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Sophisticated agents for the most demanding companies: Sierra launches in Korea

Sierra, the customer-facing AI platform, announced it is opening an office in Seoul, South Korea, to serve the country's complex businesses. The company, which partners with one in three of the world's leading banks and 40% of the Fortune 50, counts Singtel, SoftBank, LINE MAN Wongnai, Santander, Uber, Hyatt, Gap, Wilson, and Sonos among its clients. Sierra's agents now handle business workflows beyond support, and it charges by results, not usage. Notable deployments include Singtel (live in 10 weeks, over 70% resolution), Next (live in 6 weeks, 48 languages in 83 countries), and BBVA (first Horizon agent in 30 days).

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Sophisticated agents for the most demanding companies: Sierra launches in Korea
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Bret and I are excited to announce that we are opening an office in Seoul. South Korea is home to some of the worldโ€™s most complex businesses, across the largest industries, and weโ€™re looking forward to serving them.

Sierra is the fastest growing customer facing AI platform, and we partner with one in three of the worldโ€™s leading banks, 40% of the Fortune 50, and companies as diverse as Singtel, SoftBank, LINE MAN Wongnai, Santander, Uber, Hyatt, Gap, Wilson and Sonos.

Agents built on Sierra are now moving beyond support โ€” account sign-up and set-up, password resets, troubleshooting, returns, replacing an IVR โ€” to driving key business workflows. Everything from increasing cart sizes to originating mortgages, refinancing loans, and saving subscribers from churning. And because all these agents are driving measurable outcomes, we charge by results not usage.

As agents take on more complex work, Bret and I are excited to deliver on the promise of hwandae, that ability to treat guests warmly which separates a good customer experience from a great one. Itโ€™s the difference between an AI agent simply answering your next question and making you feel genuinely cared for.

This is possible when agents can build context over time. Sierraโ€™s long running Horizon agents act over weeks, months, even years, and across systems and channels. And they use our Context Engine to learn from every interaction, improve and make better decisions over time.

Most importantly, Sierra enables companies to go live in weeks so they can learn and iterate with AI more quickly.

  • Singtel, Asiaโ€™s leading communications technology company, went live in 10 weeks with resolution rates of over 70%.
  • Next, the largest British clothing retailer, went live with their agent in just six weeks and it now covers 48 languages in 83 countries.
  • BBVA, a leading global bank, launched Sierraโ€™s first long running Horizon agent in just 30 days, serving customers in Spain and Argentina.

If youโ€™re based in Korea and excited about how AI can help you build better customer experiences and drive stronger growth, weโ€™d love to hear from you.


์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ธฐ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ •๊ตํ•œ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ: ์‹œ์—๋ผ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๋‹ค

๋ธŒ๋ ›๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ์—๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์„œ์šธ ์ง€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์„ค๋ฆฝํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ์œ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์€ ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฐ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๊ตํ•œ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋“ค์˜ ๋ณธ๊ณ ์žฅ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•  ๋‚ ์„ ๊ณ ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์—๋ผ๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค AI ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ฃผ์š” ์€ํ–‰์˜ 3๋ถ„์˜ 1 ๋ฐ Fortune 50 ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ 40%์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, Singtel, SoftBank, LINE MAN Wongnai, Santander, Uber, Hyatt, Gap, Wilson, Sonos ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์‹œ์—๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์›์„ ๋„˜์–ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์—…๋ฌด๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์ • ๊ฐ€์ž… ๋ฐ ์„ค์ •, ๋น„๋ฐ€๋ฒˆํ˜ธ ์žฌ์„ค์ •, ๋ฌธ์ œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ, ๋ฐ˜ํ’ˆ, IVR ๋Œ€์ฒด๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ธˆ์•ก ์ฆ๋Œ€, ์ฃผํƒ๋‹ด๋ณด๋Œ€์ถœ ์‹คํ–‰, ๋Œ€์ถœ ๋ฆฌํŒŒ์ด๋‚ธ์‹ฑ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ๋… ํ•ด์ง€ ๋ฐฉ์ง€๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋“ค์€ ์ธก์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์—๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ฑ…์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์‹œ์—๋ผ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๊ณผ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด๋Š” ํž˜, ์ฆ‰ ํ™˜๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ™˜๋Œ€๋ž€, ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์งˆ์˜ ์‘๋‹ต์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋ คํ•˜๋Š” ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Š” ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ดํ•ด๋„๋ฅผ ๋†’์—ฌ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์—๋ผ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์‹คํ–‰ํ˜• Horizon ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ฃผ, ์ˆ˜๊ฐœ์›”, ์ˆ˜๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ๋„˜๋‚˜๋“ค๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ Context Engine์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ชจ๋“  ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์—์„œ ํ•™์Šตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹œ์—๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ๋‹จ ๋ช‡ ์ฃผ ๋งŒ์— AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋„์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ•™์Šต์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ์•„์‹œ์•„๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ํ†ต์‹ ์‚ฌ Singtel์€ 10์ฃผ ๋งŒ์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 70%๊ฐ€ ๋„˜๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋ฅ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์˜๊ตญ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์˜๋ฅ˜ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ Next๋Š” ๋‹จ 6์ฃผ ๋งŒ์— ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ 83๊ฐœ๊ตญ์—์„œ 48๊ฐœ ์–ธ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์„ธ๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์€ํ–‰ BBVA๋Š” ๋‹จ 30์ผ ๋งŒ์— ์‹œ์—๋ผ ์ตœ์ดˆ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์‹คํ–‰ํ˜• Horizon ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ถœ์‹œํ•ด ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ๊ณผ ์•„๋ฅดํ—จํ‹ฐ๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

AI๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด , ์‹œ์—๋ผ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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