Feedback that is read,
scored and actually acted on
An NPS score without the comments behind it is close to useless, and most teams collect the comments and never properly read them. This agent runs the survey, scores it, and actually reads the open-ended text for the themes that explain the number, routing any unhappy detractor to a person while there is still time to respond.
The role today
Most businesses that run NPS or feedback surveys end up with a number that moves slightly month to month and a pile of open-ended comments nobody has time to read properly, let alone theme and act on. The detractor who wrote three sentences explaining exactly what went wrong gets the same treatment as everyone else, a score logged in a spreadsheet, while the actual useful information in their comment goes unread.
What the agent takes over
The agent sends feedback and NPS surveys at sensible moments in the customer journey rather than on a flat schedule, and reads every open-ended comment rather than just logging the numeric score, grouping responses into real recurring themes your team can act on. A detractor’s comment gets routed to a person for follow-up within hours, while the issue is still fresh and there is still a chance to fix the relationship, instead of surfacing in a quarterly report once the customer has already moved on.
Promoters are flagged too, as candidates for a review request or a referral ask, since a happy customer willing to say so is worth acting on quickly. Over time, the agent produces a trend report showing which themes are rising or falling, which turns a vague sense that scores are down into a specific, actionable list of what changed.
Survey timing is tuned to avoid fatigue, since asking every customer after every single interaction produces lower response quality than asking at the moments that actually carry a real opinion, a completed project, a renewal, a support resolution. The agent also distinguishes a one-off bad day from a real trend by looking at a customer’s score history over time rather than reacting to any single low score as an emergency, keeping the detractor-follow-up queue focused on situations that genuinely need it.
What stays with humans
The actual detractor follow-up conversation is a person’s job, with the comment and theme attached so they are not starting cold. Your team decides which themes matter enough to become a product or process change. Your team decides how survey results feed into any public rating or marketing claim, since internal feedback data and a published score are different things that deserve separate scrutiny before either is used externally.
Guards
Every comment’s assigned theme is visible and auditable, not a black-box score. Detractor routing has a maximum delay enforced, so a negative comment cannot silently sit unrouted. Theme categories are checked against a sample of real historical feedback before launch, and a person reviews the trend report before it becomes a stated conclusion. Comparisons across time periods account for response rate changes, not just score changes, since a rising NPS paired with a shrinking response rate can mean the business is only hearing from its happiest customers rather than genuinely improving, a distinction a raw score alone would hide. For businesses running feedback across multiple product lines or locations, themes are tracked separately per line or location as well as in aggregate, so a problem specific to one store does not get diluted into a company-wide average that looks fine.
Price and timeline
| Option | Price | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Agency runs it | from $2,200 + support plan | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Full control, handover-ready | from $3,750 | 5 to 6 weeks |
“Agency runs it” keeps the agent on our infrastructure with a monthly support plan covering tuning and monitoring. “Full control, handover-ready” delivers the agent on your own servers and accounts with documentation, source and credentials, so your team can run and change it without us; it costs more up front because the handover package, your-infra deployment and internal documentation are built in from day one.
Related
See the AI agents overview for how we build and guard these systems, and Analytics for the services that often pair with this one. Inside the agents catalogue: Review response agent, Customer success agent, Churn prevention agent. For a narrower, single-process version of this work, see Feedback and NPS collection, Survey calls with NPS in the automations catalogue. For how the same guard patterns held up on real systems: Analytics hub with AI analyst in Telegram.
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FAQ
How much does a feedback and NPS agent cost?
From $2,200 to set up the survey logic, theme analysis and detractor routing, live in 3 to 4 weeks.
How long before it is live?
3 to 4 weeks, with time spent agreeing on the right moments to ask for feedback so surveys do not feel random or overdone.
Which channels and tools does it work with?
Email, WhatsApp, in-app prompts and your CRM for storing scores and comments; it can also pull from review platforms if that is where feedback already lands.
What if the agent misreads a comment's sentiment or theme?
Theming is checked against a sample of real past feedback during tuning, every comment's assigned theme is visible so a misread is easy to spot and fix, and any genuinely ambiguous low score is routed to a person rather than filed away confidently wrong.
Is feedback and customer data safe?
Survey responses and comments stay in your own CRM or survey platform; the agent reads and writes through the access you grant, and nothing is shared outside your systems.