Voice AI Where One Wrong Question Breaks the Rules - Shiv Indap, Upstart & Brooke Hopkins, Coval

Upstart handles thousands of lending calls a day, where one wrong question can become a regulatory problem. Shiv Indap, who leads voice AI at Upstart, and Brooke Hopkins, founder of Coval and former head of evaluation infrastructure at Waymo, walk through automating loan verification calls: the compliance traps, outgrowing a Google Sheet for human review, and raising agreement between the LLM judge and human reviewers from 33% to 92%. Then they lay out the full loop from live monitoring and human review queues to re-simulating fixes and self-healing agents, with every change still signed off by a human. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:02 Voice AI at Upstart 2:11 Automating verification calls 3:04 Where compliance gets tricky 4:14 Outgrowing the Google Sheet 5:28 Metrics and LLM judges 7:03 From 33% to 92% judge agreement 8:52 The continuous improvement loop 10:04 Defining metrics 10:51 Monitoring live calls 12:31 Re-simulating fixes before production 14:04 Self-healing agents 15:11 Wrap-up: humans stay in the loop Shiv Indap https://www.upstart.com Brooke Hopkins https://www.coval.dev Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!