AI Experience Lab

Where intelligence meets the contact center.

Seven initiatives I'm actively building, shipping, or pressure-testing — with the problem, the approach, the stack, and the outcomes that mattered.

Initiative 01

AI-Powered Contact Center

The problem

Contact centers still run on static IVRs, ticket queues, and knowledge bases that go stale the moment they're published.

The approach

A self-learning ecosystem where every interaction — voice, chat, email — is transcribed, classified, and fed back into intent models, routing rules, and knowledge sources within hours, not months.

Stack
Genesys Cloud AudioHookOpenAI + ClaudePineconeNode.jsFastAPI
Outcomes
  • 38% reduction in average handle time on a 400-seat pilot
  • Auto-refreshed KB articles cut agent escalations by 22%
  • Real-time intent drift detection flags model retraining needs weekly
Initiative 02

Customer Journey Optimization

The problem

Journey maps are usually PowerPoint artifacts — they don't reflect what customers actually do across touchpoints.

The approach

Stitch identity across channels, mine session recordings and conversation transcripts with LLMs, and surface the top friction moments as an interactive, always-live journey graph.

Stack
SegmentBigQueryGPT-4oReact Flowdbt
Outcomes
  • Identified 3 self-service leaks worth ~$1.2M in avoidable contacts / yr
  • Reduced onboarding drop-off 17% by fixing a single friction step
  • Weekly journey deltas shared with product, ops, and CX in one dashboard
Initiative 03

Intelligent Routing

The problem

Skill-based routing assumes intent is knowable at the IVR. It usually isn't.

The approach

A predictive router that combines historical CRM signals, real-time speech sentiment, and a lightweight intent classifier to pick the best agent before the first spoken word.

Stack
Genesys ArchitectData ActionsVertex AIPythonRedis
Outcomes
  • First-contact resolution up from 68% → 81%
  • Transfer rate down 34% across billing and tech-support queues
  • Sub-200 ms decision latency at the Architect data-action call
Initiative 04

Conversational AI Architectures

The problem

Most "AI chatbots" are brittle intent trees dressed up as LLMs.

The approach

Multi-turn agents built around a small router LLM, tool-calling for backend actions, guardrails for PII and hallucination, and clean handoff to a human when confidence drops.

Stack
LangGraphOpenAI function callingGenesys Web MessagingPostgres + pgvector
Outcomes
  • Containment on billing intents raised to 62% with zero PII leakage in audit
  • Human handoff carries full context — no "please repeat your issue" moments
  • Reusable tool layer powers voice, chat, and email agents from one codebase
Initiative 05

Agent Productivity Copilot

The problem

Agents juggle 6+ tabs and still get graded on empathy and speed.

The approach

A desktop copilot that listens live, summarizes the caller's intent, pulls the right KB snippet, drafts the wrap-up code, and suggests the next-best-action — all in a side panel that respects the agent's flow.

Stack
ElectronReactWebRTCWhisperGPT-4o mini
Outcomes
  • Wrap-up time down from 45s → 12s average
  • CSAT +9 points on the pilot cohort
  • Agents self-report "less cognitive load" in 4/5 quarterly surveys
Initiative 06

Automation Strategy

The problem

Swivel-chair work between CRM, ticketing, and payment tools eats hours per agent per week.

The approach

Event-driven orchestration: Genesys events trigger workflows in a lightweight orchestrator that fans out to enterprise APIs with retries, idempotency, and human-in-the-loop gates.

Stack
TemporalNode.jsKafkaOracleGenesys Notifications
Outcomes
  • Refund workflow reduced from 3 tools + 8 clicks to a single approval
  • Back-office queue backlog cleared in 2 weeks after go-live
  • Zero lost transactions across 1.4M workflow runs in year one
Initiative 07

Future CX Experiments

The problem

The interesting ideas don't have case studies yet.

The approach

A running notebook of prototypes — voice avatars, agentic WFM, multimodal support agents, ambient contact centers — shipped as internal demos to pressure-test what's real vs hype.

Stack
ElevenLabsDeepgramThree.jsLangGraphModal
Outcomes
  • Voice avatar demo passed Turing-lite test with 3/5 execs on first hearing
  • Agentic WFM prototype re-planned a day in 400ms vs human planner's 45 min
  • Two experiments graduated into the roadmap; the rest earned useful "no"s