SmartAction: Intelligent Voice Automation Experts
Tom Lewis, CEOSmartAction builds its solution to emulate real conversations, making customers more inclined to opt for self-service rather than requesting live agent assistance. The company’s Intelligent Voice Automation (IVA) allows callers to complete tasks, from basic to medium complexity, using natural language and an intuitive call flow which gives them confidence in the client’s brand. “Organizations are able to utilize their human agents more efficiently and for the most complex tasks. Our IVA integrates with all legacy ERP and CRM systems or platforms,” says Lewis.
The company has re-architected the solution which allows incredibly fast implementations within five simple steps: conversation, programming, testing, go live and ongoing tuning. SmartAction bases all conversations within the application on conversation flows, which provide more interactive and realistic calls for end users.
“We do not have to build each application from scratch because the ‘AI brain’ we have developed is pre-loaded with all the necessary functions and skills,” says Lewis. “All we need to do is customize for business rules and processes and integrate with clients’ systems.”
The company differentiates itself with its use of AI ‘IVR with a brain’ approach. The ‘brain’sets SmartAction ahead in the crowd as it allows applications to grow more competent. In addition to machine learning, the Artificial Intelligence engine also gives the capability to adapt and execute numerous high-level complex tasks. The company holds weekly meetings with clients to review performance and engineers tune applications for the life of the contract.
For instance, a large pest control company was using live agents to make outbound confirmation calls to customers who had service appointments. The company was using ‘robo-dialing’ method to call their customers, which was creating difficulty in changing the appointment time. SmartAction developed a highly complex and robust scheduling solution for them to make outbound calls using IVA. Upon implementing IVA, customers were able to confirm, reschedule, or cancel appointments all using the automated system. The success rate of calls made by IVA leaped to almost 70 percent. It also significantly reduced unproductive truck rolls saving more than $2 million per year. With IVA making the calls, agents were able to handle other time-sensitive tasks in the call center.
Moving forward, SmartAction plans to improve its product line and respond quickly to customer issues. Recently, the company has signed contracts and gone live with major new accounts such as Hyundai Motors and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. “We aim to improve our functionality, and expand our geographical footprint,” concludes Lewis.
Our IVA integrates with all legacy ERP and CRM systems or platforms
The company differentiates itself with its use of AI ‘IVR with a brain’ approach. The ‘brain’sets SmartAction ahead in the crowd as it allows applications to grow more competent. In addition to machine learning, the Artificial Intelligence engine also gives the capability to adapt and execute numerous high-level complex tasks. The company holds weekly meetings with clients to review performance and engineers tune applications for the life of the contract.
For instance, a large pest control company was using live agents to make outbound confirmation calls to customers who had service appointments. The company was using ‘robo-dialing’ method to call their customers, which was creating difficulty in changing the appointment time. SmartAction developed a highly complex and robust scheduling solution for them to make outbound calls using IVA. Upon implementing IVA, customers were able to confirm, reschedule, or cancel appointments all using the automated system. The success rate of calls made by IVA leaped to almost 70 percent. It also significantly reduced unproductive truck rolls saving more than $2 million per year. With IVA making the calls, agents were able to handle other time-sensitive tasks in the call center.
Moving forward, SmartAction plans to improve its product line and respond quickly to customer issues. Recently, the company has signed contracts and gone live with major new accounts such as Hyundai Motors and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. “We aim to improve our functionality, and expand our geographical footprint,” concludes Lewis.
Company
SmartAction
Headquarters
El Segundo, CA
Management
Tom Lewis, CEO
Description
Provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice self-service for medium to large businesses
