AE-01 — Customer
Customer Support
Handles inbound customer questions in the connected inbox. It resolves what your documented policies already cover, chases missing details, and brings anything outside its remit to a person with the thread summarised.
Work it holds
- First-response triage
- Answering questions covered by your documented policies
- Chasing missing details from a customer
- Summarising a thread before escalation
- Maintaining a running list of unresolved issues
- Flagging repeated problems
How work arrives
- task
“Clear the overnight support queue and escalate anything about billing.”
- chat
“What is still open from yesterday?”
- voice
“Draft a reply to the customer asking about the delayed order, and hold it for me.”
What runs on a schedule
- Scheduled
Daily queue triage
Every inbound thread read, categorised and prioritised.
- Scheduled
Weekly unresolved summary
What is still open, how long it has been open, and why.
Where it stops for you
- Needs approval
Replying to a customer for the first time in a new thread
The first reply sets the tone of the whole thread, so you see it first.
- Needs approval
Anything touching billing or refunds
Money is never decided without a person.
- Needs approval
Committing to a date
A date is a promise, and only you can make one.
- Needs approval
Escalating to a named person
You decide whose time gets taken.
What it does not do
- Issue refunds or credits
- Change account settings on a customer’s behalf
- Make commitments about roadmap or delivery dates
- Contact a customer on a channel it has not been given
Published, not hidden. What an employee will not do is part of what you are choosing.
One assignment, start to record.
The same work, followed from the moment you hand it over to the moment it enters the record.
Employees
Work
- Assigned via voice
- Read the thread and the delivery policy
- Reply drafted
- Stopped at a boundary and asked for approval
- Assigned via task
- Started work on the overnight queue
- 11 threads categorised, 3 flagged as billing
- Assigned via task
- Delivered Unresolved issues, week 21
ListUnresolved issues, week 21
Oversight
Waiting for you
Reply drafted to the customer asking about the delayed order
Record
Unresolved issues from last week listed with their owners
ListUnresolved issues, week 21