Ciptex partners with Shelter to support people at risk of homelessness
“Ciptex are supporting us with a compelling vision. We urgently needed support and Ciptex got it in terms of the challenge and solutions, helping to build a plan around our urgent needs to support people. Our advisors were freed up to focus on things they are good at doing.”
– Stuart Moore, Assistant Director of Digital Transformation for Shelter
Shelter is a Not-For-Profit organisation that campagins for tenants rights. They have over 2,000 volunteers to support their mission to defend the right for everyone to live in a safe home. 15,555 households called the helplines, 14,026 webchats and 6.2 million visits to their online advice.
Technology partner Ciptex has developed a new multi-channel self-service Contact Centre with UK housing charity Shelter driving new ways to support people at risk of homelessness.
Shelter, which has 22 offices across England and Scotland, provided advice to over 31,000 households in 2023.
The housing crisis and rise in homelessness means that Shelter is facing an evergrowing demand for its advice services. Shelter needs to make imaginative use of technology to provide appropriate advice to its callers and the partnership with Ciptex is looking at new ways of delivering services.
Technology partner Ciptex has developed a new multi-channel self-service Contact Centre with UK housing charity Shelter driving new ways to support people at risk of homelessness.
Shelter, which has 22 offices across England and Scotland, provided advice to over 31,000 households in 2023.
Deploying Ciptex’s technology, powered by global customer engagement platform Twilio,
the aim is for every Shelter caller to have their own specific advisor. This will ensure that mainline advisors are freed up to focus on emergency or most high priority cases, delivering useful information quickly to people who can’t get through to a live advisor.
Phase 1 of the partnership has replaced existing Contact Centre core services with a live online chat service in addition to voice recognition. Phase 2 is transforming services using a chatbot to triage inquiries with future phases linking this with an augmented AI advice tool, supporting Shelter to deliver their services to more customers.
– Stuart Moore, Assistant Director of Digital Transformation for Shelter
Simon Weeks, CEO – Ciptex, said:
“Following the successful launch of our services to the UK housing sector with our partnership with Aster Group, we are proud to be partnering with housing and homelessness charity Shelter, using our friction free Contact Centre technology and expertise to make a difference.
“We are excited to be supporting Shelter to achieve more first contact resolution for a wide range of complex inquiries, as well as deploying AI to support people at risk of homelessness with the urgent advice they need.”