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Verizon Cut 13,000 Support Reps and the CSAT Went Up. Here’s the Catch.

George on July 1, 2026

AI customer service CSAT — Verizon cuts support reps as AI scores surge, but the hard tickets remain

Verizon’s CEO just bragged that AI customer service scores 12.8 percentage points better than humans. But those scores are only counting the tickets AI can actually handle — and the ones it can’t are exactly the ones that lose customers.

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Microsoft Is Retiring Remote Assist at the End of 2026. What Field Service Teams Need Next

George on June 30, 2026

Dynamics 365 Remote Assist alternative — field service technician using live video support on a smartphone

Microsoft is retiring Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Guides on December 31, 2026, leaving enterprise field service teams scrambling. The real question is not which AR headset to buy next — it is whether you needed the headset at all.

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ServiceNow Lost Half Its Value This Year. The AI Platform Era Is Having a Reckoning.

George on June 29, 2026

ServiceNow is down ~52% year-over-year as enterprise buyers demand real ROI from AI platform investments. The reckoning is here—and it’s reshaping how field service teams evaluate every tool in their stack.

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AI Agents Are Optimizing Field Service Dispatch. They Still Go Dark at the Job Site.

George on June 25, 2026

AI agents are getting very good at field service dispatch. They still go completely dark at the job site — where first-time fix rates actually get determined.

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The Fastest Way to Bring a New Field Tech Up to Speed Isn’t a Classroom

George on June 19, 2026

Enterprise field service teams spend months shadowing new technicians before trusting them alone. That model doesn’t scale. Here’s how remote visual support becomes your most effective training infrastructure — using the same tool your team already uses for customer diagnostics.

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AI Agents Can’t See the Problem. That’s Why Your Hard Tickets Are Still Hard.

George on June 10, 2026

AI agents fail at hard tickets because they can’t see the physical world. Visual escalation isn’t a fallback — it’s what makes AI-first support work.

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The Tickets That Survive Your AI Filter Are the Hardest Ones Your Team Has Ever Seen

George on June 8, 2026

Agentic support human handoff — AI funnel filtering support tickets so only the hardest complex problems reach the human agent

AI deflection doesn’t reduce support complexity. It concentrates it. The tickets that survive your AI filter are a different category of problem, and most teams aren’t equipped to handle them.

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Why the AI Support Boom Is Creating More Truck Rolls, Not Fewer

George on June 5, 2026

AI support field escalation — diagram showing AI filtering easy tickets while complex problems pass to human technician for agentic support human handoff

AI deflection is working exactly as designed, and that is the problem. The calls that get through now are the ones nobody knows how to fix remotely.

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First-Visit Resolution Didn’t Get Worse Because You Hired the Wrong Techs

George on June 4, 2026

FVR rates aren’t stuck because your techs aren’t good enough. They’re stuck because your techs show up blind. Here’s what actually moves the needle.

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What “AI-First Support” Actually Means for Teams with Physical Products

George on June 2, 2026

Going AI-first in customer support means something fundamentally different when your customers can’t describe what they’re looking at. Here’s the honest breakdown.

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