What initially performed brilliantly in development gradually loses accuracy as the real world changes around it. Without proper monitoring and maintenance systems, these degradations often go undetected until they've already impacted business outcomes – costing you revenue, customer trust, and competitive advantage. These challenges typically manifest as:
Performance degradation
Data distributions change, causing your models to make increasingly inaccurate predictions. Every shift in user behavior or market conditions can significantly impact accuracy, leading to costly business decisions based on outdated models.
Manual maintenance
Your team spends valuable time diagnosing issues and retraining models. This cycle of detection, diagnosis, retraining, and redeployment consumes resources that could be directed toward innovation and new model development.
Limited resources
Building robust MLOps pipelines requires specialized expertise you may not have in-house. The intersection of data science and engineering skills needed for effective model operations is rare and expensive to maintain.