B2B SaaS · Customer Support · 5 weeks

Zendesk Customer Support Automation AI-assisted triage and resolution for high-volume support

Re-architected a 5,000-ticket-per-month Zendesk instance with AI triage, automated routing and instrumented agent workflows.

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Problem and outcome

The problem

Volume kept rising. The team didn't.

A SaaS support team was drowning. Tickets arrived from email, chat, in-app and partners — all into one queue. Agents spent half their day tagging, routing and looking up account context before they could even read the issue. SLAs slipped. CSAT dropped. Hiring more agents made the macros and quality worse, not better.

The outcome

Tickets that route themselves, agents who only see the real work.

Nexlyn rebuilt the Zendesk architecture with Claude-powered triage on every incoming ticket: classification, priority, sentiment, language, account-tier lookup — all enriched before the agent sees it. Auto-replies handle the top-15 repetitive issues. Escalations get a pre-built case file. The agent's first second is now spent on the real problem.

Inside the system

The deployed system, on screen.

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Zendesk Customer Support Automation — system screenshot
What this showsThe agent queue after re-architecture — every ticket pre-classified, prioritised, sentiment-scored and enriched before an agent opens it.
What we built

Six components. One system.

Every transformation project follows the same Nexlyn execution-layer architecture: capture → decide → execute → log.

01
AI triage layer
Claude classifies every ticket: type / priority / sentiment / language
02
Account enrichment
Plan / MRR / open-tickets / health-score auto-attached to ticket
03
Self-serve macros
Top 15 repetitive issues resolved with conditional macro + KB link
04
Smart routing
Routes by skill, language, account tier and current agent load
05
Escalation packs
Tier-1 → Tier-2 handoff includes a pre-written case summary
06
Quality observability
SLA + CSAT + first-response time per route, in real time
Measured outcome

The numbers from the deployed system.

Pulled from the live instance after go-live — not pitch math.

-84%
First-response time
+22
CSAT points
38%
Tickets auto-resolved
0
Manual tagging
How it works

From inbound event to executed action.

The execution layer that makes the system run end-to-end.

Ingest
Email · chat · in-app
AI triage
Claude classify
Enrich
Account context
Route
Skill · tier · load
Auto-resolve
Top-15 macros
Observe
Live SLA · CSAT

The result

The team kept the same headcount through a 2× ticket-volume quarter. CSAT crossed 90 for the first time in two years. Tier-1 agents stopped opening tickets blind — they now start every conversation with a one-line AI summary, the customer's tier and the last three interactions already in front of them.

"We stopped firefighting and started actually fixing things. The agents say the queue finally feels sane."

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