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Performance Metrics

Signal benchmarked against generalized frontier AI models on the tasks that matter for organizational intelligence, plus the baseline service-level targets that every deployment is held to.

Benchmark comparison

Signal™ versus Generalized Frontier AI Models

Signal™ is benchmarked against generalized frontier models on metrics that drive organizational intelligence precision, plus the baseline service level targets critical to every enterprise deployment.

Hallucination Rate
Fabricated facts, invented attributions, and unsourced claims in model responses
Generalized AI
20-40%
Domain-specific attribution tasks
Signal
<5%
Grounded to verified source data
4-8x reduction
Factual Accuracy
Correct retrieval and representation of real events, decisions, and commitments
Generalized AI
55-70%
Enterprise domain retrieval
Signal
>95%
Fine-tuned + verified harness
~1.5x improvement
Sparse signal from large corpora of structurally similar data
Identifying the meaningful signal in high-volume, structurally uniform communications
Generalized AI
~20% precision
Similar-language corpora
Signal
>95% precision
Domain-tuned retrieval model
~5x improvement
Corporate Voice Consistency
Correct identification of individuals, roles, and communication patterns across the org
Generalized AI
45-65%
Without org-specific training
Signal
>90%
Org-specific fine-tuning
~1.7x improvement
Scalability at Volume
Performance maintenance as corpus grows to thousands of employees and millions of messages
Generalized AI
>30% degradation
At enterprise corpus scale
Signal
<5% variance
Purpose-built indexing
Structural advantage
Source Attribution Accuracy
Correctly attributing statements and commitments to the specific individual who made them
Generalized AI
60-80%
Text inference only, no identity layer
Signal
~100%
Pre-model identity resolution
Structural guarantee
Entity Disambiguation
Correctly resolving "Mark," "the Henderson deal," or "the Q2 launch" across a large corpus
Generalized AI
65-80%
Text inference only, no identity layer
Signal
~100%
Directory-resolved at ingestion
Structural guarantee
Temporal Precision
Correctly placing events and statements in time: "last Tuesday" vs. "three months ago"
Generalized AI
55-75%
Text inference only, no metadata layer
Signal
~100%
Metadata-resolved at ingestion
Structural guarantee

Signal architecture stack

Signal performance reflects five architectural layers applied before and during AI processing. Pre-model identity resolution: at onboarding, a full employee directory (name, role, department, and all connector IDs: email, Slack handle, business phone) is ingested; every communication is definitively attributed to a named individual before any AI model processes it. Complete metadata capture: all call times, durations, counterparties, message timestamps, and meeting metadata are captured as structured data at ingestion; temporal context is resolved structurally, not inferred from text. Automated structured data extraction at ingestion. Fine-tuned and post-trained proprietary models optimized specifically for corporate communications intelligence. Custom tool harness with rigorous system prompt engineering and guardrailing algorithms.

Metrics marked Structural guarantee reflect pre-model architectural solutions: the AI receives pre-resolved attribution, identity, and temporal context as structured inputs, not natural-language inference problems. Generalized AI performance figures reflect published benchmarks and credible estimates for frontier models (GPT, Claude) on domain-specific enterprise tasks without specialized data architecture.

Baseline targets

Service-level targets

Default performance targets for new deployments. Specific values are finalized with each design partner as part of the onboarding specification.

Metric
Target
Notes
Signal query latency (p50)
TBD
Time from query submission to first token rendered.
Signal query latency (p95)
TBD
Worst-case interactive latency under steady-state load.
Ingestion freshness
TBD
Time from source event to query availability.
Connector sync interval
TBD
Polling cadence per connector class.
Concurrent users (per tenant)
TBD
Active Signal sessions a single deployment supports.
Intelligence model throughput
TBD
Sustained queries-per-second per deployed model instance.