- What is the problem? Support agents spend 30% of their time manually categorizing and routing incoming tickets.
- Who is experiencing it? Tier 1 Support Agents.
- Why solve it now? Ticket volume is growing 15% MoM, and we are missing our 2-hour initial response SLA on 40% of tickets.
- High-level description: An LLM-based service that reads incoming tickets, predicts the category, urgency, and best-fit team, and automatically routes the ticket.
- Value proposition: Reduces manual triage time to zero, improving SLA compliance and agent satisfaction.
- Must Have: Auto-categorization (Billing, Tech, Account), Urgency prediction (Low, Med, High), Auto-routing to correct queue.
- Should Have: Suggested initial response draft for the agent.
- Could Have: Confidence score visible to the agent.
- Won't Have: Fully automated replies to the customer (human-in-the-loop only for V1).
- Step-by-step flow:
- Customer submits ticket.
- System processes ticket in background (<5s).
- Ticket appears in the correct agent queue with tags applied.
- Key states: If confidence is <80%, route to a "Needs Manual Triage" queue.
- North Star Metric: % of tickets correctly routed on the first try (Target: >85%).
- Supporting Metrics: Average time to initial response (Target: <2 hours).
- Counter Metrics: % of tickets re-routed by agents (Target: <10%).
- Technical risks: Latency of the LLM call delaying ticket creation.
- Business risks: Incorrect routing of high-urgency Enterprise tickets.
- Open decisions: Which model to use (Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Sonnet) for the optimal cost/latency/accuracy tradeoff.