OpenRouter's account of Descript's evaluation speedup attributes it largely to removing a scheduling queue. For Descript, an AI video and audio editing company, testing a new model required a few hours of engineering work but could wait a week for an engineer. A shared connection through OpenRouter removed the need for another provider integration, while Descript's configured automation ran evaluations and prepared changes for human approval. Descript reports evaluations taking one or two hours. OpenRouter's separate case study explains how Descript keeps selected models available through provider fallbacks.
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eval — A repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.
