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20% -- cost per call reduction for Contact centres deploying conversational AI (2024)
Companies that deploy conversational AI in their contact centre achieve 20–30% reductions in cost-per-call within the first year.
- Reported as a range: 20–30%
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McKinsey
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Range 20–30%, midpoint used; cited from McKinsey 2024 report on AI in customer operations
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Contact centres deploying conversational AI: 20% cost per call reduction. Source: McKinsey (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/conversational-ai-cost-per-call-reduction-mckinsey-2024
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