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Sidekick (Gladly AI) Answers Performance Detail Report

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“Sidekick” in Gladly AI reports

Please note that some Gladly AI reports may use “Sidekick”, the former name for Gladly AI, in certain data fields and report names.

The Sidekick (Gladly AI) Answers Performance Detail Report complements the summary found in the Answer Performance view within Journeys, offering deeper insight into which Public Answers Gladly AI referenced when responding to Customer inquiries.

This report can be used to identify opportunities to add new Answers to your Public Answers repository or enhance existing Answer content so that Gladly AI responds to and resolves a larger proportion of Customer inquiries.

How data in the report is measured

The report is measured by the following:

  • Grouping

    • Grouped by ContactID.

  • Time Anchor

    • Data is time anchored using the Date that Gladly AI referenced a Public Answer when generating a response to the Customer.

Metrics used for the Sidekick (Gladly AI) Answers Performance Detail report

Review the definition of each metric and how it's used to calculate data. These are fields you'll see in the CSV download. The columns in the report fill dynamically when the information is available.

Metric

Description

Comments

Date

The date that Gladly AI referenced an Answer when generating a response to the Customer’s first inquiry in a Conversation.

Typically, but not always, this date corresponds to the start of a ConversationID.

ConversationID

The Gladly ID assigned to the Conversation.

A Conversation includes all Customer inquiries made to your Support Center within the Conversation re-open window (typically 24 hours).

ContactID

The Gladly Contact ID assigned to the Contact.

A unique Contact occurs when a Customer contacts your Support Center on a distinct Channel (e.g. a phone call, a chat session, a Messaging session, an email, or a voicemail).

Multiple Contacts will be grouped together under the same unique ConversationID if they all occur within the Conversation re-open window.

Conversation Link

The link to the Conversation in the Gladly platform.

Channel

The Channel on which Gladly AI interacted with the Customer when using Gladly AI Answers.

First Customer Message

The Customer’s first inbound message, or inquiry, for that ConversationID.

Answer Titles Referenced by Sidekick

Titles of the Public Answers that Gladly AI referenced when generating a response to the Customer.

If Gladly AI did not reference any Public Answer, you will see a value of “No answers” in this field.  

Note that Gladly AI is able to respond to certain types of Customer inquiries without referencing any Public Answers.

For example, Gladly AI often responds to Customers saying “Thank you” after the Conversation Reopen Window has closed. Gladly AI can also use information set up as guidance to respond to basic questions that don’t require information contained in a Public Answer.

Sidekick Session Outcome

The outcome of Gladly AI’s interaction with the Customer.

Possible values include:

Resolved

Expected Handoff

Insufficient Assistant Handoff Unexpected Handoff

Total AI Sidekick Messages Sent to Customer

The count of messages that Gladly AI sent to the Customer that were generated by AI.

Total V1 Sidekick Message Sent to Customer

The count of messages that Gladly AI sent to the Customer that were generated by legacy Thankful (Gladly AI v1) business logic.

Understand Sidekick Session Outcome values

The Sidekick Session Outcome field captures the end result of Gladly AI’s engagement with the Customer for that session, or Contact.  

Here are the possible values for that field, along with their definitions:

  • Resolution

    • Gladly AI helped the Customer without needing to directly hand off to an Agent.

  • Assist (Handed Off)

    • Gladly AI started to help the Customer, but then handed off to an Agent to resolve the Customer’s inquiry.

      Assists typically occur if a Customer inquires about a topic that your organization wants Agents to handle, or if Gladly AI does not have enough information to resolve the Customer’s inquiry


      Note that only Conversations where Gladly AI did something useful by sending at least one AI-generated message, are counted as Assists. If Gladly did not send at least one AI-generated message to the Customer, the Outcome field will be blank.

  • Blank

    • Gladly AI had enough information to run a Guide, but it did not have enough information to help the Customer in a meaningful way, and handed off to an Agent to resolve the conversation.

      Gladly does not bill for ‘Blank’ session outcome values

Example Use Cases

Align Answers with how Customers speak

Use the Answer Performance Detail Report to understand Customer language and terminology so that you can update your Public Answers to mirror common Customer language.

  • Filter the report to show the Answer titles you want to investigate.

  • Review the First Customer Messages to identify whether Customers are using different terms or descriptions than those in the corresponding Public Answers.

  • Use these insights to update your Public Answers so that Gladly AI has a better opportunity to respond to and resolve similar types of Customer inquiries moving forward.

Uncover missing Answers

Use the Answer Performance Detail Report to understand which types Customer inquiries are lacking information available within Answers.

  • Filter the Answer titles referenced by Gladly AI column to show customer inquiries where there were No answers.

  • Review the customer inquiries in the First Customer messages column to determine whether there are common themes or contact reasons that don’t have any Public Answers for Gladly AI to reference.  

  • Use these insights to update your Public Answers so that Gladly AI has a better opportunity to respond to and resolve similar types of Customer inquiries in the future.

Access the Sidekick Answers Performance Detail report

There are two ways to access this report:

  • Access the report within Reports

    1. Click

    2. Select Reports.

    3. Under the Gladly AI category, select Sidekick Answers Performance Detail Report.

    4. Click Run to generate data for this report.

  • Access the report within Journeys

    1. Click

    2. Select Journeys.

    3. Select Answers from the list of Guides.

    4. Click Open conversation report from the Answers Performance page.