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Should AI handle a furious customer?
Someone already upset, often on their second or third contact.
What changes with AI
This is where AI is weakest and where the damage is highest. Detection is more valuable than handling.
Where it goes wrong
The right behaviour is to recognise the anger and get out of the way fast. Measure how quickly it escalates, not whether it resolves.
Tools suited to this
Focused on detecting escalation risk and routing to a human rather than trying to absorb it.
SupportLogic
Predicts which B2B accounts are about to escalate, rather than answering tickets itself.
Cresta
Real-time coaching trained on your own top performers rather than a generic playbook.
Gladly Sidekick
Organises support around people instead of tickets, which is a genuine philosophical difference rather than marketing.
These are suitability judgements, not test results. They are based on what each platform is built to do, not on our own measured performance — we have not run tickets through them yet.