Two AI voice agents fell apart on compliance once we ran real calls
Summary
A practitioner reports that two AI voice agents passed demos but failed on real financial services calls — one hallucinated a fee, another skipped a required disclosure when interrupted. The agent that held up used locked, mandatory workflow steps; the post asks how others test for such compliance failures before launch.
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