A dog barks once in the background of an otherwise perfect call. The agent scores zero. A phone transfer drops the first two seconds of a handoff. The receiving agent is dinged for an incomplete greeting. A customer’s real name happens to sound like a profanity....
Many of us keep hearing that AI is coming for our jobs. Support engineers are no exception. But the reality on the ground can look quite different. Some teams are using AI every day to streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and surface insights faster....
In customer support, first touch is always important. But follow-up often gets underestimated when teams talk about what creates a strong customer experience. At small volumes, the processes around follow-up are trivial. The agent sends the key message, the customer...
There’s a Reddit thread on r/callcentres that every support leader should read. An agent describes waking up on rollover day, the morning QA scores reset, excited and confident. They’d followed the call flow perfectly on every new booking call they knew...
Nearly every QA rubric in Customer Support has a criterion version of it: “agent demonstrated empathy”. Sometimes it gets a point scale. Sometimes a checkbox. Occasionally a grading guide that says something like “score 3 if the agent showed genuine care for the...
One QA team described reading 8,000 to 9,000 tickets per month by hand, and then moving to AI that runs quality assurance on 100% of tickets, freeing those ten reviewers to do other work entirely. A huge improvement in coverage. That also quietly raises the stakes on...
