Map. Two weeks. Pull 90 days of tickets, sort by intent, mark which ones your agents resolve in under 90 seconds and which ones balloon. The 90-second tickets are deflection candidates. The ballooners are routing problems. Output: a one-page heatmap.
Match. One week. For each gap, pick the cheapest piece of AI that solves it. Triage classifier for routing. Reply drafter for repetitive responses. Summarizer for handoff. Resist the urge to add a copilot for everything. Output: a stack diagram with one tool per gap.
Build. Two to three weeks. Wire it into Zendesk, Intercom, whatever your team already opens. No new tab. No new login. Train the model on your last 30 days of resolved tickets. Output: a working implementation in production with feature flags.
Multiply. Ongoing. Once one workflow shows lift, lift the same pattern into the next workflow. Don't redesign. Copy. The teams that compound are the ones that stop trying to be original after week six.
Four phases. Six weeks. Real numbers at the end of each.
"The teams that compound are the ones that stop trying to be original after week six."