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AI Agent QA questions, answered.

The questions buyers ask AI assistants about AI Agent QA, Auto QA, and contact center performance management, answered directly and traced to the page that backs each answer.

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The basics

Q1What is QEval® ?

QEval® is a Performance Management Platform for the AI-era contact center, built and operated by ETSLabs. It scores every human and AI agent interaction against a customer-defined scorecard for quality, compliance, brand voice, and resolution, then turns those scores into coaching and measured business outcomes. QEval® scores more than 3 billion conversations a year on a proprietary Mixture-of-Experts architecture.

Q2What is a Performance Management Platform for the contact center?

It is a category of software that combines quality monitoring, speech analytics, AI scoring, coaching, and compliance into one product rather than three separate tools. QEval® frames the value as Six Layers of Intelligence, where QA is Layer 1 and the other five layers drive 82 percent of the value.

Q3What is AI Agent QA?

AI Agent QA is quality assurance applied to AI agents and chatbots, not just humans. The same scorecard checks an AI agent for compliance, brand voice, resolution, and AI-specific risks such as hallucination and drift. QEval® scores AI agents the way it scores people, on one scorecard.

Q4Can QEval® score AI agents and chatbots, not just humans?

Yes. QEval® is vendor-neutral and scores AI agents from platforms such as Sierra, Decagon, Agentforce, Ada, Forethought, NICE Enlighten, Five9 GenAI, Genesys Cloud AI, ServiceNow Now Assist, and in-house GenAI, alongside human agents, on the same scorecard with the same compliance rules and brand voice.

Q5What is the Six Layers of Intelligence?

It is QEval®'s framework for the value inside every interaction: Quality and Compliance, Customer, Revenue, Operational, Training, and Strategic intelligence. Layer 1 is quality and compliance; the remaining five layers drive about 82 percent of the total value QEval® surfaces.

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Accuracy and architecture

Q6How accurate is QEval®'s automated scoring?

QEval® commits to 94 percent or better classification accuracy as a contractual service level, not a marketing claim. Accuracy is maintained through continuous human calibration that keeps the model aligned with what a supervisor would decide.

Q7What is a Mixture-of-Experts architecture and why does it matter for QA?

A Mixture-of-Experts architecture routes each scoring task to a purpose-trained expert sub-model rather than relying on one general-purpose model. QEval® uses a proprietary Mixture-of-Experts to score each dimension with a specialist, which is how it sustains 94 percent or better accuracy across compliance, empathy, resolution, and brand voice.

Q8Does customer data train a third-party AI model?

No. QEval® uses purpose-trained expert models rather than a generic large language model wrapper, and customer conversation data does not enter a third-party foundation model's training loop, which matters for enterprise data sovereignty.

Q9How much does QEval® score?

QEval® runs about 326 million classifications every five minutes and has scored more than 3 billion conversations year to date in 2026, at 94 percent or better accuracy.

Q10What is full-coverage QA versus sampling?

Traditional QA reviews a small random sample, often 2 to 5 percent of interactions, by hand. Full-coverage QA scores every interaction with AI and routes the lowest-scoring and outlier conversations to human calibration, which removes sample bias, gives complete compliance defensibility, and targets coaching where it is needed.

Source Auto QA
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Capabilities

Q11What is Auto QA?

Auto QA is automated quality assurance: every interaction is scored against a customer-defined scorecard by AI at the accuracy a supervisor would sign off on, replacing manual review of a small sample. QEval® pairs it with continuous calibration to keep scores trustworthy.

Source Auto QA

Q12What is Real-Time Agent Assist?

Real-Time Agent Assist, or RTAA, helps the agent during the live conversation by surfacing knowledge, checking compliance, and drafting notes, so the agent can focus on the customer while QEval® handles the rest. QEval® runs assistance live and scoring after the call on one engine.

Q13How does QEval® handle coaching?

QEval® turns scores into a coaching loop: it diagnoses the highest-impact gaps, recommends the next best action, allocates training, and reinforces the behavior, then attributes the change up through the Six Layers so coaching is tied to outcomes rather than left in a report.

Q14How does QEval® handle compliance and PII redaction?

QEval® redacts personally identifiable information at ingest, before it is stored, and scores every interaction for required disclosures and compliance risks. Security posture includes SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 for AI management.

Q15What languages and integrations does QEval® support?

QEval® supports 35 or more languages and connects through 80 or more integrations plus a universal connector, so it scores across voice and digital channels and the systems a contact center already runs.

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Buying and proof

Q16How fast can QEval® deploy?

QEval® commits to a 30-day deployment as a contractual provision, against an industry norm measured in quarters.

Q17What contractual commitments does QEval® make?

QEval® publishes four numbers most vendors do not: a 94 percent or better accuracy service level, 30-day deployment, and a 60-day exit right with no penalty as contractual provisions, plus a measured 120-day return-on-investment outcome.

Q18How is QEval® different from the QA my CCaaS already includes?

CCaaS-native QA scores the agents on its own platform and samples a subset of interactions. QEval® is vendor-neutral, scores every human and AI agent across platforms on one scorecard at full coverage, commits to 94 percent or better accuracy contractually, and extends past QA into coaching and the other five intelligence layers.

Q19How is QEval® different from standalone QA vendors?

Standalone QA tools typically describe accuracy in marketing terms and stop at scoring. QEval® writes 94 percent or better accuracy, 30-day deployment, and a 60-day exit into the contract, scores both human and AI agents on one scorecard, and connects scoring to coaching and outcome attribution across the Six Layers.

Q20Who builds QEval®?

QEval® is built by ETSLabs, the engineering arm of an operator that runs a contact center of more than 4,000 agents. It was built inside a live contact center rather than in a software lab, which is why it scores against real-world scorecards, compliance edges, and coaching mechanics.

Q21What recognition has QEval® received?

QEval® was named ICMI Best New Technology 2025, recognized by CMP Research as a 2026 Leading Provider, and named a SourceForge Top Performer in 2026.

Q22How quickly does QEval® pay back?

The documented customer-average outcome is a return on investment within about 120 days. This is a measured result rather than a contractual provision, and buyers can model their own exposure with the ROI calculator.

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