AI Customer Support Ticket Routing Project

Artificial Intelligence project 06

AI Customer Support Ticket Routing Project

Build a complete customer support ticket router workflow with reproducible Python code, transparent inputs, reviewable output, and responsible-use limits.

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AI objective

Suggest a support queue while flagging low-confidence tickets for manual triage.

Data or knowledge source

Twenty-four synthetic support tickets labelled billing, account, technical, or course.

Requirements

  • Python 3.10 or later
  • A terminal or command prompt
  • python -m pip install scikit-learn
  • About 45-60 minutes to build and review

How the system works

Train a TF-IDF logistic-regression pipeline, obtain class probabilities, select the highest label, and compare confidence with a review threshold.

Validation checklist

  • Each queue has balanced training examples
  • Confidence is stored with the route
  • Low confidence triggers review
  • No ticket is automatically closed or acted upon

Complete Python code

Save the program as ai_support_ticket_router.py. The code runs locally and requires no paid API key or model download.

"""Route support tickets to a queue with a confidence threshold."""

from __future__ import annotations

from dataclasses import dataclass
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline


EXAMPLES = {
    "billing": ["invoice amount is wrong", "payment was charged twice", "need a fee receipt", "refund has not arrived", "billing address change", "card payment failed"],
    "account": ["cannot reset my password", "account is locked", "change my email address", "login code not received", "update profile name", "delete my account"],
    "technical": ["application crashes on start", "upload button is not working", "page shows a server error", "video does not play", "installation failed", "screen stays blank"],
    "course": ["where is the lesson recording", "when is the next class", "need the course syllabus", "project review schedule", "attendance information", "certificate eligibility"],
}


@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Route:
    queue: str
    confidence: float
    needs_review: bool


def train_router() -> Pipeline:
    texts, labels = [], []
    for label, messages in EXAMPLES.items():
        texts.extend(messages)
        labels.extend([label] * len(messages))
    return Pipeline([("tfidf", TfidfVectorizer(ngram_range=(1, 2))),
                     ("model", LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000, random_state=42))]).fit(texts, labels)


def route_ticket(model: Pipeline, text: str, threshold: float = 0.45) -> Route:
    probability = model.predict_proba([text])[0]
    index = int(probability.argmax())
    confidence = float(probability[index])
    return Route(str(model.classes_[index]), confidence, confidence < threshold)


def main() -> None:
    model = train_router()
    for ticket in ("My card was charged twice", "The upload page crashes", "I have a complicated question"):
        print(ticket, "->", route_ticket(model, ticket))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Run the project

  1. Create and activate a virtual environment.
  2. Install dependencies with python -m pip install scikit-learn when packages are required.
  3. Run python ai_support_ticket_router.py.
  4. Review confidence, fallbacks, sources, or error metrics rather than accepting output automatically.
  5. Test additional normal, edge, unsupported, and adversarial inputs.

Expected output

Suggested queue, confidence, and a needs-review flag.

Accuracy, privacy, and responsible-use limits

Real tickets contain sensitive data and new issue types. Use access controls, an unknown route, language coverage, queue-owner review, and monitoring for misroutes.

Ways to extend the project

Add severity detection, multilabel routing, deduplication, language identification, calibrated probabilities, and agent feedback loops.

Continue learning Artificial Intelligence

Try the next project, return to the Softenant project library, or explore the AI training in Vizag for guided NLP, retrieval, evaluation, automation, and responsible AI practice.