Telecom · 6-15 people · 10,000 tickets/mo · very slow AHT · full potential
Telecom support team: 10 agents for 10,000 tickets/month
Telecom support is billing- and provisioning-heavy with high repeat-contact rates, making it a prime target for self-service deflection.
Verdict: Worth buying
- 0.3-month payback and 6.9x first-year return on a 4080/month platform fee.
- Headcount spans 5-9 agents across your industry's handle-time range. Measure your real AHT for two weeks before you budget - the band is usually wider than anyone expects.
- We phased the saving in over 12 months via attrition. Cutting 5 people on day one would cost roughly $109,549 in severance and is usually worse than phasing it.
- A 6.9x return means a large share of your support cost was avoidable labour, not overhead. Re-check that handle time and loaded rate are right - if either is overstated the return collapses.
- Agents needed
- 10
- range 5–9
- Monthly labour cost
- $87,639
- $43,820 – $78,875
- Heads removable via automation
- 5
- 5 agents remain
- Net monthly effect
- $39,740
- platform cost $4,080/mo
- Payback
- 0.30397890265629246 months
- at this volume
- Year-one cash effect
- $337,416
- including setup and severance
This is one example. Get yours calculated.
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Model v1. Figures are estimates from published benchmarks, not a quote.