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Customer Agent

Answers for customers at any hour, with your team one step away

The Customer Agent answers questions from your help content and each customer’s records, in chat and email. It hands anything sensitive to a person, with the whole conversation attached.

The Customer Agent's conversations today: 312 conversations, 64% answered alone, beside a reply with the order and help article it used.

What’s included

What the Customer Agent can do

Every action stays inside the topics and permissions you choose.

  • Approved answers

    Replies only from the help content and records you allow.

  • Topic controls

    Choose the questions it takes and the ones it always hands off.

  • Order and account lookups

    Reads order, plan and account details from the Smart CRM.

  • Handoff summaries

    Gives people a short summary and the full conversation.

  • Your tone of voice

    Writes in your brand’s voice, in the customer’s language.

  • Review queue

    Shows every conversation, so your team can check and improve its replies.

How it works

Quick answers, and a clean handoff when it matters

Set the topics it covers, the tone it uses and the moments it steps aside.

A topics card: order status and returns answered by the Customer Agent, billing disputes sent to a person.

Answers in chat and email

It replies in your customers’ channels using only your approved help content and their own records, and says so when it doesn’t know.

  • Only your approved content and records
  • Topics you choose, in your brand’s voice
  • Says so when it doesn’t know
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A handoffs card: six months of answered and handed-off conversations, each handoff with a summary.

Hands off with the whole story

When a question needs a person, it routes the conversation to the right queue with a summary, so nobody asks the customer twice.

  • A short summary with every handoff
  • The full conversation attached
  • Routed to the right queue

Customer Agent

Answers from your content. Never from guesses.

The Customer Agent replies only from the help content and records you connect, and says so when it doesn’t know. You choose the topics it never answers.

  1. Connect your sources

    Add help articles, policies and read-only order and account data.

  2. Choose its topics

    Pick the questions it answers and the ones it always hands to a person.

  3. Review its replies

    Every conversation lands in the review queue, so your team can improve it.

The Customer Agent's knowledge sources: help center articles, read-only order status and the returns policy, and the topics it never answers.

Customer stories

Reach accounts while they’re still in the product

How a hardware and software platform lets the Data Agent flag the trials that are ready to talk.

Illustrative story for this demo.

See customer stories

“Product usage sits right next to every trial in the CRM. The Data Agent flags the accounts that are ready to talk, and our reps reach them while they are still in the product.”

Noor Siddiqui

VP of Growth, Arduino

  • 29%

    more trials converted to paid

  • 2x

    faster lead routing

Learn more about customer stories

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