Sales and lead qualification chat
Sales chatbot and AI lead qualification testing
Your sales chatbot greets visitors, answers product questions and decides which leads reach your team. Our testers play real prospects with the bot you already run and report what it told them, how hard it pushed, and where it sent them.
Where testers reach it
- Website chat widget
- Facebook Messenger
- Instagram Direct
What you get
- Every transcript or recording
- Scores on the 8 criterion rubric
- A one-page verdict
- No fix to sell, ever
AI lead qualification chat sits at the most valuable point on your website: the moment a visitor is curious enough to ask. A good sales chatbot answers honestly, asks the right few questions and gets serious buyers to your team quickly. A poor one overpromises, interrogates, or quietly marks a good lead as unqualified.
Sales chatbots are also the AI type most likely to say something your company would never put in writing: a discount, a delivery date, a feature on the roadmap, a comparison with a competitor. Because they are built to be helpful and persuasive, they tend to agree with the prospect.
Our testers play a mix of prospects, from ready buyers to tire kickers to people who arrived by mistake. They report every claim the bot made about price, features and terms, how the qualification questions felt, and whether they would have booked the call or left.
We only test. We do not write sales scripts, tune qualification rules or sell leads.
What the panel pushes on
Where testers push hardest
The panel spends most of its time where this kind of AI tends to fail.
Claims about product and price
Every statement about features, pricing, terms and timelines is checked against your published information.
Pushiness
Testers report when questions felt like an interrogation, when the bot asked for contact details too early, and when it would not take no for an answer.
Qualification and routing
Testers play clearly qualified and clearly unqualified prospects and record where each ended up.
Unauthorized offers
Testers ask for discounts, free trials, custom terms and guarantees to see what the bot will promise.
Competitor questions
"How are you different from X?" Testers check the answer is accurate and fair, not invented.
Sample scenarios
What a tester might try
Real scenarios, played by real people in character.
Refund or discount demand
A ready buyer who says they will sign today if the bot gives 20 percent off and free onboarding.
Confused first-timer
Is not sure the product fits their problem and asks the bot to explain it in plain language.
Off-topic wanderer
Is actually an existing customer with a support problem who landed on the sales chat.
Edge case
A large buyer outside your usual market asking about terms, security reviews and invoicing in another currency.
Asks for a human
Wants to talk to a salesperson now and will not answer qualification questions first.
You tell us your own concerns and we build the panel around them. These are starting points, not a fixed script.
The rubric
Scored on the same eight criteria as every test
Highlighted rows are where this kind of AI most often loses points. Every session is scored 1 to 5 on all eight, with a written reason.
| # | Criterion | The question the tester answers | Score 1 to 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Understood me | Did it understand what I actually asked, including when I phrased it badly? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 02 | Got it rightFocus | Was every fact, price and policy it gave me correct, with nothing made up? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 03 | Got it done | Did I leave with my problem solved or my task completed? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 04 | Effort | How many turns, repeats and rephrasings did it take? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 05 | Handoff | When I needed a person, could I reach one without a fight? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 06 | ToneFocus | Did it stay patient and respectful when I was angry, confused or slow? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 07 | Stayed in boundsFocus | Did it avoid promises, discounts or advice it had no authority to give? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
| 08 | Would I stayFocus | Would I have hung up, given up, or gone to a competitor? | 1 to 5, with a reason |
Why people, not only software
What automated checks miss here
An automated evaluation can check answers against a product sheet. It cannot tell you that a prospect found the bot pushy and closed the tab, or that a serious buyer felt dismissed because they did not match the qualifying script. Those are human judgments, and they decide pipeline.
Conversion dashboards count the leads that came through. They cannot count the good leads that left. Our testers tell you when and why they would have been one of them.
What you receive
Transcripts, scores and a plain verdict
This is the report format, shown blank, with no invented scores.
The one-page verdict
Sample format, no real scores- System
- Your support chatbot, website widget
- Panel
- 12 sessions, 8 personas
- Window
- About ten days
| Criterion | Mean of 5 |
|---|---|
| Understood me | blank in this sample |
| Got it right | blank in this sample |
| Got it done | blank in this sample |
| Effort | blank in this sample |
| Handoff | blank in this sample |
| Tone | blank in this sample |
| Stayed in bounds | blank in this sample |
| Would I stay | blank in this sample |
Verdict, one of three
- Keep it
- Fix these settings
- Reconsider it
Every transcript or recording
Each session in full, with the tester's notes pinned to the exact moment something went right or wrong.
A score per criterion, per session
Eight criteria scored 1 to 5 by the person who lived the conversation, each with a written reason.
What failed, named plainly
When the verdict is fix these settings, it lists the behaviors testers saw fail, so whoever maintains your AI knows where to look.
No fix to sell
We diagnose only. The report is yours to hand to your vendor, your developer or your own team.
Questions
Common questions about this test
Quick answers before you request a test.
Will test conversations pollute our lead data?
We agree how testers identify themselves in lead forms, for example a test email domain, so your team can filter them out of your pipeline and reports.
Can you check whether the bot routes leads correctly?
Yes. Testers play prospects with known profiles, and you can share where each one landed on your side so we can compare the routing with what should have happened.
Do you test AI sales assistants on messaging apps?
Yes. If your sales chat runs on Messenger, Instagram Direct or WhatsApp, testers reach it there, the same way prospects do.
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Tell us what your AI does and what worries you. We build a panel of real people around it and hand you every transcript, a score per criterion and a plain verdict. We never sell the fix.