The right question isn't "how confident is the agent" — it's "how costly is a wrong action". Raw confidence scores from large language models are poorly calibrated, so production teams don't hang escalation on a single percentage. They combine confidence signals with behavioural triggers — loop detection, sentiment degradation, explicit requests for a human — and classify every action the agent ca
What this covers
- Why a raw confidence score is a shaky foundation
- Multi-signal escalation triggers
- Risk-tiered autonomy: classify the action, not the conversation
- Escalation triggers compared
- What a good handoff actually looks like
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *Confidence Thresholds for AI Sales Agents: When Should the Agent Escalate to a Human?*.
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