Brands don't need more feedback or survey data to better understand their customers - Interview with Nate Sanders of Artifact
Oct 12, 2023
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Interview with Nate Sanders, co-founder and CEO of Artifact. They discuss the limitations of surveys, the importance of AI in customer experience, and real-time visibility into customer service issues. They also talk about the punk approach to CX, examples of organizations excelling in experience leadership, and the excitement surrounding the open sourcing of the llama model.
Artifact utilizes AI-powered tools to centralize and analyze qualitative customer data, enabling companies to make data-driven improvements.
Permissionless innovation in customer experience empowers employees to proactively solve customer problems and drive continuous improvement.
Artifact's platform provides specific and contextual insights through advanced AI techniques, leading to better targeted actions and improved customer experiences.
Deep dives
Using AI to Analyze Customer Data
Artifact, a customer experience forecasting company, centralizes qualitative and unstructured customer data to help companies better understand and predict customer needs. By using AI to analyze various customer interactions, such as support tickets and customer interviews, Artifact provides actionable insights and detects trends and anomalies in customer feedback. This allows companies to proactively address issues and improve the overall customer experience. The platform has been successfully used by companies like Pura and CITA Family Foods to gain specific and granular insights, leading to improved products and services.
Ditching Surveys for Better Customer Data
The podcast episode discusses the limitations of relying solely on surveys as a means of collecting customer feedback. It emphasizes the need to centralize and analyze all types of qualitative and unstructured customer data, beyond just survey responses. By harnessing AI-powered tools like Artifact, companies can gain a deeper understanding of customer experiences, identify patterns and anomalies, and make data-driven improvements. The episode shares success stories from companies like Taurus and Airbnb, highlighting how they have leveraged customer data to outperform traditional industry practices and delight their customers.
Permissionless Innovation in CX
The podcast features a conversation with Nate Sanders, co-founder and CEO of Artifact, who shares his perspective on permissionless innovation in customer experience. He encourages organizations to foster a culture of experimentation, allowing employees to take ownership and solve customer problems without waiting for formal permission. This approach enables faster and more proactive responses to customer needs and drives continuous improvement. Examples from companies like Taurus and Airbnb demonstrate the power of empowering employees to address customer issues and create impactful change.
The Power of Specific Customer Insights
Nate discusses how Artifact's platform provides specific and contextual insights by analyzing customer feedback data. By using advanced AI techniques like topic modeling and event detection, companies gain a deeper understanding of customer sentiments and preferences. This enables organizations, such as CITA Family Foods, to take targeted actions to address customer concerns and improve their products and services. The episode highlights the value of moving beyond broad categorical tags to more granular and actionable insights, leading to better customer experiences.
Open Source AI and Collaborative Innovation
The episode concludes with a discussion on the open-source community's contributions to AI development. The open-sourcing of models like Lama Meta has sparked enthusiasm, experimentation, and collaboration among AI enthusiasts. This collaborative approach allows for advancements and breakthroughs that benefit the AI community as a whole. Nate highlights the positive and energetic nature of the AI community and how it fosters innovation and positive change through the pursuit of collective expertise.
Today’s interview is with Nate Sanders, the co-founder and CEO of Artifact, the customer experience forecasting company. Nate joins me today to talk about the recent guest post that he wrote for my site called “Obituary: The Survey (1920s – 2023)” [It caused a bit of stir on LinkedIn], where we are at re surveys, VoC, data and insight, why companies don’t necessarily need more insight or customer feedback data and what they should be doing instead.
NOTE: A big thank you goes out to the folks at CGS for sponsoring my podcast for the coming month.
Now, CGS is a company you might not have heard of.
But, they have been delivering brand-building and customer experiences for 40 years for global brands that you will definitely have heard of.
Over that time, they have developed deep expertise in both outsourcing and technology, so you should definitely pay attention to what they have to say.
They’ve recently put together a free ebook and video that I’d like to point you to. It’s called The Transformative Power of Generative AI and ChatGPT and has been authored by CGS’ Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, John Samuel. It’s a really comprehensive guide and is designed to deliver insights, summarize research, and inspire creative problem-solving.
Follow this link to check out the free ebook and video.
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