| Time to answer?
Total time from first question to receiving a complete answer. Benefit Pal responds instantly; TriNet required 19 minutes across multiple agents.
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~30 sec |
~19 min |
| Time spent waiting?
Time the user spent idle, waiting for agent responses, transfers, or agents looking up information. Benefit Pal has no wait time since the AI responds immediately.
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None |
~19 min |
| Agents involved?
The number of people or bots needed to answer the question. TriNet required a bot (that failed), then two separate human agents before the user got an answer.
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0 (AI only) |
2 + 1 bot |
| Transfers?
Agent-to-agent handoffs during the conversation. Each transfer means repeating context and waiting for the new agent to get up to speed.
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None |
1 (Christina → Colleen) |
| OOP Max answer?
Both arrived at the correct out-of-pocket maximum of $4,000/individual. However, the first TriNet agent could only give a generic definition and couldn't look up the actual number.
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$4,000 ✓ |
$4,000 ✓ |
| ER Copay answer?
Both correctly identified the $350 ER copay. Benefit Pal cited the exact plan document; the TriNet agent directed the user to page 3 of the SBC PDF.
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$350 ✓ |
$350 ✓ |
| Source documents?
Our AI engine rapidly retrieves information from healthcare plans and directly cites the information from the source PDFs, linking to the exact page and section.
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Linked directly |
User had to find PDF |