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Digital Recruiting Machine
Recruiting is the #1 problem in the entire economy today. Trucking companies are struggling to recruit drivers, restaurants to recruit servers, hospitals to recruit nurses, and so on throughout every industry. For that matter, contact centers are struggling to recruit...
The Customer Care Crisis
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an excerpt from the Humane Customer Care white paper.Customer Care is in a state of crisis: often bad for customers and worse for care agents. Indeed, the 2020s have been the worst of times and, well, the worst of times. “Hold times are longer...
Customer Care Supply & Demand: Unbalanced
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second excerpt from the Humane Customer Care white paper.In our bizarre 2021 labor economy, customer care operations lost many of the agents they once employed, and now can’t hire nearly enough to replace them. The Customer Care Crisis is...
AI Rescues Customer Care
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third excerpt from the Humane Customer Care white paper.Conversational AI alone is not enough to rescue customer care from crisis. It must be coupled with automation and presented within a graphical-user-interface. The Customer Care Crisis...
Restoring Care to Customer Care
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the final excerpt from the Humane Customer Care white paper.Now let’s put 2 & 2 together. Conversational GUIs typically handle 80% of all customer care engagements, deftly, consistently and cheaply. About that last, cheap here doesn’t mean...
Principal Financial Delivers Ideal Care
Extremely High Containment + Extremely High SatisfactionAs a major provider of dental insurance, Principal Financial prides itself on outstanding customer care for claimants and dental providers alike. They do this at scale, handling up to a million customer care...
Just Released: The 9 Step Guide to Automating Customer Care
Most customers believe companies need to transform how they engage with them, and 69% prefer to use chatbots for the speed at which they can communicate with a brand, notwithstanding that plain old chatbots are being superseded by next-gen digital assistants. These...
Build or Buy?
Survey results are clear when it comes to AI-driven customer service.70% of enterprise IT projects fail. That’s why so many IT and business leaders ask themselves: When looking to deploy new technology capabilities like customer service automation, should we buy it,...
Gartner Hypes Pypestream
Pypestream is thrilled to announce that we’ve recently been mentioned in nine Gartner Hype Cycle reports. Nine! "Our customers in insurance, streaming and wireless, consumer packaged goods, and more are reaping the benefits of Pypes and the Pypestream automation...
Facebook announces Messenger API support for Instagram, selects Pypestream as an early partner
Today, Messenger from Facebook is announcing the general availability of Messenger API support for Instagram at F8 Refresh. Prior to this announcement, Facebook partnered with Pypestream, a patented AI-powered customer engagement solution, to be included in a small...
[Webinar] SLING TV: Becoming an automated digital brand
In this webinar we follow SLING TV’s journey toward building a next-generation customer engagement solution with Pypestream. Seth Van Sickel, VP of Operations at SLING TV, outlines the business problems his company was facing and the path SLING TV took in automating...
Pypestream wants to kill the call center for good
Most call center tech providers straddle a tricky line: broadcasting the benefits of automation while still stressing the role that humans will continue to play. Now, one startup is trying to blow up that whole notion. Companies like Asapp, Avaya and Genesys insist...