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Murchison: Ada added artificial email delays because instant AI replies had lower open rates
“So, like, you know, the, in other words, like, customers weren't opening these emails because they didn't believe that the email could be helpful if it came so instantly, right? So it was like an eight-minute delay that a lot of our customers use.”
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While the internet made distribution free, AI makes cognition essentially free
“If the web made the cost of distribution essentially free for businesses, what AI is doing now is AI is making the cost of cognition essentially free.”
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Murchison: Deploying customer-facing AI effectively increases customer interactions
“When you deploy customer-facing AI effectively, you end up talking to your customers more.”
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Murchison: AI software buyers should expect continuous improvement, not static consistency
“Businesses should not be purchasing, you know, customer service software in twenty-twenty-five and expecting the results to be consistent. You know, they're not buying a piece of software to solve a problem today. What they should be purchasing is an expectati…”
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Cultural barriers, not technology, block 100% automated customer service resolution
“The biggest hurdles to overcome to actually get there are actually interestingly primarily cultural. You would think it would be technological, but it's actually interestingly cultural”
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Building effective AI agents requires custom prompts for every individual customer
“Teams who start to build their own agents inside their companies quickly realize this, that really what you need to do is you need to assemble a custom prompt for every individual customer.”
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Murchison: Customer service roles are evolving into managing AI agents
“I think that broadly the big shift that's happening is, is customer experience, customer service professionals are evolving from, You know, reacting to incoming customer service inquiries to proactively managing them by really serving as the manager of an AI a…”
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Murchison: Pre-configured AI agents drive faster customer deployment than customizable platforms
“Now we've discovered that we can just accelerate results far faster by Giving you an agent in a box that is great and then just ensuring that you know how to coach it to improve over time. That's been a big unlock for our customers.”
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Murchison: Voice AI latency over 3.5 seconds creates a frustrating user experience
“You know, if you're above three and a half seconds or four seconds latency, it is, it's a frustrating experience. Doesn't matter how capable you are. If you're not fast enough in over voice, it's painful.”