As enterprises race to inject decision intelligence capabilities across their operations, two major obstacles have emerged when working with large language models (LLMs):
1. Hallucinations and Inaccurate Responses
Even state-of-the-art LLMs struggle with accuracy when reasoning over complex, multi-source data environments involving numerous joins, calculations, and domain-specific metrics. Their context windows are limited, understanding of specific data models is constrained, and they often "hallucinate" by providing plausible but factually incorrect responses.
2. Dependency on User Prompts
Most decision intelligence offerings are built around the premise of users providing well-framed prompts about their specific analysis needs upfront. But this presents its own challenges - ambiguous intents lead to faulty assumptions, nuanced analysis requirements are difficult to fully capture, and domain expertise must be manually translated into prompts.
At iCustomer, we've developed a unique approach to overcome these barriers and deliver accurate, trusted decision intelligence tailored for GTM operations i.e marketing, revenue, and customer experience domains.
First, we've constructed proprietary knowledge graphs and ontologies that deeply model core marketing, CX & GTM concepts, metrics across unified funnels, and the intricate relationships within typical enterprise customer data environments. This gives our AI reasoners a robust, ground-truth foundation for interpreting analysis requests through the right contextual lens.
But the customer knowledge graph is only half the solution. The other key is our pioneering Clarify Agent.
Rather than attempting to satisfy potentially ambiguous user prompts through flawed assumptions, the Clarification Agent opens an interactive dialogue with the user. It asks clarifying questions to establish fundamentals like the target metrics, analytical lenses, time periods of interest, and the precise intent behind high-level asks.
For instance, if a CMO simply asks "Which marketing campaigns drove the best ROI last quarter?", the Clarification Agent would unpack critical details like:
- Confirming the specific ROI metric calculation and attribution model used
- Establishing which costs should factor into the "ROI" denominator
- Clarifying the desired level of analysis (channel, content, audience, etc.)
- Aligning on the precise date range being analyzed
Only once this mutual understanding is established does iCustomer execute the requested analysis - eliminating hallucinations and ensuring precise alignment with the user's true intent.
We've measured iCustomer's decision intelligence accuracy using real-world concepts and customer data across enterprise i.e first, second and third party data.
With our knowledge graph foundation, entity relationships and Clarification (Clarify) Agent, we achieve remarkable 98%+ accuracy rates even for highly complex, multi-table, systems queries. Accuracy rates without these capabilities are routinely below 50%.
But the benefits extend far beyond just precision. Our approach accelerates time-to-insight by preventing open-ended guesswork. It allows users to collaboratively explore their understanding through the clarification process. And it gives data governance teams control over granular access permissions.
Ultimately, iCustomer provides a paradigm shift for how enterprises can reliably operationalize decision intelligence in high-stakes domains like marketing, sales, and customer experience. By fusing domain-specific knowledge graphs with AI guidance, we ensure alignment between human and machine in an analytical context – the key for generating trusted, actionable operating intelligence at scale.
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