The AI Contact Center Handbook
A practical field guide to customer experience in the age of agentic AI — chapter by chapter, for teams evaluating AB Support.
Chapter 10 — Guardian Agents and Trust by Design
The AI that watches the AI. Guardian Agents, voice biometrics, deepfake detection, and the multi-layer trust architecture behind AI-heavy contact centers in 2026.
Chapter 4 — The New Role of the Human Agent
Chapter 4 walkthrough from The AI Contact Center Handbook. Agentic AI takes the routine 80% of interactions; the human agent's job becomes higher-stakes, higher-EQ, higher-paid — and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Chapter 3 — The Rise of Agentic AI
A walkthrough of Chapter 3 of The AI Contact Center Handbook — what "agentic" actually means, why a chatbot is not an agent, the three ingredients (model + tools + memory), and the seven design principles that separate production systems from failed pilots.