41% self-service containment for a national retailer — order status and returns on conversational AI
A national retailer wanted to contain repetitive order-status and returns calls without hurting the high-touch loyalty experience. pronix.ai deployed Kore.ai Agent Platform on voice and chat over Genesys Cloud with Salesforce Commerce integration — 41% containment and CSAT up half a point.
- Client
- National retailer, 3,100 agents
- Industry
- Retail & Ecommerce
- Platform
- Kore.ai Agent Platform · Salesforce Commerce Cloud · Genesys Cloud
*Representative outcome; results vary by client, scope and platform configuration.
The challenge
70% of contacts were three intents — order status, returns and loyalty balance — but the previous chatbot only handled 12% end-to-end. Leadership wanted containment without a wave of angry loyalty-member escalations at peak.
Our approach
Intent-first, tier-based rollout
Shipped the top three intents first, then expanded. Loyalty tier ≥ Gold was routed to a human by policy — containment metric was measured net of that carve-out.
Search AI grounding on the product catalog
Grounded returns policy, item eligibility and store hours on the live catalog instead of a static KB. No stale answers when policy changed.
Voice + chat single-source authoring
One Agent Platform flow deployed to Genesys voice and the storefront chat — content team maintained one script, not two.
Peak-week guardrails
Hard cap on new intents in the six weeks before Black Friday; only guardrail tuning was allowed. Zero peak-week regressions.
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