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E-Commerce · AI Agent · UK

400–600 Emails a Day.
62% Now Fully Automated.

A UK luxury e-commerce brand was drowning in routine support tickets across three disconnected systems. We built a LangGraph agent that reads, decides, and resolves — or routes to a human with full context.

Industry E-Commerce (Luxury)
Location United Kingdom
Team 35 employees
Timeline 4 weeks
62%
tickets fully automated
zero human touch
<2min
auto-resolution time
8 min manual
<4hrs
peak backlog cleared
36–48 hrs
🛍️
Shopify
Orders · Shipping · Tracking
💳
Stripe
Payments · Refunds · Disputes
🗄️
Support DB
Tickets · SLA · VIP Status
The Problem

8 Minutes. 6 System Checks.
Repeated 600× a Day.

0:00
Read Email
Parse intent
1:30
Support DB
History + SLA
3:00
Shopify
Order + tracking
4:30
Stripe
Payment status
6:00
Draft Reply
Write response
7:30
Log + Send
Close ticket
8 min per ticket  ×  600 tickets/day  =  80 hours of mechanical work, daily

Three Systems — No Shared Context

🛍️
Shopify
💳
Stripe
🗄️
Support DB
36–48h
peak backlog during product drops & holidays
Next day
international response across all time zones
70%
tickets required zero judgment — pure data retrieval
Agent Architecture

LangGraph State Machine.
5 Nodes. 3 Systems.

Every ticket flows through a deterministic pipeline with confidence-gated routing.

📧
INCOMING EMAIL
IMAP ingestion → Redis queue → agent triggered
NODE 01
🏷️ Classify
Intent + entity extraction, language detection, priority scoring
NODE 02
🔍 Retrieve Context — parallel tool calls
All 3 systems queried simultaneously · graceful degradation if one unreachable
NODE 03
⚖️ Decide — confidence-gated routing
Routing decision made · human-in-loop checkpoint if below threshold
✅ NODE 04A — ACT
Draft reply in detected language · initiate Stripe refund if needed · update Shopify order note · log interaction · send
🔔 NODE 04B — ESCALATE
Create enriched ticket with all context + issue summary + suggested resolution — human starts from full picture
Full Stack
LangGraph
Orchestration
GPT-4o
Reasoning
Redis
Queue + Cache
Python
Runtime
Shopify API
Orders
Stripe API
Payments
PostgreSQL
Support DB
IMAP
Ingestion
Technical Proof

"Where's My Order?"
Resolved in 94 Seconds.

● LIVE AGENT TRACE

Real ticket. Zero human involved. Full trace below.

📧 INCOMING EMAIL
from: sarah@example.com
subject: Where is my order #38291?
body: Hi, I placed an order 5 days ago and haven't received any shipping confirmation. Can you check?
🏷️ NODE 01 — CLASSIFY +1.2s
intent: order_status_inquiry   confidence: 0.97
entities: order_id: #38291   language: en   priority: medium
🔍 NODE 02 — RETRIEVE CONTEXT (PARALLEL) +3.8s
── shopify ────────────────────── 820ms
order: #38291 · placed 5 days ago · status: shipped
tracking: RM2948571GB · Royal Mail · last scan: local depot

── stripe ─────────────────────── 640ms
payment: £189.00 · status: succeeded · no disputes

── support_db ──────────────────── 310ms
customer: tier: gold · 12 prior orders · 0 open tickets
⚖️ NODE 03 — DECIDE +1.4s
verdict: AUTO-RESOLVE   confidence: 0.94
reason: order shipped, tracking available, payment clear, gold customer
✅ NODE 04A — ACT +1.8s
actions:
  1. Generated personalized reply with tracking link + estimated delivery
  2. Added Shopify order note: "auto-replied re: shipping status"
  3. Logged interaction in support DB · ticket auto-closed
  4. Email queued for send
TOTAL RESOLUTION TIME 94 seconds vs 8 min manual
Impact

Same Volume. Same Team.
60% Less Manual Work.

62%
tickets fully resolved
without human touch
<2m
auto-resolution time
8 min manual
<4h
peak backlog cleared
36–48 hrs
Before → After
Resolution Time Per Ticket
Before (manual)
8 min
After (auto)
~2 min
Peak Period Backlog
Before
36–48 hrs
After
<4h
Tickets Automated
Before
 
After
62%
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