AI CX Innovators
AI CX Innovators
Podcast Description
Join us as we bring together enterprise CX leaders and innovators to discuss how AI is reshaping the future of CX, explore emerging opportunities, and share insights on where the industry is headed.
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The podcast focuses on the intersection of AI technology and customer experience, covering topics such as AI adoption strategies, challenges of data management, and the integration of product-operations roadmaps. Episodes include discussions about transformative experiences during the pandemic and frameworks for in-house vs. vendor partnerships, highlighting case studies like Airbnb's approach to GenAI implementations.
Join us as we bring together enterprise CX leaders and innovators to discuss how AI is reshaping the future of CX, explore emerging opportunities, and share insights on where the industry is headed.
AG1 scaled from one SKU to nine in 18 months while maintaining 98-99% CSAT. Leala Francis reveals how she uses conversational AI to spot sentiment shifts before purchasing behavior changes, then adjusts supply forecasts mid-cycle. Her organizational design—consolidating customer happiness, insights, product commercialization, and packaging innovation under one role—creates the speed needed to launch four products without issues while keeping the feedback loop tight enough to catch problems when they’re still “in the ones and twos.”
The counter-intuitive insight: automation isn’t about cost reduction at AG1. It’s about relationship depth. By handling routine requests through AI agents that access full customer history and make personalized recommendations, human agents get freed up to send replacement shakers to customers they spot with old ones on social media. Leala’s “birthday gift test”—would this interaction show we know the customer well enough to buy them the right gift?—defines whether personalization actually works at scale for a premium subscription brand expanding into retail.
Topics discussed:
- Consolidating customer happiness, insights, commercialization, and packaging under one leader to enable four-for-four product launches
- Reading sentiment on new flavors to increase forecasts before consumption behavior manifests in sales data
- Tracking “my wife and I” language patterns as leading indicators of household penetration and organic growth
- Applying the “birthday gift test” to measure whether AI personalization demonstrates genuine customer knowledge
- Monitoring conversations for customers mentioning travel to proactively shift them to travel packs before they pause
- Catching product and experience issues “in the ones and twos” using AI before they reach statistical significance
- Coaching teams to translate customer observations into strategic points of view that win cross-functional alignment
- Reframing AI adoption internally as unlocking “career-defining” strategic work rather than replacing reporting tasks
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