AI & Data Analytics Application · Practice two

Customer
Intelligence

The richest customer signal: open-text reviews and complaints: is also the hardest to read at scale and the easiest to ignore.

Live signal · Branch #114, this week
New reviews classified212
Trust-breaking complaints4
Emerging cluster · Billing delays

Open-text feedback is where service failure and emerging risks first surface: but only the right pipeline turns it into action.

Thousands of reviews land every month across Google, Trustpilot, social and complaint logs: manual reading is impossible, so most banks fall back on tag-based reporting and NPS dashboards that are coarse, lagging, and blind to emerging themes until they balloon. An angry billing complaint and a routine operational gripe get scored alike, despite one quietly breaking trust.

Customer Intelligence came out of watching real signal get treated as noise. We built the layer that reads what customers actually wrote, at the volume they actually wrote it.

How the platform works

Two stages, from raw review text to a concrete remediation list. Classify turns text into signal; Act turns signal into a next step.

Classify

Raw review text in, a localised, emotion-aware theme out
01

Extract themes

BERTopic clustering, BERT emotion classification, LDA cross-validation and LLM-driven topic extraction, combined into one pipeline.

02

Separate emotion

Anger, which breaks trust, is separated from disappointment, which is usually just an operational fix.

03

Localise

Themes are mapped to specific branches and sites, with cross-platform validation flagging the highest-conviction targets.

Act

A localised theme in, a tracked remediation out
01

Recommend

Concrete actions are extracted from the review corpus: not just a score, a next step.

02

Track impact

Temporal analysis measures whether remediation actually moved the numbers across review cycles.

03

Watch continuously

A scheduled job classifies new reviews weekly and alerts on emerging clusters before they escalate.

Where the signal gets lost today

The problem, the way it’s handled today, and what changes once Customer Intelligence is running.

The problem

  • Volume: thousands of reviews monthly across Google, Trustpilot, social and complaint logs; manual reading is impossible.
  • Tag-based reporting uses predefined categories: emerging themes missed until they balloon.
  • Anger versus disappointment indistinguishable: angry billing complaints treated like operational gripes, despite breaking trust.
  • Cross-platform signal goes unvalidated: the same complaint surfaces differently across channels.
  • Branch and location diagnostics buried inside aggregate scores: no view of where to remediate.

Current state

  • NPS and star-rating dashboards only: coarse, lagging, no diagnostic detail.
  • Manual sampling of complaints by branch managers: ad hoc, inconsistent, unscalable.
  • Categorisation by predefined tags: locked into yesterday’s taxonomy.
  • Emotion not measured: operational gripes and trust-breaking complaints scored alike.
  • No structured cross-platform reconciliation between Google, Trustpilot and social.

What ALP delivers

  • A multi-technique NLP pipeline: BERTopic, BERT emotion classification, LDA cross-validation, LLM-driven extraction and auto-recommendations.
  • Branch and location breakdown: themes mapped to specific sites, cross-platform validated.
  • Emotion-aware triage: anger (trust-breaking) separated from disappointment (an operational fix).
  • Temporal analysis: measures the impact of remediation across review cycles.
  • A scheduled monitoring job: classifies new reviews weekly, alerts on emerging clusters before they escalate.
25,000Reviews in the validated benchmark corpus
WeeklyMonitoring cadence, alerts before clusters escalate
4 techniquesBERTopic, BERT emotion, LDA, LLM extraction
Work with us

Turn open-text reviews from a defensive metric into a diagnostic engine for operational improvement: at branch level, in near real time.

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