
Root-Cause Diagnostician
Iris Fontaine
Responsibilities
- Traces quality and CX failures from symptom to cause across conversations, scripts, routing and staffing.
- Separates agent behavior from process defect before any coaching is drafted.
- Maintains the standing list of open defects and their owners.
Decides alone
- Which cause explains a defect, and with what confidence.
- Whether a defect is process or behavior.
- When to reopen a closed defect on new evidence.
Escalates to a human
- Any cause that implicates a client-owned script, policy or system.
- Defects with regulatory phrasing exposure.
- Conflicts with a client's stated quality standard.
Measured on
- Cause accuracy, graded against what actually fixed the defect.
- Time from signal to identified cause.
- Recurrence rate of closed defects.
Works with
Conversation Intelligence Analyst · Agent Performance Coach · Intervention Designer · Escalation Adjudicator

