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What we have learned reading other people’s inboxes

We publish what we can measure and what we got wrong. Once a month.

Data

Sep 12, 20265 min read

What 2.4 million support messages look like once you sort them

Six topics cover 71% of everything customers write. The seventh is the one nobody ever documented, and it is almost always the same one.

Say it is an agent. Every team that hid it lost CSAT

Sep 5, 20264 min read

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Your backlog is a queue problem, not a headcount problem

Aug 28, 20263 min read

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We keep a list of what we will not automate, and it gets longer

Jul 11, 20264 min read

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What a wrong answer costs over ninety days, not the apology

Jun 27, 20264 min read

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Answer our customers while they are still at the keyboard

Two weeks in shadow mode. Nothing sends without you.