Resolve most support tickets without a human
A high-growth e-commerce retailer
A fast-growing retailer whose support queue scales with every promotion could deflect the routine work. The idea: a support agent that answers in the brand voice, takes real action on orders, and resolves routine tickets on its own.
The opportunity
The support queue fills with order lookups, returns, and policy questions that already have answers buried in the help center and past tickets. Agents spend their day on repeat work while customers wait, and every spike in volume means either longer waits or more headcount. Generic bots erode trust, so the bar for quality is high. That is the opportunity.
Target outcome
target: tickets resolved without a human
What we would build
No black box. These are the concrete pieces we would put in place, in the order they matter, with a human in the loop wherever the stakes are high.
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Build permission-aware retrieval over the help center, policies, and resolved tickets so answers stay grounded
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Give the agent typed tools to look up orders, process returns, and issue refunds within safe limits
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Write replies in the brand voice with a self-check against policy before anything is sent
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Add a confidence gate that escalates hard cases to a human with a drafted reply and full context
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Stand up a dashboard for deflection rate, CSAT, and answer quality so the team can trust and tune it
Representative stack
We choose tools to fit the job and your constraints, and favor open-source and local options where they fit. We are not tied to any one vendor.
Time to value
We start narrow, prove the result against your real baseline, and expand once it holds.
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