Synthpop automates healthcare voice QA agentically with Hamming

Synthpop is a patient journey orchestration platform that automates referral intake, insurance verification, eligibility, and patient communication for healthcare organizations. It combines document intelligence, payer-aware reasoning, and conversational voice agents in one system that automates large parts of healthcare back-office work.
Synthpop
Location
Cambridge, MA
Industry
Healthcare AI
Funding
Series A ($23M total)
Use cases
  • Self-sustaining test suites grounded in real call data
  • Agentic MCP-driven test infrastructure setup
  • Cross-account insurance, patient, and clinic flow validation
“The proactive discovery is probably the number one most useful thing. We want issues to be raised either internally with our existing analytics and fallback mechanisms or through Hamming.”
Jyoti Rani
AI Engineer, Synthpop

About Synthpop

Synthpop runs voice agents across the full patient journey: inbound and outbound, patient and clinic, and payer. The team has automated agent provisioning, account onboarding, and call flow extension, and built an internal layer of analytics, fallback mechanisms, and self-healing systems that fix call flow issues automatically.

As volume ramped across accounts, Synthpop extended that automation philosophy to QA, with Hamming as the proactive-discovery and agentic test infrastructure layer. With Hamming, the team gets:

  • Proactive discovery of failure modes before they become customer-visible incidents
  • A self-sustaining test suite grounded in real production failure data
  • Agentic test infrastructure setup driven by Hamming's MCP server
  • Cross-account learning, so new flows inherit institutional knowledge

The challenge: extending Synthpop's automation philosophy to QA

Synthpop's voice agents handle some of the hardest call flows in healthcare: insurance verification with multi-party transfers, eligibility checks, referral intake, and patient communication across many touchpoints over weeks. One failure mode buried in a payer interaction could mean a missed order, a delayed appointment, or a patient who disengages.

On the agent side, that automation was already in place. New accounts come online programmatically, and new call flow types no longer take weeks of manual setup. For the patterns its analytics and self-healing systems could not yet see, customer success teams read through call analytics.

QA was the next layer to bring up to that standard. The question was not whether existing analytics worked. It was whether Synthpop could add a proactive-discovery layer that surfaced systemic patterns earlier, ground its test suite in real data, and let coding agents stand up new test infrastructure as fast as new accounts came online.

Before and after Hamming

MetricBefore HammingWith Hamming
Failure mode discoveryBefore HammingInternal analytics plus call-by-call reviewWith HammingInternal analytics plus proactive Hamming patterns
Test suite sourceBefore HammingCurated scenarios per flowWith HammingSelf-sustaining suite
Test infrastructure setupBefore HammingConfigured per account by engineersWith HammingStood up agentically through Hamming's MCP
Cross-flow knowledge transferBefore HammingCoverage rediscovered for each new flowWith HammingSkill files and playbooks in design, so institutional knowledge transfers across flows
Customer success QA loadBefore HammingManual analytics review during volume rampsWith HammingHamming surfaces clusters of recurring issues automatically

How Hamming helps Synthpop run voice QA at scale

  • 01

    Proactive failure-mode discovery

    On top of Synthpop's own analytics, fallback mechanisms, and self-healing systems, Hamming adds proactive systemic discovery. It surfaces patterns in calls that point engineering at the highest-impact issue before customer success has to spot it call by call.

    The most useful discoveries name the failure mode in business terms. As Jyoti put it: “X percent of calls are failing in insurance because we're getting stuck at this piece of the call, either because both parties didn't have a particular context that needs to be provided early going in.” Engineering and customer success can both act on that.

    Guide to AI voice agent quality assurance

  • 02

    Agentic test infrastructure through MCP

    Synthpop is an agent-native team, and Hamming's MCP server extends the same automation to QA. Coding agents set up mirror agents, evals, and test profiles for each account, instead of engineers wiring them up by hand.

    HIPAA and clinical workflow testing checklist

Why Synthpop chose Hamming

With the rest of its operations already running programmatically, Synthpop's bar for any QA platform was whether it could match that pattern, rather than become the one manual workstream that scaled with engineering headcount instead of accounts. Hamming did.

The relationship reinforced the choice. Direct engagement with the Hamming team, including DM-level access during onboarding, turned feedback into shipped features quickly. As Synthpop pushes for OpenTelemetry-backed root cause analysis and cross-market flow expansion, a partner that moves at that speed has mattered as much as the product itself.

The results

The clearest results show up in two places: how Synthpop's customer success teams work day to day, and what happens when an account ramps volume. Manual QA used to strain at both moments. Hamming is now the load-bearing layer in both.

What changed

  • 01

    Customer success behavior shifted

    Jyoti credits Hamming with driving some behavior change on Synthpop's customer success teams. Where teams used to comb through analytics and individual calls to spot recurring patterns, Hamming now surfaces some of those patterns directly. That means less time hunting and more time on remediation and client communication.

  • 02

    Discoveries land in business terms

    The most useful Hamming reports are framed so customer success can act on them directly: specific enough to fix, and clear enough to walk through with a client. Bringing the same clarity to engineering through OpenTelemetry forwarding is the next milestone.

“The highest utility comes when you're increasing test call volume on an account. That's when it becomes unsustainable. We want one source that proactively raises issues, and Hamming is one of those sources. With the MCP, we can stand up mirror Hamming agents and all of the infrastructure, so this config isn't scaling linearly with engineering as well.”
Jyoti Rani
AI Engineer, Synthpop

What's next

Synthpop is wiring OpenTelemetry data through to Hamming so traces, tool calls, and reads and writes appear alongside failure-mode reports. The goal is to close the loop between “something is wrong” and “here is exactly which function and which downstream system caused it,” so engineering can go straight from a Hamming failure-mode pattern to the root cause without stitching together five different dashboards.

The team is also extending the agentic playbook across Synthpop's growing footprint. As new flows pilot in unrelated markets, the test suite is structured so institutional knowledge about payer behavior, IVR shape, and patient journey patterns transfers across flows. Each new rollout inherits the testing posture of mature ones instead of starting from scratch.