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The Managed Voice Margin: Why AI Call Center Work Reprices Agency Retainers
AI call centers shift agency economics from seat-hour billing to outcome-priced managed service, because autonomous resolution rates of 40-65% collapse the labor line that used to justify hourly support retainers.
By InnovaAI ResearchPublished
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62/100AI call centers shift agency economics from seat-hour billing to outcome-priced managed service, because autonomous resolution rates of 40-65% collapse the labor line that used to justify hourly support retainers. The agencies that win are the ones that own the escalation layer, the vertical training data, and the audit trail, not the ones reselling a dialer. Ignore this category and support work stays a cost center clients benchmark against offshore BPO rates.