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Conversational AI for Telecom

Transforming Telecoms with Conversational AI

By leveraging AI in customer service, telecom providers deliver faster, more efficient, and personalized experiences.


AI assistants handle high volumes of inquiries, automate tasks like bill payments and troubleshooting, and provide instant responses—reducing workload, improving resolution times, and enhancing the AI and customer experience.


Telecommunication and customer care

In today's connected world, telecommunications customers have increasingly high service expectations, while many telecom support teams struggle with managing peak call volumes and staff retention challenges.

The business case for conversational AI

Today, customers have high expectations. At the same time, a lot of customer support operations have difficulty handling peak times and suffer from high turnover. AI assistants can alleviate some of that pressure.

Available 24/7

AI assistants provide round-the-clock service, handling common questions around data usage, billing, or troubleshooting basic connectivity issues at any time of day or night.

Reduced response times

Customers want answers quickly. Reducing wait times addressing one of the most frequent sources of frustration in telecom customer service.

Better handle peak times

During peak periods, such as service outages or new device launches, the reduced response times help decrease the burden on support staff.

Happy customers and employees

Customer satisfaction typically improves with consistent, accurate responses and 24/7 availability, particularly for routine technical support and account management questions.

Brand awareness

A strong AI assistant can aid in promoting and personalizing special offers and seasonal brand and marketing campaigns.

Billing support

AI assistants can guide customers through billing inquiries, provide payment reminders, and enable secure transactions.

Activation and upselling

Automate processes like activating new services, porting numbers, upgrading packages and let your chatbot identify upsell opportunities for you.

Technical troubleshooting

Guide customers through diagnosing and resolving technical issues, such as slow internet or network outages, so your human agents can spend time on other questions.

Leverage Conversational AI, at scale

Understand how your organization can leverage Conversational AI technology with the help of CDI. Work with our experts or give your team the tools and training to build successful AI assistants.

Trusted by global brands

“It was a pleasure working with the CDI team. Each team member was extremely professional and brought deep expertise in their area of focus – AI training, copywriting, and conversation design.”

Anju Sharma

“It’s been great working with CDI. They helped us get started quickly with the setup of our first chatbot and the first results are promising. Their consultants are knowledgeable, creative, and think along in order to build and maintain a good performing chatbot.”

Bob Molenaar

“Having the expert advice from CDI has really helped us to create with confidence the first version of the global Experience Strategy Framework and distribute it to the design community across all Vodafone markets.”

Beatriz Lopez Mencia

“CDI is the leading expert in the conversational landscape and we’re really happy they shared their knowledge during the workshops with us. Moreover, we applaud them for making our students enthusiastic about this field of work!”

Rick Goossens

About the CDI Standards Framework

When organizations want to have more interactions on their conversational channels than their contact centers have the capacity for, they reach for conversational AI solutions to automate a large part of the interactions.

But this is not easy to do. People and machines have different ways of interacting so building a good AI Assistant requires a unique understanding of technology, linguistics, and psychology. 

CDI has worked with leading organizations around the world and has systemized the proven ways of creating successful AI Assistants and the enterprise capabilities that develop, manage, and grow these assistants: the CDI Standards Framework.

CDI Standards Framework

Unlocking value in Conversational AI

The CDI Standards Framework is a collection of proven strategies helping organizations deploy AI assistants at scale. Our knowledge is grounded in years of experience training successful conversational AI teams.

CDI certificates give you the skill set for each level so you make sure you are on track

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CDI Standards Framework is a systematic approach to developing a conversational AI capability by ensuring Mindset, Skillset, Culture, and Systems are all developed in the right pace.

CDI Workflow

CDI Workflow is a systemized approach to creating human centered and goal oriented AI Assistants at scale.

The workflow works for all conversational channels, is technology agnostic, and works for both declarative and generative AI approaches.

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