Silent Deployment & Prospective Trials

Silent (shadow) deployment: run the model on live production data, log predictions, show nobody. Months of silent running answer the questions offline evals can't: does the input pipeline work in production, what's the real alert volume at the proposed threshold, does calibration survive your actual population?

Silent mode turns 'we think' into 'we measured' — and it's the standard expectation before any clinician sees a single flag. A model that's never been silent is a model that's never been tested.