Tonight, at the NZ Compare Awards, New Zealand’s best products and services in power, broadband and mobile will be recognised. These Awards, now in their sixth year, are judged by industry professionals and consumers. They recognise both the individual performance of retailers but also the growing sophistication of customer service among essential services providers.
When you invite 110+ retailers with host Juanita Neville Te-Rito, CEO of the RX Group, it’s always going to be a super-charged experience. We met to explore the changing face of retail and CX - the headline considerations, the sector decelerators and other reflections on the industry. From the keynotes, it is clear that the world's current climate particularly the Covid pandemic, geo-economic political factors and growing environmental concerns are having a big impact on the way people live and shop.
By integrating Zapier and Make with your Digital Employee, you'll be able to automate and customise manual business tasks, lead generation workflows, notifications, and more.
NZ Post has deployed its first digital employee, a smart chatbot named Koa, using Ambit’s conversational AI platform. The chatbot allows small or home-based business customers in the My NZ Post Business portal to receive an immediate response, at any time of day, to commonly asked questions, freeing up the Customer Care team to solve more complex queries.
Richard Pratley has joined Ambit, the conversational artificial intelligence platform, as General Manager of Sales. Pratley is an experienced leader of high-tech software, product and services businesses across New Zealand and Europe.
"How can we do business if our stores are closed?" This was a question Dylan Weymouth, GM of Group Business Operations at The Warehouse Group asked Ambit CEO Tim Warren back in early March 2020, days before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Little did we know how true Dylan's words would be when COVID-19 arrived in New Zealand and stores nationwide were forced to shut down. With customer service centres fast being inundated with thousands of enquiries, businesses had to figure out a solution fast.
Originally published 30 August, Updated 6 December 2023.
Ambit, the conversational artificial intelligence platform, has raised NZ$1.5M to accelerate expansion into Australia where it targets new clients in the retail, utilities and financial services sectors.
"You don't know AI." That's the provocative and fascinating statement Tim Warren, Ambit CEO, recently presented at the Research Association Conference and the iMedia Brand Summit. He goes on to discuss how artificial intelligence isn't something that's far away in the future, and how more and more marketing content is now being generated by AI with the oversight of humans.
GoSee, the global travel eCommerce business and a Webjet company, is relying more and more on their intelligent digital agent, powered by conversational AI from Ambit, to engage with international customers as it rebuilds from the pandemic. GoSee’s digital employee, Scout, enables customers to self-serve more of their booking journey for rental cars and motorhomes, allowing contact centre agents to focus on more complex queries.
Bright and early on May 17, we decked the halls of the Grid Auckland in orange and had our first in-person event of 2022 as part of Techweek NZ: a panel discussion with customer experience leaders Sarah Gunn from TheMarket, Mandy Tomlinson (formerly of Laybuy,) and Richard Fuli from GoSee, facilitated by Ambit’s CEO, Tim Warren.
Each of them shared their thoughts and experiences on digital employees and how they contribute and make a difference to their customer experience and their overall business.
Here are a few key takeaways from the event.