# beereau blog

## AI customer support

- [AI customer support cost: per ticket, compared with hiring and outsourcing](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-customer-support-cost): What customer support really costs per ticket with an in-house hire, an outsourced team or AI agents, with a worked 1,500-ticket example and a monthly cap.
- [AI customer support for ecommerce: orders, returns and product questions](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-customer-support-ecommerce): How AI customer support works for an online store: where-is-my-order, returns and product questions, with approvals and plain email forwarding.
- [AI refunds in customer support: let agents prepare, you approve](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-refunds-customer-support): How to handle refunds with AI in customer support: turn your policy into rules, let agents prepare each refund, approve it yourself, and catch fraud.
- [AI ticket triage: how it classifies, prioritizes and routes support tickets](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-ticket-triage): How AI ticket triage sorts every support email by topic, urgency and owner, with a categories and SLA table you can copy for a small business.
- [Customer support metrics for small business: the 6 to track weekly](https://beereau.com/blog/customer-support-metrics): The 6 customer support metrics a small business should track weekly: first response, resolution time, CSAT, backlog and more, with targets to start from.
- [How to build an AI customer support team (roles, routing and approvals)](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-customer-support-team): The roles an AI customer support team needs, how tickets get routed and approved, and a day-by-day plan to set one up for your small business in a week.

## AI agents explained

- [AI agents vs chatbots: what actually changes for your business](https://beereau.com/blog/ai-agents-vs-chatbots): A chatbot replies to messages. An AI agent plans, uses tools and hands work off. A plain-English comparison table and how to tell which one you need.
- [Human in the loop AI: approvals, autonomy and what to never automate](https://beereau.com/blog/human-in-the-loop-ai): How human-in-the-loop AI works for a small business: what to approve, how to give agents autonomy per decision, and which decisions should stay with a person.
- [What is a multi-agent system? A plain-English guide for business owners](https://beereau.com/blog/multi-agent-system-explained): A multi-agent system is a team of AI agents with separate roles, handoffs and a lead that routes work. Here is how it works, explained for business owners.

## Running a lean company

- [How to control AI agent costs: limits, economy mode and cost per task](https://beereau.com/blog/control-ai-agent-costs): What drives AI agent spend and how to cap it: monthly hard limits, economy mode, batching and cost per task, with a worked example for a small business.
- [How to run a business with AI agents: what to delegate and what to keep](https://beereau.com/blog/run-a-company-with-ai-agents): What a solo founder can hand to AI agents today, what still needs a human, and a simple weekly rhythm for running a small business with an AI team.
- [Virtual assistant vs AI agents: which should a small business hire?](https://beereau.com/blog/virtual-assistant-vs-ai-agents): Hiring a virtual assistant vs using AI agents: cost, hours, quality and judgment compared, plus when combining both gives a small business the best result.