Looking to Avoid Agentic Failure? These 13 AI Evaluation Tools Will Help
CIO, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
CIO surveys 13 evaluation tools for continuously testing that agentic systems stay on task.
CIO argues that enterprises building agentic systems need continuous testing to ensure their AI remains on task. The framing is that LLMs remain opaque even to the developers who build them, so teams need a way to peer into the weights and make sense of behavior.
An explosion of tooling has appeared to fill that gap.
The article surveys 13 AI evaluation tools and compares what each is good for. It is written as a buyer's orientation to an emerging and fast-moving tool category.