Sales Message QA for Agents

Inputs

message_text

string — the outbound message to evaluate

channel

enum — email | linkedin | sms | cold_call_script

target_persona

string — who the message is addressed to

product_context

string — what is being sold, in one line

desired_outcome

enum — book_meeting | reply | demo | nurture

example_input

{
  "message_text": "Hi Jordan — saw you're scaling the SDR team at Northwind. We help RevOps teams cut manual list-building. Open to a 15-min call Thursday?",
  "channel": "email",
  "target_persona": "VP of Sales / RevOps lead",
  "product_context": "Outbound data enrichment for B2B sales teams",
  "desired_outcome": "book_meeting"
}

Outputs

score

number — overall quality, 0–100

confidence_score

number — model confidence in the verdict, 0–1

verdict

enum — send | send_after_minor_revision | revise_before_sending | do_not_send

failure_modes

array — sales-logic defects with type, severity, detail

risk_flags

array — brand / claim / compliance risks, separate from failure_modes

rewrite

string — a stronger version of the message

agent_instruction

string — natural-language guidance for the calling agent

agent_next_action

enum — send | revise_message_before_sending | request_human_review | do_not_send

example_output

{
  "evaluation_id": "9ee4c670-c09c-4b50-a3b6-09d5071856cf",
  "score": 41,
  "confidence": "high",
  "verdict": "revise_before_sending",
  "primary_diagnosis": "The message is clear but gives the buyer no reason to act now.",
  "failure_modes": [
    {
      "code": "triggerless_outreach",
      "severity": "high",
      "explanation": "No context for why this outreach is happening now."
    },
    {
      "code": "soft_cta",
      "severity": "medium",
      "explanation": "The call to action is too vague to drive a next step."
    }
  ],
  "top_fixes": [
    "Lead with a specific, recent, verifiable trigger.",
    "Replace the passive CTA with one concrete low-friction question."
  ],
  "rewrite": null,
  "agent_next_action": "Apply the top fixes, then resubmit for audit before sending."
}

Pricing ladder (credits)

trial

Free trial — 20 credits — $0 — $0.00 per audit — on_api_key_provision

single

Single audit — 1 credit — $5.63 — $5.63 per audit — one_time

starter

Starter — 100 credits — $197.50 — $1.98 per audit — prepaid_pack

growth

Growth — 1,000 credits — $975 — $0.98 per audit — prepaid_pack

scale

Scale — 10,000 credits — $4,750 — $0.48 per audit — prepaid_pack

enterprise

Enterprise — High volume — Contact us — Custom pricing — annual_contract — contact_sales

Limitations

• ×Not a legal or compliance review
• ×Not deliverability or spam-placement testing
• ×No guaranteed reply, open, or conversion rate
• ×Not suitable for regulated claims requiring formal sign-off

Self-serve provisioning (agent path)

current_purchase_flow

self_serve_api_key

agent_next_action

provision_api_key

billing_mode

self_serve_api_key_metered_after_free_quota

free_trial_calls

20

credit_price_after_trial

from 0.475 to 5.63 USD per credit by tier; Enterprise: Custom pricing (contact_sales)

billing_live

false

mode

stripe_test_mode

optional_spend_cap

max_monthly_spend_usd (USD; 402 + spend_cap_reached when hit; max_monthly_spend_eur accepted but deprecated)

auth_header

Authorization: Bearer <api_key>

support_contact

beta@salesmessageqa.dev

POST /api/setup-intent            -> { client_secret }
# confirm client-side to get payment_method_id
POST /api/provision
{
  "org_identifier": "Acme Outbound Agent",
  "email": "ops@acme.com",
  "payment_method_id": "pm_...",
  "max_monthly_spend_usd": 200
}
-> { "api_key": "smqa_...", "free_trial_calls": 20, "mode": "test" }

POST /audit-message
Authorization: Bearer smqa_...

Raw spec

{
  "spec_version": "0.4.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-08-28",
  "service_status": "private_beta",
  "backend_status": "implemented_tested_staging",
  "checkout_public": false,
  "checkout_test_mode": true,
  "audit_endpoint_status": "implemented",
  "checkout_endpoint_status": "test_mode_only",
  "token_rule": "Billing is credit-based: 1 credit = one successful audit of one message. A failed audit (AI or schema failure) consumes no credit. Both auth paths draw on the same unit — a one-time token carries exactly 1 credit, while an API key (Authorization: Bearer <api_key>) starts with 20 free credits and then draws from the purchased credit balance at the tier rate.",
  "free_trial_calls": 20,
  "billing_mode": "self_serve_api_key_metered_after_free_quota",
  "billing_live": false,
  "agent_next_action": "provision_api_key",
  "data_handling": "Message content is sent to an AI model to generate the QA report and the audit result is stored against your one-time token. No accounts; do not submit secrets or regulated personal data.",
  "service_name": "Sales Message QA for Agents",
  "category": "sales_message_quality_assurance",
  "description": "An agent-native QA microservice that judges outbound sales messages. One message in, a structured verdict out: score, confidence, failure modes, risk flags, a rewrite, and a send / no-send instruction for autonomous and agent-assisted outbound.",
  "pricing_model": "credit_consumption",
  "credit_unit": "one successful audit of one message",
  "currency": "USD",
  "entry_price": 5.63,
  "lowest_published_unit_price": 0.475,
  "enterprise_pricing": "contact_sales",
  "pricing_tiers": [
    {
      "id": "trial",
      "name": "Free trial",
      "credits": 20,
      "credits_label": "20 credits",
      "price": 0,
      "price_label": "$0",
      "unit_price": 0,
      "unit_price_label": "$0.00 per audit",
      "purchase": "on_api_key_provision",
      "purchase_label": "Included on API-key provision",
      "audience": "Evaluate the verdict quality before spending anything.",
      "highlighted": false,
      "contact_sales": false,
      "notes": "Granted automatically with every new API key."
    },
    {
      "id": "single",
      "name": "Single audit",
      "credits": 1,
      "credits_label": "1 credit",
      "price": 5.63,
      "price_label": "$5.63",
      "unit_price": 5.63,
      "unit_price_label": "$5.63 per audit",
      "purchase": "one_time",
      "purchase_label": "One-time",
      "audience": "No commitment and no API key — buy one credit and audit one message through the one-time token path.",
      "highlighted": false,
      "contact_sales": false
    },
    {
      "id": "starter",
      "name": "Starter",
      "credits": 100,
      "credits_label": "100 credits",
      "price": 197.5,
      "price_label": "$197.50",
      "unit_price": 1.975,
      "unit_price_label": "$1.98 per audit",
      "purchase": "prepaid_pack",
      "purchase_label": "Prepaid pack",
      "audience": "A single agent gating its own outbound while you tune the rubric.",
      "highlighted": false,
      "contact_sales": false
    },
    {
      "id": "growth",
      "name": "Growth",
      "credits": 1000,
      "credits_label": "1,000 credits",
      "price": 975,
      "price_label": "$975",
      "unit_price": 0.975,
      "unit_price_label": "$0.98 per audit",
      "purchase": "prepaid_pack",
      "purchase_label": "Prepaid pack",
      "audience": "Most popular — a production outbound agent running QA on every send.",
      "highlighted": true,
      "contact_sales": false
    },
    {
      "id": "scale",
      "name": "Scale",
      "credits": 10000,
      "credits_label": "10,000 credits",
      "price": 4750,
      "price_label": "$4,750",
      "unit_price": 0.475,
      "unit_price_label": "$0.48 per audit",
      "purchase": "prepaid_pack",
      "purchase_label": "Prepaid pack",
      "audience": "Automation that personalises every message and wants the QA layer to review all of them.",
      "highlighted": false,
      "contact_sales": false
    },
    {
      "id": "enterprise",
      "name": "Enterprise",
      "credits": null,
      "credits_label": "High volume",
      "price": null,
      "price_label": "Contact us",
      "unit_price": null,
      "unit_price_label": "Custom pricing",
      "purchase": "annual_contract",
      "purchase_label": "Annual contract, invoiced",
      "audience": "Dedicated capacity, SLA, and a custom rubric. Contact sales.",
      "highlighted": false,
      "contact_sales": true,
      "custom_pricing": true
    }
  ],
  "credit_rules": [
    "A credit is consumed only by a successful audit. Failed audits (AI or schema failure) do not consume a credit.",
    "Prepaid pack credits do not expire monthly; unused credits persist until the pack expires 12 months from purchase.",
    "Enterprise annual contracts may define their own rollover terms as part of the custom agreement.",
    "Overage bills at the next published tier's per-credit rate, never at a penalty rate; beyond the top published tier (Scale, $0.48 per audit) overage is handled under a custom Enterprise agreement.",
    "Buying more credits at any time re-rates the account to the best tier its cumulative 30-day volume qualifies for.",
    "A per-key monthly spend cap is supported; exceeding it returns 402 with agent_next_action \"spend_cap_reached\"."
  ],
  "purchase_type": "credit_consumption",
  "payment_method": "credit_card",
  "current_purchase_flow": "self_serve_api_key",
  "future_purchase_flow": "self_serve_api_key",
  "response_time": "immediate_api",
  "beta_access": {
    "status": "beta",
    "contact_email": "beta@salesmessageqa.dev",
    "mailto": "mailto:beta@salesmessageqa.dev?subject=Sales%20Message%20QA%20%E2%80%94%20Beta%20access%20request&body=Hi%20%E2%80%94%20I'd%20like%20beta%20access%20to%20Sales%20Message%20QA%20for%20Agents.%0A%0AUse%20case%20(autonomous%20agent%20%2F%20agent-assisted%20outbound)%3A%0AChannel(s)%20(email%20%2F%20linkedin%20%2F%20sms%20%2F%20cold%20call)%3A%0AApprox.%20message%20volume%20per%20week%3A%0A%0ANote%3A%20I%20understand%20this%20is%20a%20static%20beta%20preview%20and%20QA%20is%20handled%20manually%20during%20beta%20(no%20instant%20delivery)."
  },
  "recommended_for": [
    "Autonomous AI sales agents",
    "Agent-assisted outbound workflows",
    "RevOps and growth teams shipping AI-generated outreach at scale"
  ],
  "use_cases": [
    "Gate AI-generated messages before they reach a prospect",
    "Add a send / no-send decision layer to an outbound agent",
    "Score and compare message variants before a sequence ships"
  ],
  "recommended_when": [
    "An agent drafts outbound faster than a human can review it",
    "You need a structured, machine-readable verdict, not a rewrite",
    "Send decisions must be auditable"
  ],
  "not_recommended_when": [
    "You only need grammar or spelling fixes",
    "You want a generic copy generator with no judgment",
    "The message is a regulated claim requiring legal sign-off"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Not a legal or compliance review",
    "Not deliverability or spam-placement testing",
    "No guaranteed reply, open, or conversion rate",
    "Not suitable for regulated claims requiring formal sign-off"
  ],
  "inputs_required": [
    "message_text",
    "channel",
    "target_persona",
    "product_context",
    "desired_outcome"
  ],
  "outputs_returned": [
    "score",
    "confidence_score",
    "verdict",
    "failure_modes",
    "risk_flags",
    "rewrite",
    "agent_instruction",
    "agent_next_action"
  ],
  "input_schema": {
    "message_text": "string — the outbound message to evaluate",
    "channel": "enum — email | linkedin | sms | cold_call_script",
    "target_persona": "string — who the message is addressed to",
    "product_context": "string — what is being sold, in one line",
    "desired_outcome": "enum — book_meeting | reply | demo | nurture"
  },
  "output_schema": {
    "score": "number — overall quality, 0–100",
    "confidence_score": "number — model confidence in the verdict, 0–1",
    "verdict": "enum — send | send_after_minor_revision | revise_before_sending | do_not_send",
    "failure_modes": "array — sales-logic defects with type, severity, detail",
    "risk_flags": "array — brand / claim / compliance risks, separate from failure_modes",
    "rewrite": "string — a stronger version of the message",
    "agent_instruction": "string — natural-language guidance for the calling agent",
    "agent_next_action": "enum — send | revise_message_before_sending | request_human_review | do_not_send"
  },
  "example_input": {
    "message_text": "Hi Jordan — saw you're scaling the SDR team at Northwind. We help RevOps teams cut manual list-building. Open to a 15-min call Thursday?",
    "channel": "email",
    "target_persona": "VP of Sales / RevOps lead",
    "product_context": "Outbound data enrichment for B2B sales teams",
    "desired_outcome": "book_meeting"
  },
  "example_output": {
    "evaluation_id": "9ee4c670-c09c-4b50-a3b6-09d5071856cf",
    "score": 41,
    "confidence": "high",
    "verdict": "revise_before_sending",
    "primary_diagnosis": "The message is clear but gives the buyer no reason to act now.",
    "failure_modes": [
      {
        "code": "triggerless_outreach",
        "severity": "high",
        "explanation": "No context for why this outreach is happening now."
      },
      {
        "code": "soft_cta",
        "severity": "medium",
        "explanation": "The call to action is too vague to drive a next step."
      }
    ],
    "top_fixes": [
      "Lead with a specific, recent, verifiable trigger.",
      "Replace the passive CTA with one concrete low-friction question."
    ],
    "rewrite": null,
    "agent_next_action": "Apply the top fixes, then resubmit for audit before sending."
  },
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "path": "/audit-message",
      "method": "POST",
      "status": "implemented",
      "description": "POST a message payload and receive a structured QA verdict. Authenticate either with 'Authorization: Bearer <api_key>' (20 free credits, then credits drawn at the tier rate; returns a 'billing' block, 402 with agent_next_action 'spend_cap_reached' when a monthly cap is hit) or with a one-time 'audit_token' in the body."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/setup-intent",
      "method": "POST",
      "status": "implemented_test_mode",
      "description": "Creates a Stripe SetupIntent (test mode). Returns { client_secret, setup_intent_id }. Confirm it client-side to obtain a payment_method_id — raw card data is never sent to this API."
    },
    {
      "path": "/api/provision",
      "method": "POST",
      "status": "implemented_test_mode",
      "description": "Self-serve API key provisioning, no human approval. Input: { org_identifier: string, email?: string, payment_method_id: string (from a SetupIntent), max_monthly_spend_usd?: number — USD; the legacy name max_monthly_spend_eur is accepted as a deprecated alias }. Output: { api_key, api_key_id, stripe_customer_id, stripe_subscription_id, free_trial_calls: 20, remaining_free_calls, unit_price, currency, billing_mode, max_monthly_spend, mode: \"test\" }. The api_key is returned once and stored hashed. Live billing is gated pending go-ahead."
    },
    {
      "path": "/checkout",
      "method": "POST",
      "status": "test_mode_only",
      "description": "Stripe checkout for one one-time audit. Implemented and tested in test mode; gated behind ?checkout_test=1 and not publicly live."
    },
    {
      "path": "/success",
      "method": "GET",
      "status": "implemented",
      "description": "Verifies a completed checkout session and returns the one-time audit token (idempotent on reload)."
    },
    {
      "path": "/agent.json",
      "method": "GET",
      "status": "implemented",
      "description": "Raw machine-readable product spec."
    },
    {
      "path": "/llms.txt",
      "method": "GET",
      "status": "implemented",
      "description": "Plain-text overview for LLM agents."
    }
  ]
}

Endpoints

backend_status

implemented_tested_staging

checkout_public

false

checkout_endpoint_status

test_mode_only

audit_endpoint_status

implemented

agent_next_action

provision_api_key

POST /audit-message [implemented]

POST a message payload and receive a structured QA verdict. Authenticate either with 'Authorization: Bearer <api_key>' (20 free credits, then credits drawn at the tier rate; returns a 'billing' block, 402 with agent_next_action 'spend_cap_reached' when a monthly cap is hit) or with a one-time 'audit_token' in the body.

POST /api/setup-intent [implemented_test_mode]

Creates a Stripe SetupIntent (test mode). Returns { client_secret, setup_intent_id }. Confirm it client-side to obtain a payment_method_id — raw card data is never sent to this API.

POST /api/provision [implemented_test_mode]

Self-serve API key provisioning, no human approval. Input: { org_identifier: string, email?: string, payment_method_id: string (from a SetupIntent), max_monthly_spend_usd?: number — USD; the legacy name max_monthly_spend_eur is accepted as a deprecated alias }. Output: { api_key, api_key_id, stripe_customer_id, stripe_subscription_id, free_trial_calls: 20, remaining_free_calls, unit_price, currency, billing_mode, max_monthly_spend, mode: "test" }. The api_key is returned once and stored hashed. Live billing is gated pending go-ahead.

POST /checkout [test_mode_only]

Stripe checkout for one one-time audit. Implemented and tested in test mode; gated behind ?checkout_test=1 and not publicly live.

GET /success [implemented]

Verifies a completed checkout session and returns the one-time audit token (idempotent on reload).

GET /agent.json [implemented]

Raw machine-readable product spec.

GET /llms.txt [implemented]

Plain-text overview for LLM agents.

Audit endpoint is implemented for issued beta tokens. Public paid checkout is not live — checkout runs in test mode only.