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Matt Price

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The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

So a QA manager who would have been traditionally sampling calls and listening to calls and scoring them according to a Rubik and putting them into a specialist QA system that you would have had to abide.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

But most of their work is automated now because of our system.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

So they become insights managers.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

And what they're doing is constantly looking at all the interactions and they will proactively come to our customers and say, do you know what?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

As a shoe manufacturer, you've got a sizing issue on this line and you're generating these refunds and the AI is helping them there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

We recommend that you put a sizing guide on your website.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

And so their role has changed from being a very functional role to being an advisor on insights.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

That's right.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

And that's one of six roles that get repurposed and retrained.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

And it is easier in many cases to think about it as these are now forward-deployed resources.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

We think a lot about it right now.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

But rather than being engineers and AI coding,

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

therefore deploying the use of the AI into many organizations.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

So helping you take most advantage of the insights that are generated, helping to tune the AI process and knowledge process, helping to restructure the escalation points to such the human there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

So we think of it rather than the people being the recipients of the AI, fixing it, they're on the front foot and working with the AI and helping customers innovate more quickly.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

Yeah, you could imagine a BPO company, a labor-based company being bought by an AI company might trigger some questions from the teams there.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

We've grown our labor base since the acquisition, partly because with AI,

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

Obviously, we're acquiring a lot more customers, but also the level of engagement goes up.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

So typically, you could expect to see it.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Can AI Improve Customer Service Without Killing Jobs? Crescendo Thinks So

Once people are happy with the service, they used to constrain and put the telephone number hidden away or it's hard to get service.