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# Use cases

Concrete ways teams use Stratix — model evaluation, agentic eval, RAG, CI/CD gates, continuous eval.

What Stratix is *for* — six concrete shapes of work that the platform handles end-to-end.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Model evaluation</strong></td><td>Pick the right model for a task by running it against the right benchmark.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/model-evaluation.md">Read</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Benchmark-driven development</strong></td><td>Make benchmarks a first-class signal in your dev loop.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/benchmark-driven-development.md">Read</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Agentic evaluation</strong></td><td>Pre- and post-deployment gates for multi-step agents — assertions, rules, judges.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/agentic-evaluation.md">Read</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Continuous evaluation</strong></td><td>Score live production traces on a recurring schedule.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/continuous-evaluation.md">Read</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>RAG evaluation</strong></td><td>Faithfulness, retrieval quality, end-to-end answer quality.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/rag-evaluation.md">Read</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>AI quality gates in CI/CD</strong></td><td>Block prompt and model regressions in your merge pipeline.</td><td><a href="/4.1-general-use-cases/ai-quality-gates-cicd.md">Read</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Pick a use case

| If you want to...                  | Read                                                                                   |
| ---------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Choose a model for a new feature   | [Model evaluation](/4.1-general-use-cases/model-evaluation.md)                         |
| Score multi-step agents pre-deploy | [Agentic evaluation](/4.1-general-use-cases/agentic-evaluation.md)                     |
| Score real production traffic      | [Continuous evaluation](/4.1-general-use-cases/continuous-evaluation.md)               |
| Evaluate a RAG pipeline end-to-end | [RAG evaluation](/4.1-general-use-cases/rag-evaluation.md)                             |
| Block bad changes from merging     | [AI quality gates in CI/CD](/4.1-general-use-cases/ai-quality-gates-cicd.md)           |
| Treat benchmarks as a daily signal | [Benchmark-driven development](/4.1-general-use-cases/benchmark-driven-development.md) |

## Want to map a use case to a tutorial?

* [First evaluation in 10 minutes](/8.-evaluate-score-the-outputs/01-first-evaluation.md)
* [Build your first judge](/8.-evaluate-score-the-outputs/02-first-judge.md)
* [Wire CI/CD quality gates](/6.-build-wire-your-code/03-cicd-gates.md)
* [Score live traces](/8.-evaluate-score-the-outputs/04-score-traces.md)