06 / Triage

Inbox Triage

Give every incoming message a route, a priority and a clear answer to the question: does a person need to step in?

Inbox Triage
Queue decision
Team 24
Priority 7
Escalation 3

Write the labels

Team·Priority12m

Score impact

Priority·Team28m

Watch repetition

Escalation·Team44m

The queue

Three decisions, one ticket

The useful output is not a paragraph. It is a small set of fields your help desk can act on immediately.

01

Team

Send the message to an approved team or queue without inventing new labels.

02

Priority

Use your own impact and urgency levels instead of relying on tone alone.

03

Escalation

Flag churn, money, safety or repeated-contact signals for a human.

Measurement

Measure triage before automating it

Review false routes, missed escalations and queue imbalance before changing the threshold.

Incoming ticketbilling · urgent · escalate

Write the labels

Describe each team and queue with examples that match your operation.

Score impact

Separate time pressure from the business impact of waiting.

Watch repetition

Repeated contacts and unresolved issues can change the escalation decision.

Keep a review path

Unknown or high-risk cases should not disappear into automation.

Triage a support ticket

Measure triage before automating it

Review false routes, missed escalations and queue imbalance before changing the threshold.

Triage a support ticket
POST /v1/triage
{
  "state": "Charged twice again. I already wrote last month and nobody replied.",
  "questions": {
    "team": { "type": "choice", "instructions": "Which team should handle this?", "criteria": { "billing": "payments and refunds", "technical": "product bugs", "account": "access and profile" } },
    "priority": { "type": "score", "instructions": "How urgent is this?", "criteria": ["routine", "today", "urgent", "critical"] },
    "escalate": { "type": "noul", "instructions": "Should a human review this now?" }
  }
}

FAQ

Questions about triage

Can I use my existing queue names?+

Yes. Define the options and their descriptions in the request instead of training a fixed label set.

Does tone determine priority?+

It should not. Include business impact, deadlines, account history and policy in the state.

Can the result update my help desk automatically?+

Your application can apply the typed result. Keep a review path for uncertain or high-impact tickets.