a16z|May 28, 2026 16:33
We partnered with Pylon to investigate whether AI is replacing or augmenting jobs in customer support.
The resounding answer: AI is acting much more as an invisible triage agent or copilot than it is as an end-to-end support handler.
If your company as a whole is pretty AI-native, there’s a much higher likelihood that your customer support AI will be good at resolving questions end-to-end.
In particular, “AI-resolved” tickets are more likely to be actual resolutions, as opposed to “the customer gave up and dropped off.”
But if you’re a really important, big-spending B2B customer? You’re probably still gonna get a human.
Full breakdown: https://www.a16z.news/p/narrative-violation-in-b2b-customer(a16z)
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