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Customer experience, service excellence, NPS programs, and turning customers into advocates.

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Service Excellence Playbook

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May 20, 2026

Customer Service When Tier-1 Is a Robot: The New Service Playbook for 2026

We turned over 70% of inbound service at The Cooling Co to AI agents. CSAT didn't move. Customers couldn't tell — and the ones who could, didn't care. Six shifts for the new service org: tier-1 is a layer not a level, harder work means higher pay, escalation as triage, metrics beyond CSAT, self-service that grew teeth, and hard cases as training data.

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Customer Service in the AI Era — A Playbook

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