The independent decision record for AI

Prove which AI model deserves to be in production.

Test the models you are actually considering on your own workload. Weigh quality, cost, and latency against the threshold you set, bring in a blinded expert where a metric cannot decide, and produce a decision record your client, your auditor, or your board can inspect line by line.

Free to prove your first workload. No credit card. Your keys, your data, and only the evidence you choose is ever published.

Example ranked proof for a transcription task. Deepgram nova-3-medical wins at 0.883 quality and $294 per month, 40% cheaper than the AWS Transcribe incumbent at 0.879 and $487 per month. OpenAI whisper-1 is cheapest at $122 per month but scores 0.820, below the 0.85 quality bar, so it is ruled out.

DECISION · clinical transcription threshold 0.85 · v1.2
deepgram · nova-3-medical
selected · clears threshold, 40% less
0.883
$294/mo
aws · transcribe-standard
incumbent
0.879
$487/mo
openai · whisper-1
ruled out, below threshold
0.820
$122/mo
Dataset 9 clinical clips, labeled
Method WER + medical-term F1 + critical-term recall
Economics projected at ~20k audio-min/mo, provider list prices
open the full decision record →

Built for whoever has to defend the call.

AI consultancies
Turning a recommendation into evidence a client can inspect.
AI engineering leads
Documenting why this model runs in production, not just that it scored well.
AI vendors
Backing an accuracy or cost claim with evidence a buyer can check.
74decision records produced across our own engagements and benchmarks
as of Aug 2026
Where RedCrown sits

Your eval stack shows how a model performed. RedCrown proves why you chose it.

Scores live in a dashboard your engineers read. A decision has to survive a client, an auditor, or a budget conversation months later, when nobody remembers the sample size or who approved it. That record is the thing RedCrown owns.

A durable decision record

Workload, candidates, incumbent, dataset version, model versions, thresholds, methodology version, economics, reviewer verdicts, and per-item evidence, held together as one object with a timestamp.

Expert judgement, blinded

When a metric cannot decide, a domain expert votes A vs B without seeing model identities. Their verdicts become part of the record, not a side conversation.

Independent by structure

No model-vendor money, no margin on the calls you run, and a pinned methodology version stamped on every result. Nobody can buy a better ranking.

Worried an LLM grading an LLM is circular?

Score against your own labeled ground truth, or send it to a blinded human reviewer who votes A vs B without seeing model identities. When you do use a judge, it is pinned and versioned, and every verdict carries the receipt it was based on.

RedCrown is not trying to replace your test suite, your traces, or your gateway. Keep them. It sits above whatever produced the evidence and turns it into the decision.
For AI consultancies

Turn model recommendations into evidence your clients can inspect.

You already do the work. The problem is that it lands as a slide saying "we tested three providers and recommend Anthropic", and the client has to take your word for it. RedCrown makes the evidence the deliverable.

  • Run the comparison on the client's own workload, not a public benchmark.
  • Invite the client's own domain experts to judge outputs blinded, so the verdict is partly theirs.
  • Hand over a no-login decision record they can open, check item by item, and keep.
  • Reuse the same methodology across engagements instead of rebuilding a spreadsheet each time.
  • Come back in two quarters, re-run it, and show whether the recommendation still holds.
Client deliverable
Instead of

"We evaluated OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini and recommend Anthropic."

You hand over
  • the workload that was tested, and how big the sample was
  • every candidate's outputs, item by item
  • your client's own experts' blinded verdicts
  • the cost model and what it assumes
  • the methodology version that produced it
  • the exact reason this model was selected
Decisions, with receipts

Three decisions, and what the evidence actually said.

Two engagements, anonymized. Quality measured on the real client data in each case, monthly cost projected from provider list prices at the same volume, with the sample size and the caveats stated on every card.

Clinical transcription provider

Transcription: 40% cheaper, more accurate

−40%
monthly cost
$487 → $294
88.3%
accuracy vs
87.9% incumbent
100%
critical-term
recall

Measured on 9 clips. The 0.4-point accuracy difference is within a single clip at that sample size, so the accuracy result is directional and the cost result is the finding.

Read the decision
The decision
Whether to move clinical transcription off the AWS Transcribe incumbent.
Why a benchmark wasn't enough
Public word-error-rate leaderboards do not measure whether a model drops the drug name or the dosage. On clinical audio the errors that matter are not evenly distributed, and the cheapest candidate looked strongest on price alone.
What was tested
Four speech-to-text configs on the client's real clinical audio: the AWS incumbent, two Deepgram medical models, and Whisper.
How quality was judged
Word error rate, medical-term F1, and critical-term recall against ground-truth transcripts. No human reviewer on this one; the ground truth carried it.
The decision reached
Deepgram nova-3-medical. It clears the 0.85 threshold at 0.883 against the incumbent's 0.879, with full critical-term recall. Whisper was cheapest at $122/mo and was ruled out for scoring 0.820, below the bar.
Economics
$487 to $294/mo, projected at ~20,000 audio-min/month from each provider's per-minute list price (AWS $0.024, Deepgram nova-3-medical ~$0.0145 est., Whisper $0.006).
Evidence
Per-clip receipts on a no-login proof page, with the transcript diffs and the source audio.
Revalidation
Re-run on demand when per-minute pricing moves or a new medical ASR model ships.
▤ See the receipts, clip by clip →
Clinical note generation

The newer model lost

75%
judge pass rate
vs 50% incumbent
−13%
cost per note

Measured on 4 notes. The pass-rate gap is a single note at that sample size, so it is directional and the cost result is the finding.

Read the decision
The decision
Whether to move clinical note generation onto a newer model, on the usual assumption that newer is better.
Why a benchmark wasn't enough
The notes are generated through the client's own production prompts. A model that scores well on a public reasoning set can still handle those prompts worse, and the only way to find out is to run the real ones.
What was tested
Six LLM configs generating notes through the client's real production prompts.
How quality was judged
A pinned independent judge plus deterministic rule checks. No human reviewer on this one, which is a limit of the result rather than a feature of it.
The decision reached
Stay on the prior-generation model. It beat the newer one on both quality and cost, which is the opposite of what the upgrade assumption predicted.
Economics
13% lower cost per note, projected from provider list prices.
Evidence
Per-case receipts on a no-login proof page, with each note and the judge's reasoning.
Revalidation
Re-run on demand. This is the decision most worth re-checking, because it is the one a new model release is most likely to overturn.
▤ See the receipts, case by case →
Independence
No model commissions. No payment, rev-share, or placement fee from any model provider.
No inference markup. Your keys, your provider accounts, your rates. We take no margin on the calls.
Versioned methodology. Every result records the methodology version that produced it.
Your data stays yours. Evaluation runs locally; only the evidence you choose is published.
Run anywhere. Prove here.

Keep the tools your engineers already use.

You do not have to move your evaluation stack to get a decision record. If you already ran the comparison in your own harness, a notebook, or a third-party eval platform, import the results and RedCrown normalizes them into the same ranked, reviewable, shareable decision as a native run.

Run it here

The CLI runs the whole evaluation locally with your keys, or drive it from an agent over MCP.

Run it there

Your own test suite, a Python pipeline, or another eval platform. Whatever produced the numbers.

Prove it here

Import the results and get the ranked report, per-item receipts, expert review, and a shareable decision record.

Continuous validation

Today's winner isn't guaranteed to be tomorrow's.

A model decision has a shelf life. Providers ship new models and change prices, your prompts drift, your workload changes, and the threshold that mattered last quarter may not be the one that matters now. A decision nobody re-checks quietly becomes a guess again.

What moves
  • A challenger ships
  • A provider cuts or raises prices
  • Your prompts or workload change
  • Model behavior shifts under you
  • Your quality threshold moves
Available now
  • Re-run any workload on demand
  • Compare against the decision you already defended
  • History and ROI rollup across runs
  • Shadow live traffic through the proxy, then canary, promote, or roll back
Coming to Team
  • Scheduled re-proving on a cadence you set
  • Change alerts when a re-run flips the answer

Not live yet. Until it ships, re-running is on demand and we will not pretend otherwise.

Start free, no demo required

From your workload to a shareable decision in two minutes.

Run anywhere, on your own machine, with your own keys. You see the ranked answer in your terminal before you make an account, and push only the results you choose.

Terminal session: pip install redcrown, build a dataset, run the eval locally, log in, then push the result to mint a shareable proof link. The ranked output names deepgram nova-3-medical as the winner at 40% cheaper.

redcrown · your machine, your keys
$ pip install redcrown
$ redcrown build-dataset primock57 --out exp.json
$ redcrown eval exp.json --report-json out.json  # local
$ redcrown login
$ redcrown push out.json --proof-link  # prints share URL

RANKED  transcription · cheapest at your 0.85 bar
 deepgram · nova-3-medical   0.883   $294/mo  ← winner, 40% cheaper
  aws · transcribe-standard    0.879   $487/mo  incumbent
  openai · whisper-1           0.820   $122/mo  below bar
proof: app.redcrown.ai/proof/…  # no login to view
Already ran an eval elsewhere? Import the JSON for the same ranked, shareable proof. Coding agents drive the same loop over MCP at mcp.redcrown.ai. The MCP server is open source on GitHub.
Common questions

What people ask before they run one.

How can RedCrown be neutral if it runs the models?

RedCrown takes no payment, rev-share, or placement fee from any model provider, and takes no margin on the calls you run. You bring your own provider keys, so the calls run under your accounts at your rates. Scoring and ranking run on a pinned, versioned methodology, and every proof records the version that produced it. Read the full neutrality structure.

Isn't using an LLM to grade an LLM circular?

It would be, on its own. So score against your own labeled ground truth, or send the run to a blinded human reviewer who votes A vs B without seeing model identities. When you do use a judge, it is pinned and versioned, and every verdict links to the receipt it was based on so you can check the grading yourself.

Does my data, including PHI, have to leave my machine?

No. The CLI runs the whole eval locally with your keys, and you see the ranked answer in your terminal before you make an account. Only the results you explicitly push become a hosted proof. Anything you do store with us is encrypted at rest and siloed per workspace, and proof links expire or revoke when you say so. We hold no formal certification (no SOC 2, no ISO 27001) and do not claim any. The details are on the Security & Trust page.

What if I don't have labeled data?

You can still prove the cost drop. Score the challengers against your current model's output instead of a labeled answer key, and RedCrown names the cheapest config that matches what you ship today. No labeling project needed. If you do have labels, it scores against those instead and you get a quality verdict too.

What am I actually paying for?

Workloads, not tokens. Proving a task is free and unlimited on your own machine. A paid plan keeps a workload proven: hosted proof pages, unlimited magic-link reviewers, re-running on demand, history and ROI rollup, and the live proxy. Team starts at $99/mo for 3 workloads. There is no markup on inference; you pay your providers directly. See the plans.

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