12. Risk Assessment

Risk	Probability	Impact	Mitigation
Epitran fails for rare language	High	Medium	Fallback to transliteration, log for manual review
Bulk push network failure	Medium	High	Retry queue with exponential backoff, alerting
Model produces poor embeddings	Low	High	Versioned deployment, A/B testing, rollback capability
ONNX model inference too slow	Medium	Medium	Model quantization, distillation, or upgrade server resources
Model deployment breaks Django	Low	Critical	Graceful fallback to previous version, comprehensive testing
Elasticsearch memory exhaustion	Low	Critical	Dimension benchmarking, index lifecycle management
Pitt CRC downtime	Medium	Low	Async architecture, Django continues with cached data
User confusion with phonetic results	Medium	Medium	Clear UI labeling, confidence scores, educational tooltips
toponym_index out of sync with place_index	Medium	High	Automated sync jobs, integrity checks, monitoring alerts