---
title: "Why building building agent quality platforms is hard."
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "12:05pm-12:25pm"
track: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
room: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
speakers: ["Hossein Niazmandi"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: ""
scheduleRoom: "Expo Stage 2 NW"
scheduleLabels: ["Expo Stage 2 NW", "session", "confirmed"]
---
# Why building building agent quality platforms is hard.

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 12:05pm-12:25pm
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 2 NW
- Speaker(s): Hossein Niazmandi
- Session type/status: session · confirmed

- Track: track TBD
- Room: Expo Stage 2 NW
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
An eval platform is not just a test runner. You are building shared definitions of good, reliable data pipelines, labeling workflows, versioning, and trust in results across many teams and model changes. This session breaks down the hidden complexity, the common failure modes, and the design principles that make evals credible and usable in day-to-day engineering.

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## People
- [[hossein-niazmandi]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Why building building agent quality platforms is hard. ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 12:05pm-12:25pm - Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 2 NW - Speaker(s): Hossein Niazmandi - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: track TBD - Room: Expo Stage 2 NW - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description An eval platform is not just a test runner. You are building shared definitions of good, reliable data pipelines, labeling workflows, versioning, and trust in results across many teams and model changes. This session breaks down the hidden complexity, the common failure modes, and the design principles that make evals credible and usable in day-to-day engineering.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[hossein-niazmandi|Hossein Niazmandi]] — Solutions at [[braintrust|Braintrust]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]

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