Book 7 · Lesson 7.7

EM narrative — Stage 5 quality systems

  • Tell the Stage 5 story in five minutes
  • Link eval CI, e2e, and KPI cards in one arc
  • Use docs/stage5-quality.md as portfolio anchor

Prerequisites: 7.6

Narrative doc lesson — no widget. Read and rehearse the EM-facing story.

Stage 5 in one paragraph

Team Radar now ships quality systems: heuristic eval CI in evals/, Playwright smoke in e2e/, gateway SSE for live feeds, and four manager KPIs fed from Postgres. Stage 5 does not reshape the PDF stack — it adds release discipline borrowed from work repos.

Full reference: docs/stage5-quality.md

Narrative beats for leadership

  1. Problem — AI enrichment without gates is demo-ware
  2. System — eval regression + e2e + latency budgets
  3. Outcome — managers see eval pass rate on the same dashboard as sentiment
  4. Proof — run evals and e2e in a mock class, not a slide deck

Portfolio line

“I wired pydantic-evals-style CI, Playwright smoke, and manager KPIs into an event-driven teaching stack — gates before heroics.”

Teach-back prompt

Deliver the five-minute narrative without opening the codebase.