Moving to AI First Support
Getting Started with AI-First Customer Service
People don't hate AI chatbots — they hate bad ones. This guide covers how to pick one that actually resolves 70-80% of tickets from day one.
Author
Mike Heap (page 17 of 17)Mike is an experienced Product Manager who focuses on all the “non-development” areas of My AskAI, from finance and customer success to product design, copywriting, testing and more.
Moving to AI First Support
People don't hate AI chatbots — they hate bad ones. This guide covers how to pick one that actually resolves 70-80% of tickets from day one.
Intercom
70,000 tickets a month. 82% resolved by AI. Freecash tested Intercom Fin first — then switched. The cost difference was... significant.
HubSpot
Zeffy tested 8 AI vendors with 200+ questions. Only one passed. Now they deflect 84% of tickets with a 7-person support team. Here's how.
Case Study
Customer.io tested 8 vendors with 200+ questions. My AskAI 'blew everybody else out of the water.' Now they deflect 68% of tickets automatically.
Tutorials
AI agents chop your articles into 500-char chunks. If those chunks don't make sense alone, your AI gives bad answers. 7 fixes that actually work.
HubSpot
Zinc went live with AI support in minutes — not weeks. Now 68% of queries resolve automatically with 97% CSAT. They didn't need to hire a replacement.
SaaS
At 10 users, take every call. At 500+, deploy AI. This stage-by-stage SaaS support playbook tells you exactly when to change strategy (and why).
Meet Mike Heap, co-founder of My AskAI — the AI customer support tool built by two people who scaled to 45,000 users without a sales team.
Set up an AI agent on your helpdesk in minutes. Pay only for the tickets it resolves.