Cross-industryAI AgentsReference Blueprint

Customer Support Resolution Agent Architecture

A supervised AI agent pattern that triages, drafts, and resolves routine support tickets using your knowledge base and order systems.

Customer Support Resolution Agent Architecture
Pilot first
start with 2–3 ticket categories
Citations
on every drafted answer
Human approval
for refunds and account changes

Design targets, not measured client results.

The Problem

Why teams need this pattern

Support queues fill with repetitive questions that still need someone to look up an order, check a policy, and write a reply. Response times slip at peak volume, and experienced agents spend their day on routine tickets.

Ideal for

  • Support teams with high volumes of repetitive tickets
  • Companies with a documented knowledge base and an API-accessible helpdesk

Our Approach

Architectural approach

An agent that classifies each ticket, retrieves the relevant policy and customer records, drafts or sends a reply, and performs low-risk actions through scoped tools. Refunds and account changes go to a person for approval, and every step is logged.

Illustration for Customer Support Resolution Agent Architecture

System Design

Architectural layers & components

How data and control flow from the edge of the system to the people who use it.

  1. 01

    Ticket Intake & Routing

    Connectors to the helpdesk, email, and chat that classify intent and urgency.

  2. 02

    Retrieval Layer

    RAG over policies and help articles, with citations attached to each draft.

  3. 03

    Agent & Tool Layer

    LLM agent calling order, billing, and CRM APIs through least-privilege tools.

  4. 04

    Approval, Eval & Audit

    Human approval for risky actions, regression evals on real tickets, and full tool-call logs.

Design Targets

What this architecture is built to achieve

Targets we design toward. We confirm them against your own data and workload before you commit to a build.

Pilot first
start with 2–3 ticket categories
Target
Citations
on every drafted answer
Target
Human approval
for refunds and account changes
Target
Eval suite
run on every prompt or model change
Target
Assumptions & limits
  • Resolution rates depend on the quality of your knowledge base and ticket mix; we measure them on your own tickets.
  • Model choice and data residency are set per your compliance constraints.

What You Get

Artifacts tailored to your environment

The blueprint is a starting point. These are the working documents and code we adapt for you.

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  • Agent and tool specification
  • Evaluation dataset and harness
  • Approval policy matrix
  • Observability dashboards

How We Work

From first call to working prototype

  1. 130–45 min

    Discovery call

    We review your constraints, existing systems, and success criteria, and tell you honestly whether this blueprint fits.

  2. 21–2 weeks

    Fit & feasibility workshop

    We adapt the reference architecture to your stack, validate the design targets against your real data, and produce a scoped plan.

  3. 3Scoped per project

    Prototype, then build

    We ship a working slice first so you can judge the approach before committing to a full build.

Technology Stack

Default tools & infrastructure

We swap components to fit your stack.

  • Claude / OpenAI
  • RAG (pgvector)
  • Temporal
  • Python / FastAPI
  • OpenTelemetry
  • PostgreSQL

FAQ

Common questions

Want an architecture like this?

Book a call and we'll tell you honestly whether this blueprint fits, and how we'd adapt it to your stack and constraints.