Reduce Cost per Contact

Loris gives you the insight to you need to eliminate unnecessary interactions, automate easy ones, and improve the quality of the remaining conversations. 

We have actually shaved a little over three minutes of AHT now that we don’t have the agent tag tickets anymore. That has reduced our cost per case by 23%.

Jon Helin
VP of Customer Support,
Calendly

Without conversation analytics, how do you know you're solving the right problems?

You’ve added agents, built help center content, tried automation, but still can’t predict what’s coming or why customers are reaching out in the first place.

That’s because the problem isn’t headcount or tooling. It’s visibility.

Loris breaks the cycle. We give you the “why” behind every customer conversation—so you can solve root issues, not symptoms. With:

  • A library of pre-trained AI models, battle-tested on 500+ million customer interactions
  • Hundreds of AI predictions per conversation, from sentiment to contact drivers
  • Transparent, explainable outputs that you can trust—and act on

Your recipe for lower costs: The right combination of AI insight

Loris uses a library of proprietary AI models, along with LLMs, to create deeper and more accurate insights into every conversation, pinpointing your highest priority and most costly issues. Here’s the right mix that helps you reduce cost per contact.

Step 1

Understanding Contact Drivers

Loris analyzes every conversation – across email, chat, phone, and AI agent interactions – to automatically detect the primary reason driving customer contact (Contact Driver) as well as additional intent signals (Topics). This gives you the complete picture of every issue coming to your CX team.

Why it matters

This insight is the critical source of truth missing from most contact centers. With this knowledge, you can train virtual and human agents for your most common issues, increasing resolution rates while lowering average handle time (AHT). This consistent structure helps you understand trends and provide tangible evidence to the rest of the organization on which issues are driving customer contact.

Step 2

Stop Emerging Issues early

Based on the known Contact Drivers above, Loris can also detect whether a previously unknown Emerging Issue is impacting your contact center – even when the number of issues is small. With this knowledge, you can understand how to address, mitigate, or remove this issue.

Why it matters

Loris clients have used Emerging Issues to spot product bugs after a product launch, helping them roll back the issue and prevent a spike in contact volume. This gives you an early warning system to address issues as they happen, controlling your costs and improving your experience.

Step 3

Analyze Sentiment to spot your biggest issues

Once you have a clear view of customer contact issues, Customer Sentiment helps you go deeper. Loris analyzes sentiment on every message within a conversation, helping you see how individual agent responses impacted the customer. Sentiment Delta tells you whether sentiment is increasing or dropping, giving you an easy way to understand customer sentiment by issue at scale. And Sentiment Target provides the focus of the customer’s sentiment, whether directed towards the agent or the company.

Why it matters

Together, these models provide multiple dimensions of customer understanding that can pinpoint issues across your business. They also give you a better understanding of which issues may be easy to automate (neutral-to-positive sentiment delta) and which are best handled by your agents (negative sentiment delta).

Step 4

Automate FAQs to increase better self service

Most customers not only want to handle issues themselves, they exhaust all available options before they contact you. By analyzing every conversation, Loris gives you the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) so you give customers the answer they need sooner – in your knowledge base, AI Agent responses, and agent macros, or even in your product.

Why it matters

The more you can answer customer questions proactively, the fewer issues need to be handled by agents, lowering your overall costs and freeing up agents for higher-impact work. This improves the experience while increasing cost efficiency.

Step 5

Fix the Root Cause to prevent future issues

The best way to resolve a customer issue is to not have that issue happen in the first place. Loris analyzes every interaction to uncover the core issues breaking the customer experience, not just what the customer thought the issue was. With this insight, you can fix your product, your documentation, or whatever gap is causing unnecessary friction.

Why it matters

Reacting to individual issues spends valuable time and resources. But removing the underlying cause of unnecessary contacts, like confusing policies or product bugs, prevents those contacts from happening in the first place. This can significantly reduce contact center costs and make for a better overall experience.

Case Study

Lower Costs While Enhancing Experience

Read how Calendly is using customer service conversations as fuel for better insights across their entire customer journey, helping them:

  • Save 1167 hours of agent time per month
  • Cut average handle time by 3+ minutes,
  • Reduce cost per case by 23%
Whitepaper

See Why Loris AI Models Deliver Better Insight

Hard to tell the difference between all the AI vendors? That’s why we developed this whitepaper, to help you clearly understand how each of our AI models works, the role each AI model plays in understanding your customers, and the philosophy guiding how we use different AI techniques.

Still have questions? Let’s chat!

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