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It fails that one, so it doesn’t ship.","omniaCaps":["selfplay","adversarial","tool-assertions","deploy-gate"],"them":"Agentic Evaluations score each dataset task as a single utterance, and ServiceNow’s own field guide calls them decision support and says they don’t gate a deployment.","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/ceg-ai-coe-articles/a-field-guide-to-evaluating-analyzing-and-debugging-ai-agents-on/ta-p/3545229","omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/explanation/scenario-design/"},"differences":[{"title":"Whole conversations, not single prompts","body":"Simulated users hold a whole conversation with the agent through its real tools, some hostile and some on voice, and the test asserts on what the agent did.","caps":["selfplay","adversarial","voice-testing","tool-assertions"],"them":"Each evaluation task is one utterance, scored by an LLM judge on metrics such as task completeness.","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/intelligent-experiences/execute-aia-eval.html","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/explanation/scenario-design/"},{"title":"Evaluation gates the release","body":"A failed suite blocks the release. After a pass, the version goes out in steps, and its metrics decide whether it’s promoted or rolled back.","caps":["deploy-gate","progressive-rollout","metric-gated-promotion"],"them":"Evaluations inform the decision; staged rollout and automatic rollback aren’t documented.","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/ceg-ai-coe-articles/a-field-guide-to-evaluating-analyzing-and-debugging-ai-agents-on/ta-p/3545229","omniaEnterprise":true,"omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/how-to/interfaces/run-in-ci/"},{"title":"Choose the model per agent","body":"Each agent requires the models it needs: one on Claude, another on Gemini, a classifier on a model you host. Seven native protocols and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.","caps":["native-interfaces","openai-compatible","inference-roles"],"them":"Customers choose one of four or five LLMs for agentic orchestration, without per-agent granularity.","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-otto-forum/which-llm-ai-agents-use-can-we-configure-each-ai-agent-to-use/m-p/3563431","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://omnia.altairalabs.ai/reference/core/provider/"}],"rows":[{"topic":"Multi-turn simulated users","omnia":"Yes, against real tools.","caps":["selfplay"],"them":"Not documented.","coverage":"undocumented","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/intelligent-experiences/execute-aia-eval.html","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/explanation/scenario-design/"},{"topic":"Eval-gated release","omnia":"Built in.","caps":["deploy-gate"],"them":"Decision support only.","coverage":"undocumented","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/ceg-ai-coe-articles/a-field-guide-to-evaluating-analyzing-and-debugging-ai-agents-on/ta-p/3545229","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/how-to/interfaces/run-in-ci/"},{"topic":"Stepped rollout, auto rollback","omnia":"Yes.","caps":["progressive-rollout"],"them":"Not documented; a kill switch is described.","coverage":"undocumented","source":"https://newsroom.servicenow.com/press-releases/details/2026/ServiceNow-advances-its-operational-harness-for-enterprise-AI-with-AI-Passport-and-expanded-governance-capabilities/default.aspx","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://omnia.altairalabs.ai/tutorials/progressive-rollouts/"},{"topic":"Argument-level tool policy","omnia":"A CEL rule on every call.","caps":["per-call-policy"],"them":"ACLs on the run-as identity.","coverage":"partly","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/servicenow-otto-articles/latest-access-control-security-enhancements-for-ai-agents-and/ta-p/3374036","omniaEnterprise":true,"omniaEvidence":"https://omnia.altairalabs.ai/how-to/security/configure-tool-policies/"},{"topic":"Self-hosted","omnia":"Every feature, in your cluster.","caps":["workspaces"],"them":"Private Stack, not at parity with the commercial release.","coverage":"partly","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/community/product-launch-blogs/private-stack-deploy-the-full-servicenow-ai-platform-on-your/ba-p/3524144","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://omnia.altairalabs.ai/how-to/workspaces/manage-workspaces/"},{"topic":"Voice testing","omnia":"Barge-in, overlap, dead air.","caps":["voice-testing"],"them":"Not documented.","coverage":"undocumented","source":"https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/intelligent-experiences/execute-aia-eval.html","omniaEnterprise":false,"omniaEvidence":"https://promptarena.altairalabs.ai/arena/how-to/voice/setup-voice-testing/"}],"faq":[{"q":"Can an Omnia agent work with ServiceNow?","a":"Yes. ServiceNow’s APIs are tools like any other, called with the end user’s identity and checked by policy before each call."},{"q":"How is Omnia priced?","a":"Free while you build, the core free in production, and an enterprise licence per environment per year from £30,000. Nothing is metered."}]}