Skip to content

Customer support · Artificial Intelligence

AI-powered customer support platform

One grounded AI at the centre of every support channel — web chat, email, messaging and live phone calls — resolving routine enquiries around the clock and escalating to a person only when it should.

Project

Multi-tenant · built for deployment worldwide

Phased delivery, usable at each step

Discuss a similar brief
AI-powered customer support platform

The challenge

Where things stood.

A lean support operation was running across disconnected tools — live chat in one place, email in an inbox, phone calls on personal mobiles — with no shared view of any customer's history. A large share of enquiries were the same handful of questions, answerable from material the business already had, yet consuming the team every day.

Anything arriving outside office hours simply waited until morning, and the phone left no record, transcript or link to a customer's other conversations — so phone support was impossible to scale, measure or improve. The status quo did not just cost time; it capped how much the business could grow without hiring more people.

How we built it

Delivered in deliberate phases.

  1. 01

    A channel-agnostic core

    Every incoming message — widget, email, messaging app or phone — is normalised into one internal shape, so the same answer engine and routing run identically regardless of channel. The channel a customer uses never changes the intelligence, the knowledge or the record behind it.

  2. 02

    A grounded answer engine

    Each question passes through four stages before a word is sent — curated FAQs, semantic vector search, document retrieval, then language-model composition from the retrieved facts. Because every answer is assembled from the business's own content, the system minimises invented replies and hands off when it cannot answer confidently.

  3. 03

    Real-time AI voice

    Callers have a natural spoken conversation with an AI answering from the same knowledge base as chat and email. A human joins only when the caller asks — and the live call rings inside an agent's browser with the transcript and an AI summary already on screen.

  4. 04

    An agent workspace built around context

    A unified inbox brings every channel into one queue with an in-browser softphone, on-demand thread summaries and suggested replies. When a conversation reaches a person, they arrive already knowing what it is about.

  5. 05

    Self-service, automation and oversight

    A branded help centre, structured intake forms and a no-code flow builder deflect work upstream, while per-site configuration, explicit escalation rules, quality scoring and complete transcribed records keep people in control and the service measurable.

What we delivered

The work.

  • A channel-agnostic core serving web chat, email, messaging and live voice from one AI brain and one inbox
  • A four-stage, knowledge-grounded answer engine with a confidence gate and explicit human hand-off
  • Real-time AI phone answering with seamless, context-rich transfer into an in-browser softphone
  • An agent console with unified inbox, AI thread summaries, suggested replies and full cross-channel history
  • Self-service help centre, structured forms and a no-code conversation flow builder
  • True multi-tenancy with per-site knowledge, channels, business hours and behaviour, plus quality scoring and oversight

Outcome

What changed.

  • Instant answers across chat, email, messaging and phone, around the clock, including evenings and weekends
  • People spend their time on the conversations that genuinely need human judgement, not repetitive FAQs
  • Every hand-off arrives with full context and an AI summary, so customers are not asked to repeat themselves
  • The same accurate, on-brand answers regardless of how a customer chooses to get in touch
  • Every conversation, including transcribed phone calls, captured in one place and measurable
  • A multi-tenant foundation that extends to new brands, sites and teams as the business grows

Put one well-grounded AI at the centre of every channel, keep people for the moments that need them, and a lean team gains the reach of a much larger one.