◆ Northwind

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Customer story

Northwind cut support response time from 6 hours to

9 minutes.

9 minutes.

9 minutes.

Industry

E-commerce logistics

Team size

1,200 employees

Agents deployed

14

Plan

Enterprise

The Northwind team at work

97%

97%

Faster first response

$2.4M

$2.4M

Saved in the first year

64%

64%

Tickets resolved without a human

The challenge

The challenge

Northwind’s support team handled 40,000 tickets a month across five languages. Peak season doubled that volume, and response times stretched past six hours.

Hiring could not keep pace, and the tools they had tried could only suggest canned replies. Agents still had to read every ticket, look up every order, and write every answer.

The solution

The solution

In two weeks, Northwind deployed a Support Triage agent connected to Zendesk, Shopify and their warehouse database. It reads each ticket, checks order status, and drafts a reply in the customer’s language.

Simple requests like tracking updates are resolved automatically. Anything involving refunds above $200 goes to a human with a full summary attached.

Northwind team collaborating
Northwind office

“We replaced four internal tools with two agents. Our team now spends its time on the conversations that need a human.”

Portrait of Priya Natarajan

Priya Natarajan

VP Support, Northwind

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