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Where Online Education Platforms Actually Stand With AI Agents I've spent the last 18 months helping two online education platforms roll out AI support agents — one a coding bootcamp with 40,000 active learners, the other a K-12 tutoring marketplace....
Telecom support has always been the punching bag of customer service. Long hold times. Tier 1 reps reading scripts. Customers who already googled the fix before calling. The whole industry knew it was broken — but rebuilding a 5,000-seat contact cent...
In January 2026, our customer support team was drowning. We had 1,200 support tickets per month for a SaaS product with 8,000 active users. The average first-response time was 4.2 hours. Our team of four support agents was burned out, and customer sa...

Look, I've watched three insurance carriers try to roll out an ai support agent in the last eighteen months. Two of them did it wrong the first time. One nailed it on attempt number two. The difference wasn't the software — it was the setup. Insuranc...