AI for Customer Support Ticket Routing

Suggest category, urgency, and destination with a short reason. Define a high-risk path for safety, security, and billing disputes.

Published September 22, 2026 · Dr. Connor Robertson

What to provide

Ticket text, product or service category, priority policy, and current queue owners.

Starting prompt

Classify this ticket under our routing policy. Return destination and evidence. If urgency or account identity is uncertain, send it to manual triage rather than guessing.

Trial case

Use a ticket containing a routine billing question and a possible safety concern. The safety escalation should take precedence over the routine category.

Review gate

A lead samples routed tickets and owns the escalation queue, especially outside business hours.

How to score the result

First-assignment accuracy and time until a high-priority ticket reaches its owner.

Use the current approved source and keep it available to the reviewer. Check a small set of finished outputs against the previous process before adopting this workflow.

Related workflows

Explore AI Playbooks by Business Function or the AI business strategy guide.