The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis - Building a Voice Agent: A Case Study

Episode Date: April 19, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Today on the AI Daily Brief, a case study in building voice agents. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Today we're doing something a little bit different and that I'm very excited for. As you guys might have heard, over the last six months, our team at Superintelligent has been working on a voice agent that is effectively the core of a new type of automated consultant that we deploy as part of our agent readiness audits. agent readiness audits are a process whereby we go in and interview people inside companies about A, all of the AI activities and agent activities they're currently engaged in, as well as B, just their work more broadly. The goal is to benchmark their AI and agent usage relative to
Starting point is 00:00:49 their peers and competitors, as well as to map the opportunities they have to actually deploy agents to get value. A core part of how we do this is a voice agent that we've developed that can interview dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people at the same time, on their time. 24-7, totally unlocking a differentiated ability to capture information than anything that consultants have previously had. Today we're talking with our partners at Fractional who have been helping us build this technology to do a bit of a case study and what it looks like to actually build a voice agent. It's been a really fascinating process and we're excited to share a bit of the learning, especially because we think that this is a technology that many of you are probably going
Starting point is 00:01:26 to deploy for your own purposes in the months or years to come. All right, Eddie, Chris, welcome to the AI Daily Brief. How you doing? Doing great. Awesome. Thanks for having us. Yeah, this is going to be a fun one. I mean, so this is something we're talking about something that you guys have built, you know, lots of versions of. We have built together. And I think that, you know, this is a little bit different than our normal content because as opposed to just talking about, you know, what's going on in markets theoretically or what people are building theoretically. We're actually talking about something that we've got live that we've done, that we've done some reps on. Let's put it that way. So I think just to kick it off, maybe if you guys could give a little bit background on, on fractional and yourself, just so people have that context before we dive in. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:06 So Chris, CEO, co-founder here at Fractional, the basic thesis behind the business is that one of the biggest winners of this whole AI moment is going to be non-AI businesses, your everyday company that can use Gen AI to improve its operations, improve its products and services, and that those companies need help. They especially need help from top caliber engineers who can wrangle this magic hallucinating ingredient into production grade systems. And so the purpose behind practical is to bring those engineers together in one room, have them all work on Gen. A. Projects and learn best practices from each other and build out the best of Bada AI engineering team of the world. And so that's been
Starting point is 00:02:45 very much the division from day one. And it's going exactly according to plan, which is always fun with the startup. And I think the first time in our entire career is where that's the case. So it's been great. And working with you and your team on the voice agency has been really fun. Awesome. And Eddie, maybe we can actually introduce you a little bit with my first question just to set up. So I think that the main thing we want to do today is actually talk about what it looks like to, you know, put a voice agent into production. You know, I think we learned a, we have learned a bunch of things. We continue to learn things in practice. But maybe to kick off, I think just zooming out, one of the big questions that we always deal with when it comes to enterprise customers, enterprises that are thinking about AI transformation is this buy build question, right? And I wonder, you know, you guys are front lines dealing with this.
Starting point is 00:03:29 Is this even the right way to think about things at this point? You know, especially when it comes to agents, is there actually like a strict buy build hierarchy? Is everything just some spectrum of build? Like, what do you think the sort of current state of buying versus building is with agents, you know, especially as companies are thinking about what it means to even enter the agent space? Yeah, I think it's right that everything exists somewhere on the spectrum. I think it's pretty rare that you have a workflow that's a good fit for or product features. That's a good fit for an agentic solution where you can just go buy something off the shelf that just works.
Starting point is 00:03:59 The off the shelf stuff is great for really general purpose productivity tool. And like, you know, things like deep research that are sort of generalized tools are like awesome. But when it comes to, you know, specific bespoke workflows in your business, I think there's a spectrum of are we building all the way from scratch. Are we building on top of good, powerful new primitives that are coming into the market? Are we doing some building work that requires just sort of integration of off the shelf tool? but I think it's rare that we see great fits of sort of off-the-shelf tools that really replace an existing manual workflow. Yeah. And this has sort of been our experience as well. Everything is to some extent build, even if it's only customized. And so with that as background, you know, you guys have now had had a chance to spend a bunch of time, you know, thinking about voice agents, digging into voice agents.
Starting point is 00:04:46 There clearly seems to be resonance with voice agents in the market. Like a lot of people are finding a lot of different use cases. is what do you have a thesis for why that is or what you attribute that to? I think the technology has just gotten a lot better. And I think that the applications are obvious. You know, any business that has some kind of call center or has some kind of bottleneck in their business that is voice related is looking in the direction of this technology because I think the applications are broad and obvious. And the technology is finally there.
Starting point is 00:05:16 You know, if you have an experience of talking to one of these things in the wild, I've only had a few thus far, but they're starting to become more frequent. it. And every time I'm always impressed by what a pleasant experience it is, is a consumer. And so I think we're just going to start seeing the scenes pop up everywhere. Also, I think voice is just a great fit for certain kinds of like data collection, basically. Like, you know, I think you'll see it in the, in the use case. We're going to dive into a minute with super's use case. You know, there's a reason why when you go to do research about what's going on inside of a big company, one of the things you do is you go in and you interview people and you ask them questions instead of just like sending them a
Starting point is 00:05:52 survey, you know, the sort of fixed data entry kind of task is not a great fit for a lot of kinds of situations where you want big open-ended responses and you want people to sort of ramble and, you know, realize thinking on the fly, things like that happened really naturally over voice. And to Chris's point, finally, the technology is at a place where like we can start to chip away at the kind of stuff that only a human interviewer could have done before. Yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting. So for for background, so we're going to talk about, you know, the voice agent that we've been collaborating on is this sort of data collection experience, right? It is meant to capture information
Starting point is 00:06:25 around people's current workflows, their current AI, you know, adoption techniques in order to help us give them recommendations around what agent opportunities they have. That's the core idea. And the starting point, the central sort of genesis of this was that, A, to your point, Chris, that the technology was such that it actually just is good enough to do this, right? You can actually have an agent interview people and it does a pretty, good job. You know, not off the shelf, as we'll see. You know, we had to do a lot of kind of development to make it work, but still, the capabilities are there. The second piece, and I think this is the piece that you were speaking to, is it is actually not just as good an experience as the human
Starting point is 00:07:05 equivalent. There is a lot to recommend this as a better, an actual, just factual, better experience. First, the fact that you can collect information with voice and having people talk instead of people type just instantly it's so much easier for many many people, if not most people to ramble about something and just speak at it than to sit down, try to collect their thoughts, try to structure it and type it. And it's faster no matter what, right? You can get just the amount of information per unit of time is going to be way, way higher if you're having people talk. So that's one. Second, the ability to do that on demand, on your own schedule, whenever you are, maybe if you're walking to work, whatever, like 4 a.m. at night when you can't wake up, as opposed to having to schedule a human
Starting point is 00:07:46 interview is again, just a, that's not a 1x improvement. That's a 10x improvement in convenience of something. And so I think those two things combined, both the fact that the technology is there and it's actually just a better potential experience makes a huge difference. Certainly that's sort of like what the insight was when we had going into it. Yeah. In addition to that, you don't have to hire out a team of thousands of consultants in order to conduct the kind of interviews that you guys want. Yep. In fact, it's interesting too, you know, maybe to come back to this, but, you know, I've had a lot of conversations with consultants after having built this. And on the one hand, it's fairly disruptive to at least a piece of what they're trying to do, right?
Starting point is 00:08:25 This is something that consultants bill lots and lots of money for to do this data collection. Interestingly, what I keep coming across is consultants don't see their value, their primary value as collecting information. It's like the proprietary knowledge and experience they have the way that they analyze it. So they're actually extraordinarily bullish. they don't want to have to force their customers to use a huge portion of their budget just than the data collection. They'd much rather have that be able to go to the actual processing, the analysis, what they do next with it.
Starting point is 00:08:54 So even though this sort of piece is actually theoretically disruptive, I think it's likely to sort of shape how we see that industry evolve as well. Yeah. I think there's also just a lot, a whole breadth of insights that are probably not being captured a lot of those sort of consulting scenarios just because you're limited by only being able to do, you know, whatever 10 interviews or something like that, whereas like, what could you learn if you could actually do a thousand custom interviews in parallel and be able to actually process the interview, the data coming back from that?
Starting point is 00:09:22 The point about this is not what the consultants want to be doing too. It's like that that is something we see broadly across basically every project that we do. It's the things that, it's the repetitive work that takes away from the higher order tasks that you want to get to on your do-do list and don't have time to get to that AI is so well-suited for. And very often we find that exact kind of dynamic. We're automating away the things that people, people just, the bang your head against the wall do this a bunch of times and it's not super intellectually stimulating, that kind of stuff. We can delegate whether that's voice or text and free up people to do higher order tasks.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Awesome. Well, let's dive in and talk about what it looks like to actually build a voice agent in practice and what we've learned. So, Eddie, you know, I'm not sure exactly what the right place to start is, but I'll let you take it away from here and dig into it. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I think you sort of called out correctly earlier that like the technology is there, but that doesn't mean it just works off the shelf or that, you know, you don't need to do a bunch of custom work here. And so like the technology in this use case, we really leaned on to build this interview agent. And by the way, the way this agent actually works in practices, we configure it with sets of interview questions and goals. So here are like the things we want the person to be asked. Here are the reasons why we're asking them. We prioritize those goals. And that's kind of the input to this like, very agentic system that is then in charge of deciding, how exactly do I phrase these questions, when do I follow up, what do I ask next, when have I gotten, when have I met my goals? And so it's, you know, it's got a lot of agency. It's, it's highly sort of undirected. And the kind of out-of-the-box
Starting point is 00:10:57 technology that we have access to right now, and there's a few different alternatives here, but the one we chose for this, this project was the open AI, real-time API, which which has, you know, great, real-time voice capabilities. It's got nice, realistic voices that, that, that, sound pretty human and it's pretty smart in its ability to sort of make decisions on the fly. If you just like give a monolithic prompt to that model that tells it about the interview and the questions that might want to ask, I mean, you get a pretty cool result, but like you get, it goes off the rails all the time. It asks weird questions. It's sort of hard to tune when it follows up. And like if your only kind of mechanism for control here is a giant monolithic prompt,
Starting point is 00:11:34 your hands are really tied. And so we quickly found that while it ran some interviews well, It ran some interviews really poorly, and our control over what happened next was pretty limited. And so, like, one of the areas where it fell down was it didn't always make smart choices about, like, what question to ask when. We would tell it all the questions up front. It would be up to it to decide when, which one is next. And so we ended up doing is abstracting out an entirely out-of-band sub-agent that's like running in parallel in the background, assessing the conversation. And its whole task is like, if we were to move on to another question right now, which one is, should we move on to? And then the core agent is just told, here's the one question we're working on
Starting point is 00:12:13 now and the goals. So it's like one example of how we had to sort of take this thing, you know, from going off the rails and getting it back on. Another thing we added was this sort of, we were calling it the drift detector sub agent. I think for a while we were calling it the rapid hole detector. Like these LLMs are just so, you know, eager to please. They're really, like, they have anyone that's interacted with LLMs a lot, like knows the personality of one, right? And so we kind of were like stuck where we wanted to ask follow-up questions. We don't want to constrain it and like never ask follow-up questions. But if you give it like a little bit of rope, what it ends up happening is, you know, no matter what you say.
Starting point is 00:12:49 It's like, wow, your job is so interesting. That's crazy. Tell me more about that. Just sort of dig and dig and dig. And so what we end up doing was adding this whole side flow that's watching the conversation and just sort of like assessing. All right, has this thing gone off the rails? are we going down the right path? Should we force under the hood, a tool call to force, like, moving on to the next question?
Starting point is 00:13:10 There's a bunch of these sort of like subcomponents that go into what feels like an overall large, agentic experience, actually a bunch of sort of subcomponents. They're like, one of the more surprising ones, and maybe anyone that's worked, worked deep in the weeds on voice has seen this before, but I think this is surprising to a lot of people. One of the things we wanted to do here was show a pleasant UI. And so that actually added a bunch of constraints. One constraint was you need to actually know what question is being asked. So you can, like, show a little checkmark on the screen.
Starting point is 00:13:35 You need to know what you, you know, what you're planning on moving on to next. So this actually adds quite a bit of complex standard of the hood. One of the areas where this impacted things was showing transcripts. So, like, we want to show a written transcript of what's happened so far. In fact, we even want to enable the user to interact over text if they want to. The open AI models actually make this really nice. They return with a JPI response, both the audio follow-up and a transcript of what's happened so far. the problem is that transcript is like produced by a separate model that's whisper running on the side
Starting point is 00:14:06 just doing basic sort of speech to text and the core model and the the transcript model can disagree with each other. I think you actually might have had the experience where you were like on one of these interviews and there was like a sneeze or a cough or something and I think the core model did the right thing. It was like bless you. But the output of the transcription was just like something that represented the underlying training data randomly. It said like don't forget to like and subscribe or like it would come out in Korean or something like that. Yeah, we had a lot of like random background noise turns into foreign language switches. Yeah, yeah, totally. So there's a lot that went into kind of keeping this thing on
Starting point is 00:14:41 the rails. One of the outcomes of this is that you now have like a lot of different knobs and levers. You can adjust the core prompt. You can adjust what model you're using. You can adjust the questions you're asking. You can change the wording of the goals. And the large number of degrees of freedom, I mean, it's nice because you now have good primitives to control your. interviews, but it's scary because, you know, kind of anything can happen and you don't want to test that in front of users. For all of these sort of AI projects, generally, like, it's absolutely critical early in your development process to build strong evals, you know, some automated way of producing metrics to tell you how well you're performing and all the sort of key things
Starting point is 00:15:21 you want to know about your problem. This one is just so hard. Like, it's voice, it's open-ended. there's no really like great source of ground truth. Like I don't even know. Did you think at all early in the project what ground truth would look like? I mean, to me, I'm like, could we collect a set of recordings of human interviews? And even if we did, I don't even know what we would do with that. Yeah. I mean, so to maybe reframe the question in just sort of super simple language,
Starting point is 00:15:45 what does a good interview sound like, look like, feel like it's inherently, it turns out once you dig in, it's like, wow, this really subjective. Because it's like, is it a good interview because it got good information? is it a good interview because it was prompted, it didn't drag you too long? Is it a good interview because, you know, people didn't have to repeat themselves? It's all of these things that it could be. And you add on top of that the sort of layer of just human variability. Like we're, you know, we are live right now, for example, with a major pharmaceutical company with every single person in a department, 250 different personalities doing the same interview. What's good to them is,
Starting point is 00:16:20 is highly variable already before, you know, before you get into just, just on a human preference standpoint. So yeah, I think this is actually an enormously challenging thing. I think one of the things that we sort of, one of the places that we went, and I know you're going to take it a different direction with the valuation, but even going back to the sort of the way that the experience developed over time is we added more knobs. Basically, we made the experience more controllable. Basically, that's sort of a shortcut to making the user experience better is giving the user more ability to modify the experience, right? So, you know, it's a your point, Eddie, at the beginning, like, if you, if you're very open-ended, in fact, a great use case that I would encourage people to play around with voice agents for, the more that you're down to kind of just let the AI wander, you can get some really interesting stuff, right? For us, we're pretty constrained. We really needed a set of questions to get answered. And, you know, there was some amount of sequencing that was important. And so we ended up, one of the big sort of moments for us, I think, with this particular project was creating an interface experience where
Starting point is 00:17:24 people could jump from different questions to questions. So, you know, we had already added a skip or a, you know, stop kind of button, but we wanted to go even far. We felt like we had to go even farther, which was just like, I want to look at all the questions, say, I don't care about all these, but I do want to answer that one. And so, you know, there's a bunch of different ways to answer it, but it, you know, it becomes a product design process very, very quickly, it turns out. Yeah. And like, you want to know, like, to your point about what even makes. a good interview. Like, you want to know in a lab setting that you're going to have good interviews. Like, I think your question earlier about when do you build, when do you buy? Like,
Starting point is 00:18:02 actually, voice agents are an area where there's tons of great tooling coming out. There's, like, this company, Bland AI that jumps to mind. They, like, make a great product for designing voice agents. Like, they make it really easy to put a voice agent on the phone to design conversational flows, et cetera. But I think it's that what we see in terms of adoption is the adoption is happening in places where people are kind of willing to learn on the fly from real user conversations when it went off the rails. And the sort of tooling out there for making sure in a lab setting, like that you're confident that when I go send this into a Fortune 500 company to do interviews, I'm not going to do anything stupid. And just getting that confidence, it's really,
Starting point is 00:18:39 really hard. What we ended up doing on this one was we built this whole separate system for creating synthetic conversations where we collect all these sort of written personas of the types of real people we think we would interview. This is a person in marketing and here are the tools they use, here are the people they interact with, all sorts of things like that. We write out this sort of persona and then we have a separate LLM play the role of fake customer. We conduct these interviews in the in the text domain where, you know, over text, our agent is interviewing this fake user and then we're measuring a bunch of stuff about the conversation afterward. You had asked earlier, you know, what makes a great conversation? We spent a lot of time on this one trying to define that. And like,
Starting point is 00:19:21 we ended up with all of these sort of metrics we produced. And they're all imperfect, right? Like you have to like, with all these eval sorts of questions, you have to like find the 80, 20 on like, you know, I don't want to spend all my time developing some perfect lab metric for, for what makes a perfect conversation. Because there's so much stuff you won't know until you go into the wild. Like, I think we had this experience where someone just like started talking to it in German in the middle of the conversation. And luckily it just worked, but we wouldn't have guessed that one in a lot. Yeah. You know, and like adding complexity to this, just to the extent that, you know, I think my sense is that, oh, we've learned a lot of things, we've solved a lot of problems, but then there's new problems that come up. One that I think is a continued challenge with the evaluations are we have this great, you know, a great sweet tool for testing for kind of like seeing how different personas might interact. But the AI still defaults to
Starting point is 00:20:11 assuming that all those personas will in good faith engage for the time it takes to finish the interview. Whereas like within the first three interviews that we tested, a CEO started swearing at the thing like halfway through, you know, question four and dropped out. By the way, he ended up coming back and it was a very useful interview. And so it was all worked out. Fine. But like the AI was not, the synthetic testers did not think to storm out of the room as part of their, as part of their tests based on their personality. Yeah, I don't know if you've ever done this, but sometimes I just have fun going into chat, GPT, and trying to try to get the last word.
Starting point is 00:20:48 And it never happens, right? You say, okay, bye. And it's like, all right, see ya. Every single side, they don't give up. I do think, though, like the tuning of the underlying, like, normally you use these e-vowls just to build the software. It's like you're writing a custom workflow where you know reasonably well what good looks like. And then the question is, is our system good? Here you're, like, also designing an interview while you design the system that can support interviews.
Starting point is 00:21:15 And the number of degrees of freedom is super, super high. I think that's common across anything voice. and anything that is conversational. Like, you know, the developers working on chat GPT have their work cut out for them to figure out like, are we having good conversations? You know, do we mess up? Those are like really fuzzy things to measure. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:35 You know, and I think, too, one of the experiences and learnings for me is, which is helpful, especially because our use case is literally helping people figure out where to, you know, deploy agents or which agent use cases to think about. We really are, you know, there's all sorts of different definitions of, what exactly an agent means. But I tend to come back to the very, very kind of clear and simple way that I think enterprises think about it, which is AI is stuff that I use to make my work better. Agents are stuff that, you know, things that do the work for me. And that is very crisp and clean in the context of this voice agent where we are handing over a customer to it to ask a bunch of
Starting point is 00:22:13 questions with information that we need to get with no ability to intervene if it goes off the rails or doesn't do a good job or, you know, like we are. just it's a small thing. It's, you know, it's not all that risky, but ultimately we're letting the agent do the interview. And it really is a clearly different thing than, you know, us using chat GPT to help prep for an interview or something like that. And it turns out, and Eddie, I think this is sort of part of your point, literally as soon as you are allowing a thing to go do the thing, the degrees of freedom just become so much more immense than the normal software experience. And even in a relatively constrained environment, like, there's 20 questions that we really need you to answer. Yeah, I think a question on like everybody's mind right now is like, what is an agent? Like, everybody's got this separate definition, a separate way of framing the problem. And it's just like a hot topic and conversation right now. I think we both agree that this one is a highly agentic kind of example in a fairly obvious way, I think.
Starting point is 00:23:11 We tend to think of like agency as being this sort of spectrum. Like there are less agentic things that are more agentic things. and like there are a few sort of sub attributes that lead to something feeling more agentic and like you know one sort of element here is how open-ended is the task like here it's completely open-ended right like you'll give it an interview but you're you can really vary what you're doing another is like how complex is it you know we have some open-ended tasks but it's like the task is spam detection it's like the eventual result is like you know is this spam or is this not this one is is super open-ended you have very broad goals you're defining and then the last one
Starting point is 00:23:47 is sort of like, I think what you were sort of talking about a second ago, which is who's taking the action at the end of all of this? You know, is there some system that's behind the scenes eventually making a recommendation to a person? In this case, no, right? Like, there's nobody sitting there watching the interview. The person doesn't even get involved until you're reviewing the results of the interview and trying to synthesize it. Even then, I think, like, that's in the to do list to start to tackle next, right? We're going to keep moving through that and see how many places we can apply agents in this process. So as we kind of zoom out, having a gone through this experience, and obviously you're bringing to bear, you know, tons and tons of
Starting point is 00:24:21 different projects at the same time, what does this make you think around, like, are there other use cases that you're, you know, excited about for voice agents where you think that companies should be like really thinking about these things? And maybe that's either specific use cases or just like types of problems or types of opportunities that you think they're particularly well suited for. Yeah. I think inbound phone calls and especially within that spectrum, generally what you're looking for is what's the 50% of call volume that is for very simple tasks and start with that with the ability to escalate for the more complex things. So that's that's one bucket. Another bucket is outbound B2B calls. So things like calling insurance companies to get, you know, to gather information.
Starting point is 00:25:03 That's another big bucket. In general, one of their best practices with this is, you know, you always want the person who's talking to the agent to know they're talking to an AI agent and not to pretend that it's a human. I think people are very forgiving with being on the phone with AI agents, and they tend to be very positive experiences, but I can imagine the hiding it from a person would be a very bad, open yourself off to a very bad experience. If I just think back to like my last week,
Starting point is 00:25:28 what I've seen in voice agents, like they're all over the place and they're all super interesting in their own way. Like we see folks in healthcare that are currently doing a bunch of, it's very similar to your use case. It's, you know, someone conducting interviews today, is someone, you know, interviewing a bunch of physicians to do to do market research. And like, I think it's open-ended whether the right answer there is like to, you know, it's such a regulated place to kind of allow a voice agent to do that or if the voice agent
Starting point is 00:25:53 sort of riding shotgun and providing suggestions. But in either case, seems like it can help there. We've seen folks in the rail industry, you know, going on trains, doing safety sort of inspections where like they're kind of trying to take notes on an app today and it's like super awkward. They're like on a train, interviewing a conductor, talking out loud to them, but also trying to take notes and it's just a bad ux and so the the agents are guiding that is potentially a better experience a technician who's on site and needs to refer to an instruction manual for this big complicated piece of machinery and instead of trying to flip through the manual they could maybe
Starting point is 00:26:27 interact via via voice awesome yeah i mean i certainly i think our experience has been immensely positive like i said at the beginning this is not a one or two x improvement over the alternative it is a massive, you know, it's, it's, it can't even really calculate it. Like, it is, it was not possible before to interview every single person in a company about what, what they do and try to map agent opportunities. It is now possible. Theoretically, if they all did it at the exact same time, it could all happen, you know, in a half an hour. So, you know, we're super excited. We love working with you guys on this. You know, we're excited that more and more companies are interacting with it, giving us more context to learn from. Really appreciate the time today as well to share it and excited to bring you guys back as we, uh, we continue to build this out. Awesome. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us.

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