How I turned a 20-minute Xfinity call into a 5-minute AI experience.
I went into this Customer Support call hoping for the best. Instead, I had an inefficient and time-consuming conversation with a live representative. So I opened VSCode and reimagined the Xfinity customer support call center experience with conversational AI.
Efficiency comparison: conversational AI and live chat representative
I called Xfinity (Comcast) hotline because I wanted to set up an internet connection at my new apartment. I was also wondering about having a TV plan with them. These were my two main questions, followed by sub-questions, naturally.
The hotline bot was a waste of time since it couldn’t help me as a new customer and didn’t connect me to an operator no matter how hard I tried. The voice bot told me I had to go to Xfinity website and have a live chat with an Xfinity customer service representative - which I did.
The chat lasted 20 minutes. I had to talk to 2 representatives.
My questions were FAQs - extremely easy to answer when you call Xfinity customer support. I saw an opportunity for Xfinity customer service to better its customer support operations. So I built this app to demonstrate my thought process.