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Categories are the heart of call scoring. Each category is a type of conversation, and it defines what Exec captures from those calls (attributes), how it grades them (scorecards), and how it summarizes them. Manage them under Settings > Calls > Categories.

Categories

Categories are folders for your conversation types, such as Sales, Prospecting, Customer Success, Customer Support, Internal, and Recruiting. A templated set comes built in and is ready to use as-is; click Create Category to add your own with a name and description. Each category has an Automatically analyze future calls in this category toggle and three tabs: Attributes, Scorecards, and Call Summaries. When the toggle is on and Exec is confident a call belongs to that category, it labels, scores, and analyzes the call with no action from you. Because the first scoring of a call spends platform credits, turning the toggle off on categories you care less about is the simplest way to control spend: those calls still import and get categorized, and you can score them individually whenever you want.
The Call Categories list, each with its attribute and call counts
It’s common to turn off the default attributes you don’t need and keep just the few that matter to your team. Toggle any attribute on or off from the Attributes tab.

Attributes

Attributes are the structured data Exec pulls out of each call in a category. Every attribute has a Type (Single-Select, Multi-Select, Text, or True/False) and instructions that tell the scoring system how to identify it.
  • A call type attribute (single-select) lists the conversation types within a category. Customer Success ships with options like onboarding and implementation, general check-in, strategic QBR, renewal and expansion, and at-risk escalation. Its instructions help Exec identify the category and the specific conversation type, and you can add, edit, or remove options.
  • An objections raised attribute can capture the objections that come up on sales calls, so you can see the most common ones across the workspace and decide what coaching or roleplays to build around them.
Toggle attributes on or off, edit the built-in ones, or create your own to capture exactly what your team cares about - which products or features came up, deal stage, call outcome, key stakeholders mentioned. Whatever you capture here becomes a chart on the category dashboard and a filter in Call History, so add the attributes you actually want to slice performance by.

Scorecards

A category’s Scorecard is where the actual evaluation criteria for call scoring live. Every category ships with a base scorecard already built out, covering things like preparation and context awareness, so calls start scoring before you configure anything. Build on it around what matters for that conversation type: discovery, handling objections, talk ratio, business value, introductions, closing and next steps. Each item works the same way as a roleplay’s evaluation criteria, with four descriptions: Not Relevant for Grading is worth filling in. Criteria graded not relevant are left out of the score calculation entirely, so a criterion that had no chance to come up on a call doesn’t drag that call’s score down. To write the descriptions quickly, enter a title (for example, “Objection handling”) and click Generate - Exec drafts the Good, Fair, and Poor descriptions for you, and you edit from there.

Skills, attribution, and weighting

Three more settings on each scorecard item:
  • Skills - generate or associate a skill, so call performance feeds the same skill analytics as roleplays.
  • Attribution - who the criterion is credited to. This is specific to call scoring; roleplays have no equivalent because there’s only one learner.
  • Weighting - 0 points, 1 point, 2 points, or 4 points. Higher-weighted criteria count for more in the call’s score; 0 points leaves the criterion out of the score calculation, so it’s evaluated and shown but doesn’t move the number. Use this to make things like booking next steps or active listening count for more than softer criteria.
A handy shortcut: build a roleplay for the conversation first, then transfer its evaluation criteria into the call scorecard.

Conditional criteria

Conditional criteria are scorecard items that only apply when an attribute has a specific value, so a call gets graded on what’s actually relevant to it. Most categories ship with some already: Customer Success, for example, has separate criteria for onboarding calls, QBRs, and renewals on top of its base scorecard. Click Add conditional criteria, select the attribute and the value, and build the items. Calls in that category get the base scorecard plus any conditional criteria matching their attributes.
Only Single-Select attributes can drive conditional criteria, and each value can have one set of them. Values that already have criteria don’t appear in the picker again.

Archiving and deleting a category

Archive a category you’ve stopped using: its calls keep their extracted attribute data, their scorecards are marked outdated rather than deleted, and you can recategorize those calls or re-activate the category at any time. Delete is permanent - its calls return to uncategorized and have to be recategorized and rescored from scratch. Archive unless you’re sure.

Call Summaries

The Call Summaries tab is where you give instructions for how calls in this category should be summarized, including what to include and how to structure it. If you leave it blank, Exec uses a sensible default, similar to a roleplay session summary.

Next step

Once calls are importing and scoring, see Review Scored Calls to track performance.

Getting Help

Need help? Contact us at [email protected] for guidance on building categories and scorecards.