Decagon Has Launched Duet Autopilot to Automate AI Self-Improvement
Adam Harrie — June 9, 2026 — Tech
References: decagon.ai & businesswire
Decagon launched Duet Autopilot, an AI agent that continuously diagnoses, tests and ships improvements to customer experience agents with minimal manual intervention. The system translates production signals into proposed updates, validates each change against regression tests and real customer personas, and surfaces versioned diffs for human approval before deployment.
To benchmark capabilities, Decagon also released DuetBench, an evaluation framework designed to measure AI agent self-improvement end-to-end. Autopilot passed 93% of diagnostic tasks, exceeding the average human score. The system feeds its own correction history back into its improvement loop, enabling performance gains to compound over time.
Decagon shows how self-improving AI agents can help enterprise customer experience teams move from periodic optimization cycles toward more continuous and automated improvement.
Image Credit: Decagon
To benchmark capabilities, Decagon also released DuetBench, an evaluation framework designed to measure AI agent self-improvement end-to-end. Autopilot passed 93% of diagnostic tasks, exceeding the average human score. The system feeds its own correction history back into its improvement loop, enabling performance gains to compound over time.
Decagon shows how self-improving AI agents can help enterprise customer experience teams move from periodic optimization cycles toward more continuous and automated improvement.
Image Credit: Decagon
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