New stress-testing platform reveals critical failure patterns in AI agents before they cost companies real deals
— After running dozens of stress tests on AI sales agents, ClientCoded founder Travis Cronin found a troubling pattern: most AI agents score between the equivalent of a D or C grade under simulated prospect pressure. The same two problems kept showing up.
The first is qualification blindness. When synthetic prospects showed clear buying intent — ready to move forward — most AI agents kept following their predetermined script instead of recognizing the signal and advancing the conversation. The second is objection collapse. When hesitant prospects pushed back and asked agents to justify their value, most bots had nothing to offer.
“We built the stress test originally for our own AI SDR,” said Travis Cronin, founder of ClientCoded. “On our first test we got a D — and we’re the ones who built the scoring rubric based on our own sales experience. A synthetic prospect was ready to buy but had one concern about ROI, and our agent had no answer. That moment is what pushed us to build an ROI calculator and rethink the entire qualification flow.”
Businesses are deploying AI agents without any way to know how they actually perform under pressure. ClientCoded’s AI Agent Stress Test was built to fix that.
The tool works by generating synthetic prospects across multiple personality types — from high-intent buyers to hostile objectors to competitor spies — and running real back-and-forth conversations with any AI agent. An AI judge then scores every transcript across six dimensions: qualification accuracy, objection handling, tone calibration, guardrail compliance, conversation flow, and outcome correctness.
Results are returned in a letter-grade scorecard within 10 minutes.
An example AI Agent Scorecard showing dimension-level scoring across a simulated sales conversation.
The tool is free, requires no account, and works on any custom chatbot or AI agent. Users simply paste their chatbot URL and receive a full scorecard within minutes. A Pro tier at $299/month unlocks all six personas and weekly automated monitoring with Slack alerts.
The platform now scores AI agents across seven industries — sales, customer support, e-commerce, healthcare, financial services, HR, and legal — each with industry-specific personas and scoring dimensions informed by regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, UDAAP, and ADA compliance.
The ClientCoded AI Agent Stress Test — free at clientcoded.com.
For more information about ClientCoded and the AI Agent Stress Test, visit clientcoded.com.
About ClientCoded
ClientCoded is a Los Angeles-based AI sales platform offering two core products: an AI SDR that qualifies inbound website visitors through natural conversation and books meetings 24/7, and an AI Agent Stress Test that scores AI agents across seven industries with synthetic customers. The platform was built by Travis Cronin, a five-year B2B sales veteran who managed thousands of startup and enterprise accounts — and built the tools he wished existed on the sales floor. Learn more at clientcoded.com.
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