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IT services firm: employee helpdesk agent

An identity-aware employee agent for password resets, access requests and device issues, designed to absorb most routine L1 tickets and provide round-the-clock coverage without follow-the-sun staffing.

50 to 75%
Target L1 deflection
< 5 min
Target resolution time
4 to 6 wks
Target first deployment
The challenge

The typical starting point.

In a large IT services firm, most of the L1 queue usually comes from a handful of issue types: password resets, MFA unlocks, group access requests, VPN problems and new-hire device setup. None need engineering judgement, yet all consume L1 capacity and create long waits in regional off-hours.

Self-service portals rarely solve this alone. Employees who hit a timed-out reset flow or a misrouted access request once tend to go back to opening tickets. Chatbots whose logs sit outside the security monitoring perimeter are often blocked by compliance.

Employee experience surveys frequently rank IT responsiveness low, and leadership wants a visible improvement without adding headcount.

The approach

How Klivo approaches it.

Klivo deploys an identity-aware employee helpdesk agent integrated with the firm's service desk, identity provider, device management and license management systems. The agent runs inside the firm's security monitoring perimeter and is governed by the same access controls as a live L1 agent.

  • Teams
  • Slack
  • Web portal

Klivo Agent

grounded · guardrailed

  • Core systems
  • RAG corpus
  • Audit store
  • Escalation

Identity actions with MFA step-up

Password resets, MFA unlocks and group-membership changes are executed live, gated by a step-up MFA challenge that reuses the firm's existing identity policy. No separate credential store is introduced.

Asset and license intelligence

Device compliance state, last check-in and license allocation are surfaced in one query. When a missing license is the root cause of a "my software doesn't work" ticket, the agent starts the provisioning workflow directly.

Ticket triage for what still needs humans

Cases the agent cannot close are classified against the service taxonomy and routed to the correct L2 queue on the first hop, with a summary of what has already been tried.

Multilingual, round-the-clock support

Employees interact in their preferred language, day or night, including Hindi and major Indian languages. The L1 team can refocus on L2 escalations and automation engineering.

Target outcomes

What this deployment is designed to achieve.

50 to 75%
L1 tickets resolved without a human
< 5 min
Time to resolve closed tickets
40 to 60%
Lower cost per ticket
< 5%
Target L2 misroute rate
What success looks like

Employees unblock themselves in minutes for routine IT issues, at any hour and in their own language. The helpdesk team spends its time on the problems that genuinely need an engineer, and every action stays inside existing identity and security controls.

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