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.

