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Why AI is the future of customer service with Fergal Reid, Chief AI Officer at Intercom

What does it really take to build AI that can resolve customer support at scale reliably, safely, and with measurable business impact? We explore how Intercom has evolved from a traditional customer support platform into an AI-first company, with its AI assistant, Fin, now resolving 65% of customer queries without human intervention. Intercom's Chief AI Officer, Fergal Reid, discusses the company's journey from natural language understanding (NLU) systems to their current retrieval augmented generation (RAG) approach, explaining how they've optimised every component of their AI pipeline with custom-built models. The conversation covers Intercom's unique approach to AI product development, emphasising standardisation and continuous improvement rather than customisation for individual clients. Fergal explains their outcome-based pricing model, where clients pay for successful resolutions rather than conversations, and how this aligns incentives across the business. We also discuss Intercom's approach to agentic AI, which enables their systems to perform complex, multi-step tasks, such as processing refunds, by integrating with various APIs. Fergal shares insights on testing methodologies, the balance between customisation and standardisation, and the challenges of building AI products in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Finally, Fergal shares what excites and honestly freaks him out a bit about where AI is heading next. Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:31 - Welcome to Fergal Reid 05:26 - How to train an NLU solution effectively? 08:56 - What gen AI changed for Intercom 10:57 - How would you describe Fin? 14:30 - Fin’s performance increase 17:18 - Intercom’s custom models 22:14 - Large Language Models vs Small Language Models 30:40 - RAG and the full stop problem 40:08 - Agentic AI capabilities at Intercom 50:40 - Intercom’s approach to testing 1:04:46 - The most exciting things in the AI space Show notes Learn more about Intercom: https://www.intercom.com Connect with Fergal Reid on LinkedIn:   / fergalreid   Follow Kane Simms on LinkedIn:   / kanesimms   Article - The full stop problem: RAG’s biggest limitation: https://vux.world/14632-2/ Take our updated AI Maturity Assessment: https://vuxworld.typeform.com/to/a26b... Subscribe to VUX World: https://vuxworld.typeform.com/to/Qlo5... Subscribe to The AI Ultimatum Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/kanesimms