Dhaka proof
What it looks like on the ground
A Dhaka fintech launched a customer-support LLM bot on their app. In month 2, without guardrails, the bot told 3 users their loan was 'pre-approved' — none of them were. The fintech nearly killed the project. We instrumented the deployment: confidence threshold raised to 0.88 for approval-related intents, hallucination detection on every eligibility reply, refusal template for anything approval-adjacent, alert to compliance on any 'pre-approved' language. Month 3 onwards: 0 hallucinated approvals across 47,000 conversations, 22% of prevented replies handed off to human agents, compliance signed off for phase 2 rollout. Cost of guardrails: BDT 12,000/month. Cost of the near-cancellation without them: nearly BDT 40 lakh in wasted build.
ঢাকার একটি fintech app-এ customer support LLM bot launch করল। মাস ২-এ, guardrail ছাড়া, bot ৩ জন user-কে বলে 'pre-approved' — কেউ ছিলেন না। Project প্রায় বন্ধ। আমরা instrumentation ship — approval intent-এ confidence threshold 0.88, hallucination detection প্রতিটি eligibility reply-তে, refusal template ও compliance alert। মাস ৩ থেকে: ৪৭,০০০ conversation-এ 0 hallucinated approval, ২২% prevented reply human agent-এ handoff, compliance phase-2 rollout-এ sign off। খরচ BDT ১২,০০০/মাস।