Bolted-On Helpdesk AI Underdelivers Against Its Own Documentation
An organisation evaluated every AI feature its support platform offers and found each fell short of what the vendor documentation led them to expect. The gap is not a single broken feature but a consistent shortfall between marketed and delivered capability. Buyers absorb the evaluation cost repeatedly as vendors attach AI to incumbent suites.
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