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16/06/2026

86% of agents say they don't have enough customer context to do their job effectively.

And when you take a step back and really let that sink in, it's actually quite alarming.

Most agents aren't struggling because they don't care, lack training or don't know what they're doing.

The sad reality is that most agents spend too much time trying to piece together information from multiple systems whilst a customer is waiting for an answer.

A previous email sits in one system.
A WhatsApp conversation sits somewhere else.
Order history lives somewhere else entirely.

Meanwhile, the customer just wants a simple answer and expects the business to already know what's going on... And why wouldn't they!

It's why:

Customers repeat themselves.
Agents spend time searching instead of solving.
Issues take longer to resolve.
And frustration starts boiling over on both sides.

Most businesses already have the information they need BUT the challenge is making it accessible when it matters most.

How many places does your team need to look before they can answer a simple customer question?

12/06/2026

Something we’ve noticed over the years is that businesses rarely get surprised by brand-new problems.

In our experience, they are usually surprised by problems that have been sitting there for months.

A process that's gradually slowed down.

Customers repeatedly contacting you about the same issue.

Agents creating little workarounds to get things done.

And the funny thing is, if you'd asked people six months earlier, most would've told you everything was fine, and to be fair, it probably felt fine too.

People were busy.

Customers were being served.

Targets were being hit.

At least on paper.

Then somebody starts digging and a whole load of things that nobody was paying attention to become impossible to ignore.

09/06/2026

Most businesses aren't losing customers because of one catastrophic mistake.

They're losing them because of hundreds of small issues nobody spotted early enough.

A broken process.
A recurring complaint.
An agent struggling with the same issue every day.
A customer having to repeat themselves for the third time.

The challenge isn't fixing problems.

The challenge is finding them before they become expensive.

And until now, thats been a lot harder than most businesses realise.

It makes you wonder 💭

What problems are hiding in the conversations nobody is looking at?

05/06/2026

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone is predicting the end of contact centre jobs.

Maybe some of it will happen.

Maybe some of it won't.

What I've noticed over the years is that the people who seem to thrive through change aren't always the most qualified or the most technical.

They're usually the ones who stay curious, get involved and adapt.

A few thoughts on AI, contact centres and why I still roll my eyes at some of the predictions 👇

https://loom.ly/xyJHaG0

When I hear the doom-and-gloom mongerers telling me that AI will replace contact centre agents, I typically roll my eyes. The record’s been playing on repeat for 5 years straight now, and as of yet, it’s not happened in the way it’s been predicted. I’m bombarded daily with articles and posts...

03/06/2026

One team is updating spreadsheets.

Another is replying to customers through WhatsApp.

Customer notes are sitting in 3 different places.

Half the updates are happening in Teams chats.

And at some point, everyone starts losing track of whats actually going on 😭

People are chasing updates internally.
Checking who replied last.
Forwarding screenshots to each other.
Trying to piece the full picture together.

Thats usually when businesses start feeling harder to run than they should.

The teams operating well arent normally the ones adding more tools.

They’re the ones simplifying how everything works together.

01/06/2026

These days it feels like a lot of businesses have slipped into permanent reaction mode.

Teams are constantly chasing updates, switching between systems, firefighting issues or trying to figure out whats actually going on behind the scenes.

And because it builds up slowly over time, a lot of it just becomes accepted as “normal”.

But at some point, businesses have to stop and ask whether the problem is actually workload…

Or whether things underneath have simply become too complicated.

29/05/2026

At what point did everything become so complicated?

A new system gets added. Then another one. Different teams start building their own processes. Information ends up spread across different places. More workarounds appear because nobody wants to break whats already there 😭

And slowly, things that should feel simple start taking way longer than they should.

More meetings. More chasing. More checking. More back and forth.

In our experience, a lot of businesses dont just suddenly become inefficient overnight.

Complexity usually builds up, quietly over time, until everyone starts feeling the weight of it.

25/05/2026

Customers can usually feel pretty quickly when things behind the scenes arent running smoothly.

Agents keep putting people on hold to double check things.

Different departments give different answers.

Someone says they’ll call back because they need to chase another team internally.
And after a while, the whole experience just starts feeling disconnected.

Most of the time, it’s not because people arent trying.

The setup underneath just isnt helping teams work smoothly together.

Customers might not see the operational problems directly…

But they definitely feel the outcome of them.

20/05/2026

You can usually tell when a customer service operation is spending most of its time firefighting.

Customers are constantly chasing updates.

Teams are digging through different systems trying to figure out what’s actually gone wrong.

Internal handovers get missed. Different departments are all working from different information. And nobody really has the full picture.

After a while, everything just starts feeling reactive.

And our experience, most of the time it’s not because people aren’t working hard enough.

When everything feels reactive all the time, is the issue really the team… or the setup underneath them?

18/05/2026

What does a well run customer operation actually look like?

Clue... It's not perfect, but it feels easier...

Customers aren’t repeating themselves 3 times. Teams aren’t chasing updates across different systems. People internally actually know what’s going on.

You can usually feel pretty quickly when operations are running well behind the scenes.

And you can definitely feel it when they’re not.