Services · Mobile app development · AI customer support apps

AI tools for Birmingham contact centres that keep agents fast and customers heard.

Codeeo delivers AI customer support app development Birmingham contact centres and shared service teams can bolt onto the systems they already run. We build software that listens to calls through their transcripts, reads tickets and emails, writes the wrap up notes, suggests the next step to the agent and raises the cases that need a supervisor. Customers still talk to people. Those people simply spend less of each shift on admin.

Birmingham hosts large banking, utility, housing and retail service operations, and two national regulators, Ofwat and the Gambling Commission, are based in the city. That mix shapes what a support tool here has to get right: priority customers, safer gambling signals, repair promises and plain language for a very diverse population.

Built for
Contact centres, shared service centres, housing providers, utilities, licensed gambling operators and retailers serving customers from Birmingham and the West Midlands.
Typical timeline
Set together after discovery, once your telephony, helpdesk and approval rules are understood, and written into a staged plan.
What you own
The code, configuration, prompts, test sets, call summaries and reports, held in accounts your organisation controls.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
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HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

What we build in

Capabilities shaped by high volume, phone heavy service.

Many Birmingham operations still take most contact by phone, from offices around Colmore Row and Brindleyplace to the large campuses on the edge of the city. That means the biggest time savings sit after the call, in notes, follow up tasks and handovers, rather than in a chat window on a website.

We start there. Each capability below plugs into your telephony platform, your CRM or helpdesk, and your case management system, with clear rules about what the AI drafts, what it decides and what it never touches. We prefer to build the pieces that remove the most agent effort first, measure the result on real shifts, and only then widen the scope. Every item can run in a pilot team before the rest of the floor sees it, so your workforce planners and team managers can judge the effect on handling time and quality with their own figures.

Explain your project
  • Automatic call wrap up

    From the call transcript, the system writes a short summary, the contact reason, actions promised and any follow up date, straight into the case record. The agent reads it, corrects anything wrong and saves, instead of typing notes from memory while the next call waits.

    Less after call work and more consistent case notes.

  • Safer gambling signals for licensed operators

    For operators licensed by the Gambling Commission, the AI flags messages and calls that suggest a customer may be at risk of harm, such as chasing losses or distress about money. Flags go to trained staff with the evidence attached; the AI never makes the customer interaction decision itself.

    Risk indicators reach trained people quickly and are recorded.

  • Priority Services Register prompts

    Water and energy suppliers must look after customers who need extra help. When a call or email mentions a medical condition, a disability or a new baby, the system prompts the agent to offer registration and records the consent, rather than relying on someone remembering.

    More eligible customers offered the support they are entitled to.

  • Repairs and housing ticket triage

    Housing associations receive repair reports by phone, email, web form and app. The system reads each one, identifies damp, mould, heating or safety issues, sets the right urgency and attaches photos to the job, so emergency repairs are not sitting in a general inbox.

    Urgent repairs are spotted and booked faster.

  • Language support for a diverse city

    Birmingham households speak Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Polish, Arabic and many other languages. Written contact is translated for the agent, replies are translated back after approval, and the system can flag when a customer would be better served by an interpreter on a call.

    Customers are understood first time, whatever language they write in.

  • Student and parent enquiries

    Birmingham's universities and colleges field heavy enquiry peaks around clearing, enrolment, accommodation and fees. The system sorts messages by topic and student status, answers simple timetable and deadline questions from approved pages, and moves welfare concerns straight to the right support team with the message history attached.

    Peak season inboxes cleared faster, with welfare concerns never left waiting.

  • Shift handover summaries

    At the end of each shift, open cases with promised callbacks, unresolved complaints and anything time critical are summarised for the next team, grouped by owner and deadline. Team managers start their shift knowing what was left and why.

    Fewer dropped callbacks between shifts.

  • Next best action for agents

    During a live case, the agent sees the most likely resolution based on policy and similar past cases: a payment plan, a refund within policy, a technician visit or a transfer. Each suggestion links to the policy it relies on, and the agent chooses.

    Newer agents resolve more cases without transferring them.

  • Bank grade complaint records

    Financial services teams in the city handle complaints under FCA rules. The system tags complaints at first contact, keeps the timeline, drafts acknowledgement and final response letters for review, and produces the root cause themes your complaints committee needs.

    Complaint files that stand up to review.

  • Workforce and demand signals

    Contact reasons are classified in real time, so planners see when a billing run, a weather event or a service outage is driving new demand. That helps them move staff between queues on the day rather than after the backlog has formed.

    Staffing decisions based on why people are calling, not only how many.

Who this is for

The Birmingham service operations this suits.

The West Midlands has a long history of large back office and customer service operations, and Birmingham is where many of them sit. HSBC UK runs its head office from Centenary Square, insurers and outsourcers have big teams in and around the city, and housing providers serve tenants in every postcode. Each of these has different regulators, different risks and different ideas of what good service means. Here is where we see the clearest fit.

01

Outsourced and shared service contact centres

Outsourcers running several client contracts from one Birmingham floor need tools that switch knowledge bases, scripts and rules by client. We build AI assist that knows which contract a call belongs to, keeps each client's data separate, and reports quality and handling time per contract, so account managers can show clients the change in their own service figures. New contracts can be onboarded by loading a fresh knowledge base rather than rebuilding the tools.

Client data separation is designed in, not added later.

02

Utilities and water companies

With Ofwat headquartered in the city, water customer service is well understood here. Billing disputes, leak reports, payment support schemes and vulnerable customer care are where AI saves the most time. We connect to billing and field service systems, draft replies for approval and keep a clear record of every promise made to a customer about a visit or a refund. During supply interruptions, the same tools group incoming reports by area so operations staff can see the scale of an incident early.

03

Housing associations and local service providers

Tenant contact is often about repairs, rent and anti social behaviour, and it arrives through every channel at once. We give housing teams triage that understands urgency, photo handling for repair reports, and a tenant facing mobile app if you want one, all connected to your housing management system so officers work from one record. Officers covering estates across Birmingham and Solihull can check and update cases from a phone between visits.

Damp and mould reports are treated as priority by default.

04

Licensed gambling operators

Operators answering to the Gambling Commission need customer interaction evidence, not just fast replies. We build tools that surface risk indicators, prompt agents with the right interaction steps, and log each decision for your compliance team. Marketing, bonuses and account restrictions stay under human control, and we work only with operators holding a valid licence.

We build for licensed operators only.

From your first call with us to agents using it on the floor.

  1. 01Floor walk on videoYour team leaders share screens and talk us through real calls and cases, so we see where the minutes actually go before proposing anything.
  2. 02Contact reason analysisWe classify a sample of anonymised contacts to find the reasons that cost the most time or carry the most risk, and agree targets with you.
  3. 03Rules and red linesTogether we write down what the AI may draft, what needs approval, and the regulated decisions it must never make on its own.
  4. 04Pilot team buildWe connect telephony, CRM and case systems for one team, release features in small steps, and fix what agents report each week.
  5. 05Measure on real shiftsHandling time, note quality, transfer rates and customer outcomes are compared with a control team, using figures your planners trust.
  6. 06Floor wide rolloutTraining material, agent guides and supervisor reports are prepared, then the tools go to the remaining teams in planned waves.

Technology

What we build this with.

We connect to platforms such as Genesys, Amazon Connect, NICE, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the housing and billing systems common in the UK, with hosting in UK cloud regions where your data policy requires it. Model choices are reviewed each quarter so you are not locked into one provider as prices and capabilities change.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What Birmingham contact centre managers ask us.

Mostly it removes after call work and speeds up the hardest cases.

The quickest wins tend to be automatic call summaries, contact reason tagging and agent assist that finds the right policy in seconds. After that come complaint detection, vulnerable customer prompts and shift handovers. Self service for simple questions can follow, but in phone heavy operations the agent side usually pays back first, and it carries less risk because a person still approves every outcome.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

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