AimHappy Pro for Garden Games
A real success story of Umbraco being used with AI in production 🚀
A real success story of Umbraco being used with AI in production 🚀
AimHappy is a friendly ''helper bot'' that:
✅ reduced the workload of staff by 40%
✅ processed over 15,000 tickets in 2020
✅ includes custom third-party integrations with Umbraco, Zendesk, Microsoft LUIS, and KHAOS Control
How it all began
When you’re an inventive company, you want your employees to be spending their time on fresh new ideas, not repetitive queries. John Cardy, director and co-founder at Garden Games, noticed that his customer service team was copying and pasting answers to the most common questions asked. Once they received a query, agents had to manually check all information in KHAOS Control. It would save valuable time and effort if a bot could find this information out based on the customer query.
Garden Games wanted a computer to be able to read, identify and answer common questions. There were plenty of people who could describe what AI would eventually do, but John Cardy could not find real experts who could make it happen - until he spoke to Rock Solid Knowledge.
Rock Solid Knowledge knew that they needed to build a system that reads enquiries, answering the ones it can, leaving Garden Games employees free to work on the more complex issues or develop new outdoor toys and sporting play products. Garden Games agreed that for the project to be considered a success, the helper bot should be able to correctly answer over 30% of all customer queries.
How we made it happen
Rock Solid Knowledge built a headless Umbraco site to use as a powerful helper bot hub, allowing helpdesk agents to shape AimHappy Pro customer replies. Umbraco sits alongside key third-party integrations: Microsoft LUIS, Zendesk, and KHAOS Control.
Once we install AimHappy Pro in a Zendesk instance, it sends customer tickets to an API where it carefully processes them by:
- Removing unwanted content
- Splitting into sentences using OpenNLP
- Using AI to establish ticket intent and sentiment
The bot discards any non-important intents, such as disclaimers. If the customer asks something specific to an order or product, AimHappy Pro can automatically retrieve this information from KHAOS Control (e.g., order status or product stock).
Once the bot has a full set of intents, entities, sentiment, and any extra product or order information, it has all the data it needs to automatically craft a suitable reply.
AimHappy Pro requests the reply content that it needs via a cached Umbraco content API layer. Customer service agents use the power of Umbraco to set up the bot just how they like:
- Decide the content of global replies
- Set individual and combinations of intent replies
- Change content per shop and channel
- Manage threshold settings, such as at what % a ticket is negative
- Determine the start of a forwarded email so the rest of the email isn’t analyzed
- Set the business priority of each intent
AimHappy Pro replies to the Zendesk ticket with a fully tailored response. Depending on the Umbraco intent settings, replies can be public or private.
The bot can also automatically assign the ticket to helpdesk agents depending on the intent, channel, and shop. For example, it can assign purchase orders from an eBay shop to a specific Zendesk agent. Additionally, if the ticket is a negative complaint, the bot can set the Zendesk ticket priority to Urgent.
AimHappy Pro works in harmony with existing Zendesk functionality and uses Umbraco as a great management tool for agents to evolve replies over time.
An Umbraco solution with stunning results 🙌
The system developed is just as Garden Games hoped it would be – as John Cardy, Director, says, it is “like having an extra person here, but one who never takes a day off”.
Rock Solid Knowledge’s AI-driven helper bot has been live for Garden Games since January 2020, with many successful customer replies. It has been fine-tuned and optimized as more has been learned about the business domain, and the bot is now a fully-fledged product, AimHappy Pro, that can be customized and rolled out to other customers in the eCommerce space.