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Containment Rate

Containment Rate

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The percentage of conversations fully resolved by the AI agent without human escalation. A headline ROI metric for agent programs.

The percentage of conversations fully resolved by the AI agent without human escalation. A headline ROI metric for agent programs.

Why it matters

Containment is the metric executives ask about first: it converts agent quality into deflected calls and saved cost. But chasing it blindly punishes callers who genuinely need a human.

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