Smart Support Triage Bot
AI-powered customer support that classifies intent, auto-drafts responses, and escalates critical issues to Slack in real time.
70%
Tickets Auto-Resolved
12min
Avg Response Time
94%
CSAT Score
3
Agents Redeployed
Intercom
Message Intake
Claude API
AI Classification
Notion
Knowledge Base
n8n
Orchestration
The Problem
The Challenge
A growing DTC brand had a 6-person support team handling 200+ tickets daily through Intercom. Tickets came in with zero categorization — billing questions mixed with shipping issues, feature requests buried under complaints, and critical bugs going unnoticed for hours. Average first response time was 8 hours. Customer satisfaction was tanking, and the team was on the verge of burnout with no budget to hire more agents.
How We Fixed It
Our Solution
Audited 3 months of historical support tickets to build a taxonomy of 14 intent categories and 3 urgency levels.
Built an n8n workflow triggered by every new Intercom conversation, extracting the message content, customer metadata, and conversation history.
Integrated Claude API to classify each message by intent (billing, shipping, product question, bug report, feature request, etc.) and urgency (low, medium, critical).
Created auto-response templates for the top 8 most common query types — Claude generates contextual responses using the customer's order data and account history pulled from their backend API.
Set up a Notion database as a knowledge base for edge cases — when Claude's confidence is below 85%, the ticket gets logged with a suggested response for human review.
Configured real-time Slack alerts with rich context cards for any ticket classified as critical (P0 bugs, churn signals, VIP customers).
Tools & Infrastructure
Tech Stack
Intercom
Customer messaging platform. Captures all inbound support conversations across chat, email, and in-app messages.
Claude API
AI classification and response generation. Analyzes intent, urgency, and sentiment with high accuracy, then drafts contextual responses.
Notion
Edge case knowledge base and audit trail. Logs uncertain tickets, tracks resolution patterns, and builds an evolving FAQ database.
n8n
Workflow orchestration. Connects Intercom to Claude to Notion/Slack with conditional logic, error handling, and retry mechanisms.
Impact & Outcomes
The Results
70%
Tickets Auto-Resolved
7 out of 10 incoming tickets are now fully resolved by AI without any human intervention.
12min
Avg Response Time
First response time dropped from 8 hours to 12 minutes — a 40x improvement.
94%
CSAT Score
Customer satisfaction jumped from 72% to 94% as response quality and speed improved dramatically.
3
Agents Redeployed
3 support agents were redeployed to proactive customer success roles instead of reactive ticket handling.
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