The Email FAQ Follow-Up Agent revolutionizes customer support by automating email responses, intelligently escalating complex issues, and continuously learning to enhance its knowledge base. This AI-powered solution ensures prompt and accurate answers to frequently asked questions, freeing up human agents to focus on more intricate and sensitive inquiries. By integrating seamlessly with existing systems and communication channels, it streamlines email management and elevates customer satisfaction.
This agent is ideal for businesses of all sizes that handle a high volume of customer inquiries via email. It's particularly beneficial for e-commerce companies, SaaS providers, and service-oriented businesses that want to improve response times, reduce support costs, and enhance customer satisfaction. Whether you're a startup struggling to keep up with incoming emails or a large enterprise seeking to optimize your support operations, this agent can automate routine tasks and empower your human agents to focus on complex issues.
Instead of manually responding to repetitive questions, this agent automatically provides accurate and consistent answers to FAQs. It leverages a comprehensive knowledge base to address common concerns regarding order status, shipping information, return policies, account settings, and more, reducing response times from hours to seconds.
This agent doesn't just blindly answer questions; it understands the nuances of customer inquiries and identifies situations that require human intervention. It seamlessly escalates complex issues to the appropriate human agents via Slack, providing them with all the necessary context and information to resolve the problem effectively.
This agent is not a static tool; it's a dynamic learning system that continuously improves its knowledge base based on customer interactions and feedback. It identifies gaps in its knowledge, learns from successful resolutions, and updates its responses accordingly, ensuring that it always provides the most accurate and relevant information.
Before AI agents, businesses relied on manual email management, which involved dedicating significant time and resources to reading, categorizing, and responding to customer inquiries. This often resulted in delayed response times, inconsistent answers, and frustrated customers. Human agents would spend countless hours answering the same questions repeatedly, taking away from their ability to address more complex and strategic issues.
AI agents transform email FAQ management by automating routine tasks, improving response times, and enhancing customer satisfaction. They provide instant answers to frequently asked questions, freeing up human agents to focus on more complex and sensitive inquiries. This leads to increased efficiency, reduced support costs, and improved customer loyalty.
By intelligently escalating complex issues to human agents via Slack, AI agents ensure that customers receive the appropriate level of support for their specific needs. They also continuously learn and improve their knowledge base, ensuring that they always provide the most accurate and relevant information. This results in a more streamlined and effective email management process, leading to happier customers and a more productive support team.
Traditional customer support relies heavily on human agents to manually process and respond to email inquiries. This approach is often time-consuming, inefficient, and prone to errors. Response times can be slow, answers may be inconsistent, and human agents can become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of emails.
Agentic customer support, on the other hand, leverages AI to automate routine tasks and improve overall efficiency. AI agents can instantly answer frequently asked questions, intelligently escalate complex issues to human agents, and continuously learn to enhance their knowledge base. This results in faster response times, more consistent answers, and a more streamlined support process. Human agents are freed up to focus on more complex and strategic issues, leading to increased productivity and improved customer satisfaction.
An AI-powered Email FAQ Follow-Up Agent can handle a wide range of tasks, including:
Building an effective AI-powered Email FAQ Follow-Up Agent requires careful planning and execution. Here are some key considerations:
The future of AI agents in customer support is bright, with advancements in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence paving the way for even more sophisticated and effective solutions. We can expect to see AI agents that are:
These advancements will enable businesses to provide even faster, more efficient, and more personalized customer support, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The agent's accuracy depends on the quality and completeness of its knowledge base and the effectiveness of its training. With a well-maintained knowledge base and ongoing training, the agent can achieve a high level of accuracy in answering frequently asked questions.
Yes, the agent can be configured to support multiple languages, allowing businesses to provide customer support to a global audience.
The agent is designed to protect sensitive information by using encryption and other security measures. It also complies with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
If the agent encounters a question it doesn't know the answer to, it will escalate the issue to a human agent for assistance.
The cost of implementing an AI-powered Email FAQ Follow-Up Agent varies depending on the complexity of the solution and the vendor you choose. However, the long-term benefits of increased efficiency, reduced support costs, and improved customer satisfaction often outweigh the initial investment.
This agent is great for handling support questions over email. The core building blocks are: Sending emails, checking knowledge for answers to questions, escalating unknown questions to a human or team on Slack, and updating knowledge with new information. All of these can be repurposed for a wide range of use-cases.
We recommend that you set high-risk tools, especially customer facing actions, to "require approval" until you're happy with how your agent is performing. Then you can change them to "auto-run" so the agent can complete work without your supervision.
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This tool will update a Frequently Asked Questions knowledge table with a new question and answer pair. You can adapt this tool to add any information to an existing knowledge table.
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Given a question, this tool will search an Frequently Asked Questions knowledge table to see if there is an answer to that question. If there is, it will return the answer. If there isn't, it will return "I don't know".
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This tool sends an email with Outlook. You can follow the same process for sending an email with Gmail instead, just swap out the Outlook tool-step with a Gmail tool-step. You can guide the kinds of emails your agent composes via the core instructions in your agent settings.
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These are the settings we used to configure this agent. Every setting is completely customisable. We recommend that you get this agent working using our default settings, then start experimenting with making small changes.
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Email FAQ Follow-Up Agent
Turn your inbox into a customer delight engine with AI that answers FAQs, escalates smartly, and never stops learning.
Your Microsoft outlook account must be connected under "Integrations/Connections" for the send email tool to work, or Gmail if you're doing it that way instead. In the "Abilities" section of agents settings, you also need to connect to your Slack account under the "Escalate to humans" option.
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When you receive an email, do the following:
1. Extract the questions from the email.
2. Retrieve the answers to those questions from knowledge using Check knowledge for answer to question .
2a. If an answer to that question doesn't exist, Escalate to manager via Slack and ask for an answer.
2b. Once you get an answer back, Add new FAQ to knowledge .
2c. If an answer to that question does exist, carry on with the flow.
3. Compose an email which replies to the questions (or replies in general if there were no questions).
4. Send email (Outlook) back to the sender of the original email.
Double-check that you have followed all of the instructions. Did you reply to the original email via an email?
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If you are asked to send a welcome email, this is the email you should send:
Welcome to Relevance AI!
We're excited to see the impact your AI workforce has! Feel free to ask us anything, just reply to this email (e.g. request a demo video).
Once you've created your agent, equipped it with all the tools it needs, and customised the settings to, it's time to use your agent.
In this case, we have added an Outlook trigger, which means your agent will receive every email that gets sent to the connected Outlook account. Try this out by sending an email to that account with a question as part of the body, you should see a new task pop-up in the agent task history.
After that, if you have set your tools to approval mode, you will see "approve/reject" task requests where your agent asks for your permission to send a response to the question over email, or escalating to slack.
The video at the top of this page shows you how the agent handles FAQ questions.
