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How to get started with AI: a step-by-step guide for your CX programme

Where AI genuinely helps across listening, understanding and acting on feedback, and a rollout plan that starts small and proves its value.

  • See exactly where AI fits across listen, understand and act
  • Follow a 6-step rollout plan that starts with the fastest wins
  • Run the 8-point readiness check before you switch anything on

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What's inside

Everything between ‘we should use AI’ and a working programme

Listen: better collection

AI survey generation, logic that adapts to each respondent, AI follow-up questions and call transcription, so richer feedback flows in from day one.

Understand: analysis at scale

Automatic categorisation, sentiment, AI summaries and key driver analysis, turning open text from the part nobody reads into the part that explains your scores.

Act: from insight to action

Triage, routing to named owners, AI-drafted responses with a human on the send button, and leadership summaries without a week of deck-building.

The rollout plan

A 6-step sequence, one journey at a time, with the pitfalls and governance questions to settle before anything goes live.

The bottleneck AI removes

115+ hours

Saved per 10,000 responses when AI replaces manual theme and sentiment analysis

100%

Of open-text responses read and tagged, not just the sample a person had time for

Minutes

From a response arriving to it being categorised, scored and visible in themes

Includes the AI readiness checklist

An interactive 8-point check that tells you whether to start now or fix the foundations first, and which gap to close before your pilot.