It's 2pm on a Wednesday. A customer message lands in Intercom. It pops up in your support Slack channel. Two agents see it at the same time. Neither knows the other is already typing. Two minutes later, your customer gets two nearly identical responses within 30 seconds of
Read moreIf you're bootstrapped or early-stage, you've probably looked at your Intercom bill and winced. Each support seat costs real money. Each agent you add pushes you closer to a budget conversation with your CFO. So you do what makes sense: you put fewer people in
Read moreIn the previous article, I laid out the core problem: support teams using both Slack and Intercom are bleeding hours to context switching. Now I want to get specific about where those switches happen and put a dollar figure on each one that you can take to your manager. The
Read moreIf your support team uses Slack for internal coordination and Intercom for customer conversations, every reply to a customer follows the same pattern: read the notification in Slack, open Intercom, find the conversation, type the reply, switch back to Slack, repeat. It takes 30 seconds, maybe a minute. It doesn&
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