In the course of the project Sonetel has conducted a feasibility study for its AI-assisted customer service platform for small businesses. Today, the ability to swiftly handle and respond to the text-based questions and inquiries from potential customers submitted through the company’s website is an important determinant of the competitive position of any business. The market has already responded to this demand through exponential growth of chat bots – computer programs that aim to automate responses to the prospects and maintain a conversation with a client in natural language. However, the vast majority of small businesses are not a part of this growth. To develop and launch a chatbot is expensive, requires vast programming effort and understanding of diverse aspects of natural language processing. Sonetel aims to disrupt the market and make AI-assisted customer service available to any company globally. We have developed the prototype of the service, which allows our customers to integrate automated text service capability in their websites through a simple web Widget. Sonetel’s solution uniquely and instantly resolves a wide range of the external and internal communication needs for small businesses – with an emphasis on the inbound customer communication – for free. In the back-end, our new service rests on the firm technological foundation of the Sonetel Voice SaaS platform. This platform has proven to change the way small businesses conduct international customer service activities. It transforms SMEs into true global entrepreneurs. The platform currently has +100,000 paying customers +170 countries. As a part of the SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility assessment, we have develop a roadmap for scaling our innovation globally.
