Make the case before the model
Complexity
must earn
its place.
Does your idea need AI, or just a notification, template, lookup, or formula? Define the job, examine the simplest alternative, and test whether extra complexity earns its place.
Browse evidence without an account. Assessments are reasoning, not measurements of your system.
Explicit conditions. Repeatable behavior. Start here when the work can be stated precisely.
Learn a decision boundary from labeled examples. Inspect errors against the same evaluation set.
Add representation capacity when simpler methods do not satisfy the operating requirements.
Test additional capability against its latency, dependencies, and operational constraints.
Conceptual complexity order. Height is not a performance score.
Automation is not the same as AI
“Email a parent when their child passes.”
If the result is already recorded, the workflow is straightforward:
Approved result → check status → fill an email template → queue delivery.
No new prediction is needed. If the task also includes judging an essay, assess that step separately. SimplestWins evaluates this distinction; it does not send messages or decide a child's result.
Try this decision without AI →Illustrative workflow. Test duplicate events, missing contacts, changed results and delivery failures before use.
The experiment, opened up
A claim is cheap.
An experiment
has receipts.
Same task. Same evaluation set. Explicit floors. Open the comparison and change the requirements yourself.
Inspect this experiment ↗Does spam filtering need an LLM?
↗Required: ≥95% accuracy · ≤100ms
Published sms-spam snapshot · 120 evaluated examples. Describes this corpus, not your traffic.
Define the outcome and the current alternative.
Compare methods under the same requirements.
Inspect missing evidence and uneven errors.
The evidence library
Real tasks. Inspectable trade-offs.
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Built to be challenged
A decision you can interrogate.
A model can help structure your description. It cannot choose the verdict. Published rules connect your requirements to the answer, and incomplete benchmarks stay incomplete.
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