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Insight
Repeat customer service processes should be deterministic, not probabilistic
“Whenever a pattern is detected, a process that is defined, it's being repeated. We're servicing that case every time in the same way. Why keep it probabilistic and call upon a model every time? It has become deterministic.”
Insight
Purely probabilistic AI makes no sense for deterministic business processes
“Business conversations are deterministic, and it makes no sense to put a pure probabilistic thing to do a mostly deterministic process.”
Insight
AI automation delivers instantaneous ROI in headcount-heavy customer support teams
“I was definitely more enterprise and further down the customer journey where it was very FTE heavy. It was very people heavy organizations, internal or externalized, and that the ROI was instantaneous.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GetVocal reached $1M ARR in five months with one salesperson
“We went with one salesperson from zero to one in five months and two weeks or something like that.”
Disclosure
GetVocal based its context graph architecture on Speech Act Theory
“Three years ago, we took that, and we thought, okay, we built from the ground up, purposely designed for processes and conversations, and we based it on something called the Speech Act Theory, a new class of graphs.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
GetVocal doubled vendor uptime for Glovo restaurants and grocery stores
“And we deployed for one use case, showed a lot of value, a lot of ROI. We doubled their uptime in the restaurants they serve and groceries and a bunch of other KPIs like that.”
Disclosure
GetVocal shares Decagon's enterprise ICP and plans upcoming US expansion
“From a market perspective, there isn't, so it's the same ICP. We're not in the U.S. At the moment, though soon will be, expectedly.”
Assertion Supported
GetVocal raised a $3M Seed and $26M Series A in one year
“Last year, you know, you raised a three million dollar seed round at the beginning of the year. By the end of the year, you'd raised like a twenty six million dollar Series A.”
Disclosure
GetVocal originally automated SDR workflows before pivoting to customer support
“We went in and put commercial agents, PDR agents, actually in the beginning, doing a lot of the heavy lifting on those, from that, those processes”