The residue the machine could not handle turned out to be the business.
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A retailer turns its agent's failures into a $1.2B consultancy
Claim
IKEA built a customer service agent that handled requests at 57% approval, found the 43% of failures were all people asking for design advice, launched a consultancy to serve them and made $1.2 billion in year one, while Meta released a model for designing concrete mixes.
Reported metric: 57% / $1.2B
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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