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Support Deflection Layer

Tier-1 answers with citations. Clean handoff. Eval loop you trust.

Sits in front of human support. Answers tier-1 questions with citations to your docs/knowledge base. Escalates cleanly with full context when it can't. We own the eval loop so it doesn't lie. Four weeks.

from $9,500
4 weeks
IntercomZendeskCrispOpenAIAnthropicpgvector
Deliverables

Concrete artifacts you keep.

Every line below ships during the engagement. No “TBDs”, no slide-deck hand-waving — working code, written docs, and dashboards your team owns.

Embed widget OR Intercom/Zendesk integration
Knowledge ingestion + retrieval pipeline
Citation-first answers
Confidence-based escalation to humans
Eval suite (run on every prompt change)
Admin dashboard: deflection rate, accuracy, escalation reasons
What you walk away with

The outcome, not just the output.

  • Measurable deflection on tier-1 tickets
  • Citations on every answer (auditable)
  • Clean handoff to humans with full context
  • Eval suite that catches drift before customers do
Timeline

How the engagement runs.

1Week 1

Baseline + ingest

Profile your current tier-1 volume, ingest knowledge sources, agree on success metric.

2Week 2

Answer + escalate

Citation-first answer flow, confidence routing, clean handoff to human queue.

3Week 3

Evals + dashboard

Eval suite, admin dashboard, A/B harness against current tier-1.

4Week 4

Soft launch + tune

Limited rollout, 30 days of tuning, runbook + on-call training.

Sample deliverables

See the artifact, not the marketing.

Real shape, redacted content. Pick a tab to preview what ships.

Sample Audit Report

Twelve-page audit excerpt: scope, methodology, findings ranked by impact, and a prioritized fix list. Redacted.

Sample provided after intro call · ask sage@sageideas.dev

SAMPLE · REDACTED
How we reduce risk

Money-back if you're not happy in week 1

Reset the engagement before momentum builds. No invoices to dispute, no awkward email.

Async-first, weekly demos, no surprises

You see exactly what shipped each week. No status meetings to attend, no reports to chase.

Code is yours from day 1 — no lock-in

Your repo, your infra, your accounts. We work in your stack. You can take the work in-house at any time.

Cut our flake rate from 12% to 0.4% in three weeks. The eval suite caught two regressions on day one of running in CI.
Engineering LeadHead of Platform · Series B SaaS · 60 engineers
FAQ

Common questions

What's the deflection guarantee?
No guarantee — anyone promising one is lying. We measure baseline and target a realistic lift (typically 25–45% in the first 90 days).
How do you prevent it from lying?
Citations are mandatory. Below confidence threshold = escalate. Eval suite runs on every change.

Ready to scope Support Deflection?

A 30-minute call to confirm fit, scope, and timeline. No pressure, no slides.

Average reply: 3 hours, business days

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