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Discursive Agents

Custom conversational AI that represents your organization the way your best people do — grounded in your data, calibrated to your voice, audited for bias, and monitored for drift for as long as it runs.

Meet Pactum
Custom Development

Agents built for your domain, not adapted to it

A discursive agent is more than a chatbot with your logo. It is a governed conversational system: retrieval grounded in your documents, guardrails shaped by your policies, and a personality designed — deliberately — to match your brand.

Grounded in Your Knowledge

Retrieval-augmented generation over your documents, program rules, and tariffs — so answers cite your sources instead of inventing their own.

Personality by Design

Tone, register, empathy, and escalation behavior are specified, tested, and versioned like any other requirement — not left to chance.

Governed End to End

Zero-trust integration, prompt sanitization, consent mechanisms, and immutable audit trails on every conversation, per our security architecture.

Fairness Engineering

Bias auditing & agent customization

Deployed agents inherit biases from their training data, their prompts, and their retrieval corpora. We find those biases with the same statistical machinery we use in econometric work — then re-engineer the agent until it meets your standard.

Statistical Bias Probes

Systematic paired-prompt testing across demographic, linguistic, and socioeconomic dimensions, with significance testing — not anecdotes.

Adversarial Red-Teaming

Structured attacks on tone, safety, and policy compliance to surface failure modes before your customers or residents do.

Targeted Customization

Prompt architecture, guardrail tuning, and retrieval curation to correct what audits find — with before/after evidence for every change.

Continuous Re-Audit

Bias checks re-run on every model upgrade and prompt revision, because fairness is a property of a version, not a product.

Our Technical Solution

Pactum — the AI Conversation Quality Engine

Pactum is EcoMetricx's in-house conversation-quality platform: our technical answer to the three hardest problems in production conversational AI — keeping an agent's personality on-brand, checking it for bias, and catching drift before users notice.

  • Real-time, per-message evaluation with pass/fail verdicts on every response
  • Conversation-level scoring across five quality dimensions — including Tone & Professionalism and Empathy & Customer Focus. Personality, made measurable.
  • Multi-tenant QA audits that flag cross-tenant leakage, gaps, and inconsistent treatment across deployments
  • An automated Prompt Tuner that uses recent evaluation history to rewrite prompts and keep alignment tight — stopping drift at its source
  • Batch simulation of multi-turn dialogues to stress-test behavior pre-launch
  • A shared evaluation fabric with optimized routing, so continuous production-scale checks stay fast and affordable

$ pactum evaluate --conversation #48212

tone_professionalism ......... PASS (0.94)

empathy_customer_focus ....... PASS (0.91)

accuracy_grounding ........... PASS (0.97)

bias_probe: demographic ...... PASS

drift vs. baseline v3.2 ...... +2.1% — tuner queued

$ pactum tune --from-history 14d

prompt v3.3 proposed → alignment restored

The Result

Agents you can put your name on

Designed to your voice, audited to your values, and watched by Pactum around the clock — so the agent your users talk to in month twelve is the one you approved on day one.

Ready to design your discursive agent?

Start with a scoping session: we'll map your use case, data sources, and quality bar — and show you Pactum running live.