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Route cases by what the customer wants, not the channel they used

Customers rarely fill in the right form field. They send an email, use a generic contact form, or reply to an old ticket. Underneath the words is a clear job to be done: cancel, complain, file a claim, ask for a refund. Your AI reads that intent and sets a field. Plauti reads the field and routes the case to the right Salesforce queue.

Route by what the customer wants, not by channel or product

Customers rarely fill in the "perfect" form field. They send an email, use a generic contact form, or reply to an old ticket. Underneath the words is a clear job to be done, and a customer who is in a hurry: cancel, complain, file a claim, ask for a refund.

But Salesforce needs a structured intent field to route reliably. Your own AI, or AI run through Plauti's field automation, reads that intent and sets it as a field. Plauti reads the field and routes the case to the right team.

What channel and product alone don't tell you

A queue sorted by channel or product can't see what the customer actually wants. Reading the case text can.

  • Without intent detection

    Every case looks like a routine support ticket until someone actually reads it.

    • Cancellation requests land in a generic support queue
    • Complaints get treated like routine "how do I" questions
    • Every case looks like a support ticket, even a real save opportunity
    • Customer success can't measure how many cancellations and complaints reach the right team
  • A cancellation with a hidden save opportunity

    "I want to cancel my policy at the end of this month and know if I'll get any refund." A picklist tags this as "Policy question." Your AI reads it as something more specific, and routes it straight to the retention team instead of a generic inbox.

    • Intent: Cancellation
    • Sub-intent: Refund inquiry

How AI and Plauti work together to route by intent

Your AI reads the incoming message and sets an intent field. Plauti reads that field and routes the case to the right team, without channel-by-channel rules to maintain.

  • Step 1: AI detects intent from the message text

    Your AI, run on its own or through Plauti's field automation, reads incoming messages and sets an intent field, for example "Cancellation," "Complaint," "Claim," "Refund," or "Upgrade," along with a sub-intent such as "Refund inquiry" or "Billing error." You control which values are valid in Salesforce and how they map to your internal process.

  • Step 2: Plauti routes the case by intent

    Plauti reads that intent field and routes the case: cancellations to the retention team, complaints to a dedicated complaints team with its own SLAs, claims to claims processing instead of general support, and upgrade or upsell intent to sales or customer success. In the refund example above, Plauti moves the case straight to the retention team that can handle the refund question and try to keep the customer.

  • Step 3: Reporting and governance stay clean

    Because intent lives in a clear field, customer success can report on the volume of cancellations, complaints, and claims. You can test a routing change for one intent without touching every channel, QA can check whether the AI's intent matches reality, and customers stop repeating the same story to five different teams.

  • Step 4: One routing engine across every channel

    Plauti stays the single routing engine across channels and objects. Add a new channel and it routes through the same intent fields and rules as every other channel, instead of a new set of workarounds. Every rule lives in Salesforce configuration you can see and edit.

Why this matters for admins and customer success

The same intent field pays off differently for each team that touches a case.

  • For Salesforce admins

    Intent, not channel-specific workarounds, drives the routing rules.

    • One set of routing rules driven by intent, not channel-specific workarounds
    • Less reliance on custom forms and manual intake scripts
    • Easier to add new channels, like WhatsApp or chat, using the same logic
  • For customer success teams

    Cases reach the team built to handle them, not the team that happened to own the queue.

    • Cancellations, complaints, and sensitive requests land directly with the team best equipped to handle them
    • CSMs get a clearer view of which accounts are trying to cancel, complain, or upgrade
    • More time for value-add conversations instead of fixing misrouted cases
  • For your customers

    Their actual goal gets recognized faster, without extra forms.

    • Their real goal (cancel, complain, claim, refund, upgrade) is understood faster, without extra forms
    • They reach the right specialist team sooner, instead of bouncing between generic support queues
    • They feel understood, which reduces frustration and builds trust

Your routing logic stays the same when your AI model changes

Start with a simple text-classification model, then move to a more advanced one later. Plauti doesn't need to change: you keep the same intent fields and routing logic, test new models in the background, and add new intents over time without rewriting assignment flows. Routing stays stable while intent recognition gets smarter.

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