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Gladly AI Experience Overview

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Get to know the general UX experience when interacting with Gladly AI.

Gladly AI receives an inquiry

Inbound Customer Contacts from all configured Channels pass through Gladly AI’s trigger. Gladly AI then evaluates a given Contact and classifies it accordingly. The Hierarchy system is used to classify Contact reasons out-of-the-box.

Gladly AI triggers a Thread

Once Gladly AI has received a Customer Contact and has classified the Contact reason as one it can assist with, Gladly AI will initiate the related, built-out Thread and engage with the Customer.

Gladly AI performs Action(s) within a Thread

Once the appropriate Thread has been prompted, Gladly AI will work its way through the various Actions and Sub-Actions that have been set up within the Thread Builder.

Not all configured Actions produce Customer-facing result

As Gladly AI executes the configured Thread behavior, not all steps yield a Customer-facing outcome. For example, while the Ask Question or Generative Reply Actions directly engage the Customer by asking a question or providing a response, the Look Up Order Action, for instance, gathers customer information on the backend in order to provide accurate, customized responses later on.

Gladly AI completes Customer engagement

Based on the configured Action(s) and information provided by the Customer throughout the Conversation, Gladly AI will either:

Gladly AI re-engages with Customers

Should the Customer reopen the Conversation within the Conversation Reopen Window, Gladly AI re-engages with the Customer following the same general process described above instead of immediately handing it off to Agents.