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Running support with an AI assistant in the loop: knowledge bases, handover rules, response quality, measuring results and keeping answers current.

Chat where the AI recognises a delivered-but-missing parcel and hands the case to a person with the order details
Support operations
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An AI customer service bot earns its place on the contacts with an answer in your content or order data, and loses trust the moment it improvises on the rest. This guide draws the line: what a retrieval-based bot handles well, what it must hand to a person and how, the ten instructions that keep it honest, what our data shows, and the numbers to watch weekly.

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Five-item scoring checklist for choosing a customer service chatbot, from own-data answers to handover quality
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Every "best chatbot for customer service" list ranks tools nobody tested on your queue. This guide gives the scoring method instead: seven weighted criteria (own-data answers, honest declines, handover quality, channels, cost per contact, reporting, data handling), the candidates with their published September 2026 prices and units, what a service bot must never do, and where each tool fits by team size.

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Privacy checklist for a store chatbot: signed DPA, two-fact order lookup, stated retention, export and deletion
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An AI chatbot on a store handles message text, order lookups, leads and sometimes uploaded documents, which makes it part of your GDPR obligations. This checklist covers what data flows where, the questions to put to a vendor (DPA, subprocessors, encryption, retention, model training), how to minimise what the bot collects, how deletion and export requests are handled, and what to tell shoppers.

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Bar chart comparing illustrative cost per 1,000 support contacts for human-only, hybrid and per-resolution AI models
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The honest comparison between AI and human customer support is not "which is better" but "which contacts should each handle, and what does that cost". This guide prices human-only, AI-only and hybrid support per contact using assumptions you can replace with your own, shows what each does well, sets the handover rules that make hybrid work, and gives a worksheet to run the numbers for your store.

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