Solutions · Customer operations

Your support agent can apologise. Let it refund.

The agent says yes inside the limit, the queue empties, and finance sees one total across every channel and vendor.

For Heads of customer operations and support, the CX vendors behind them and the CFO who reads the refund line, in retail, subscriptions, telecom, utilities and travel.

What the agent does
Refunds Goodwill credits Bill adjustments Service credits Delay compensation under EU261 Retention discounts
Why it stalls

A support agent closes the ticket, apologises in three languages and then hands the refund to a person, because nobody wrote down how much it may give back. The customer waits two days for twenty euros. The person in the queue spends the afternoon approving twenty-euro refunds.

Then a model slips a decimal, or a customer talks it round, and a €742 dispute becomes a €74,200 refund that every system in the stack allows. The vendor's settings capped one channel and the payment system checked one amount. Nothing counted the day.

Stategram puts one policy in front of every channel: a limit per refund, a named approver above it and one total per customer and per day across chat, voice, email and the people in the queue. The gateway that pays checks the permit first. The queue keeps only the cases a person should decide.

What the trust loop adds

Enforce your limits before money moves.

One total across every channel

Chat, voice, email, the BPO and the people in the queue draw down the same daily total.

A limit per customer

A customer who asks five times gets the policy's answer five times.

A named approver above the line

Large or unusual refunds go to the person the policy names, in Slack or Teams.

The payment checks the permit

The payment provider or the ERP gateway verifies the permit before it pays, so a refund without one never leaves.

policy: refunds and credits version: 1
events: refund: customer: id amount: money
counters: customer this month: {unit: EUR, per: customer, resets: monthly} refunds today: {unit: EUR, resets: daily}
rules: single refund limit: on: refund require: amount <= 2 000 EUR unattended limit: on: refund require: amount <= 200 EUR otherwise: ask head of support customer total: on: refund count: amount into customer this month limit: 500 EUR daily total: on: refund count: amount into refunds today limit: 20 000 EUR
An example policy

See the policy your risk owner signs.

An example written for this page, with round numbers. It uses only what the policy format has today, and it is not a customer's policy.

Inside the rules the agent acts alone. Above a line, the named person decides. Every change to the numbers is a new signed version.

How it connects
  • A CX vendor's agent integrates once, and every refund it issues carries a permit.
  • Your own automation and your employees' copilots draw on the same totals.
  • A BPO handling refunds works under the policy you sign.

How the trust loop works

What we can show today
  • Gartner expects agentic AI to resolve 80% of common customer service issues without a person by 2029 (Gartner, March 2025).
  • A permit takes 95 ms at p99 inside the region, so the check fits inside the chat.
  • Two real customer policies run end to end on the hosted release, a refund policy among them.

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Two weeks, a fixed fee, your limits and a named approver, and the method to do the next workflow yourself.

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