Promotional Reward Wheel With SMS Claim Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Businesses face suboptimal customer interactions due to siloed communication approaches across different channels, leading to inefficient assistance and potential loss of sales, as customers often require unique, timely, and preferred communication modes that existing systems fail to provide.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing a promotional reward wheel on mobile devices, enabling interaction through SMS authorization, which captures user input via SMS messages to authorize communication with third parties, facilitating omnichannel customer engagement without additional app installations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If businesses use traditional call center systems and human resources for customer assistance, then customers can receive personal attention, but customers experience unnecessary delays and suboptimal communication experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables customers to initiate and manage their own transactions through automated SMS-based interactions with AI agents, eliminating the need for human agent intervention for routine tasks. Customers can independently complete transactions, check order status, and receive assistance through text messages, making the service self-directed and immediate without call center delays.
2Adaptability or versatility
If businesses offer separate communication experiences for different channels (in-store, website, mobile), then each channel can be optimized, but customers must navigate multiple screens and options across siloed systems
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a universal SMS-based communication interface that works across all devices and channels (mobile phones, tablets, computers) without requiring device-specific applications or complex navigation. The same AI agent and communication protocol serve all customer interaction points, unifying the experience across in-store, website, and mobile channels through a single text-message interface.
3Ease of manufacture
If businesses drive customers to traditional call center resources, then existing infrastructure can be utilized, but better resources outside the call center remain underutilized and sales are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the mechanical call center infrastructure with an automated AI-based SMS communication system. Instead of routing customers through human agents via telephone, the system uses AI-powered text message bots that can handle multiple customer interactions simultaneously, providing immediate responses and transaction capabilities without the limitations of human agent availability and call center capacity.
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AI summary
A system and method for delivering promotional rewards to a customer mobile device comprising a promotional reward wheel, a media server, and messaging application operating on the customer's mobile device. A customer interacts with the promotional reward wheel and the system captures that interaction and responsive to the promotional reward that was won by the interaction, generates a message on the customer's mobile device with a means to claim the reward by sending the generated message to the appropriate message endpoint.