-negotiable operational pillars, moving beyond simple accuracy scores.

| Pillar | Assessment Goal | Sample Test Vectors | Metric Output |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **1. Deep Reasoning (The "Why")** | Assessing logical consistency, multi-step deduction, and counterfactual thinking. | Chain-of-Thought (CoT) decomposition on abstract reasoning puzzles; diagnosing failure modes in simulated systems. | Logical Path Score (LPS) / Deviation Rate. |
| **2. Context & Memory (The "How Much")** | Evaluating the ability to maintain coherence, recall details, and synthesize information across huge contexts. | Long-Context Summarization with cross-referencing; RAG/QA on thousands of pages of technical documentation. | Context Recall Score (CRS) / Information Decay Rate. |
| **3. Safety & Alignment (The "Should")** | Stress-testing for bias, guardrail bypass, refusal policy adherence, and toxic output generation. | Red Teaming against known prompt injection vectors; bias testing across demographics. | Alignment Index Score (AIS) / Exploit Surface Area. |
| **4. Modality Synthesis (The "What")** | Testing the seamless integration of different data types (e.g., interpreting a graph *and* writing legal text about it). | Image Captioning paired with natural language inference; Video summarization to board presentation markdown. | Modality Synthesis Ratio (MSR) / Data Integrity Score. |

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## 4. Implementation Roadmap & Phasing

We propose a phased, iterative rollout to manage resource allocation while proving MVP value quickly.

### Phase 1: MVP & Validation (0 - 3 Months)
*   **Focus:** Pillars 1 (CoT Reasoning) and 2 (Long Context QA).
*   **Product:** Launch the "FAG Reasoning Validator API."
*   **Goal:** Secure 2-3 pilot clients in a single vertical (e.g., Financial Industry) to validate the scoring model against their internal gold standards.
*   **Deliverable:** Proof-of-Concept validation report.

### Phase 2: Core Platform Build (4 - 9 Months)
*   **Focus:** Integrating Pillars 3 (Safety) and 4 (Multimodality).
*   **Product:** Launch the full **FAG Assessment API**.
*   **Goal:** Achieve full operational capability for the core architecture. Begin hiring dedicated Red Team experts.
*   **Deliverable:** Full-spectrum scoring reports and SOC 2 compliance readiness.

### Phase 3: Scaling & Productization (10+ Months)
*   **Focus:** Automated updates, vertical specialization, and service integration.
*   **Product:** Offering customized, "Niche Scorecards" (e.g., "FAG Scorecard for Patent Law" or "FAG Scorecard for Drug Discovery").
*   **Goal:** Establish FAG as the mandatory pre-deployment vetting step for large enterprise AI adoption.

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## 5. Required Resources & Financial Ask

To achieve the Phase 1 MVP within 3 months, we require the following initial investment:

| Resource Category | Specific Need | Allocation Focus | Estimated Cost |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Personnel** | 1x Senior ML Engineer (Contract) | Building the orchestration and logging backbone. | \$XXX,000 |
| **Data/Compute** | Cloud compute budget increase (Azure/AWS) | Running large batches of diverse model inferences. | \$YYY,000 |
| **Personnel** | 1x Domain Expert Consultant (Contract) | Establishing the gold-standard, domain-specific ground truth datasets. | \$ZZZ,000 |
| **Total Initial Ask** | | | **[Total Financial Figure]** |

*Note: The total cost reflects upfront development and execution of Phase 1, with revenue projections to follow based on secured pilot contracts.*

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## 6. Conclusion & Call to Action

The quality of AI deployment will inevitably become a bottleneck before the compute power does. The solution is standardized, objective evaluation.

**FAG is not a cost center; it is a *revenue enabler* that mitigates systemic enterprise risk.** By funding the FAG Benchmark Suite, the Committee will be funding the creation of the industry standard for AI due diligence.

**Recommendation:** Approve the initial funding tranche to commence Phase 1 development immediately, enabling us to secure the first high-value pilot client within 45 days.