AI Answer Assistant
Discover LiveAgent's AI Answer Assistant, designed to streamline customer service with smart, AI-generated responses. Enhance your team's productivity, reduce c...
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What is AI Autoresponder?
In the fast-paced world of customer service, speed is everything. But as your business grows, the volume of incoming tickets can quickly overwhelm even the most seasoned team. Try LiveAgent’s AI Autoresponder—a powerful AI feature, powered by FlowHunt, that acts as your first line of support.
Imagine having a first level support agent that never sleeps, works instantly, and handles every single new inquiry the moment it arrives.
How the AI Autoresponder works
To get this AI Agent up and running, you need to integrate LiveAgent with an AI Agents provider. The AI functionality of LiveAgent is currently provided exclusively by FlowHunt . Quality Unit develops both LiveAgent and FlowHunt. This allows us to keep your data safe, as well as provide priority support to LiveAgent users.
The most effective way to use the AI Autoresponder is as an automated filter for your support desk. Here is how many of our successful customers are currently utilizing it:
- Instant interaction: As soon as a customer submits a ticket, the AI Autoresponder analyzes the query and sends an immediate, AI-generated response.
- Flexible knowledge sources: Just like our Chatbot or Answer Assistant, the AI answers based strictly on the data you provide. You have full control over its “brain”:
- Web only: It can pull answers strictly from your public website
- Knowledge base: It can utilize your internal or public LiveAgent articles
- Internal databases: It can connect to your specific internal resources to provide personalized data
- Attached documents: It can fetch information from any files or documents
- Human escalation: If the AI’s answer resolves the issue, the ticket can be automatically marked as resolved and closed using LiveAgent rules—without any human intervention. If the customer replies indicating the issue persists, rules can automatically transfer the ticket to second-level support (human agents).
This ensures your team only spends time on complex issues that truly require a human touch, while routine questions are resolved in seconds.
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The cost of the AI Autoresponder
LiveAgent does not charge any additional fees for setting up this feature. Usage is billed through FlowHunt’s credit-based pricing model, and the cost per ticket processed is generally low since each run involves a single, focused classification task. Your overall expenses will depend on ticket volume and the AI model selected. You can use this guide to estimate your AI costs.
Two ways to deploy: Full automation vs. human oversight
Not every business is ready to let an AI fly solo. That’s why the AI Autoresponder offers two distinct workflows depending on your preference for control:
- Option A: Fully automated reply
- Option B: The “draft & approve” method
Option A: Fully automated reply
The AI Autoresponder generates the response and sends it directly to the customer as soon as the ticket is created. This is perfect for high-volume desks aiming for maximum efficiency and zero response time.
Option B: The “draft & approve” method
The AI Autoresponder processes the ticket but, instead of replying to the customer, it adds the suggested answer as a private note within the ticket. Your agent can then review the suggestion, make minor tweaks if necessary, and copy-paste it into the reply editor. This provides a final layer of human quality control while still saving the agent the time of drafting a response from scratch.
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Key benefits of automating your first response
- Drastic cost reduction: Handle high volumes of tickets without hiring more staff. The AI Autoresponder manages the “busy work” of first level support.
- 24/7 availability: Your customers get an intelligent response at 3:00 AM on a Sunday, just as fast as they would on a Tuesday morning.
- Seamless scalability: Whether you get 10 tickets or 1,000 today, the AI Autoresponder scales instantly to meet the demand.
- Reduced human error: Ensure every customer receives a polite, professional, and brand-consistent greeting every single time.
Technical setup
The AI Autoresponder is powered by FlowHunt, our no-code AI automation platform. You can trigger the AI Autoreponder within LiveAgent using simple automation rules.
Because FlowHunt and LiveAgent are both products of Quality Unit, integration is seamless. For customers with active subscriptions to both platforms, our support team offers full initial setup of your AI automations.
Ready to let AI handle the heavy lifting? Book a demo here to see how to set up your AI Autoresponder and start saving your team hours of work every day.
