Enterprise AIProblem 0020
Support has been largely automated, and for routine questions that is an improvement. The unusual case is where it breaks: a bereavement, a billing error, a locked account, a situation the script has no branch for. The customer loops, rephrases, tries again, and eventually gives up, and the company never learns it happened, because a failed escape is rarely a metric anyone collects.
Who lives with itCustomers in genuinely unusual situations · the few remaining human agents · support leaders flying blind
Why nowAutomated support is now the default first line almost everywhere, while the escalation path behind it has often been thinned.
Why it mattersThe savings are measured precisely and the losses are invisible entirely, which is why the balance keeps tipping the wrong way. Detecting the moment a conversation has stopped working is a narrow, concrete capability, and whoever builds it is selling the missing half of every deployment.
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