UCM plays a key role in managing compensation-related requests for a broad network of companies, mutual funds, and unions. With a high volume of daily emails and time-sensitive inquiries, its teams are continuously seeking ways to accelerate response times and allocate more focus to complex or high-value cases. To support its teams and sustain high service standards, UCM is exploring the partial automation of email management.
Sagacify developed a proof of concept aimed at automating the management of incoming email requests, with an initial focus on the employee compensation department. The goal was to validate the approach in this department before potentially extending it to others. Designed entirely in-house, MailBot is an AI-powered system built to classify incoming emails, extract key information, and either draft a response or prepare guidance for manual handling. Integrated directly with UCM’s internal knowledge bases, tools, and workflows, MailBot also provided a foundation for exploring how AI could support operational efficiency by standardizing responses, improving the handling of recurring questions, and accelerating response times.
The legal matters handled by social secretariats, such as the law on educational leave or issues related to payslips, are very diverse and often complex, and the accuracy of automatically generated responses is imperative.
To address this, Sagacify has developed a system based on multiple AI agents, each connected to a specific legal area, procedure, or circular and designed to master that area. When a question arises, the main AI agent identifies the subject(s) involved and delegates the processing to the relevant specialized AI sub-agents, which are then responsible for providing the most accurate and correct answer. When this is not sufficient and the question requires a response following a specific processing method, it is possible to define specific “chains of thought” that follow a strict business logic to ensure accuracy, even in the case of complex questions.
Thus, the Mailbot system is flexible, in the sense that it can handle an increasing number of topics, and scalable, in that the knowledge connected to the specific AI agents can be gradually expanded, and new, stricter “chains of thought” can be developed when necessary.
Chronologically, it is advisable to identify the subjects in incoming emails that represent the largest volume and to focus the development of the Mailbot system on these areas, then gradually evolve the system towards topics with lower volumes. If full automation isn’t possible, it compiles the relevant details along with clear next steps to guide the team’s response, with all outputs reviewed by UCM staff before being sent. When a request is too complex or unsupported, the system automatically forwards the email to the relevant staff member for follow-up.
This system therefore demonstrates great flexibility and adaptability, and can easily keep up with the evolution of topics addressed in client queries. UCM can thus reduce its backlog of unanswered questions and focus its efforts on providing faster and higher-quality customer service.
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