Help Desk AI features speed up writing replies and automating tasks for teammates in the inbox. These features are integrated with OpenAI’s GPT models.
ℹ️ In addition to these features, we've got a new AI feature for teammates called Fin AI Copilot.
Help Desk AI features
AI Compose
Easily rephrase answers, adjust to your tone, translate replies or fix spelling.
Expand or Rephrase - write shorthand customer responses and let the AI generate a complete suggested or rephrased message.
Change tone - automatically change the tone of the message you’ve written to sound more like your own tone, be more casual/friendly or more formal depending on what suits your business or the situation.
Fix grammar - fix your grammar and spelling mistakes, to ensure your replies are always flawless.
Translate - translate your message into another language if you're handling a query in a different language.
After using one of the AI Compose options, teammates can choose to accept, undo, or try again.
AI Summarize
Create an AI-generated summary of a customer conversation or ticket in the Intercom Help Desk. To pull up the AI Compose options quickly, just hit ⌘ J / Ctrl J . Teammates can choose to edit a summary first before adding the Note to the conversation, or add the Note straight away.
Summaries can also be generated automatically using Workflows. Check it out here.
AI Autofill
Automatically populate ticket titles and description when creating a ticket.
Help Desk AI features are available on EU and AU hosted workspaces, but the data is currently processed in the US. Regional data processing will become available in early 2024.
Get started
To enable Help Desk AI, navigate to your workspace Settings > General > Help Desk AI and toggle these features on.
AI Compose & Summarize will be enabled automatically for new customers who joined since September 12, 2023.
How these features are being used by Support teams
Rephrase - Support reps are using the 'Rephrase' feature to add some variety into their replies and macros. This makes their responses more personal, as they are also well adjusted to their personal tone. They use it to make replies more fun and engaging. Also, they’ll use it when they feel like their response is a little awkward. It gives them a new way to say the same thing with clarity.
Make more formal - Some teammates like using the ‘Make more formal’ feature because it helps them tune-up their language in cases where that’s appropriate.
Summarize - Support reps are using 'Summarize' when handing over conversations or escalating to a different team and bringing them up to speed quickly. The summaries help other teams get caught up with the specifics efficiently and allows them to determine next steps quicker. They also use it to summarize very long conversations, helping reps get up to speed quicker.
Expand - Help center content creators are turning simple bullet points and short summaries into an instant first draft with AI Articles.
FAQs
Are there any additional costs to using these features?
AI Compose 'Adjust my Tone', AI Summarize, and AI Autofill is only available on some pricing plans. For additional information, visit the Additional Product Terms.
How is Intercom handling privacy/data security?
You will need to agree to your data being sent to OpenAI as a subprocessor. Learn more in the Additional Product Terms.
What safeguards are in place to avoid abuse/misuse?
Help Desk AI features are agent-facing rather than customer-facing, and require human input/review.
Are there additional legal terms I need to agree to in order to use the features?
Yes, all Help Desk AI participation is subject to the Additional Product Terms.
What are smart replies?
Smart replies are AI-powered suggested greetings in the inbox composer that teammates can accept/reject using the tab key. They’re based on common greetings teammates have used in the past e.g. “Hi, this is Alissa from the support team”.
Smart replies are automatically enabled for all workspaces and can't be toggled on/off from Settings.
Help Desk AI features will work with multiple languages based on the 'Language' attribute of the conversation.
For example, if the detected locale of a customer is Brazil, the conversation language will be set to Portuguese and the summary will be translated accordingly.
This is based on the following criteria:
The language automatically detected in the initial customer message of the conversation, based on your Messenger's supported languages.
If no language is detected in the initial customer message, it will use the customer's current Messenger location. If there is no Messenger location for the customer, it will use the workspace's location.
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