Austin Lacey, Director, Chatbots, AI & Automation. Runs the AI automation of Zendesk's own support, so first-hand; the post is also marketing for the product Lacey helps run.
Zendesk sells AI or agent tooling, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
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Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
The fragment matches exactly in the post signed by Austin Lacey.
How to cite this passage
Austin Lacey (Zendesk), “Zendesk blog (the company's own, signed by a Zendesk director)”, Zendesk blog (the company's own, signed by a Zendesk director), 2025-07-23. https://www.zendesk.com/blog/zendesk-insights/expertise/how-zendesk-uses-agentic-ai-to-deliver-instant-human-like-support-at-scale/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/zendesk-immediately-activated-them-own-support-experience-day-2025