Acme Corp, Ridgeline, and Northstar all scored 0-6 on their latest NPS survey after being promoters last quarter. Acme and Ridgeline renew in 74 and 82 days. Comment themes are onboarding friction and response time. None are on this week's CSM call list.
How an agent works
An agent watches one thing and acts on it. Not a workflow, just a standing watch that usually does nothing and acts the moment it should.
You stay in control
An agent does what you'd do, and only what you've authorized.
The same trusted numbers
It acts on the same governed metrics as your dashboards, and every action is logged and traceable.
You approve anything that writes
It alerts and recommends on its own; anything that changes data is yours to approve.
Try it on a test channel first
Point a new agent at a throwaway channel and watch its judgment before it touches anything real.
No false alarms
It remembers what it already flagged and waits before acting again, so it won't alert you about the same thing twice.
What you can put an agent on
Rank churn risk by tying NPS movement to the account behind it
It joins your AskNicely survey responses and contacts to the account, ARR, and renewal date in your CRM, so a promoter-to-detractor flip on an account renewing next quarter surfaces as a ranked call list, not a score nobody connected to revenue. You catch the sentiment shift while there's still time to save the renewal.
Spot an NPS trend break before it becomes a pattern
When your rolling NPS drifts below baseline, or a segment's detractor rate spikes, it tells you which contacts and comment themes are behind the shift, with enough context to decide whether it is a product issue, a support issue, or an onboarding gap. You find out the week it moves, not the quarter it shows up in the board deck.
Catch survey fatigue before your response rate drops off
It watches sent, delivered, opened, and responded counts. When your response rate falls below where you'd want it, or unsubscribes tick up past their trend, it flags which segments and delivery windows are slipping, so you fix the cadence before the feedback pipeline goes quiet on the accounts you need to hear from most.
Run any Python it needs to get the job done
Beyond alerts and write-backs, an agent can run arbitrary Python, so it can do whatever the task actually requires: call an API, push a call list to your CS tool, reshape the data, or wire into your own tooling. The action space is yours to define.
Why not just build it yourself?
You could rig one of these with a cron job and a Slack webhook in an afternoon. The watching is the easy part. Here's what you'd own forever, and don't, here:
- →The cross-source join: not one tool's data, but it reconciled against the rest of your stack
- →A trusted, consistent metric: the same number your dashboards use
- →The investigation into why, when something fires
- →A full audit trail of everything it did
- →The upkeep, when the schema drifts or the script breaks at 2am
The data it works from
Every AskNicely object, modeled and query-ready the moment you connect.
It runs on your real AskNicely data (incomplete responses, unsubscribed contacts, survey fatigue and all), not a tidy demo.
Where it acts
Slack
A message in the channel you choose, with the context and a button to act on it.
A summary in the inbox of the people who need to see it.
Webhook
A payload to your own systems, to wire the agent into whatever you already run.
Warehouse write-back
A flag written back to your warehouse for everything downstream to pick up.
Hand off to Fi
Kick the question to Fi to investigate the why and propose the fix.
MCP
Expose it to your own agents and tools over MCP, and drive it from your stack.
Run it in your own VPC or fully self-hosted. Everything it does is pure SQL and Python you can inspect.
Build your agents with Fi
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Meet Fi →Agents
The watchers and actors. Once you've built one, it runs on its own, keeping an eye on what matters and acting the way you would.
Autonomous agents →Get started
- 1Connect AskNicely, and the sources it needs to reconcile against. Synced and modeled in an afternoon.
- 2See the numbers tie out to what you already trust.
- 3Put an agent on one thing you can't afford to miss. Fi helps you build it.