Build superior customer service chatbots with watsonx Assistant
Powerful customer service chatbots use artificial intelligence to increase sales with quick and accurate answers while saving contact center budget
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Deliver fast, consistent, and accurate answers

Time is money, especially in customer service. When a chatbot doesn’t understand your customer and vice versa, you lose money with lost sales and customers, and you lose budget when customer service agents have to work longer and harder to assist your customers. Overcome this with an AI-powered assistant that understands customer requests the first time—and then automates answers and actions with seamless integration with backend systems, your knowledge base, and processes.

The results can be dramatic. At one bank, a AI Assistant system has answered 96% of all customer queries correctly, providing fast, consistent, and accurate answers in multiple languages. This also means you can meet your customers where they are, on any channel – voice, mobile, social media, email, messaging platforms, self-service channels, customer portal, or customer community – with a helpful customer service AI chatbot platform.

Benefits Improve customer satisfaction

Boost first contact resolution rates using AI power to show, tell, and perform with the highest accuracy. Rely on machine learning and natural-language understanding (NLU) to identify what your customers want and how to best solve their problems.

Generate trust and sales

Contextualize customer experiences and personalized offers to drive ecommerce, build stronger relationships, and increase customer retention. Seamlessly integrate with Twilio Segment, among other customer data platforms, to gather insights from your customers, and deliver customized and relevant experiences for each unique user.

Save your budget

Speed average handle time for your human agents with self-service customer chatbots to answer routine or simple questions. Your support agents then receive seamless handoffs with all gathered information being forwarded, eliminating the need to repeat customer questions and answers.

Related features
AI-powered conversations Deliver more accurate and consistent experiences right out of the box to improve customer interactions. Advanced clarification and defined response modes enable you to achieve greater accuracy with little training data needed. AI-power streamlines training of your intelligent virtual assistant on your business, even in multiple languages. Learn about AI-powered

Analytics provide valuable insights Understand your customer’s end-to-end support experience and use data to continually personalize and optimize. Powerful analytics build your knowledge base to improve your chatbots for customer service with comprehensive and clear metrics. Your customer service support team can review summaries of virtual agent interactions to verify performance. Visualization and analysis of critical metrics and KPIs highlight the topics users and customers want addressed. Learn about analytics

Easy omni-channel deployment Offer 24/7 accessibility on any channel while integrating seamlessly and easily with backend systems such as contact center as a service (CCaaS), telephony, and CRM platforms. Then incorporate natural-sounding voice functions to give your customer support chatbot a clear and friendly presence. Learn about voice
We needed flexibility around our NLP/NLU (natural language processing and natural language understanding) solution so we could change the dialogues and interactions, and address the new needs of customers on that specific day. Jeroen Das Product Owner of Conversational AI ABN AMRO Bank N.V
Results Source: ICSC Institute for Business Value 73% Drive purchases

73% of American consumers point to customer experiences as an important factor in their purchasing decisions.

91% Retain customers

91% of unsatisfied customers part ways with a brand after just one bad experience.

99% Boost customer satisfaction

99% of organizations using AI-based virtual agent technology report an increase in customer satisfaction.

Camping World

A reimagined customer experience with an AI-powered virtual assistant has enabled Camping World to increase agent efficiency 33% and modernize its call centers.

ABN AMRO

A virtual agent named Anna uses a powerful conversational AI platform to conduct over a million customer conversations per year and improve the customer journey. Anna answers 90% of customers’ requests in the Dutch or English language.

Humana

Costly pre-service calls were reduced and the healthcare provider experience improved using conversational AI to quickly determine patient insurance coverage. The solution receives more than 7,000 voice calls from 120 providers per business day.

Related use cases

AI Assistant can be quickly configured to meet the special needs of your department.

Human resources

HR automation can improve the employee experience and save time for your entire staff. Employees can get questions answered 24/7.

Marketing

Powerful AI chatbot marketing software helps you improve customer experiences and boost lead generation with fast, personalized customer support.

Take the next step

Ready to build powerful customer service chatbots? See what AI Assistant can do when you schedule a personal demonstration with a product specialist or take a self-guided tour.

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