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Tier-1 support that cuts costs without losing CSAT.

Resolve approved product and account issues with grounded answers and safe tool actions while tracking recontact and escalation quality.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$13,500
fixed-scope pilot
Launch now
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
tier-1-support-agent
// authenticate
input: Customer request
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 Support
The champion
Support Operations Director, Head of CX, Support Engineering leader
Day-to-day users
Customers, support agents, account teams, support engineers

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.

Support teams answer repetitive questions, search fragmented documentation, and hand off tickets without enough context; deflection metrics can hide unresolved customers.

Who feels it

Customers, support agents, account teams, support engineers

Trigger to act: Ticket volume is growing faster than ARR, response SLA is slipping, a new pricing/product tier launches, or the company wants to replace a FAQ bot.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$50,400
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 12,000 tickets/month × 30% safely resolved × $14 blended human cost = $50,400 monthly gross capacity before usage and managed-service costs. Recontact and CSAT are mandatory guardrails.

The outcome, plainly: Resolve approved product and account issues with grounded answers and safe tool actions while tracking recontact and escalation quality.

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
02
classify intent
03
retrieve cited answer
04
execute approved lookup/reset/config action
05
verify result
06
draft resolution
07
create ticket
08
escalate with context
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Help desk
product/account APIs
docs/knowledge base
status page
CRM
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 security/privacy, billing disputes, data loss, high-value accounts, uncertain answers, policy exceptions, and any destructive action.
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; select 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 managed vector store; Policy rules and evaluator service.

Inputs
  • Customer request
  • account/plan context
  • product docs
  • runbooks
  • incident 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 security/privacy, billing disputes, data loss, high-value accounts, uncertain answers, policy exceptions, and any destructive action.

What it will never do
No destructive or security-sensitive action without re-authentication/approval
no fabricated product capability
no success claim based only on deflection.
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
unsafe-action rate
citation accuracy
Why this, not that

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

The alternatives
Intercom FinZendesk AIAdaSierraForethoughtSalesforce AgentforceGlean agentsoutsourced support
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 (Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce Service Cloud)product/account APIsdocs/knowledge basestatus pageCRMidentityhuman escalation queue
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

10,000–35,000 grounded questions/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 security/privacy, billing disputes, data loss, high-value accounts, uncertain answers, policy exceptions, and any destructive action. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: No destructive or security-sensitive action without re-authentication/approval; no fabricated product capability; no success claim based only on deflection..

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 $500–3,800/month (10,000–35,000 grounded questions/month plus indexing and vector search), plus a $2,000/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 Intercom Fin?

Tools like Intercom Fin, Zendesk AI, Ada 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’s 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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