Strataforge3 · Sentinel · Production AI Observability

Know your model
still works.

AI Observability for Production Systems · Detect · Explain · Govern

Production AI models degrade quietly after deployment. Strataforge Sentinel gives you continuous observability into the model itself — not just your infrastructure — optimises against your actual business cost, and produces the governance documentation your regulators require.

Live
System validated on real production model
5–7d
Days to your audit report
11+
IEEE / Springer / Wiley publications
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Read-only · No system access EU AI Act Articles 9–17 DORA aligned No Kubernetes required Global deployment

The full package

Three layers. One system. Zero observability gaps.

Strataforge Sentinel is not a drift detector. It is the AI observability and governance layer between your model deployment and your regulatory accountability — combining continuous model monitoring, explainability, and documentation into a single audit-ready package.

Sentinel Detect

Continuous Model Observability

Know before your losses do.

Always-on visibility into whether your production model is still behaving the way it did when it was approved — recall, precision, and feature-level signal health tracked across every production period, not just at deployment.

  • Recall, AUC, FPR decay timelines
  • Feature-level statistical drift signal (PSI + KS)
  • Cost-aware threshold optimization
  • Automated alert triggers on performance decay
  • Live model health, not just server uptime
Sentinel Explain

Explainability & Transparency

A decision your regulator can read.

ShieldXAI transforms black-box AI models into interpretable decisions — the auditability that regulated environments require, not an afterthought bolted onto a dashboard.

  • Feature attribution per decision
  • Counterfactual explanation generation
  • Glass-box reporting for compliance
  • Bias and fairness indicators
  • Plain-language executive summaries
Sentinel Govern

Governance & Regulatory Compliance

The documentation trail before the auditor calls.

Strataforge governance infrastructure translates objectives into measurable MLOps metrics. Produces audit-ready documentation for EU AI Act Articles 9–17, DORA, and Shariah governance standards.

  • EU AI Act Articles 9–17 documentation package
  • DORA-aligned audit trail and logging
  • Shariah compliance scoring
  • Risk management system documentation
  • Regulatory-ready technical records

What's different

Why teams choose Sentinel over generic monitoring tools

Most production ML monitoring tools were built to watch infrastructure — uptime, latency, throughput. Sentinel watches the model: whether its decisions are still correct, in systems where the cost of a wrong output is never equal to the cost of the right one.

Dashboards that watch your infrastructure
Observability for the model, not the server

Uptime monitors tell you the service is responding. They say nothing about whether the model's decisions are still correct. Sentinel watches the thing that actually matters.

Accuracy-only optimization
Cost-aware thresholding

A model can be "accurate" and still bleed money if costs aren't weighted correctly. Sentinel optimizes against your actual business cost function, not a generic F1 score.

Enterprise infrastructure requirement
No Kubernetes. No platform lock-in.

Built for lean teams and emerging-market fintech. Runs as a lightweight service — not a six-month infrastructure project before you see any value.

Charts nobody outside engineering reads
Audit-ready documentation, by design

Every other platform stops at a chart. Sentinel produces the executive summary and regulatory mapping your compliance team and board actually need.

Zero governance layer for regulated finance
Shariah-aware governance built in

No competitor in this space offers a governance layer aligned with Islamic finance principles. For GCC and South Asian institutions, this isn't a nice-to-have.

Built for Silicon Valley, sold everywhere
Built for global fintech constraints

Most observability platforms assume Western enterprise budgets. Sentinel was designed for the constraints real teams operate under globally — then proven to scale.

Why Strataforge Sentinel

What you actually get

A production model that looks operational can have its recall quietly collapse. Sentinel gives you observability, explainability, and governance documentation — before losses appear, not after.

⚠ Without Sentinel
Silent recall decay — no alerts fire
Infrastructure stays green while model fails
Degradation discovered only after losses compound
No visibility into which signals are shifting
No documentation when the regulator asks
Retraining triggered too late, at full cost
◈ With Sentinel
Performance decay caught at the signal level before recall drops
Recall, AUC, FPR trends surfaced in plain language
Alert thresholds calibrated to your actual cost function
Explainability — decisions your compliance team can verify
EU AI Act Articles 9–17 documentation produced
Threshold optimization recovers recall without retraining
EU AI Act · Aug 2026

High-risk AI obligations are live in August 2026

Credit scoring and fraud detection are explicitly named under Annex III. Existing production models are not exempt. Sentinel produces the technical documentation Articles 9–17 require, in 5–7 days, without system access. Extraterritorial scope: if your AI affects EU residents anywhere in the world, it applies to you.

Live
Real production model
Methodology validated on an actual trained model across simulated production periods, not a toy dataset.
5–7d
Not months
Full diagnostic report in under one week. No lengthy engagement. No retainer required to start.
3
Layers in one package
Detect. Explain. Govern. No platform combines model observability, explainability, and regulatory documentation.
11+
Published research
IEEE/Springer/Wiley publications in production ML, model observability, XAI, and AI governance.

The problem

What happens after deployment

Data shifts. Patterns evolve. User behaviour changes. The model's learned relationships break down — but without observability, nobody notices. This is a global production ML pattern, not a regional one.

P0

Deployment baseline

Model trained and validated. Strong ROC-AUC on held-out test data. Team moves on to the next priority.

P1–2

Performance begins shifting

Underlying feature distributions begin moving. Without observability, this signal is invisible — the model still looks fine from the outside.

P3–4

Degradation compounds

The shift continues. Recall and precision begin moving — sometimes in directions that look fine in aggregate but aren't.

P5
Alert fires

Recall alert triggers

Recall drops below the defined safety threshold. Sentinel fires the alert. This is the moment that matters — before losses compound further, not after.

"A model that looks operational can still be losing the business money. The infrastructure tells you the server is up. Only Sentinel tells you whether the model is."
— Lightweight Model Observability Framework for Production Systems · Under journal review

Audit scope

What the audit covers

A non-invasive, read-only diagnostic across six dimensions of production model health. No codebase access. No system changes. No downtime.

01 — observe

Model performance health

Recall, precision, AUC, and FPR trends — the questions a CRO actually asks, not a chart only an engineer reads.

02 — signal

Feature-level signal drift

PSI and KS tests across your top production features — the actual inputs driving decisions, not a proxy on output scores.

03 — concept

Concept drift

Changes in the relationship between features and outcomes. We detect when your model's learned logic no longer matches reality.

04 — explain

Explainability review

Feature attribution and counterfactual analysis. Which signals drive decisions — and whether those signals are still valid.

05 — gaps

Observability gaps

Audit of what your current stack cannot see. Blind spots mapped against your model type, risk profile, and regulatory obligations.

06 — threshold

Cost-aware threshold fit

Analysis of your decision boundary against actual business cost. Optimization can recover recall without model retraining.

How it works

Six-step audit process

01

Your live model

Read-only access to prediction logs and feature distributions

02

Observability scan

Recall, AUC, FPR trends — plus PSI + KS signal checks

03

Performance analysis

Decay timeline across your production periods

04

XAI review

Feature attribution and explainability analysis

05

Risk & compliance

Business cost impact and regulatory gap assessment

06

Audit report

Delivered as PDF in 5–7 days

Read-only access No system downtime No code changes Delivered in 5–7 days Privacy-preserving

Deliverables

What you receive

01

Model observability report

PDF showing how your model's performance has actually moved in production — and which underlying signals explain it.

02

Performance decay timeline

Recall, AUC, and FPR trends across your production periods with annotated inflection points and early warning markers.

03

Explainability review

Feature attribution summary and counterfactual examples. Your model's decisions, explained in language your compliance team can verify.

04

Cost-aware alert recommendations

Monitoring thresholds calibrated to your model architecture, risk profile, and actual business cost assumptions.

05

Regulatory documentation

EU AI Act Articles 9–17 mapping, DORA audit trail structure, and Shariah compliance scoring where applicable.

06

Executive summary

One page, non-technical. Ready to share with your Head of Risk, CTO, compliance team, or board.

API access

Integrate Sentinel into your stack

Run scoring, observability checks, explainability queries, and threshold diagnostics programmatically — from your CI/CD pipeline, data platform, or risk dashboard.

Production-grade governance API

Model scoring, observability monitoring, batch analysis, and governance reporting — via a secured API. Key-protected access, provisioned on request.

# Observability check — POST /v1/sentinel/observe
import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.strataforge3.com/v1/sentinel/observe",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer <your_api_key>"},
    json={
        "model_id": "fraud_xgb_prod_v2",
        "period": "2025-Q2",
        "features": ["amount", "velocity_24h", "merchant_risk"],
        "alert_threshold_psi": 0.25,
        "explain": true
    }
)

# Returns: recall trend · alert status · signal drift per feature · feature attribution
data = response.json()
print(data["recall_current"], data["alert_status"], data["top_signal_change"])
Endpoints

/observe · /recall · /explain · /threshold · /report · /alerts

Formats

JSON · PDF export · Webhook alerts · CSV

Auth

Bearer token · Key rotation · IP allowlisting

Status

Live · Provisioned per engagement

Investment

Flexible tiers — or ask for something custom

No retainer required to start. No lock-in. The audit tells you what is breaking. Next steps are your decision.

Sentinel Detect · One-time Audit
$750–$1,200
Single project fee. No retainer. No lock-in.
  • Model observability report (PDF)
  • Performance decay timeline
  • Cost-aware alert threshold recommendations
  • Prioritised remediation list
  • Executive summary (1 page, non-technical)
  • 30-min results walkthrough call
Free 15-min scoping call before any commitment
New
Sentinel Govern · Compliance
Custom
EU AI Act, DORA, or Shariah governance documentation.
  • Full Detect + Explain + Govern layers
  • EU AI Act Articles 9–17 documentation
  • Shariah compliance scoring
  • DORA-aligned audit trail and logging
  • Regulatory-ready technical records
  • Dedicated governance review session
For regulated environments and Islamic finance teams.
Sentinel API · Developer Access
$200/mo
Programmatic model observability for engineering teams.
  • 1,000 API calls/month
  • Observability, recall, threshold, explain endpoints
  • JSON + webhook alert delivery
  • PDF report export endpoint
  • CI/CD pipeline integration support
  • Overage: $0.18 per call
Enterprise / custom volume: contact for quote
Research published · IEEE/Springer/Wiley · 11+ contributions · Validated system

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still works today?

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Read-only · Non-invasive · No system access required · Global deployment · Privacy-preserving