The constraint

Roughly half of inbound support tickets were requests for documents that already existed — just not anywhere the customer could find them.

What we changed

We put retrieval in front of the ticket queue and routed to a human only what it could not answer confidently, with the confidence threshold set deliberately high at launch.

  • High confidence threshold at rollout, relaxed with evidence
  • Every unanswered query logged as a documentation gap
  • Escalation path always one click away

Where it landed

Support volume halved within three weeks, and the log of unanswered queries has become the documentation backlog.