Stopping service collapse without hiring
Financial services platform handling thousands of monthly customer interactions with a small support team.
Problem
- Rising call volume overwhelmed the team
- Long wait times and increasing missed/abandoned calls
- Pressure to hire just to maintain service level
Risks
Revenue risk: poor service → lost trust → churn.
Intervention
- AI voice agent handling routine and overflow calls
- Automated triage and routing to human agents
- Knowledge base built for common queries
Optimization outcome
- Service level stabilized at ~93%
- +23% improvement in service level
- No additional hires required
Why it worked: Low-value repetitive calls were removed from human workload. Humans focused only on high-context problems, where they add real value.