Introducing Objectives and Guardrails
Guide conversations toward clear, measurable outcomes.

The Tavus Conversational Video Interface (CVI) meaningfully drives conversations forward with goal-oriented conversation management.
With Objectives & Guardrails, CVI can:
- Define clear objectives with measurable completion criteria
- Automatically branch based on user responses
- Track progress, dependencies, and information in real time
This makes complex workflows, from health intakes to HR interviews to multi-step questionnaires, possible in conversational video experiences.
You can define Objectives & Guardrails in a few ways:
- Automatically via the new Persona Builder
- By creating your own JSON structure via the Objectives API
Objectives & Guardrails examples
- An AI healthcare assistant can guide patients through a multi-step intake, adapting questions based on symptoms and responses.
- An AI recruiter can conduct first-round interviews, staying on topic with role-specific questions and branching based on responses.
- An AI trainer can conduct fitness assessments, where branching and logic tailors questions around experience level and fitness goals.
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FAQs
How do Objectives and Guardrails work?
With Objectives & Guardrails, Replicas can define objectives with measurable completion criteria, branch automatically based on user responses, and track progress in real time. This unlocks complex workflows like Health Intakes, HR Interviews, and multi-step questionnaires.