The onslaught of customer AI agents.

In the next 9 to 12 months, your customer will be able to say “hey Siri, call my subscription company and cancel my plan, then chat with the ABC airline and move my flight from Tuesday to Wednesday.”

The AI agent launches the call or chat. It acts on their behalf.

Think about what that does to your cx volume. Interactions are going to skyrocket.

This is when and why AI in your contact center stops being optional. You’ll need it just to handle the sheer volume of bots coming at you.

So the question becomes whether you have an AI front door. Something that can answer these calls, do the basic triage, and hand off to a human only when it actually needs one.

You can still have human service for human callers but you will need Ai to handle the Ai. IMO

Sla will become less and less of a core metric as bots will wait in queue and won’t care.

How we operate will change too. All you centers with retention lines and agents. How do you downsell or save a bot told to cancel?

And it’s going to be really bad at first. Customers will not be happy with the bot outcomes. They will call you back to try to fix. It will get better but it’s going to be a rocky start.

Volume are going up.

This is one of the main things we’re thinking about at Expivia. And it’s exactly what we’re getting ready to help our BPO customers handle.

The bots are coming. The centers that planned for them win. The ones that didn’t get buried.

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