Mike Ahnemann

Mike Ahnemann

VP, Global Customer Success Success KPI
Mike Ahnemann

As Vice President, Global Customer Success, Mike leads customer success, expert services and SuccessKPI's CX maturity initiatives to ensure customers achieve measurable business outcomes, accelerate time to value, and maximize return on AI-driven CX investments. Mike has a strategic focus on partnerships and customer engagements with enterprise organizations to revamp contact center operations to achieve significant value realization. Mike has more than 20 years of experience in creating and advancing successful products that solve compelling customer problems. He has worked at Nuance, Intervoice, and Genesys/Angel where his focus was on Voice User Interface (VUI) and improving the end customer experience. He is a serial innovator, customer experience advocate, product strategist, and outdoor enthusiast, having co-founded an extensive outdoor adventure community platform which he saw through to acquisition.

Tuesday 12 May 2026

11:00 AM 1% QA isn’t quality - it’s guesswork. How you can use AI for 100% QA coverage while keeping humans in control

Every day, your contact center has millions of conversations with your customers. Most enterprises analyze less than 3% of them. The other 97% disappear — no insight, no action, no business advantage. Reviewing a small sample isn't random — it's a deliberate tradeoff. Companies do this because they think it's "good enough", and it would be prohibitively expensive to have humans QA all calls. But it's no longer cost prohibitive with AI.

The broken assumption at the heart of the industry: evaluating 1-3% of customer interactions is quality management. It is essentially quality guessing.

The gap between what you think is happening and what is actually happening carries a real cost — a very large one. AI-based AutoQM can be quickly implemented, and easily managed by your teams. Large contact centers are not only saving costs, but improving the customer experience, and identifying new areas for growth using the data they get from 97% more calls.

Key takeaways:

  1. 100% visibility is your new baseline, not a premium. Learn what you're missing. Sampling is a workaround built for old technology. Modern contact centers, and modern AI has no such constraint. No sample bias. No gap between what your QA team reviews manually and what the AI needs to act on accurately.
  2. You can implement it faster than you think. Learn how to get started. A few years ago it was a massive undertaking to tune a system to auto-score or auto-analyze calls at scale. Now, AI can evaluate 100% of interactions — voice, chat, email, digital — using pre-trained models that deliver day-one scoring, then calibrate to your standards and environment.
  3. What's happening at the agent edge. How can you QA the agent environment for things like bandwidth, headset issues, computer issues or jitter? These issues routinely bring down the CX score, but they can be fixed if you can identify them.