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Your sales, customer success, and support teams are at the front line of your business. They interact with prospects and customers on a daily basis, and those interactions can determine whether a customer purchases (and keeps purchasing) your product or service. Their main tool for driving revenue and decreasing churn is information. And how quickly they can access accurate information has a direct impact on your bottom line. Unfortunately, often times a company’s existing knowledge base is making their teams job harder.

We interviewed Brendan Kohler on AI at Work, Co-founder and CTO at Sentenai and Co-founder at Hyperplane Venture Capital, an AI-focused venture capital fund. He had some great advice for business leaders on the laws of business and AI, here’s your cheat sheet.

This is the second in a series of Talla customer spotlights highlighting the real ways that companies are using AI, chatbots, and automation to make their employees more productive and increase engagement. We recently interviewed rLoop’s Co-Founder and Project Manager Brent Lessard to learn more about how they use Talla.

We live in the age of the customer; quality of product alone no longer determines success. Customers have endless options. Now more than ever, it’s the customer experience that is the ultimate differentiator with the power to make or break a business.

This is the first in a series of Talla customer spotlights highlighting the real ways that companies are using AI, chatbots, and automation to make their employees more productive, generate more revenue, and decrease costs. We recently spoke with Botkeeper CEO Enrico Palmerino to learn more about how they use Talla to do just that.

Time is money, and there is perhaps no more expensive time than that spent on customer support. And if you're not using artificial intelligence to help with customer support, you're spending far more than you should supporting your customers.

No happy customer contacts your support team. The customer calls support when something is wrong, and the longer it takes to fix -- and the more frustrating the support experience -- the more customer good will you exhaust. This is before you calculate the actual cost of paying support staff to deal with those unhappy customers.

No matter your industry or role, you’ve heard a lot about the promise of AI

You’ve probably also seen vendors that have added an AI message on top of their existing solutions — vendors have been hyping its capabilities for years, and it is difficult to parse truth from, well, BS. Sales is no exception, legacy applications have been given a quick AI makeover.

Bad software is a waste of money, but the worst software hurts revenue -- and a bad knowledge base solution can be the worst software of all because it costs you money in ways you can't easily see. And, frankly, most knowledge base solutions on the market today turn out to be secret cost centers.

Artificial intelligence can change that.

Accurate and complete sales documentation is critical to closing deals, but capturing all the data that sales teams need is a complex, time-consuming job that is too-often neglected. Artificial intelligence is ready to step in to ensure that a sales representative never has to jeopardize a sale by saying, "I don't know."

Companies have a love-hate relationship with chatbots. They can be a great resource to sales and support teams - when they have been trained properly and provided with the right information. But, quite often, they come up short of expectations. But all is not lost! When the correct planning and training is put in place, which includes combining the chatbot concept with a formidable knowledge base and highly tuned automations, automated technologies can be extremely valuable to an organization.