Take it, EASy!
Probably the best-selling phone bot in Europe
About the company
HSE is a leading provider in the field of live commerce in Europe. The company has 1.8 million active customers and reaches approximately 46 million households in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with its TV stations. In addition, its selection is available in the online shop, on smartphone apps, and on social networks.
The bottom line
In just three months, HSE has managed to create a fully AI-driven phone bot with Parloa and the voice experts from MUUUH! that handles ordering processes over the phone within minutes. Since HSE can now make 400 calls at a time, the experience of both customers and agents has vastly improved. The bot softens every call rush, relieves Contact Center employees, and shortens the waiting time for customers on the order hotline — a giant leap forward.
The commercial icing on the cake: The phone bot also takes on cross-selling activities by making individual product recommendations to customers, thus ensuring more sales for HSE.
70
Order Conversion Rate
10
cross-selling success rate
3 M
M automated calls per year
400
calls simultaneously
“At HSE, we had a strong vision for the project, and Parloa and MUUUH! managed to bring it to life: a modern conversational AI that not only improves the customer experience, but also helps us achieve our business goals.”
Uwe Richter
Director Customer Service at HSE
What was the challenge?
Even before the collaboration with Parloa, HSE was accepting more than 2 million calls per year with an automated service. A traditional hotline based on DTMF (Dual Tone Multi-Frequency) was used.
However, this common technology meant that HSE customers had to deal with extended call instances that were no longer the norm in this smartphone era.
In addition to significantly improving the customer experience, HSE also had a clear business vision for the project: to incorporate cross-selling functionality in dialogs with the phone bot.
“We wanted to improve the automated ordering process for us and our customers for the long term. It was finally time for an innovative solution!”, says Uwe Richter, Director Customer Service at HSE.
HSE approached the matter with clear requirements:
What is the solution?
HSE saw the introduction of a conversational AI solution as the perfect technological response to meeting the challenges and making their vision a reality: the introduction of a voice-based, automated ordering process that allows customers to interact freely with a phone bot.
HSE tested several AI-driven solutions in detail based on competitive performance benchmarking.
With Parloa and MUUUH! they found the perfect partners for the technological solution and for the voice user interface design.
The implementation of an automated customer dialog was realized in a close collaboration. Using HSE’s Recommendation Engine, the experts also integrated the cross-selling functionality into the automated telephone ordering process.
Just three months later, the intelligent phone bot was ready for use.
The successful go-live was the start signal for the continuous improvement of the language model through supervised machine learning and for the ongoing optimization of customer dialogs thanks to AI.
