Talla Company Blog

We've all had interactions with clunky or incoherent chatbots that made their owners look dumb, but few companies know what steps to take to ensure their own bots don't make the same mistakes. Before you entrust a chatbot to help with customer service and support, make sure you've given it the tools it needs to avoid embarrassing itself.

Every time technology shifts, people are caught off guard and there is this phase in the market where the new technologies are being thought of using the old frameworks. That’s where we are with AI today. Buyers are looking at enterprise AI software like it’s one of the SaaS solutions they bought in 2014. It’s not.

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.

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.

There are lots of chatbots on the market today, and many of them are (supposedly) designed to help with customer support. While each type of support bot has its pros and cons, none of them are truly ready to fully replace human support representatives. Understanding that reality is key to implementing your support bot the right way.