EnterpriseVal: Quantifying the Efficacy, Reliability and Value of Generative AI in the Enterprise
Abbas Raza Ali, Muhammad Ajmal Siddiqui, Moona Zahid
cs.AI · stat.ML
Quick verdict
Proposes eVal, an enterprise GenAI evaluation framework with pre-registered gates and a value model; honest but pilot evidence lacks CIs, n, and blinding.
Summary
EnterpriseVal (eVal) is a use-case-level evaluation system for deciding whether a generative-AI workflow is fit to deploy in a regulated enterprise. It formalises a frozen socio-technical configuration (model, prompts, retrieval, tools, guardrails, human oversight), sets evaluation intensity by autonomy and consequence tier, and defines six metric families (fidelity, utility, efficiency, reliability, assurance, oversight). Blinded expert grading is scaled by an LLM judge corrected with prediction-powered inference, and a two-tier conjunctive gate on conservative confidence bounds maps metrics to REJECT/CONDITIONAL/SCALE; a value model charges review cost and residual risk, parameterised by a measured reviewer catch rate, against time saved. In a pilot across three workflows at a global bank, human-graded credit-memo drafting reached 88% citation precision and 1.6% hallucination rate for Gemini 2.5 against gates of 70% and 5%; Llama 4 scored 76% and 3.2%, with its 80% guidance recall landing exactly on the inner threshold. Estimated refinement effort in procedure transformation fell from 27.4 to 2.9 hours per document. Key limitations: the pilot reports no sample sizes, confidence intervals or inter-rater agreement; grading was not fully blind; harness parity between compared models is undocumented; and efficiency baselines are coarse practitioner estimates clustered at three values.
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● low 1
5 strengths · 5 weaknesses · 5 author questions
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Key claims under review
- The distance between frontier-model capability and realised enterprise value is substantially a measurement gap: portable benchmarks cannot answer firm-specific deployment questions.
- A use-case-level evaluation with a frozen configuration, pre-registered two-tier thresholds on conservative CI bounds, and PPI-corrected LLM judging can produce decision-grade gate evidence for governance bodies.
- In a global-bank pilot, human-graded credit-memo drafting reached 88% citation precision and 1.6% hallucination rate (Gemini 2.5) against gates of 70% and 5%, with Llama 4 at 76% and 3.2%.
- Procedure transformation cut estimated refinement effort from 27.4 to 2.9 hours per document across ten procedures (v2 subset n=7).
- Reviewer catch rate is a measurable parameter that must couple review cost to residual risk in any enterprise value claim, and is likely well below one (H1).
Strengths
Decision-grade statistical design, specified before evidence
Section 5 composes sound machinery: prediction-powered estimator (Eq. 6, unbiased whatever the judge's accuracy), Cohen's kappa >= 0.6 admissibility that routes failures to rubric revision, sample-size formula (Eq. 7, n≈196 for the 5-point credit-memo gap), Wilson/cluster-bootstrap intervals, and gates taken on conservative CI bounds (Eq. 9). This directly targets the failure modes it names: post-hoc thresholds and uncalibrated judge scores.
Unusual epistemic hygiene
Every claim is labelled [Established]/[Documented]/[Proposed]/[Hypothesis]; Section 7 states upfront that sample sizes, CIs and agreement were not recorded; the inverted threshold pair in Table 4 (IR theta_out <50 vs theta_in <55) is retained and footnoted rather than silently fixed; Section 8 concedes that Table 4 gates 'illustrate the rule rather than establish findings'.
Novel oversight economics
Governance operability
Graduated evaluation intensity
Weaknesses
Pilot evidence sits below the framework's own bar
Efficiency claims rest on recalled, banded estimates
Comparison validity is undocumented
Contribution is integration, not new method
Reproducibility is low
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Scope & Claims
The paper proposes EnterpriseVal (eVal), a use-case-level evaluation system for enterprise generative-AI deployment decisions, and reports a three-workflow pilot at an anonymised global bank. Core thesis (Section 1): the gap between frontier capability (GDPval: best models win just under half of blinded expert comparisons) and realised value (MIT: ~95% of pilots show no P&L impact; McKinsey: 39% attribute EBIT impact) is substantially a measurement problem, because portable benchmarks cannot answer firm-specific deployment questions and internal metrics rarely reach governance in decision-grade form. Claims are labelled [Established]/[Documented]/[Proposed]/[Hypothesis] throughout — a claim-hygiene practice worth emulating. Documented pilot claims: human-graded citation precision 88% and hallucination rate 1.6% for Gemini 2.5 in credit-memo drafting against 70%/5% gates (Table 4); estimated refinement effort falling from 27.4 to 2.9 hours per document in procedure transformation (Section 7.3, Table A3); and framework operability demonstrated by three business functions.
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- 4 risk flags with severity, section & reviewer questions
- Methods & statistical evidence assessment
- 5 questions a peer reviewer would ask
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Frequently asked questions
What is EnterpriseVal (eVal)?
A use-case-level evaluation framework for deciding whether a generative-AI workflow — the model plus prompts, retrieval, tools, guardrails and human review, frozen as one configuration — is fit, reliable, safe and worth scaling in an enterprise. It combines pre-registered two-tier thresholds, blinded expert grading scaled by a calibrated LLM judge via prediction-powered inference, and a REJECT/CONDITIONAL/SCALE gate taken on conservative confidence bounds.
What results did the EnterpriseVal bank pilot report?
In one global bank across three workflows: credit-memo drafting reached 88% citation precision and 1.6% hallucination rate with Gemini 2.5 under human grading (pre-agreed gates: 70% and 5%); Llama 4 scored 76% and 3.2%. Procedure rewriting cut estimated refinement effort from 27.4 to 2.9 hours per document. The pilot reported no sample sizes, confidence intervals or agreement statistics.
Is EnterpriseVal code or data available?
Not yet. The pilot data is proprietary bank material, and the authors say they plan an open reference implementation of the gate algorithms plus a synthetic public task set in future work.
How is EnterpriseVal different from benchmarks like GDPval or HELM?
Those benchmarks are portable and model-centric: they measure what a model can do and are meant to shortlist model families. EnterpriseVal is firm-specific and use-case-level: it evaluates a frozen deployment configuration on the organisation's own tasks, documents and controls, and outputs an auditable deployment decision with uncertainty and a value estimate.
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- Figures 1-7 and A1-A3 are not analysable from the extracted text; assessments rest on tables and prose descriptions.
- Mathematical notation shows extraction artefacts (e.g., the rounding operator in Eq. 3 and the clipping bounds in Eq. 8); formulas were interpreted from surrounding context.
- The abstract is truncated mid-sentence in the source text; the credit-memo results quoted from it were cross-checked against Table 4.
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