Benchmark Report: How EVA Measures Against the CareerNet Benchmark

A blind, judge-scored comparison of EVA’s live product against real student career questions from CareerVillage.org, measured on the same three quality dimensions used by Renaissance Philanthropy to evaluate frontier models.

Key Findings:

96% Completeness
(Substantive Answers)

EVA substantially outperforms top frontier models (~77%) and human forum volunteers (62%) in providing full, thorough coverage of student questions.

99% Factually Clean Rate

In human-adjudicated reviews for citable factual errors, 99% of EVA answers were completely clean, far surpassing the 74% accuracy rate of human forum answers.

59% Coherency Win Rate

In blind head-to-head pairwise comparisons against unconstrained frontier model prose, judges preferred EVA’s structured, feature-rich answers.

What’s inside the report?

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Methodology & Calibration:

Details on how Claude Fable judges were calibrated against 200 expert-rated items to achieve human-level agreement (QWK 0.58).

Blinding & Integrity Protocols:

How responses were shuffled, pooled, and assigned opaque IDs to prevent judge bias.

Human-in-the-Loop Verification:

How 100% of factual error flags and the 15 lowest-scoring responses were qualitative reviewed by human experts.

Detailed Dimension Breakdown:

Full performance charts across Completeness, Correctness, and Coherency.

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FAQs

The evaluation used 100 real student questions sampled from CareerVillage.org’s held-out Test split, stratified by student goals and scenarios to ensure diverse coverage across real-world student needs.

Questions were submitted directly to EVA’s live product stack (including fresh chat, prompt stack, live retrieval, and profile personalization). Responses were blinded, shuffled alongside control outputs, and scored using calibrated LLM judges supplemented by 100% human adjudication for factual correctness flags.

Career Guidance Network (CGN) is a college and career advising platform that unlocks Masterclass quality advising capacity. CGN serves students via their schools or colleges. Through its network of more than 400 nationally recognized experts and its Expert Virtual Assistant (EVA), CGN delivers personalized, one-to-one guidance at scale. Its solutions include its core high school advising solution as well as Career Lab which provides hours of expert coaching through a structured process that builds a career discovery plan for every student.

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