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Intelligent Routing for Specialized AI Model Portfolios

Design governance, evaluation, and orchestration systems that route tasks across heterogeneous AI models while balancing cost, latency, and reliability.

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8. Lifecycle Management of Models

Portfolios evolve: new models onboard, underperforming ones retire, and bespoke fine-tunes emerge.

Onboarding Process#

Capability Assessment#

Run the evaluation harness, compare against benchmarks, and document strengths.

Risk Review#

Security analysis, privacy impact assessment, legal review.

Sandbox Routing#

Expose the model to a subset of traffic with shadow comparisons to incumbent models.

Graduation Decision#

Confirm metrics, finalize contracts, and update documentation.

Offboarding Process#

Retire models when performance degrades, costs spike, or contracts end. Provide migration plans, including re-routing traffic, updating downstream dependencies, and archiving historical data.

Version Management#

Track versions with semantic labels (major.minor.patch). Route based on explicit version policies rather than implicit provider changes. When a provider releases a new version, treat it as onboarding—a regression may hide inside a “minor” update.

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