SituationA North America-based service provider supported 90 clients across finance and commerce. Clients were frustrated — ticket response times averaged over 20 minutes, creating significant dissatisfaction and reputational risk.
TaskThe challenge was to reduce response times drastically, implement improvements at scale for all clients, maintain the existing toolset, and work within the constraints of current staffing levels.
ActionWe conducted a structured discovery and designed an event processing pipeline. By analyzing each step — issue recognition, response, and ticket creation — we identified latency gaps. We then:
  • Instrumented and timestamped all actions
  • Centralized tooling to simplify workflows
  • Automated ticket creation via the pipeline
  • Implemented duplicate suppression and client notification triggers
ResultResponse time dropped from 20 minutes to 10 seconds — a 98.3% improvement. The solution scaled across all clients and proved durable under data load.
ReturnThe automation resulted in significant operational savings, with an estimated impact of $2.14 million USD annually.
YieldBy dramatically lowering time-to-response without adding staff, the company shifted from reactive operations to growth mode — able to onboard new clients without increasing cost, and reinvest saved time into strategic growth.
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