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AlationOpenAI at Alation: Spoken Interfaces
Alation, an information technology organization in the United States, uses Custom GPTs from OpenAI to support customer and product conversations for product and contact center teams.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because spoken interfaces has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in customer and product conversations sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Capability | New joiners can see how customer and product conversations actually runs |
Story
Alation did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed customer and product conversations to move. In the United States, product and contact center teams already knew where spoken interfaces went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Custom GPTs from OpenAI is now in that path. OpenAI develops foundation models and ChatGPT Enterprise, used by companies to build assistants, analyze documents, and speed knowledge work. The company treats it as production tooling for customer and product conversations, which is why product and contact center teams live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Alation can show how spoken interfaces is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run customer and product conversations on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
