Automated prompt optimization

Automated Prompt Optimizationfor LLM Classification Tasks

Stop manually debugging prompts round by round. Upload your labeled dataset, set your target metrics, and let ProofHound automatically analyze error cases, iterate prompts, run validations, and manage full lifecycle deployment and rollback.

The status quo

The Flaws of Traditional Prompt Tuning

LLM classification, content moderation and risk control tasks rely heavily on manual prompt iteration. Engineers spend most of their time checking error samples, rewriting prompts, and validating results, while core strategic judgment only takes a tiny part. The process is labor-intensive, undocumented and hard to iterate efficiently.

01

Slow manual iteration

Prompt optimization requires multiple rounds of testing and adjustment. Manual result checking and comparison slow down iteration cycles and fail to adapt to dynamic business data changes.

02

Wasted human workforce

Error analysis, prompt rewriting, result verification and version comparison are standardized workflows that should be automated, yet consume valuable engineering and operations resources.

03

No traceability

Manual tuning leaves no complete record of version changes, metric shifts and invalid attempts. Every new iteration starts from scratch, causing repeated trial and error.

Automated optimization loop

One-click automated prompt optimization loop

No complex configuration required. Upload labeled data and define optimization goals. ProofHound analyzes failure cases, iterates prompts, runs batch experiments, and delivers the best-performing prompt version with complete metrics and iteration logs.

ProofHound optimization run with real-time progress monitoring, metric trends, and best version traceability

Avoid misleading average scores. Lift recall for high-risk categories or hold precision for classes that over-flag, without burying business risk under aggregate accuracy.

01

Upload a labeled dataset

Support CSV, TSV, JSONL, JSON array and ZIP files. Flexible field mapping in the UI means no fixed template adaptation.

02

Set custom optimization targets

Optimize overall accuracy or fine-tune category-specific metrics: boost recall for high-risk categories and stabilize precision for error-prone classes.

You get the best-in-class prompt version, granular category metrics, and full iteration traceability for every optimization round.

Core capabilities

One platform for full prompt lifecycle management

Unify asset management, automated optimization, experimental verification, manual labeling, gray deployment and online monitoring to cover the entire prompt iteration and production workflow.

Unified asset management

Centrally manage models, datasets, prompts and connectors to avoid scattered asset chaos.

Traceable prompt versions

Immutable version records with logs of variable configs, output rules and version differences for team collaboration audit.

Flexible dataset management

Support multi-format data import, visual field mapping, sample browsing, experimental testing and result export.

Multi-end integration

Connect via Web UI, Webhook, API Token and MCP for business systems and AI Agents.

Fully automated iteration

Automate error analysis, prompt rewriting, batch testing and version screening without manual intervention.

Full-cycle data logging

Record all experiment, optimization, deployment and invocation data for complete audit and review.

Manual labeling collaboration

Store manual labeling data separately for comparison with model outputs and targeted optimization.

Production-grade deployment

Standardize gray release, A/B testing, full launch and emergency rollback for safe prompt production.

Analyze errors
Rewrite prompt
Run tests
Automated optimization mechanism
Automated optimization mechanism

Intelligent iteration mechanism for continuous prompt improvement

Iterate based on real experimental feedback. ProofHound automatically analyzes errors, rewrites prompts and runs comparative tests. Only better-performing versions are reserved as new baselines to eliminate invalid trials.

  • Precise error localizationidentify failure samples and confusing categories to locate prompt defects

  • Valid signal refinementintegrate effective optimization clues, filter conflicting noise, and rewrite prompts for core problems

  • Smart trial avoidancerecord invalid optimization directions automatically to prevent repetitive futile attempts

  • Best version protectionupdate baseline versions only when metrics improve to keep iteration stable

Experimental verification

Full experimental audit trail, every change is evidence-based

The platform permanently records all experimental data: prompt versions, datasets, model configurations, sample judgments and overall/category metrics. All iterations are fully traceable, reproducible and comparable, replacing experience-based manual tuning with data-driven decisions.

Auto-calculate overall accuracy and category-level metrics to expose hidden business risks
End-to-end sample traceability: record input, LLM output, manual labels and judgment results
Support version comparison, experiment reproduction and data export for in-depth analysis
ProofHound experiment list with visualized metrics, model and dataset status tracking
Application scenarios

Built for enterprise LLM classification workloads

Your dedicated prompt engineering platform for data-driven classification optimization

ProofHound is a one-stop prompt iteration workspace for critical classification flows such as risk control, financial judgment, content moderation and customer service intent recognition.

Key scenarios

Risk control, financial judgment, content moderation, customer service intent recognition and other critical classification workloads
Imbalanced datasets and low-volume high-risk categories that need independent metric tuning
Low-code collaboration for operations, risk and analyst teams without scripting

Business value

One-time system integration enables full-cycle prompt optimization, verification and deployment on a single platform
Business teams can configure rules and iterate prompts directly in the UI
Reduce AI operation and maintenance costs across prompt updates
Production deployment

Production-grade prompt deployment with full risk control

Deploy experimentally verified prompt versions with gray traffic release, A/B testing, full-scale rollout and one-click rollback. Eliminate instability and untraceable risks in traditional prompt production updates.

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Version freeze

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Gray traffic release

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Parallel testing

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Launch / rollback

ProofHound deployment topology visualization with gray traffic monitoring and real-time online metrics

Standard workflow: Version freeze -> gray traffic release -> old and new version parallel testing -> full launch / emergency rollback.

Every release binds prompt version, model config, experiment data, gray strategy and online metrics for full audit visibility
Fine-grained traffic allocation from small-scale gray testing to full deployment for stable online verification
Freeze pre-release versions to prevent accidental modification and online failures
Reserve stable versions for one-click rollback to guarantee business continuity
Roadmap

Product iteration roadmap

ProofHound focuses on LLM classification scenarios, especially imbalanced data and category-specific fine-tuning, and continuously iterates full lifecycle production capabilities.

Available now
Automated optimization for classification tasks, supporting imbalanced data and category-level metric tuning
Dataset experiments, prompt version control, gray deployment, online tracking and manual labeling
Self-hosted deployment, custom model access and business connector adaptation
Upcoming
Evaluation, comparison and optimization capabilities for generative LLM tasks
ProofHound Cloud Managed Enterprise Edition
Pricing

Self-hosted stays free, Cloud starts with Free

Run the open-source edition yourself for full data control, or use the hosted Cloud plans when you want a managed workspace. The first hosted phase opens Free, with Pro in preparation.

Self-hosted open source

Private deployment

Free forever
Freefull core capabilities · own infrastructure
Complete automated prompt optimization loop
Custom model integration
Private data storage
Single workspace deployment
Community support

Free

Hosted cloud starter

Available now
$0CNY 0 · per organization
3 projects
1 member
3 concurrent LLM calls
5GB retained project storage
200MB per dataset upload

Pro

Higher-capacity team plan

Coming soon
Coming soonplanned $29/mo
Unlimited projects and members under shared org quota
50 concurrent LLM calls
7-day workflow runtime
50GB retained project storage
2GB per dataset upload
Full RBAC and integration channels
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Dimension
Self-hosted
Free
Pro
Monthly price
$0
$0
Coming soon · planned $29/mo
Billing scope
Self-managed deployment
Organization
Organization
LLM provider usage
Bring your own provider; no ProofHound usage charge
Bring your own / external provider; ProofHound does not charge per call
Bring your own / external provider; ProofHound does not charge per call
Samples / runs
Self-managed
Unmetered
Unmetered
Projects
Single workspace deployment
3
Unlimited, shared org quota
Members
Self-managed workspace access
1
Unlimited, shared org quota
Concurrent LLM calls
Infrastructure-dependent
3
50
Max runtime per workflow
Infrastructure-dependent
24h
7 days
Release versions
Self-managed storage
Unlimited, counts toward storage quota
Unlimited, counts toward storage quota
Retained project storage
Your infrastructure
5GB
50GB
Dataset upload size
Infrastructure-dependent
200MB per upload
2GB per upload
File downloads & exports
Self-managed
Included, fair use
Included, fair use
Data retention
Controlled by your deployment
Retained until user deletion, subject to quota
Retained until user deletion, subject to quota
Storage overage
Controlled by your infrastructure
Pause new writes; historical data is not deleted
Pause new writes; historical data is not deleted
RBAC
Open-source workspace access
None
owner / admin / member / viewer
Access tokens / connectors / webhook / MCP
Open-source feature set
Included
Included
Community

Open source & co-build

ProofHound is a fully open-source project supporting self-hosted deployment. Developers and enterprises are welcome to contribute and iterate together.

GitHub

Star the repo, open issues, send PRs

Discord

Discussion and product updates

QQ group

Chinese-speaking user group.

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Email

Business contact and early access

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