Real-Time AI Coaching Transforms Contact Center Performance

The Company Profile

The client is a regional, 55 person, mortgage lending company, headquartered in Miami Beach, FL that focuses primarily on first-time homebuyers, self-employed borrowers, and real estate investors requiring culturally tailored, bilingual (English/Spanish) financial guidance. All of their clients and prospects live and work within the highly dynamic South Florida market (Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties).

The Challenge

Training and Quality Assurance Could Not Scale

As the organization expanded, its contact center training and quality-assurance processes could not scale at the same pace as the business. New agents required several weeks to learn internal systems, financial products, customer-service procedures, and the regulatory language required during customer interactions.

Supervisors supported this learning process while managing their existing operational responsibilities. Manual call-review requirements made quality assurance time-intensive and limited the number of interactions managers could evaluate. Coaching often occurred after an issue had already happened and varied according to each supervisor’s availability, experience, and judgment.

Leadership also lacked a scalable way to verify what employees communicated during customer conversations. Required disclosures, privacy language, pricing and financing information, and other approved messaging were difficult to monitor consistently across agents, teams, and locations.

The consequences included:

• Longer ramp times for new contact center employees.

• Reactive and inconsistent quality assurance.

• Limited visibility into customer conversations.

• Uneven coaching across agents and locations.

• Greater risk surrounding compliance and approved messaging.

• Difficulty reinforcing best practices across a large organization.

The Solutions

Real-Time AI Coaching Designed Around the Agent Experience

Quandary helped the organization implement Dialpad’s real-time coaching capabilities within its existing contact center environment. The solution worked alongside agents during live calls, providing contextual guidance, reinforcing best practices, and prompting employees when required language needed to be communicated.

The objective was not to force employees through a rigid, word-for-word script. Quandary designed the experience to create structure around the moments that mattered most while preserving each agent’s ability to communicate naturally.

Key Steps

Live Guidance for Critical Conversation Moments

Required disclosures, privacy statements, and other non-negotiable language were incorporated into governed conversation flows. Outside those requirements, agents could adapt their wording to the customer’s situation and communication style.

Integration with the Existing Contact Center

Through Dialpad’s audio-streaming API, the coaching platform connected with the organization’s existing 8x8 contact center. Live guidance appeared within the employee’s established workflow, avoiding the disruption and adoption challenges created by another disconnected application.

Automated Conversation Intelligence

Customer interactions could be captured, transcribed, searched, evaluated, tracked, and reported on. Managers gained searchable access to conversations and AI-curated call moments, making it easier to find examples of strong performance, missed opportunities, incorrect language, and training needs.

Performance Dashboards and Operational Visibility

Custom dashboards gave managers and executives a focused view of contact center performance indicators. Leadership could assess customer and agent experiences without relying exclusively on random call sampling or manually assembled monthly reports.

Operational Results

The implementation moved the organization beyond delayed, sample-based quality assurance and established a more proactive operating model for employee development, compliance support, and contact center performance management.

Accelerated Agent Onboarding

New employees received contextual assistance beginning with their first live calls. Real-time guidance reduced the amount of information agents had to memorize before entering production and helped close the gap between classroom training and practical readiness.

Greater Consistency Across the Organization

The organization could reinforce the same service expectations, approved messaging, and conversation practices across teams and locations. Performance support became less dependent on the availability of an individual supervisor.

Stronger Compliance and Message Control

Governed script sections helped ensure that required disclosures, privacy statements, and other critical language were delivered consistently. Flexible guidance preserved natural conversations outside those controlled moments.

More Focused, Evidence-Based Coaching

Managers could identify the precise moments in which an employee performed well or needed additional support. Coaching became grounded in real interaction data rather than assumptions, incomplete notes, or a limited selection of manually reviewed calls.

The Results

From Rearview Coaching to Real-Time Performance Management

Quandary helped the organization connect employee enablement, customer experience, quality assurance, compliance, and operational intelligence within the flow of live work. Agents gained support when they needed it, supervisors gained clearer evidence for coaching, and leadership gained a more consistent and measurable view of contact center performance.

• Faster transition from classroom training to supported live calls.

• Real-time guidance during high-risk and high-value conversation moments.

• Broader visibility into customer and agent interactions.

• More consistent compliance language and approved messaging.

• Searchable transcripts and AI-curated coaching moments.

• More efficient executive reporting through custom dashboards.

• Standardized performance support across teams and locations.

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Why the Engagement Succeeded

The transformation extended beyond software implementation. Quandary worked with the client to design conversation flows, identify non-negotiable compliance requirements, integrate AI with the existing contact center, establish meaningful performance measures, and create a foundation for continued optimization using real interaction data.

Technologies and Capabilities

• Dialpad real-time coaching and conversation intelligence.

• 8x8 contact center integration.

• Dialpad audio-streaming API.

• Live contextual guidance and governed prompts.

• Automated transcription, search, and evaluation.

• AI-curated coaching moments.

• Custom contact center performance dashboards.

• Compliance-aware conversation design.