FirstQuadrant vs. Fin by Intercom vs. Jeeva AI

Fin is great for using for first line support. We use Fin for conversations where customers have a standard question, and Fin is able to pull from our content to answer this accurately and go above and beyond to include some basic problem solving. This really helps us free up our Support Team's time for more complex queries. Fin isn't appropriate for us on technical issues or conversations which require human support. We've had to remove Fin from interacting on these conversations as customers were becoming frustrated with speaking to AI, or having Fin be unable to problem solve. However, this was easy to set up through Intercom, and now customers with complex questions/situations or bugs/technical issues do not engage with Fin and Fin only handles suitable conversations.

Great new service. They have a ton of tools to really let you dial into your target audience. Extremely user friendly user interface. The lead generation is extremely fast, and transferring to a campaign is just one click away. On the campagin they have built in AI to keep each email personal.

• Serves as the first point of interaction.
• Answers questions based on the knowledge base.
• Tries to suggest a solution for reported issues (in some cases).
• Gives the option to improve its answer.
• Learns from other conversations and replies by humans.
• Understands other languages.
• Interprets images (somewhat).

Incentivized

• Contact Enrichment
• Automated Outreach
• Lead Generation

Incentivized

• It seems some users really struggle to figure out how to escalate to a human (especially through email).
• Not excited about how "soft" resolutions still count as resolutions and are paid for. Though some abandoned cases appear to be able to be concluded as "the user got the answer they needed", there are others where they clearly didn't, because they just open up another chat (or even more), trying to get more info. This pads the resolution stats and makes it seem more effective than it actually is.
• Cost -- Fin is quite expensive. It helps us with scaling coverage, but we're not really saving money.

• You run out of credits very fast, they charge per email sent. The credits should be for lead generation not emailing.
• Incorporate delivery results, bounce results, mailer unfound results, etc... We can not see any of those metrics.
• Incorporate a text sequence campaign as well. To be one stop shop for contacting all ways.

We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.

Incentivized

From an administration standpoint, Fin is very easy to set up, train, and test. Having the ability to impersonate a user in our system to see how Fin responds is huge. It lets you test several situations and throw curveballs at it (as customers will) without the risk of setting Fin live and wondering what will happen. It's also easy to fine-tune. Some chatbots you can never quite get right without spending hours on, but Fin usually takes a few minutes to dial it in. From a customer standpoint, Fin couldn't be easier to engage with. We tell customers up front it's an AI bot and they're wow'd with the experience

Incentivized

Layout and UX is a bit hard to get around and confusing. It takes a long time to get used to and sometimes the way they have you as a user go about things doesn't make a lot of sense. It gives a false sense of security in terms of the quality of the leads generated because it is unable to verify key aspects (i.e. is a person's Linkedin outdated, thus rendering its email address outdated as well). There aren't a lot of instructions available for specific functions, though the website does have a knowledge hub. When you finally get something to work, it costs you so many credits for all the trial runs and past tries that you're stuck having to pay more for a process you finally learned how to do well.

Incentivized

always there

Incentivized

works perfect

Incentivized

Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.

Incentivized

Easy to know the learning path

Incentivized

The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.

Incentivized

We only used the free live chat version from HubSpot, so Intercom is yards better! If I were just comparing an actual live chat between the two tools, HubSpot was often clunky and delayed, and it was hard to find past conversation information

Incentivized

ChatGPT doesn't find leads. It only gives you direction on how to find leads. So, Jeeva skips that and just finds the leads for you, which is huge. Omnisend does a great job of generating emails and email campaigns. Jeeva implements the lead list that it generated and enters it directly into the campaign, so you don't have to do extra steps

Incentivized

• New role opportunities — Using the “Fin-first” approach has reduced the workload for our Tier 1 team, giving them more time to focus on their own career growth. It’s also opened the door to a dedicated, AI-focused role, where a team member regularly reviews Fin’s answers and makes updates to help it perform even better.
• Enabling Fin has also reduced our response time and allowed us to meet SLA's.

Incentivized

• We just started and was great for lead generation
• Those leads we can manually email them or call them
• Our sequence campaigns are barely 1 email in, looking forward to see if we get any traction on the last 2 sequences