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EvalLoop reframes evaluation as diagnostic and improvement-driven for production: it groups metrics by business-relevant dimensions, classifies failure modes within weak dimensions, and runs structured iterations that vary one system variable while comparing dimensional profiles. Validation on sales intelligence briefing generation shows prompt-induced interpretation errors are invisible in aggregate scores. Targeted fixes substantially improve overall quality and reduce unnecessary human review.","arXiv :2607 .05638v 1 [ cs . SE] 6 Jul 2026  \nEvalLoop: A Methodology for Evaluation-Driven Iterative Improvement of Business AI Systems  \nKenneth Benavides Josh Fleischer Danti Chen  \nRobert Half  \n(kenneth.benavides, josh.fleischer, danti.chen)@[roberthalf.com](roberthalf.com)  \nAbstract  \nTeams deploying large language models in business contexts need evaluation systems, yet most treat evaluation as static model selection: run benchmarks, rank models, deploy the winner. This framing misses evaluation’s primary value for production systems—diagnosing why a system underperforms and guiding what to fix.  \nWe present EvalLoop, a methodology for evaluation-driven iterative improvement. EvalLoop organizes evaluation around three mechanisms: (1) dimensional metric grouping that decomposes quality into business-relevant dimensions enabling orthogonal failure diagnosis; (2) failure mode classification that categorizes why outputs fail within weak dimensions, bridging diagnosis to action; and (3) a structured iteration workflow where each evaluation run varies one system variable and compares dimensional profiles before and after.  \nWe validate EvalLoop through a case study on sales intelligence briefing generation (10 models, 3 providers, 18 metrics, 5 dimensions, 3 iterations) . Dimensional diagnosis identified that 69% of hallucination failures were prompt-induced interpretation errors—invisible in aggregate scoring. A targeted prompt fix improved the best model from 82.6% to 94.6% overall, with improvement concentrated in diagnosed dimensions (Content Accuracy +16.8pp, Synthesis Power +26.4pp) . An undirected configuration change in a prior iteration produced zero impact, illustrating the cost of iterating without diagnosis. We additionally demonstrate that dimensional profiling enables deploymentspecific model selection, and that a one-time blind human gate on a finalist panel (4 models, 16 cases) confirms dimensional rankings while resolving multi-criteria deployment trade-offs—a 94% reduction in human review burden compared to evaluating the full design.  \nEvalLoop is packaged as reusable artifacts (playbook, agent specification, template repository) for adoption by other teams.  \n1 Introduction  \nOrganizations deploying large language models (LLMs) in business contexts invest heavily in evaluation—comparing models on quality metrics, measuring compliance with domain requirements, and validating outputs against business rules. Yet the dominant framing of LLM evaluation, in both academic benchmarks and enterprise practice, treats it as a model selection exercise: run a suite of tests, rank the models, deploy the winner [Liang et al., 2023, Chang et al., 2024, Zhang et al., 2024] . This framing captures only a fraction of the value evaluation can provide.  \nIn production systems, the model is rarely the only—or even the primary—variable determining output quality. The prompt, retrieval pipeline, configuration parameters, and input data formatting all shape the result. When a system underperforms, the question is not “which model should we switch to?”but “what’s wrong and what should we change?” Evaluation systems designed solely for model ranking cannot answer this question: they produce a score, not a diagnosis.  \n1.1 Motivation  \nTwo developments motivate a rethinking of evaluation’s role. First, continuous evaluation advocates observe that fixed benchmarks fall short for enterprise-scale agents where requirements evolve continu-  \nously [Saxena et al., 2025], and that point-in-time analyses do not address companies’ need to continuously assess tool reliability [Azanza et al., 2025] . 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