NPS uplift
Conversational AI built to close the conversation
Deliver lifelike conversational experiences with AI that understands and responds. Built from live containment data across industries.
5–15 points
25–80%
Lower cost-to-serve
60–300%
Higher conversion rates
2x–10x
Workforce productivity gains
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Leader for Contact Center - Customer Experience Services
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CX Services Transformation
WHY THIS MATTERS
The realities crippling conversational AI containment
Rigid menu structures, high transfer friction, and dropped session context are isolating digital care environments.
1 in 5
AI Failure
Consumers who used AI for customer service saw no benefit at all a failure rate nearly four times higher than for AI use across every other task. The automation your board approved is the friction your customers are abandoning over.
Source: Qualtrics 2026 Consumer Experience Trends Report
74%
Repetition Friction
Consumers find it deeply frustrating to repeat their story across different agents and channels the single most-cited failure mode of legacy self-service.
Source: Zendesk CX Trends 2026
55%
Talent Ceiling
Organizations report recruiting, training, and retaining skilled staff as their top contact-centre challenge capping the human capacity behind every customer journey.
Source: Avaya Signals of Connection Research, 2025
PROVEN OUTCOMES
Conversational AI containment. Three live operation results.
Hard-coded operational outcomes achieved across live multi-tier enterprise conversational AI deployments.
80%
Average containment rate delivered
8 in 10 customer queries resolved without agent intervention, reducing operational load across the enterprise.
15%
Total contact handling time reduced
Faster resolution and streamlined workflows drove a measurable drop in handling time across all contact types.
60 sec
Direct reduction in average handle time
Real-time guidance and automated data retrieval cut a full minute from every agent interaction, at scale.
CAPABILITIES
Four CX capabilities that extend conversational AI gains
The adjacent capabilities that turn conversational AI from a single win into an operation-wide advantage.
WHO WE SERVE
Four CX capabilities that extend conversational AI gains
Seamless navigation into the adjacent capabilities that connect your broader conversational AI and digital operational strategy.
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Banking and Financial Services
Origination to compliance, rebuilt.
Process mining and digital twin across client onboarding, KYC, lending, and risk operations. Workflows redesigned for AI-native automation that cuts cycle time and cost-to-serve without breaking audit trails. Also covers: Mortgage — originations, servicing, and right-shoring operations. See case studies for client outcomes.
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Communications
Provision, bill, serve. Faster.
Process redesign across order management, provisioning, billing, and customer service for telco, Wi-Fi, and broadband operators. Automation mapped to the redesigned workflow, so call times and truck rolls drop together.
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EdTech
Learner to ledger, redesigned.
Process redesign and automation across admissions, enrolment, and learner support, alongside finance, compliance, and workforce operations. Built to scale student volume without scaling the back office.
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SOLUTION DETAILS
Five self-service stages. Zero dropped customer contexts.
From inbound voice stream to live agent handoff five modular stages, each built to contain contacts and preserve context.
Conversational IVR Navigation
Conversational IVR that understands what customers actually say.
Overhauls legacy front-end phone entry channels by deploying natural language processing engines straight to inbound voice streams. This intake layer eliminates rigid tree structures, automatically discovering consumer billing or troubleshooting statements based on historical dialogue patterns to guide users into optimized cross-channel self-service tracks without frustrating navigation delays.
AI chatbot interaction
AI chatbots that resolve contacts before they need a human.
Anchors continuous multi-channel engagement strategies across web and social interfaces through specialized natural language understanding modules. The always-on digital assistant handles routine payment, documentation updates, and onboarding tasks by pulling real-time CRM database assets, answering transactional account demands immediately while completely stabilizing high incoming surge spikes.
Visual IVR digital redirection
Visual IVR that moves complex contacts off voice entirely.
Diverts complex inbound transactional contact types away from high-cost voice channels toward visual digital application menus. By rendering target link interfaces for claims status, eligibility enquiries, and appointment scheduling, this self-serve overlay allows users to manage statements autonomously, significantly reducing call volume and freeing up specialized frontline teams.
Context-preserved agent handoff
Self-service escalation that never makes customers repeat themselves.
Eradicates operational friction during channel switching events by bridging automated front-end self-service frameworks directly to internal care benches. If an escalated dialogue occurs, the architecture pushes full interaction history, identity tags, and intent codes straight to live desks, ensuring customers never re-state their issues to advisors.
Biometric Identity Verification
Biometric verification that authenticates in seconds, not steps.
Secures automated interaction environments by executing advanced multi-modal identity validation routines right at the point of contact entry.
The security architecture verifies customer credentials natively via voice-print analysis, mobile fingerprint hooks, or facial recognition scanners before active account data fields release, establishing a trusted self-service perimeter that stops account-takeover risks while accelerating transaction containment without multi-step manual authentication delays.
The security architecture verifies customer credentials natively via voice-print analysis, mobile fingerprint hooks, or facial recognition scanners before active account data fields release, establishing a trusted self-service perimeter that stops account-takeover risks while accelerating transaction containment without multi-step manual authentication delays.
INSIGHTS
Latest from the Firstsource team
Insights from the field, real operations, real outcomes, and perspectives from the people making it work in live operations.
Case Study
How a multi-state US electric utility accelerated $305M through digital outreach
A large, multi-state US electric utility partnered with Firstsource to modernize its collections and customer outreach operations through digital communications. The objective was to supplement existing mailed and field-based processes with timely, electronic outreach that could expand customer response windows, encourage self-serve payments, and reduce reliance on field activity.
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You're paying for contacts that never reach resolution.
In four weeks, you'll know exactly where it's happening, and how to stop it.
- See precisely where customers are dropping out, escalating unnecessarily, or calling back across every channel.
- Diagnosed against your actual contact mix and containment data, not an industry benchmark built for someone else.
- A containment fix you can act on in weeks, priced on the outcome we deliver, not the time we spend getting there.