How DHL improved CSAT while keeping the human touch

Balancing speed and service by leveraging our technology

Human-centered approach

Empowering the team for long-term success While AI powers the insights, people remain at the heart of service delivery. Our team leaders have targeted, timely conversations with the right people. Focusing on coaching and developing agents based on real-time, relevant data. Spending less time managing reports and more time leading people.
“During Black Friday, we scaled up effortlessly with Custom Connect. Customers received instant responses, and our satisfaction scores went up.”
E-commerce client
News article 02

The challenge: balancing speed and service

DHL is a global leader in logistics, providing international express deliveries, warehousing solutions, and supply chain management services. In The Netherlands, Custom Connect supports DHL's customer service operations via chat channels, ensuring fast, effective, and customer-centric support. As DHL's service demands evolved, so did the need for faster, smarter, and more personalized support experiences - without compromising the human touch.
Young people working in modern office, brainstorming together

Our solution: Leverage our technology suite

Deploying AI-powered analytics to automate and enhance service reporting. Using our in-house technology development team to create a bespoke solution. Integrating AI into all KPI reporting and CSAT analysis, making this available to everyone across the teams, enabling precise identification of service drivers impacting customer satisfaction. Using these insights to drive targeted coaching and proactive team leader interventions. Real-time performance management was put into our colleague's hands
News article 03

Blending technology with people-first service

Custom Connect implemented a hybrid approach that leveraged chat agents across three continents, supported by intelligent reporting and AI-driven quality insights through Myia . This combination ensured that DHL customers received quicker answers while agents had better tools and coaching to maintain empathy, accuracy, and consistency across every conversation.
About CCI

What next?

Proactive Leadership CSAT management is now automated and effortless, freeing time for proactive leadership. Optimisation Further AI-driven optimisation in plan; focusing on smarter use of Active Time, enabling AI to drive operational efficiency while our leaders focus on supporting their teams.
20%
Immediate improvement
immediate CSAT improvement , reducing customer effort
33%
Improved competency
decrease in new agent onboarding time , glidepath to competency improved in line with new coaching support
29%
Volume efficiency
Increased chat concurrency, enabling agents to handle higher volume without additional cost
98%
Optimisation improvement
Going from just 2% or chats manually monitored to 100% automatically