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Case 02

AI Support Agent for a High-Growth D2C Brand

High-growth D2C consumer brand · 1.5 months

Support inbox autopilotEng 02

98%first response under 24 hrs, from 82% · 74% of replies sent unedited

Illustration, not a client screenshot. No client data is shown. The figure above is measured in production. · Engagement 02 · D2C consumer brand

Where it stands

Live and in use
  • 74%of replies sent without a human in the loop
  • 82% → 98%first responses within 24 hours
  • ~70%less handling time per support email

The challenge

A direct-to-consumer brand was growing at roughly 30% month-on-month, and its support inbox was scaling just as quickly. Agents spent about eight minutes on an average email, while a large share of inbound mail was not a customer request at all: promotional messages, vendor outreach, and billing reminders still had to be opened and triaged.

What we built

03 parts
  1. 01

    AI support agent

    Built an agent that classifies inbound email, filters non-support messages, identifies the request type, and generates the appropriate customer response.

  2. 02

    Workflow logic, guardrails, and evals

    Mapped support SOPs into explicit workflows and built a labelled evaluation dataset before tuning the agent to production accuracy targets.

  3. 03

    Production monitoring

    Added reviewer checks and live monitoring so new edge cases could be identified and corrected after rollout rather than discovered through customer complaints.

The results

  • 74% of replies are sent without a human in the loop.
  • First responses within 24 hours improved from 82% to 98%.
  • Average handling time reduced by roughly 70%, from 8 minutes to 2-3 minutes.
  • The automation offset the need for approximately two additional support hires.

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