What is our primary use case?
Over the past year, my main use case for Cognigy.AI Platform has been to build both voicebots and chatbots for B2C use cases across several industries. Projects have included a voice assistant for an automotive dealership that automates appointment scheduling, handling identity verification, customer data lookup, and escalation without using staff involvement, as well as projects related to an internal employee-facing chatbot for a large corporate to handle ID and document processes, automating this entire process with self-service flows such as identity verification, document request, and appointment booking, as well as developing a multilingual, agentic hotel chatbot answering guest questions using both German and English.
The project for building an assistant for an automotive dealership stands out as the most interesting and challenging because we had to integrate multiple databases and use API endpoints, which made it complex because of the way the endpoints were also built. Understanding users' requests and intents regarding when they want their input was very challenging as well.
What is most valuable?
One of the best features Cognigy.AI Platform offers is being agentic because when I previously started working with Cognigy.AI Platform, it mainly was rule-based using NLUs. Currently, having agentic capabilities and using the tools is very useful, as well as having Playbooks because they really automate the way that we test. We used to do manual testing, and with more engagement with Cognigy.AI Platform, we have started really using Playbooks, and they are a very helpful feature.
We have mainly used Playbooks for testing on Cognigy.AI Platform, so we have created our use scenario and what we expect to have from our flows. Instead of going through manual testing where we have to type everything one by one, we run a Playbook, and it checks whether the feature is completely developed as it should be or if there are any edge cases that are happening. This simplifies the way we test and really helps to stay on track with the use case that we are creating or implementing.
Cognigy.AI Platform has really helped us positively in our organization with our customer projects because the projects that I have worked on have been customer-related. We also use it internally for automating different tasks, such as ID card registration. Instead of employees going through the entire process and communicating with different colleagues to just get access for a certain building, having to do it via Cognigy.AI Platform is much easier and more simplified.
What needs improvement?
One of the biggest challenges I continue facing while using Cognigy.AI Platform is the fact that the platform lacks proper version control, and this makes it difficult when I am working with multiple team members and it is very hard to track the changes that I do or the changes that my peers are doing.
One improvement for Cognigy.AI Platform would be creating a version control, which would really help developers. This way, we can keep track of what we are doing and how we are doing it. Additionally, if we could make an integration with IDEs just like Visual Studio Code, it would make easier implementation for the coding part and just to have an integration between an IDE and the local platform. I think that would be an interesting feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Cognigy.AI Platform for about one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Cognigy.AI Platform is quite stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
When it comes to scalability, Cognigy.AI Platform has scaled well for our use cases when we had to move from single flows to complex multi-tools. I think it is quite scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I have not had the chance to have a lot of communication regarding customer support because it is handled by another level of support for us, but it has been quite useful. Every moment that we have had the need for customer support from Cognigy.AI Platform, they have been there for us, solving our issues and guiding us.
What was our ROI?
If I take it from the customer side point of view, I think we have seen a return on investment. Automating customer service really reduces the number of employees needed during peak hours, which is an achievement, especially if you are dealing with multiple calls per day. This would reduce a lot of the work for the employees.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We are currently provided with a solution for customers, and we have always been using Cognigy.AI Platform for our internal projects.
What other advice do I have?
Cognigy.AI Platform has really helped us positively in our organization with our customer projects because the projects that I have worked on have been customer-related. We also use it internally for automating different tasks, such as ID card registration. Instead of employees going through the entire process and communicating with different colleagues to just get access for a certain building, having to do it via Cognigy.AI Platform is much easier and more simplified.
I would suggest getting into Cognigy.AI Platform. The more you start working with it, the more you can see that you can do a lot of great things. You learn by doing and by being curious about what Cognigy.AI Platform can offer.
Regarding Cognigy.AI Platform's AI capabilities, I would say its governance and security are good so far, but this is not one of the scopes I focus on.
When it comes to the accuracy and reliability of output from Cognigy.AI Platform, the information is accurate. We just need to always be careful with the guardrails, mainly when prompting. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other