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Introducing GSAT: Goal Satisfaction Scores built into Olark

Ben Congleton
November 12, 2025

If you are on a customer facing team, we have a tool we think you’ll love! We are calling it GSAT (for Goal Satisfaction). With GSAT you can now see the inquiries your customers make, by inquiry topic, and whether your team was able to successfully satisfy them. It’s a nifty and powerful tool for your customer success toolbelt!

CSAT is old hat. It relies on customers choosing to leave feedback (usually the unhappy ones,) and measures how they felt, not whether their problem was solved.

GSAT (Goal Satisfaction) flips that script and is available today in your new dashboard. With GSAT we analyze every conversation, identify each topic a customer was trying to address, and assesses how well it was resolved — from excellent to poor. The result is a complete, outcome-focused view of support effectiveness, not just a biased snapshot of sentiment. It's like having a business analyst who can review every conversation you have and let you know what's working and what's not.

How it works

1. We process your customer conversations using Ai and extract the customer goals.  A single conversation often contains multiple goals.

Visitor: Hi there, Visitor: Do you do custom paint jobs on your bicycles?  And do you have a money back guarantee?Company: Hello, yes to custom paint jobs, I'll have to get back to you about that money back guarantee.Question 1: Do you offer custom paint jobs? Topic: Customization Question 2: Money back guarantee? Topic: Refunds
In this conversation we detected two goals "Do you do custom pain jobs on your bicycles" and "do you have a money back guarantee"



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With the goals extracted, we can now figure out if the goals were achieved by the customer. Did they get what they wanted from reaching out to your customer service team? 

Visitor: Hi there, Visitor: Do you do custom paint jobs on your bicycles?  And do you have a money back guarantee? Company: Hello, yes to custom paint jobs, I'll have to get back to you about that money back guarantee.Topic 1: Goal Satisfied? Yes, Topic 2: Goal Satisfied? No
We are able to map a customer's goals to the company's response to see if they are met for multiple goals in the same conversation.

In this case, the visitor achieved their goal of knowing if the company did custom paint jobs, but did not achieve their goal of knowing whether the company had a money back guarantee.  



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We then group the goals by topic and keep track of which % of goals by topic were achieved, providing you a GSAT score by topic.

Visitor: Do you do custom paint jobs on your bicycles?  And do you have a money back guarantee?Company: Hello, yes to custom paint jobs, I'll have to get back to you about that money back guarantee.Topics: Customization, RefundsTopic 1: 100% goal achievement - Excellent‍ Topic 2: 0% goal achievement - Poor
We group goals by topic, and keep track of whether we achived the goal for each topic to calculate your GSAT score.

In the above example we identified goals: Customization and Refunds. The representative helped the customer understand that the company offers custom paint jobs, but did not answer the customer's query about whether the company had a money back guarantee. In this case we'd score customization as 100% and refunds as 0%.

How to try it out  

GSAT is available on your account today! Just log into your new dashboard.  You'll notice the a new GSAT (Goal Satisfaction) report right on the Home page.

Start by clicking the Choose Topics button to select the topics you most care about tracking.

A gray button with the words "Choose Topics" in black font.

Pick the most relevant topics and click “Apply Changes”. Our Ai will automatically scan your chat conversations to find when these topics come up, giving you insights into what your customers are talking about most.

The "Which topics do you want to track?" modal. Selected topics are shown in gray, a purple "apply changes" button is at the bottom.

Data for the past 6 months will populate instantly, and you'll be able to see an overview of what topics your customers are communicating about.

A table with 3 columns: GSAT, Topic, Volume.  The topics are all topics you might have on customer service like: Technical Support, Account Management, the GSAT scores are Excellent, Good, Poor, and for Volume we show the % of chats that are handled by a human, ai, or needed follow up later.

You can drill into individual topics to see volume trends over time, and drill into who is responding to cases (AI, Human, or follow up emails). When you drill into a topic you'll also be able to see a sample of recent transcripts we are categorizing in this topic, (e.g. this can help you get a better sense of what is getting categorized as "Feedback and Suggestions" for your organization.

The Topic activity view is a bar chart in blue and yellow. It shows topic volume by date range and a list of transcripts we detected containing this topic.
Zoom into individual topics to see trends over time, and illustrative examples of transcripts in this category.

We’d love your feedback. GSAT just entered open beta, and we're keen to learn more about how we can make it better for you.