Rabobank: Top CX through rapid implementation

Using Deepdesk, Rabobank broke the glass ceiling in the financial services industry. Continue reading to get the whole story.

The challenge

Rabobank, one of the largest financial institutions in the Netherlands, is constantly looking for ways to increase productivity, grow agent happiness and satisfy their customers. As such, the bank quickly recognized the need to transcend digitization and fully embrace the digital realm. With a staggering volume of 50 million voice calls per year and over 1.9 billion digital customer interactions, Rabobank faced the formidable task of optimizing customer interactions while ensuring seamless operational efficiency. This transition demanded a paradigm shift, wherein AI emerged as a pivotal tool to empower employees in serving customers with unparalleled precision and agility. And this is where the challenge lies. Rabobank aimed at implementing AI and GenerativeAI (GenAI) functionalities flawlessly across their vast network of more than 4,000 customer support agents.

The solution

Using the full Deepdesk AIx suite, Rabobank allowed their agents to save time on summarizing customer conversations without compromising on quality. With Deepdesk Summarizer, agents are now able to focus on what’s really important - a human interaction with the customer where human-to-human interactions remain key.

During their initial rollout, Rabobank utilized Deepdesk’s Agent Assist solution for their digital interactions, enabling their agents with the best answer to any customer question in real time, while also providing the agents real time access to each agent's personal collection of their own favorite answers. 

Following the immediate success of using Deepdesk for digital interactions, Rabobank and Deepdesk worked together to implement a solution for their voice channel. They created the Rabobank Co-pilot, which utilizes Deepdesk’s Knowledge Assist and Summarizer capabilities. 

Knowledge Assist enables Rabobank to connect all the different (and separate) knowledge sources their agents rely on (FAQ’s, knowledge bases, internal wiki’s, etc.), and based on the voice conversation taking place, automatically provide the agent with the information they need. For example, if a customer calls to ask about replacing a lost credit card, Deepdesk will automatically provide the agent with all the information they need to help the customer replace their card. Additionally, an agent can use Knowledge Assist through a simple text prompt: agents just ask a question and the answer is returned. 

Utilizing Deepdesk’s Summarizer, when the call has ended, a summary of that call is automatically generated for the agent to add to the customers record in their CRM. 

The result

A true partnership was a key aspect of the success Rabobank has had in enabling their agents with Deepdesk’s technology. From the very beginning, Rabobank and Deepdesk made sure everyone involved in the project (40+ people) were aligned and working together. This included a few different “hack-a-thons,” where team members from engineering, customer support, brand management, legal, compliance, and more all came together with the goal of deploying AI-based Agent Assist technology to agents as quickly as possible. These hack-a-thon days allowed both teams to accomplish in one day what may have taken a month over email. And by including team members from across the entire business, questions that may have involved people from engineering, legal, and compliance could be discussed and answered on the spot. The result was a rapid deployment and quick adoption by agents. What did this amount to when it came to enabling agents? See for yourself.

Rabobank's results

120

Million characters of automated text

60+

seconds saved per interaction 

> 5,000

Agents actively using Deepdesk

Here is what Rabobank has to say about Deepdesk:

“The Deepdesk GenAI solution has enabled us to drastically cut down AHT by more than 60 seconds per interaction while achieving a 9/10 score on agent satisfaction regarding the quality of genAI features like summarizer, knowledge assist and autocompletion for chat. These results bring us immense confidence in our choices and approach with Deepdesk.” 

Thom Kokhuis

Head of Conversational Banking & CRM

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