Braintrust is an AI development platform that offers a comprehensive solution by integrating the entire development loop, transforming production traces into test cases, and enabling rapid iterations with CI/CD quality gates. Unlike Arize Phoenix, which focuses on observability and requires custom pipelines to connect production data back to evaluations, Braintrust allows teams to improve AI products systematically, demonstrating significant productivity and accuracy improvements for companies like Notion, Zapier, and Coursera. Braintrust's architecture supports model-agnostic experimentation, seamless collaboration between product managers and engineers, and efficient dataset management, while maintaining high performance even with large-scale evaluations. It minimizes infrastructure overhead and encourages continuous improvement by automatically converting production failures into test cases for subsequent iterations, ensuring that deployments are both fast and verifiable.