Our work

What changed for the teams we worked with.

A selection of the work we do. Clients are described by sector rather than named, because most of this work sits inside regulated businesses and the detail belongs to them. Each engagement below is real, scoped, won and delivered. Where we publish outcome figures, they have been measured with the client, not projected.

Case studies

Delivered engagements

Sample deliverables

The two documents that decide whether an automation works

One defines what gets built and what happens when it cannot complete. The other defines how you will know whether it made a difference. Both are agreed with you before anything is built.

Sample

Workflow blueprint

The document a workflow is designed from. Nothing gets built until every row here is agreed, because each blank is a decision someone would otherwise make silently during delivery.

Scope

Workflow
Inbound order status enquiry, web chat and email channels
Volume
Measured over four weeks before design, split by channel and hour
Out of scope
Refunds, order amendments, anything requiring a credit decision

Systems and permissions

Reads
Order management, warehouse despatch, carrier tracking
Writes
Case record only. No write access to the order itself
Identity
Dedicated service account, scoped to the reads above, rotated on your schedule
Logging
Every read and write, with the identity, source and timestamp

Decision points

Automated
Confirm despatch status, confirm expected delivery date, resend tracking
Requires a person
Anything outside the returns window, any goodwill gesture, any complaint
Approval route
Named service team queue, with the case history attached

Failure behavior

Source unavailable
Tell the customer what is known and when the next update is due. Escalate. Do not estimate
Order not found
Hand to a person with the reference the customer gave
Tracking stale
State the last confirmed scan and its time rather than inferring a location
Sample

Measurement plan

Agreed before the build starts, not chosen afterwards to suit the result. A baseline taken after go-live is not a baseline.

Baseline

Period
Four consecutive weeks before any change, including one peak week
Source
Contact platform records and order management, not a manual estimate
Excluded
A known outage week, excluded by agreement and stated in the report

Measures

Resolution rate
Request completed, not merely answered. Reported for automated and assisted paths separately
Repeat contact
Same customer, same order, within seven days
Handling time
First contact to resolution
Cost per resolved contact
Total cost to serve divided by contacts resolved

Comparison

Period
Four weeks after a two-week stabilisation window, matched for seasonality
Confounders
Promotional activity, carrier disruption and volume shifts recorded and reported alongside the result
What we will not claim
Released time as cash saved, unless a headcount or cost line actually changed

These are purpose-built samples for an order status workflow. They are not redacted client work and they are not a client result. The rows in your blueprint would carry your systems, your policy and your thresholds.

What we will publish

The standard a result has to meet before it appears here.

We would rather have an empty results page than a persuasive one built out of proposals and pilots that never reached production.

  • The client is named with written approval, or described specifically enough to be useful and generally enough to stay anonymous.
  • ETT's role is stated exactly, including which parts a delivery partner delivered. We do not publish a partner's work as ours.
  • The stage the engagement actually reached is stated. An engagement still in delivery publishes what it is designed to deliver, not a result.
  • Baseline and result use the same measure over comparable periods, with the calculation shown.
  • Modeled results are labelled as modeled. Projected production savings are never attached to work that did not reach production.
  • The source system, measurement period, sample size and limitations are held on file for every figure we publish.

Have a similar problem? Talk to us.

Tell us the process you would start with. We will talk through what the blueprint and the measurement plan would look like for it.

Region & currency

Changes spelling, terminology, the data-protection regime named in our notices, and the currency used in indicative figures. ETT is based in London — this is not a local office or a price in your currency.