Melody Koh · 12 November 2026 · Operating Insight

The grader is the ceiling

Melody Koh, Partner @ NextView

The choice of grader in AI product development—outcome, expert answer, or expert reasoning—determines the ceiling of product quality. Melody Koh explores how NextView's deal-evaluation AI moved from scoring rubrics to reasoning-based grading, arguing that judgment-heavy work requires evaluating reasoning, not just answers.

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Topics: AI (Horizontal) · Venture Capital & Startups

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