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eCommerce · Operating-cost reduction

Customer support that boosts CSAT, not just deflection.

Resolve approved order, product, policy, and account questions with live commerce actions while measuring recontact, not just deflection.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$13,500
fixed-scope pilot
Launch now
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
ai-customer-support-agent
// authenticate customer
input: Customer message
step: classify intent
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
Chief Customer Officer, COO, VP eCommerce, DTC founder
The champion
Customer Support Director, CX Operations lead, eCommerce Product owner
Day-to-day users
Customers, support agents, order operations and returns teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Agents repeatedly answer status, sizing, policy, and return questions while fragmented order context and weak escalation create poor customer experiences.

Who feels it

Customers, support agents, order operations and returns teams

Trigger to act: Ticket volume is outgrowing headcount, response times hurt conversion/retention, seasonal peaks create backlog, or the brand is replacing a brittle chatbot.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$38,500
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 20,000 tickets/month × 35% safely resolved × $5.50 avoided human handling cost = $38,500 monthly gross capacity before platform costs. Validate recontact and CSAT guardrails.

The outcome, plainly: Resolve approved order, product, policy, and account questions with live commerce actions while measuring recontact, not just deflection.

Resolved-without-human
48-hour recontact
CSAT
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A Permission-aware RAG copilot. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, no invented data.

01
Authenticate customer
02
Classify intent
03
Retrieve answer
04
Execute approved order-status / return / exchange actions
05
Draft resolution
06
Collect feedback
07
Escalate with context
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Help desk
Shopify / BigCommerce / Magento
OMS / WMS
Returns platform
CRM / loyalty
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateHumans handle refunds above thresholds, fraud, legal/safety complaints, angry or vulnerable customers, policy exceptions, and uncertain answers.
Action · only after approval
Escalate with context
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra for complex grounded work, selected by task-level evaluation; Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-5.4 mini, or Claude Haiku 4.5 for high-volume routing and drafting. PostgreSQL + pgvector or a managed vector store; policy rules and an evaluator service.

Inputs
  • Customer message
  • Order/account context
  • Product catalog
  • Policies
  • Shipping/returns status
  • Prior conversation
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Humans handle refunds above thresholds, fraud, legal/safety complaints, angry or vulnerable customers, policy exceptions, and uncertain answers.

What it will never do
No unbounded refunds or credits
No invented policy
No access without authentication
No success claim based only on deflection
No replacement of required human escalation
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
Resolved-without-human
48-hour recontact
CSAT
First response
Escalation precision
Handle-time reduction
Hallucination rate
Refund leakage
Conversion from support
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
Gorgias AIZendesk AIIntercom FinKustomerAdaSierraShopify toolsOutsourced support teams
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Help desk (Gorgias, Zendesk, Intercom, Kustomer)Shopify / BigCommerce / MagentoOMS / WMSReturns platformCRM / loyaltyApproved knowledge base
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$13,500
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$31,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$50,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

10,000 to 35,000 grounded questions per month plus indexing and vector search.

$500–3,800
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$2,000/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your Help desk and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Humans handle refunds above thresholds, fraud, legal/safety complaints, angry or vulnerable customers, policy exceptions, and uncertain answers. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: No unbounded refunds or credits; no invented policy; no access without authentication; no success claim based only on deflection; no replacement of required human escalation.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $500 to $3,800 per month (10,000 to 35,000 grounded questions per month plus indexing and vector search), plus a $2,000 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. The client needs an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from Gorgias AI?

Tools like Gorgias AI, Zendesk AI, and Intercom Fin are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

This is a launch now. We baseline “Resolved-without-human” first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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