Digital colleague · live at Hisense Gorenje Europe

Harley & Gorini answers the customers your team never had time for.

Hired onto webchat in December. Three weeks later it was holding three quarters of the questions on its own, and already up for its next role.

640
conversations handled per week
75%
of questions answered end to end
4.0
FTE-equivalent delivered
3 wks
from go-live to these results
Harley & Gorini
Customer Service colleague
EmployerHisense Gorenje Europe
ChannelWebchat
MarketDE → UK
Live since15 Dec 2025
Live, in expansion
For Hisense Gorenje EuropeLive since 15 Dec 2025, in expansion

The digital colleague

The colleague that started on webchat, and earned a promotion.

Harley & Gorini joined Hisense Gorenje Europe’s customer service team in December. This is the record of what it does, what it has learned, and where it goes next.

640
conversations handled per week
75%
of questions answered end to end
4.0
FTE-equivalent delivered
3 wks
from go-live to these results
Industry
Home appliances
Department
Customer Service
Channel
Webchat
Market
DE → UK
Live since
15 Dec 2025
Status
Live, in expansion

The CV

Hired in December. Already earning the next role.

The work behind the answer, told the way you would read a colleague’s record: where it started, what it solved, and the promotions it earned.

15 Dec 2025 · go-live Appointment

Customer Service colleague, webchat (DE)

Hisense Gorenje Europe · Customer Service
Pain
Around 31,000 cases a month across 21 FTE, roughly 80% repetitive, and no webchat channel at all.
Solution
Stood up webchat for the German market and put Harley & Gorini on the repetitive volume, resolving end to end and handing the rest to the team.
Result
By week 3: 640 conversations a week, 74–75% answered, CSAT 2.8–3.0, and 4.0 FTE-equivalent.
Answer QuestionDocument ExtractionAction FulfilmentHuman Handover
Jan 2026 · live Promotion

Phase 2: Salesforce case logging

Closing the reporting loop
Pain
Conversations were resolved, but not all landed in the system of record, so reporting stayed manual.
Solution
Every conversation now logs straight into Salesforce, with case, outcome and action attached.
Result
Full case visibility and clean handover, with no extra effort from the team.
Action Fulfilment
May 2026 · live Promotion

Harley UK: a second market

From DE to the UK
Pain
The UK customer base needed the same webchat coverage that Germany now had.
Solution
Rolled the proven setup into the UK market as Harley UK, in English, on the same skills.
Result
One colleague, two markets, the same standard of answer.
Answer QuestionHuman Handover
In development Next role

Emmy email bot, Spare Parts & Claim Status

Email channel and two new flows
Pain
Spare-parts questions and claim-status chasing still arrive by email and sit with the team.
Solution
Adding Emmy, an email colleague, plus Spare Parts and Claim Status flows.
Result
Lifts automation from roughly 30% to 60–80% of in-scope contact.
Document ExtractionAction Fulfilment

Skills applied

Four skills, working together on every case.

Hover a skill to see what it does and where Harley & Gorini puts it to work at HGE.

Skill 01

Answer Question

Resolves customer questions from the knowledge base and product documentation, in the customer’s language, without a scripted decision tree.

At Hisense Gorenje Europe
Carries the bulk of the repetitive webchat volume, the 74–75% of questions answered end to end.
Skill 02

Document Extraction

Resolves customer questions from the knowledge base and product documentation, in the customer’s language, without a scripted decision tree.

At Hisense Gorenje Europe
Carries the bulk of the repetitive webchat volume, the 74–75% of questions answered end to end.
Skill 03

Action Fulfilment

Resolves customer questions from the knowledge base and product documentation, in the customer’s language, without a scripted decision tree.

At Hisense Gorenje Europe
Carries the bulk of the repetitive webchat volume, the 74–75% of questions answered end to end.
Skill 04

Human Handover

Resolves customer questions from the knowledge base and product documentation, in the customer’s language, without a scripted decision tree.

At Hisense Gorenje Europe
Carries the bulk of the repetitive webchat volume, the 74–75% of questions answered end to end.

Performance

How the team keeps score.

The go-live figures are measured from the first three weeks on webchat. The projected ramp models the next phase as email, Spare Parts and Claim Status come online.

Volume
640/wk
Measured, first three weeks on webchat (DE).
Questions answered
75%
Measured, first three weeks on webchat (DE).
CSAT
3.0/5
Measured, first three weeks on webchat (DE).
FTE-equivalent
4.0FTE
Measured, first three weeks on webchat (DE).
Volume
42,00/wk
Projected as email, Spare Parts and Claim Status come online.
Questions answered
86%
Projected as email, Spare Parts and Claim Status come online.
CSAT
3.8/5
Projected as email, Spare Parts and Claim Status come online.
FTE-equivalent
18FTE
Projected as email, Spare Parts and Claim Status come online.
. Projected ramp is modeled from the go-live baseline and the planned expansion, not measured results.

Connected systems

It works the tools HGE already runs.

No re-platforming. Harley & Gorini reads from and writes to the systems the customer service team uses every day.

Salesforce
Case logging & CRM
SAG
Service application gateway
Hybris
Commerce & orders
SharePoint
Knowledge & documents

Working with the colleague

"From the first weeks it took the repetitive volume off the queue. The team now spends its time on the cases that actually need a person, and we keep finding new work to hand over."
Ivana LabusProject Manager, Hisense Gorenje Europe

Working with the colleague

"From the first weeks it took the repetitive volume off the queue. The team now spends its time on the cases that actually need a person, and we keep finding new work to hand over."
Ivana LabusProject Manager, Hisense Gorenje Europe

Industry insight · home appliances

In home appliances, the first wins are document driven.

Warranty checks, spare-parts lookups and claim-status chasing make up most of the repetitive contact. They read from a document and end in a system action, which is exactly the work a digital colleague absorbs first.

See the home appliances playbook

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