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Overview

Ansa is ideal for customer support teams who want to:
  • Deflect repetitive questions with instant, accurate answers
  • Escalate complex issues to human agents seamlessly
  • Build a growing knowledge base from real support interactions
  • Provide 24/7 support without scaling headcount
Customer support chat

1. Knowledge Base Setup

Index your existing help documentation to give your agent comprehensive knowledge: Recommended sources:
  • Help center articles (web crawl or upload)
  • FAQ documents
  • Product documentation
  • Troubleshooting guides
Web sources configuration
Use the auto-detect feature during onboarding to automatically discover and index your help pages. Ansa will probe common paths like /help, /support, /faq, and /docs.

2. Agent Settings

Example System Prompt:

3. Escalation with Confidence Thresholds

Use confidence scores to automatically escalate low-confidence responses: Analytics showing confidence scores

4. Escalation Form Tool

Create a form tool for human escalation:

5. Widget Triggers

Set up proactive engagement to help users before they get frustrated: Widget builder

Email Channel for Async Support

Enable the email channel to handle support emails with AI:
  1. Forward support emails to your agent’s inbound address
  2. Set confidence threshold (recommended: 70%)
  3. Configure low-confidence action to “forward” to human reviewers
  4. Enable Auto Learn to automatically create Q&A entries from human responses
Email channel settings

Monitoring & Improvement

Review Conversation History

Regularly review conversations to identify:
  • Common questions that need better documentation
  • Low-confidence responses that need knowledge base updates
  • Patterns in escalated issues
Conversation history

Track Key Metrics

Monitor these analytics:
  • Average confidence score — Target 75%+
  • Escalation rate — Track form submissions vs. resolved chats
  • Response quality — Review feedback ratings

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