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An honest look at AI agents in production support

18 Jul, 2026 · 8 min read

AI & AutomationEngineering

We put an AI agent in front of a live support queue for six months. Here is what the numbers say, without the demo-video gloss.

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The setup

The agent triages incoming tickets, drafts replies for the easy half, and escalates the rest with a summary attached. A human approves every outbound message.

The results

MetricBeforeAfter
First response time4.2 hours11 minutes
Tickets fully automated0%38%

Guardrail first, capability second. The agent never touches billing, auth, or deletion flows. Those tickets route straight to a person, every time.

Where it still fails

Multi-issue tickets and angry customers. Both need judgment, and we stopped pretending otherwise.

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