Garbage in, garbage out — but structured data in, 94% accuracy out. Your AI agent is only as smart as the data you feed it.
Not all data is created equal. Each level of the pyramid builds on the one below it. Skip a level and your AI agent will hallucinate, misclassify, or offend.
Human-reviewed, edge cases identified, adversarial examples included
Categorized by intent, tagged with entities, annotated with correct responses
Deduplicated, normalized, PII removed
CRM exports, email archives, support tickets, call transcripts
Validated Data
Structured Data
Cleaned Data
Raw Data
Different AI agent types need different training data. Here is exactly what to collect for each use case.
80% of your AI agent's performance comes from the first 500 well-structured examples. The next 5,000 examples only improve it by 15%. Focus on quality over quantity.
These are the pitfalls that silently kill AI agent accuracy.
Follow these steps before feeding any data to your AI agent.