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AI in Sales and Customer Support

AI in sales and support means models that answer customers, draft replies, summarize calls, score leads, and route tickets. It matters because support is high volume and measurable, so value shows up first and mistakes are public. Klarna said its assistant handled two-thirds of chats in its first month, and a tribunal made Air Canada honor a refund policy its chatbot invented. Example: reply suggestions helped new agents most in a 2023 study.

Key terms

Ticket deflectionAgent assistLead scoringCall summarizationContainment rateEscalation to a human

Where you meet it in the real world

Chat and email support assistants, call-center agent assist and summaries, CRM lead scoring and outreach drafts, self-service help centers, sales call coaching

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