diff --git a/src/gretel_client/tuner/metrics.py b/src/gretel_client/tuner/metrics.py
index d388611b..61783c72 100644
--- a/src/gretel_client/tuner/metrics.py
+++ b/src/gretel_client/tuner/metrics.py
@@ -2,13 +2,19 @@
 
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import List
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List, Optional, Union
 
+import pandas as pd
+
+from gretel_client.gretel.artifact_fetching import fetch_synthetic_data
 from gretel_client.gretel.config_setup import (
     CONFIG_SETUP_DICT,
     extract_model_config_section,
     ModelName,
 )
+from gretel_client.gretel.exceptions import GretelJobSubmissionError
+from gretel_client.helpers import poll
 from gretel_client.projects.models import Model
 
 
@@ -66,6 +72,7 @@ class BaseTunerMetric(ABC):
     direction: MetricDirection = MetricDirection.MAXIMIZE
 
     def get_gretel_report(self, model: Model) -> dict:
+        """Get the Gretel synthetic data quality report."""
         model_type, _ = extract_model_config_section(model.model_config)
         report_type = CONFIG_SETUP_DICT[model_type].report_type
         if report_type is None:
@@ -77,6 +84,60 @@ def get_gretel_report(self, model: Model) -> dict:
             report = json.load(file)
         return report
 
+    def submit_generate_for_trial(
+        self,
+        model: Model,
+        num_records: Optional[int] = None,
+        seed_data: Optional[Union[str, Path, pd.DataFrame]] = None,
+        **generate_kwargs,
+    ) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        """Submit generate job for hyperparameter tuning trial.
+
+        Only one of `num_records` or `seed_data` can be provided. The former
+        will generate a complete synthetic dataset, while the latter will
+        conditionally generate synthetic data based on the seed data.
+
+        Args:
+            model: Gretel `Model` instance.
+            num_records: Number of records to generate.
+            seed_data: Seed data source as a file path or pandas DataFrame.
+
+        Raises:
+            TypeError: If `model` is not a Gretel `Model` instance.
+            GretelJobSubmissionError: If the combination of arguments is invalid.
+
+        Returns:
+            Pandas DataFrame containing the synthetic data.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(model, Model):
+            raise TypeError(f"Expected a Gretel Model object, got {type(model)}.")
+
+        if num_records is not None and seed_data is not None:
+            raise GretelJobSubmissionError(
+                "Only one of `num_records` or `seed_data` can be provided."
+            )
+
+        if num_records is None and seed_data is None:
+            raise GretelJobSubmissionError(
+                "Either `num_records` or `seed_data` must be provided."
+            )
+
+        if num_records is not None:
+            generate_kwargs.update({"num_records": num_records})
+
+        data_source = str(seed_data) if isinstance(seed_data, Path) else seed_data
+
+        record_handler = model.create_record_handler_obj(
+            data_source=data_source,
+            params=generate_kwargs,
+        )
+
+        record_handler.submit()
+
+        poll(record_handler, verbose=False)
+
+        return fetch_synthetic_data(record_handler)
+
     @abstractmethod
     def __call__(self, model: Model) -> float:
         """Calculate the optimization metric and return the score as a float."""
diff --git a/tests/gretel_client/integration/test_tuner.py b/tests/gretel_client/integration/test_tuner.py
index 16c8d14d..556d8e61 100644
--- a/tests/gretel_client/integration/test_tuner.py
+++ b/tests/gretel_client/integration/test_tuner.py
@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable
 
+import pandas as pd
 import pytest
 
 from gretel_client.gretel.config_setup import extract_model_config_section
 from gretel_client.gretel.interface import Gretel
+from gretel_client.tuner.metrics import (
+    BaseTunerMetric,
+    GretelQualityScore,
+    MetricDirection,
+)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -31,7 +37,34 @@ def gretel() -> Gretel:
     gretel.get_project().delete()
 
 
-def test_tuner_tabular(gretel: Gretel, tabular_data_source: Path, tuner_config: Path):
+class CustomMetric(BaseTunerMetric):
+    direction: MetricDirection = MetricDirection.MINIMIZE
+
+    def __call__(self, model):
+        seed_data = pd.DataFrame({"yea-mon": ["01/01/1998"] * 10})
+        df = pd.concat(
+            [
+                self.submit_generate_for_trial(model, seed_data=seed_data),
+                self.submit_generate_for_trial(model, num_records=100),
+            ]
+        )
+        return df["balance"].sum()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "metric,direction",
+    [
+        (GretelQualityScore(), MetricDirection.MAXIMIZE),
+        (CustomMetric(), MetricDirection.MINIMIZE),
+    ],
+)
+def test_tuner_tabular(
+    gretel: Gretel,
+    tabular_data_source: Path,
+    tuner_config: Path,
+    metric: BaseTunerMetric,
+    direction: str,
+):
     def callback(c):
         c["params"]["discriminator_dim"] = c["params"]["generator_dim"]
         return c
@@ -42,10 +75,12 @@ def callback(c):
         n_jobs=1,
         n_trials=1,
         sampler_callback=callback,
+        metric=metric,
     )
 
     assert isinstance(tuned.best_config, dict)
     assert len(tuned.trial_data) == 1
+    assert metric.direction == direction
 
     _, c = extract_model_config_section(tuned.best_config)
     assert c["params"]["discriminator_dim"] == c["params"]["generator_dim"]