Agents often handle multiple tickets simultaneously, requiring frequent context switching. This requires them to read through entire conversations to comprehend the issues and attempted resolutions, which can delay resolution, reduce efficiency, and increase the risk of errors.

Issue Summary, part of our Agent Copilot feature, leverages Generative AI to automatically distill customer support conversations into concise summaries. These summaries outline the customer's issue, attempted resolutions, reasons why those resolutions haven't worked, and any additional context, providing agents with all pertinent information at a glance for quicker resolution.

Key Benefits

  • Effortless Retrieval and Quick Comprehension: Eliminate the need for manual information retrieval, saving time, minimizing the risk of overlooking critical details, and ensuring quick understanding of customer issues during ticket switching or transfer.
  • Contextual Continuity and Uninterrupted Transitions: Prevent context loss during ticket transfers or agent shifts, facilitating smooth handovers for seamless resolution without delays.
  • Consistent Style: Maintain uniformity in summaries across different agents, promoting clarity and consistent understanding.
  • Efficiency in Escalations: Streamline the review process for supervisors to make quick, informed decisions about escalated tickets and audits.

Integrating the AI-generated Issue Summary feature significantly improves ticket handling efficiency and ensures a high standard of customer support.

 

Note: The Issue Summary currently supports English and is most effective in conversations with high volumes of messages and richer context.

Generating Issue Summary with AI

You can generate an Issue Summary directly within your conversation pane, offering a concise and comprehensive overview of the issue, including its key details.

To generate an Issue Summary:

  1. Log in to your Helpshift account.
  2. Go to Issues.
  3. Open the issue that you want to view from the Issue List Panel.
    The conversation pane appears.
  4. Click the Issue Summary icon ( ) under the text box.
    An Issue Summary pop-up will appear, summarizing the entire conversation.
     

Note: As the AI generates the Issue Summary, please ensure to check for accuracy.

The Issue Summary will include key details such as the main issue, relevant data, investigation steps, and resolution. This aids agents in quickly grasping the ticket's context and efficiently addressing customer concerns.

Within the Issue Summary pop-up, you can perform the following actions:

  • Copy: Copy the Issue Summary to share it or keep it for reference. For example, agents can add an AI-generated Issue Summary as a private note to facilitate seamless handoff when transferring issues to another agent.
  • Close: Close the Issue Summary pop-up.
  • Was this helpful? Rate the AI-generated Issue Summary to help us improve your overall experience.
     
Tip: Always generate the latest summary to ensure you have the most up-to-date details about ongoing conversations.

Summary Generation Process

Each time the issue summary icon is clicked, the system scans for new messages or redactions within the conversation. It generates a summary based solely on conversational messages, excluding private notes. If no new changes are found, the previous summary is maintained.

Data Privacy and Security

To address PII concerns, we have implemented a system to mask any PII before sending it to OpenAI and unmask it when displaying the summary to the agent. Additionally, our OpenAI Enterprise license ensures a zero data retention policy, further preventing potential misuse or security risks.

Note: We have foundational analytics capability for the Issue Summary feature. For more details, refer to Issue Summary Analytics.