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Simulation Mode

Dry-run the AI pipeline against past tickets without writing to the database.

Simulation mode lets you test how your AI configuration would have performed on real historical tickets — with zero writes to the database.

What it does

  • Fetches the last N tickets (1–100)
  • Runs each through the full AI pipeline: embed → KB search → generate answer → assess confidence
  • Compares simulated outcomes to what actually happened
  • Returns per-ticket results and aggregate stats

No tickets are created, updated, or deleted during a simulation run.

How to run

  1. Go to Simulation in the sidebar
  2. Choose your model, confidence threshold, and ticket count
  3. Click Run simulation
  4. Review results in the table and aggregate stats

Reading results

ColumnDescription
TicketQuestion text
Sim confidenceAI confidence score in this run
Sim deflectWould this have been deflected at your threshold?
Actual deflectWas it actually deflected in production?
MatchDo sim and actual agree?
DurationTime the AI took to process this ticket

Aggregate stats

  • Deflect rate — % of tickets the AI would deflect in this simulation
  • Actual deflect rate — % that were actually deflected in production
  • Match rate — how closely simulation matches production outcomes
  • Avg confidence — mean confidence across all tickets
  • Delta — difference between sim deflect rate and production rate

Use cases

  • Test a new model before switching in production
  • See the impact of raising or lowering the confidence threshold
  • Diagnose why certain questions aren't being deflected

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