The Ticket: Discover the Future of Customer Service, Support, and Experience, with Intercom

In this episode of The Ticket, Vanta’s Director of Customer Support, Margarita Wilshire, joins Intercom’s Senior Director of Human Support, Bobby Stapleton, to share how her team blends human expertise, customer education, and AI innovation to deliver fast, trustworthy, and scalable support – while keeping customer experience at the heart of everything they do.

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In this episode, Senior Director of AI Support Ruth O’Brien and VP of Support Declan Ivory take you inside part two of Intercom’s AI Agent Blueprint: "Scale it." They share lessons from being the first support team in the world to deploy a generative AI agent and dive into the organizational shifts that make scaling the impact of AI possible. From introducing new roles like conversation designers and AI ops managers, to ke...

Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director of AI Support at Intercom, sits down with George Dilthey, Head of Support at Clay, to explore “The Wheel” – Clay’s 15-month rotational program that begins in customer service and develops the next generation of tech leaders.

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We've just launched "The AI Agent Blueprint" – a two-part strategic map for launching and scaling AI in customer service. It's designed to help customer service, CX, and AI transformation leaders deploy fast, scale with confidence, and achieve meaningful business transformation with AI.

In this episode, Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton and VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory unpack what's in the Blueprint, s...

As AI agents deflect more and more customer conversations, support teams are being thrown straight into the deep end. In this episode of The Ticket, Senior Director of Human Support at Intercom Bobby Stapleton chats with Mark Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO of SolidRoad - an AI-first training and QA platform transforming how CX teams ramp, upskill, and retain talent. They discuss the death of tier-one support, why simulation-ba...

How do you keep your AI agent accurate when the product changes every week? Bobby Stapleton, Senior Director, Human Support, Intercom, chats with Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director, AI Support, Intercom, about how Intercom’s support team maintains 75%+ resolution rates - from the processes behind new product launches to the culture of continuous improvement across both AI and human teams.

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Intercom power user and automation expert Sam Miller, Customer Support Operations Manager at Dental Intelligence, joins Ruth O’Brien, Senior Director, AI Support at Intercom to share how his team blends AI and human support to deliver a high-quality experience at scale. 

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CSAT has long been the go-to metric for support teams - but now there's a better way to measure how customers really feel. In this episode, Jared Ellis, Senior Director of Global Product Support at Culture Amp, joins Intercom’s Bobby Stapleton to explore his team's experience trialing Intercom’s new AI-powered Customer Experience Score. They unpack the limitations of traditional CSAT, why measuring every conversation matte...

When customer experience lives in silos, customers feel the gaps — and businesses miss opportunities to build loyalty. In this episode, John Durocher, Chief Customer Officer at Calix, joins Intercom’s Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton to discuss how breaking down silos, embedding customer success into every team, and using AI for smarter frontline support can transform the customer journey. They also dig int...

Customer experience is only as strong as the feedback that shapes it but fewer customers are speaking up. In this episode, Isabelle Zdatny, Head of Thought Leadership at the Qualtrics XM Institute, joins Intercom’s VP of Customer Support Declan Ivory to unpack the decline in customer feedback – and what it means for businesses aiming to deliver world-class experiences. They explore the trust gap, survey fatigue, and rising...

Too often in support, more time is spent diagnosing an issue than resolving it – and that’s a problem. In this episode, Maxime Manseau, VP of Support at Birdie, joins Intercom's Senior Director of Human Support Bobby Stapleton to explore the hidden costs of misdiagnosis in customer support: longer resolution times, frustrated customers, and burned-out agents. They discuss how improving issue understanding upfront – through...

Our vision for Fin, Intercom's AI agent, is to answer any question, on any channel, across any platform. With our latest Built For You announcements, that vision is now a reality. Join Chief Product Officer Paul Adams and other product leaders as they introduce exciting new capabilities.

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As RB2B scaled, its support team needed a way to handle growing demand without adding headcount. Head of Technical Operations Robb Clarke turned to AI as the solution. In this conversation with Intercom's Senior Director of Automated and Proactive Support Ruth O'Brien, Robb details how implementing Fin AI Agent created a scalable support system that now resolves 65% of inquiries automatically – saving the team 132+ hours m...

In this episode of The Ticket, Ruth O'Brien, Senior Director of Automated and Proactive Support at Intercom, joins Bobby Stapleton, Senior Director of Human Support at Intercom, to break down key insights from Intercom’s 2025 Customer Service Transformation Report and unpack how AI is reshaping support teams, driving efficiency, and elevating customer experiences. They explore why AI adoption is accelerating, the rise of n...

Anthropic has successfully implemented AI-first strategies to manage customer support more efficiently, allowing human reps to refocus their efforts on higher value work, all while enhancing service quality. On today's episode we're joined by Emily Lampert, Head of Product Support at Anthropic, to unpack the real-world impact of AI-first support. They discuss why Anthropic—one of the world’s leading AI labs—chose to p...

We spoke with Constantina Samara, Head of Customer Support at Synthesia, about how AI is reshaping customer service. She tells Declan Ivory, Intercom’s VP of Customer Support, how her background in psychology informs her approach to AI-driven customer service, the biggest opportunities and challenges she’s encountered, and how Synthesia is leveraging AI to enhance both support efficiency and the customer experience.

We spoke with Natalie Hurst, Director of Customer Success at Nuuly, about her experience adopting AI in customer service. She tells Intercom’s Senior Director of Human Support, Bobby Stapleton, about the immense impact it’s had for both Nuuly’s support team and customers, implementation challenges she encountered – and overcame – and her vision for the future of AI-first customer service.

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In this episode of The Ticket, Customer Support Operations Analyst at Intercom, Kevin Furlong discusses his critical role, focusing on the balance between proactive and reactive work, the importance of data-driven decision-making, and the ongoing need for optimization in customer support tools. Kevin shares insights with Bobby Stapleton, Snr. Director, Human Support, Intercom on change management, cross-functional collabor...

This week we're sharing a conversation with Angelo Livanos, who leads support at Lightspeed Commerce, who joined us at Pioneer, our AI customer service summit. Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform allows merchants to provide the best experiences across every channel. Having spent most of his career supporting, building, and guiding teams across leading technologies, he's currently leaning into the AI revolution and help...