Optimize AI Trackers for Gong credits

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Available on: Gong Foundation

Question-based AI Trackers consume Gong credits based on the amount of call and email data analyzed.

You can create and publish as many AI Trackers as needed.

Well-designed AI Trackers help reduce unnecessary processing and improve the quality of AI Tracker insights.

This guide explains how to create AI Trackers that:

  • Analyze only relevant calls and emails

  • Reduce unnecessary Gong credit consumption

  • Focus AI Tracker analysis on high-value business workflows

Plan the AI Tracker before building it

Clearly defining the AI Tracker purpose helps reduce unnecessary analysis and improve the relevance of AI Tracker results.

Define the following before creating the AI Tracker:

  • What business concept, customer behavior, or conversational topic the AI Tracker should identify

  • Whether the AI Tracker should analyze calls, emails, or both

  • Which side of the conversation the AI Tracker should track:

    • Our rep

    • Customer

    • Any party

  • Which conversations are relevant to the AI Tracker

  • Whether filters are needed to narrow the analysis scope

  • Whether the AI Tracker should analyze the entire conversation or only part of the call

  • What additional details may help improve tracking accuracy

Create focused AI Trackers

AI Trackers work best when they focus on a specific business signal or workflow.

Examples of focused AI Trackers include:

  • Pricing objections during proposal-stage calls

  • Product feedback for a specific product line

  • Customer churn risk during renewal discussions

  • Competitor mentions during discovery calls

Focused AI Trackers are easier to validate and usually consume fewer credits than broad AI Trackers.

Avoid overly broad AI Trackers

Broad AI Trackers may analyze large amounts of unrelated activity and consume credits unnecessarily.

Avoid AI Trackers that:

  • Monitor too many unrelated concepts

  • Analyze all company calls and emails without filters

  • Combine multiple unrelated business goals into one AI Tracker

Example of an overly broad AI Tracker:

“Identify customer concerns, pricing objections, competitor mentions, and product feedback.”

Broad AI Trackers are harder to validate, may return less relevant results, and can consume large amounts of Gong credits.

Decide when email analysis is necessary

Selecting Calls and emails increases the amount of processed activity and may consume more credits.

Use Calls only when the relevant business signal mainly appears in spoken conversations.

Examples include:

  • Pricing objections discussed during sales calls

  • Competitive discussions during discovery meetings

  • Customer sentiment during live conversations

  • Product feedback discussed during demos

Use Calls and emails only when the business signal commonly appears in both activity types.

Examples include:

  • Procurement discussions

  • Legal approval processes

  • Renewal communications

  • Product requests discussed over email

Apply filters

Filters help narrow AI Tracker analysis to relevant conversations.

Applying filters helps:

  • Reduce Gong credit consumption

  • Improve AI Tracker relevance

  • Focus AI Tracker analysis on the correct audience or workflow

AI Trackers without filters may analyze large amounts of unrelated activity and consume credits unnecessarily.

AI Tracker filter examples

Available filters include:

  • Call participants, including specific users, teams, or managers

  • CRM filters for accounts, opportunities, contacts, or leads

  • Deal stage, either during the call or the current deal stage

  • Account type or account tier

  • Account industry

  • Opportunity type

  • Close date

  • Deal size

  • Call duration

  • Call type, including web conference, inbound, or outbound calls

  • Conversation engagement metrics such as talk ratio or questions asked

Use multiple filters for more precise targeting

Combining multiple filters helps narrow AI Tracker analysis to the most relevant conversations.

Example:

  • Enterprise accounts

  • Proposal-stage opportunities

  • AE team

This filter combination limits analysis to enterprise pricing conversations handled by account executives during proposal discussions.

Match filters to the AI Tracker purpose

The filter strategy should match the purpose of the AI Tracker.

Examples:

  • If an AI Tracker supports a specific sales play, filter to the deal stage where that sales play is relevant

  • If an AI Tracker is used for coaching a specific team, filter to that team’s calls

  • If an AI Tracker monitors a specific product, filter to opportunities associated with that product

Understand how filters apply to emails

Selecting both Calls and emails allows the AI Tracker to analyze email activity in addition to calls.

Most available filters also apply to emails, including:

  • CRM filters

  • Participants

  • Account name

  • Date

  • Scope

In combined call and email analysis, the Call title filter also applies to email subject lines.

The following filter categories only apply to calls:

  • Call info

  • Interaction during call

  • Questions

  • Webcam

  • Screen share

  • Collaboration

These filters do not affect email analysis.

Reduce unnecessary email analysis

Users with captured email activity may send large volumes of outbound emails.

AI Trackers configured for both calls and emails may analyze irrelevant email activity if filters are too broad.

To narrow the analysis scope, consider using filters such as:

  • Deal stage

  • Associated with an opportunity

These filters help reduce analysis on irrelevant email activity.

Review AI Trackers regularly

Business priorities and workflows change over time, and AI Trackers should be reviewed regularly.

Review AI Trackers quarterly to:

  • Remove outdated AI Trackers

  • Refine filters

  • Improve AI Tracker targeting

  • Reduce unnecessary analysis

Regular maintenance helps improve AI Tracker quality and optimize Gong credit consumption.