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FOUNDER EXPERIENCE

AI Customer Support Platform

Autonomous Omnichannel Triage & Context-Aware Ticket Resolution.

Automated 65% of first-line customer inquiries via grounded RAG deflection and sentiment-aware human agent handoffs.

Client / ScopeE-Commerce & High-Volume SaaS Enterprise
Timeline5 Months Build
RoleFounder & Lead AI Solutions Architect
CategoryFOUNDER EXPERIENCE
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Founder Experience · AI Support Ops

Built to Eliminate Customer Support Ticket Fatigue

Customer support teams are buried under repetitive inquiries regarding order statuses, refund policies, and account setups. We conceived and architected an autonomous omnichannel support platform that ingests emails and live chats, extracts customer sentiment, resolves common issues via grounded knowledge retrieval, and escalates complex disputes seamlessly.

Engineered omnichannel ingestion pipelines parsing inbound emails, tickets, and live chats
Pioneered citation-grounded RAG retrieval achieving 65% automatic issue resolution
Implemented real-time sentiment scoring and automated human supervisor escalation queues
03 · Executive Overview

Project at a Glance

An AI customer support platform designed to classify customer intent, resolve repetitive tickets autonomously with grounded RAG, and escalate frustrated users to human agents with summarized context.

Domain & Focus

Customer Experience & Autonomous Conversational Support

Stakeholders

Enterprise E-Commerce & Subscription SaaS

Engagement

Q1 - Q3

Primary Win

65% reduction in tier-1 support ticket volume and sub-5-second initial customer response times.

04 · Operational Bottleneck

The Problem

Customer support teams face high turnover and mounting backlogs. Over 60% of incoming inquiries are routine, yet human agents must manually verify order IDs, copy-paste canned responses, and navigate multiple internal systems, leading to 12-hour response delays.

Friction Point #1

Long customer wait times during peak sales events causing user churn.

Friction Point #2

High agent burnout caused by repetitive manual copy-pasting of canned policies.

Friction Point #3

Traditional keyword chatbots giving irrelevant or frustratingly generic answers.

Friction Point #4

Lack of real-time sentiment detection to flag high-value or angry customers.

05 · Strategic Targets

Goals

Technical Goals

  • Sub-3-second intent classification and domain routing across support channels.
  • Citation-grounded retrieval ensuring AI answers strictly adhere to verified company policies.
  • Automated CRM and ERP tool execution (e.g. tracking orders, issuing return labels).
  • Seamless human-in-the-loop escalation with automated pre-generated situation briefs.

Business Goals

  • Automate resolution of at least 60% of routine incoming support tickets.
  • Reduce average first-response time from 6 hours to under 10 seconds.
  • Improve customer CSAT scores by delivering immediate, accurate resolutions.
06 · Ownership & Execution

My Role

Position

Founder & AI Systems Architect

Core Responsibilities

  • Architected the omnichannel message ingestion and classification state graph.
  • Engineered the RAG knowledge retrieval pipeline over enterprise help centers and FAQs.
  • Built tool-calling connectors interfacing with Shopify, Stripe, and internal ERPs.
  • Designed the human supervisor live intervention dashboard and triage interface.

Primary Focus Areas

Autonomous Agentic WorkflowsGrounded Knowledge Retrieval (RAG)Omnichannel Webhook ArchitectureSentiment Analysis & Escalation Heuristics
07 · The Architecture Approach

Solution

The platform acts as an intelligent frontline agent. Incoming customer tickets are instantly analyzed for intent, urgency, and sentiment. Routine questions are answered immediately with authoritative citations; transactional requests trigger secure tool actions; complex disputes are routed to human agents with pre-filled context.

PILLAR 01

Intelligent Triage & Intent Routing

Classifies incoming queries into technical, billing, or general categories with sub-second accuracy.

PILLAR 02

Grounded Policy Retrieval

Synthesizes answers strictly bounded by the company knowledge base, eliminating hallucinations.

PILLAR 03

Action-Oriented Tool Integrations

Can securely fetch tracking numbers, process password resets, and generate return QR codes via API.

08 · Systems Engineering

Architecture & Data Flow

High-throughput event-driven pipeline bridging email/chat webhooks, sentiment classifiers, vector retrieval stores, and human agent consoles.

01

Omnichannel Message Ingestion

FastAPI / Webhooks

Receives customer message via Zendesk webhook, live webchat, or email gateway.

02

Intent & Sentiment Evaluation

OpenAI / Python Heuristics

NLP model classifies intent category and assigns a real-time sentiment score (-1.0 to +1.0).

03

RAG Retrieval & Tool Calling

Qdrant / LangChain / APIs

Queries vector database for relevant policies; invokes ERP APIs for order details.

04

Autonomous Delivery or Escalation

Next.js / WebSocket Dashboard

Sends resolved response or escalates high-sentiment tickets to human agent queue.

09 · Capabilities

Core Features

Omnichannel Unified Inbox

Unified customer thread

Consolidates live chat, email, and social media inquiries into a single prioritized interface.

Grounded Policy Q&A Engine

Zero policy hallucination

Answers complex questions citing exact return windows, warranty terms, and shipping exceptions.

Automated Tool Execution

Self-service actions

Verifies user identity and executes actions like order address updates without human labor.

AI Co-Pilot for Human Agents

Agent copilot drafts

Generates 1-click suggested response drafts for human agents when complex tickets are escalated.

10 · Tradeoffs & Rationale

Engineering Decisions

Asynchronous Webhook Ingestion vs Synchronous REST

Chosen Path:FastAPI with Redis Task Queue
Alternative Considered:Direct Synchronous Processing

Why: During marketing flash sales, incoming ticket spikes would saturate database connections; queueing decoupled ingestion from LLM inference latency.

11 · Obstacles & Solutions

Challenges

Challenge #1

Customers Submitting Multi-Topic Inquiries: Single email asking about a broken item AND an address change.

Engineering Solution

Implemented intent decomposition splitting complex tickets into child tasks handled sequentially by specialized sub-agents.

System Impact

Accurately resolved 94% of multi-question customer inquiries.

12 · Roadmap & Milestones

Implementation Timeline

Phase 1: Knowledge Ingestion & RAGWeeks 1 - 5

Help Center Vectorization

  • Vector DB setup
  • Document chunking pipelines
  • Citation-enforcing prompt harness
Phase 2: Tool Calling & ConnectorsWeeks 6 - 10

E-Commerce & CRM API Gateway

  • Order status lookup tool
  • Return label generator
  • User verification auth flow
Phase 3: Agent Console & TriageWeeks 11 - 15

Human-in-the-Loop Workspace

  • Next.js agent inbox
  • Sentiment escalation queue
  • AI draft generator
Phase 4: Live RolloutWeeks 16 - 20

Staged Traffic Cutover

  • 10% shadow traffic trial
  • A/B deflection testing
  • Full production launch
13 · Measurable Performance

Results & Metrics

65%
Ticket Deflection

Inquiries resolved completely autonomously with zero human agent intervention.

<5 sec
First Response Time

Down from an average of 4.2 hours prior to platform deployment.

+28%
CSAT Improvement

Customer satisfaction surge driven by immediate, accurate answers.

14 · Visual Gallery

Screenshots

[ SCREENSHOT #1: Omnichannel Inbox & Live Sentiment Escalation Queue ]

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Omnichannel Inbox & Live Sentiment Escalation Queue

Agent triage workspace displaying live customer inquiries prioritized by urgency and sentiment score.

[ SCREENSHOT #2: Autonomous Resolution View with Grounded Policy Citations ]

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Autonomous Resolution View with Grounded Policy Citations

Transparent audit view showcasing the exact knowledge base citations used to answer customer inquiries.

15 · Walkthrough

Demo Video

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AI Support Platform Demo: 2-minute walkthrough showing live customer inquiry ingestion, automatic RAG resolution, and seamless agent handoff.

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Demonstration Highlights:

Inbound customer question resolved in 3 seconds
Autonomous return label generation via tool calling
Human agent co-pilot response generation
16 · Retrospective

Lessons Learned

1

Customers value speed and accuracy far more than conversational small talk; direct, authoritative answers yield the highest CSAT.

2

Providing human agents with pre-summarized context during escalations cuts resolution time in half.

17 · Technologies

Tech Stack

Frontend

Next.js 16React 19Tailwind CSSLucide React

AI & NLP

LangChainOpenAI GPT-4oQdrant Vector DBSentiment Heuristics

Backend & Gateway

Python 3.12FastAPIRedis QueueCelery
18 · Organizational Value

Business Impact

The platform enabled the company to scale transaction volumes by 300% during peak holiday sales without hiring additional support staff.

Saved over 40 hours of manual ticket triage per support rep each month.
Prevented customer churn through instantaneous response to shipping delays.
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