Baibursai
Customer operations

Support Triage

Reads every incoming ticket, classifies it, sets priority and drafts the first reply.

Support Triage sits on the front of your inbox or helpdesk and does the work a first-line agent does in the first ninety seconds of a ticket: work out what the customer actually wants, decide how urgent it is, route it to the right queue and draft a reply that a human can send or edit.

What it actually does

Every ticket arrives as unstructured text, often written by someone who is frustrated and in a hurry. The agent reads the message along with the customer record you pass alongside it, then returns a structured verdict: category, sub-category, sentiment, urgency, the product area involved, whether it is a duplicate of an open ticket, and a drafted response in your tone of voice.

It does not send anything by itself. The output is a payload your helpdesk applies. That boundary is deliberate: an agent that classifies wrongly costs you a mis-routed ticket, while an agent that sends wrongly costs you a customer.

Where it earns its keep

The value is not in replacing your support team. It is in removing the twenty seconds of reading and sorting that sits in front of every single ticket, multiplied by the number of tickets you receive. A team handling 400 tickets a day spends roughly two and a half hours purely on triage. At $0.004 a run, having the agent do that costs $1.60.

Handling the ones it cannot

The agent returns a confidence score with every classification. Below the threshold you set, it declines to guess and flags the ticket for human triage instead. In our experience roughly 6% of tickets fall into that band, and they are overwhelmingly the ones where guessing would have been expensive anyway.

What it can do

  • Classify into your own taxonomy, not a fixed one
  • Detect urgency and escalation language
  • Identify the product area and likely owning team
  • Spot duplicates of already-open tickets
  • Draft a first reply in your documented tone
  • Return a confidence score and abstain when unsure
  • Extract order numbers, account IDs and dates
  • Flag anything that reads like a legal or press matter

Inputs and outputs

It takes

  • Ticket subject and body
  • Customer record (optional)
  • Your category taxonomy
  • Recent ticket history (optional)

It returns

{ "category": ... "subcategory": ... "priority": ... "sentiment": ... "suggested_queue": ... "draft_reply": ... "confidence": ... "extracted_fields": ... }

Fit

Good for

  • Helpdesks over 100 tickets a day
  • Teams with a messy category taxonomy
  • Out-of-hours coverage
  • Reducing first-response time

Not for

  • Sending replies unattended
  • Anything requiring account access
  • Regulated financial advice