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The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom

On The Ticket, you"ll hear Intercom"s Customer Support team in conversation with the customer service leaders, renowned customer experience thinkers, and influential authors who are shaping the field of customer support.Follow The Ticket to get the weekly episodes and sign up for our twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter🏠 www.intercom.com

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00:17:02

Live from Pioneer: How a unified Customer Agent will...

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2025/10/31

What if every customer interaction – from sales to success – could be handled seamlessly by one Customer Agent? In this episode, Franka Martinovic, Director of Customer Support at Intercom, sits down with Rati Zvirawa, Director of Product Management at Intercom, to discuss the bold vision behind this reality we're moving towards with Fin. They discuss how a Customer Agent removes friction from the customer journey, the opportunities this unlocks for CX leaders, and why the companies leaning in early

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00:14:54

Live from Pioneer: AI is a long overdue promotion for...

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2025/10/22

AI is giving customer service a long-overdue promotion. But what does that really mean? In this episode, Leanne Harte, Senior Manager of Customer Support at Intercom, sits down with Guneet Singh, VP of Customer Experience and Care at AppFolio, to discuss how AI is transforming support from a cost center into a growth engine. They unpack how to rethink ROI beyond cost savings, build systems that keep AI performing at its best, and reimagine team roles, culture, and success metrics in an AI-first

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00:24:09

Live from Pioneer: AI is handling complexity we never...

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2025/10/16

We used to believe only humans could solve messy, high-stakes customer problems. But what happens when AI Agents prove they can do this too?In this episode, Declan Ivory, VP of Support at Intercom, and Natalie Hurst, Senior Director of Customer Success at Nuuly, unpack how, with AI handling ever more complex customer interactions, the world of customer experience is being reshaped and what this shift means for leaders, human teams, and the trust customers place in AI. Watch this episode on

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00:11:15

Fin Conversations Ep4: Fin Procedures in practice

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2025/10/15

Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director of AI Support at Intercom, and Declan Ivory, VP of Customer Support at Intercom, dive into Fin Procedures – a powerful new way for Fin AI Agent to handle complex, multi-step queries. Hear how Intercom’s own support team is using Procedures in practice, and the impact customers are seeing so far – from higher resolution rates to improved CSAT.Learn more about Procedures here: https://fin.ai/procedures Watch this episode on YouTube: Follow the

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00:16:54

Inside Pioneer 2025: Exploring what's next for...

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2025/10/09

Intercom's Senior Director of AI Support, Ruth O’Brien, and VP of Customer Support, Declan Ivory, recap Pioneer, our summit for AI customer service leaders. They cover the announcement of Fin 3, the best-performing AI Agent capable of handling the most complex queries, our vision for a Customer Agent future, ideas on AI as a convergent force, and more.Watch talks from Pioneer here: https://pioneer.fin.ai/ Watch this episode on YouTube:

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00:23:53

Smooth scaling: How Intercom manages 500+ product...

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2025/09/25

In this episode of The Ticket, Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director of AI Support, is joined by Sean Reid, New Product Introduction Program Manager, and Beth-Ann Sher, Senior Knowledge Manager, to unpack how Intercom handles 500+ product launches a year. They share how the NPI (New Product Introduction) process enables both Fin and human teammates to deliver seamless support, why knowledge management is so critical in an AI-first world, and how cross-team collaboration ensures every launch is a

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00:30:24

Lessons from Vanta: Scaling support through trust,...

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2025/09/16

In this episode of The Ticket, Vanta’s Director of Customer Support, Margarita Wilshire, joins Intercom’s Senior Director of Human Support, Bobby Stapleton, to share how her team blends human expertise, customer education, and AI innovation to deliver fast, trustworthy, and scalable support – while keeping customer experience at the heart of everything they do.Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/72V2C-QR6pw?si=BnGXQQNR-mYLAriO Follow the

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00:20:04

Fin Conversations Ep3: The blueprint for scaling AI...

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2025/08/25

In this episode, Senior Director of AI Support Ruth O’Brien and VP of Support Declan Ivory take you inside part two of Intercom’s AI Agent Blueprint: "Scale it." They share lessons from being the first support team in the world to deploy a generative AI agent and dive into the organizational shifts that make scaling the impact of AI possible. From introducing new roles like conversation designers and AI ops managers, to keeping customer experience front and center, and rethinking support economics

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00:27:24

Exploring 'The Wheel': Clay’s rotational program...

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2025/08/18

Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director of AI Support at Intercom, sits down with George Dilthey, Head of Support at Clay, to explore “The Wheel” – Clay’s 15-month rotational program that begins in customer service and develops the next generation of tech leaders.Find out more about The Wheel program here. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zUw0IyehCuw?si=4UQjiDQuAYWfkZ8o Newsletter Sign up for The Ticket on LinkedIn: A newsletter bursting with insights and advice for support

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00:20:13

Fin Conversations Ep2: Inside The AI Agent Blueprint

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2025/08/11

We've just launched "The AI Agent Blueprint" – a two-part strategic map for launching and scaling AI in customer service. It's designed to help customer service, CX, and AI transformation leaders deploy fast, scale with confidence, and achieve meaningful business transformation with AI.In this episode, Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton and VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory unpack what's in the Blueprint, sharing hard-won lessons from Intercom's own journey deploying AI, why it's

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00:33:02

Reinventing QA and Training for the AI Era

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2025/07/22

As AI agents deflect more and more customer conversations, support teams are being thrown straight into the deep end. In this episode of The Ticket, Senior Director of Human Support at Intercom Bobby Stapleton chats with Mark Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO of SolidRoad - an AI-first training and QA platform transforming how CX teams ramp, upskill, and retain talent. They discuss the death of tier-one support, why simulation-based training is essential in an AI-first world, and how the best companies are

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00:19:17

Fin conversations ep1: The Secret to Sustaining 75%+...

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2025/07/04

How do you keep your AI agent accurate when the product changes every week? Bobby Stapleton, Senior Director, Human Support, Intercom, chats with Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director, AI Support, Intercom, about how Intercom’s support team maintains 75%+ resolution rates - from the processes behind new product launches to the culture of continuous improvement across both AI and human teams.Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7poemldqBjc?si=DQ8C4Z_0aqzLbzcc Follow the

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00:28:55

How a “Bot Wrangler” uses AI to scale support without...

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2025/06/27

Intercom power user and automation expert Sam Miller, Customer Support Operations Manager at Dental Intelligence, joins Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director, AI Support at Intercom to share how his team blends AI and human support to deliver a high-quality experience at scale. Follow the people https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthieob/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/samueljacobmiller/ Newsletter Sign up for The Ticket on LinkedIn: A newsletter bursting with insights and advice for support leaders who

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00:43:15

Measuring every conversation: How CX Score is...

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2025/05/29

CSAT has long been the go-to metric for support teams - but now there's a better way to measure how customers really feel. In this episode, Jared Ellis, Senior Director of Global Product Support at Culture Amp, joins Intercom’s Bobby Stapleton to explore his team's experience trialing Intercom’s new AI-powered Customer Experience Score. They unpack the limitations of traditional CSAT, why measuring every conversation matters, and how AI is helping them turn “neutral” experiences into standout

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00:30:34

From siloed to seamless: What it really takes to...

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2025/05/01

When customer experience lives in silos, customers feel the gaps — and businesses miss opportunities to build loyalty. In this episode, John Durocher, Chief Customer Officer at Calix, joins Intercom’s Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton to discuss how breaking down silos, embedding customer success into every team, and using AI for smarter frontline support can transform the customer journey. They also dig into why trust, simplicity, and attention to small details are key to creating

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00:35:14

The Future of Customer Experience Starts with Smarter...

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2025/04/03

Customer experience is only as strong as the feedback that shapes it but fewer customers are speaking up. In this episode, Isabelle Zdatny, Head of Thought Leadership at the Qualtrics XM Institute, joins Intercom’s VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory to unpack the decline in customer feedback – and what it means for businesses aiming to deliver world-class experiences. They explore the trust gap, survey fatigue, and rising expectations, and explain why great CX now depends on smarter, faster

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00:38:37

The Hidden Cost of Misdiagnosing Customer Issues (And...

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2025/03/27

Too often in support, more time is spent diagnosing an issue than resolving it – and that’s a problem. In this episode, Maxime Manseau, VP of Support at Birdie, joins Intercom's Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton to explore the hidden costs of misdiagnosis in customer support: longer resolution times, frustrated customers, and burned-out agents. They discuss how improving issue understanding upfront – through better workflows, AI-powered tools, and even screen recordings – can

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00:18:40

Built For You Spring '25: Fin Can Now See, Speak, and...

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2025/03/20

Our vision for Fin, Intercom's AI agent, is to answer any question, on any channel, across any platform. With our latest Built For You announcements, that vision is now a reality. Join Chief Product Officer Paul Adams and other product leaders as they introduce exciting new capabilities.Watch the video here: https://bfy.intercom.com/ Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of

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00:45:18

An AI-first approach: How RB2B created a lean,...

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2025/03/13

As RB2B scaled, its support team needed a way to handle growing demand without adding headcount. Head of Technical Operations Robb Clarke turned to AI as the solution. In this conversation with Intercom's Senior Director of Automated and Proactive Support Ruth O'Brien, Robb details how implementing Fin AI Agent created a scalable support system that now resolves 65% of inquiries automatically – saving the team 132+ hours monthly. He shares practical insights on building customer trust in AI

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00:30:34

Navigating a new era of AI-first customer service

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2025/02/27

In this episode of The Ticket, Ruth O'Brien, Senior Director of Automated and Proactive Support at Intercom, joins Bobby Stapleton, Senior Director of Human Support at Intercom, to break down key insights from Intercom’s 2025 Customer Service Transformation Report and unpack how AI is reshaping support teams, driving efficiency, and elevating customer experiences. They explore why AI adoption is accelerating, the rise of new AI-powered roles, and how businesses can navigate this shift.Read the

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