Just Now Possible Automating the Full Customer Support Iceberg: How Gradient Labs Built a Multi-Agent Platform
Dec 18, 2025
Jack Taylor, a product engineer at Gradient Labs, and Ibrahim Faruqi, an AI engineer, dive into the complex world of customer support automation. They discuss the iceberg metaphor of support, emphasizing how much more lies beneath the surface. Unique agent coordination for inbound, back office, and outbound tasks is explored, along with natural language procedures allowing experts to train agents seamlessly. The challenges of defining success in outbound interactions and ensuring regulatory compliance through innovative guardrails add intrigue to their enlightening conversation.
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Three-Agent Iceberg For Full Support Automation
- Gradient Labs treats customer support as three coordinated agents: inbound, back office, and outbound to automate the full lifecycle.
- Combining these agents enables end-to-end flows like disputes that cross front-line, internal, and proactive outreach steps.
Let Experts Write Procedures In Plain Language
- Let subject matter experts write procedures in natural language so agents follow real company workflows.
- Avoid forcing non-technical experts to translate processes into code to reduce knowledge loss and speed deployment.
Outbound Needs Its Own Completion Logic
- Outbound agents must define 'done' because customers don't always signal completion.
- Determining completion requires different logic than inbound flows where customers end the interaction.