Parloa x Metric Sherpa
Key Findings
Parloa and Metric Sherpa surveyed 500+ CX operators and 200+ CX executives to find out how confident they feel in their CX metrics today, what they wish they saw more of, and what they do with insights once they have them.
What we found were operators confident in what they track but aware that it’s not everything, executives missing the business impact of the data, and both parties knowing there’s more to the story.
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of operators using AI report no metric for hallucinations or factual accuracy.
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of executives see CX observability as a very or extremely valuable addition to their reporting.
03
of operators say no single person owns customer experience monitoring at their organization.
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executives work somewhere that both surfaces insights and acts on them.
Finding 02
Executives and operators know there’s more to understanding their AI agent performance and CX metrics. They just don’t know how to define it.
89.5% of operators said there’s at least one area of the customer experience they can’t currently see. For both operators and executives, real-time visibility and the ability to monitor all conversations ranked as top priorities in future metrics.
When presented with the definition of CX Observability, 56.8% of operators and 52.8% of executives said the approach would be very or extremely valuable to their organizations.
Parloa defines CX observability as: Complete visibility into every customer interaction, whether handled by a human agent, AI agent, or both, allowing teams to monitor, understand, and act on performance and compliance issues in real time.
Operators confident in their metrics
94.7%
r = 0.007
Operators who admit a blind spot
89.5%
Finding 03
The opportunity for CX metrics to drive measurable business value is largely unexplored. Mostly because metrics aren’t being reflected in the language of the business.
When data points are explained only in the language of the CX team, they stay with the CX team. It’s one of the reasons why, among operators who report sharing insights to other teams, 55.1% say actioning the insight stalled, met resistance, or was ignored outright.
Insights gathered straight from customer conversations that don’t move past the CX dashboard represent a massively missed opportunity to optimize all aspects of the business—product, marketing, sales, and service—in the interest of the customer.
Only 32.2% of operators prioritize financial and business impact linkage in their CX metrics, while 46.4% of executives say it’s important to them.
Top preferred capabilities
Operators
Executives
Real-time visibility into agent behavior
64.2%
50.0%
Ability to evaluate every conversation rather than a sample
61.4%
47.9%
Root-cause diagnostics
50.3%
45.4%
Surfacing customer insights for product and business teams
49.7%
51.4%
Financial and business impact linkage
32.2%
46.4%
Predictive alerts
29.6%
33.4%
Finding 04
Customer experience should be everyone’s job, but without a clear leader, it quickly becomes nobody’s job.
The title of the owner is arbitrary, but someone needs to have clear authority over the experience and a goal that’s tied to the KPIs of the company. Only then can CX deliver a consistently reliable performance, adhere to company policies, and deliver board-level business impact.
of operators say no single person owns customer experience monitoring at their organization.
of executives say ownership remains spread across teams or lacks a designated owner.
Who is primarily responsible for monitoring and reporting CX performance?
Operators
42.4% report no central owner
Executives
48.5% report no central owner
Individual team leads or managers, each independently
No single owner, shared across teams
A named central owner: CX operations, CX analytics, or IT and data
