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 matters · the JudgeThe 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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