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No Priors · Friday, July 31, 2026

AI as a Solution to Unreliable Customer Service in Essential Services

Melissa Tokmak highlighted the unreliability of human customer service teams in large, essential service businesses, citing issues like high staff turnover and no-shows. She explained that Netik's AI aims to provide a consistent and optimized customer experience, especially during peak demand.

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The teams that support these workflows in the companies are unreliable as well.
Melissa Tokmak
Let's look at a day in a life with this company that makes a billion dollar revenue. You might show up. The business usually starts at 4, 5 AM. You don't really have anybody in the company. Even maybe your technicians start at 6 AM. But before then, no one is in the company. You might come in as a manager, but there are at least three people that quit that way or that day or five didn't show up.
Melissa Tokmak
So all these customers are piling in starting at 6 AM because now it's a heat wave in the country. Actually, this past week we have hit record waves uh last week in the country. What do you do as a business?
Melissa Tokmak
Heard on No Priors — “Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak, published Friday, July 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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