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GlobeNewswire
Published on : Oct 16, 2026
Aurora Mobile’s enterprise AI platform, GPTBots.ai, is partnering with Japanese enterprise IT services company AI Storm and its subsidiary Nihon Telesystem (NTS) to test AI-assisted contact center operations, using 38 years of frontline experience to improve agent training, real-time customer support and call quality reviews.
The initiative focuses on a persistent challenge for customer experience (CX) teams: experienced agents often rely on judgment and problem-solving techniques that are difficult to transfer consistently to new employees. By turning that operational knowledge into reusable AI-supported workflows, the companies aim to improve service consistency while keeping human agents responsible for customer interactions.
The collaboration is beginning with live operational validation at NTS. The companies have not yet disclosed quantified results, deployment scale or a timeline for broader rollout, so its impact on productivity and customer satisfaction remains to be demonstrated.
The deployment centres on a continuous cycle that connects agent training, live customer interactions and post-call evaluation. Rather than treating AI as a standalone chatbot, the companies plan to embed it in the operational processes contact center staff already use.
AI role-play for agent training. GPTBots.ai can simulate different customer types, inquiry scenarios and emotional tones, allowing new agents to practise responses and receive feedback. The goal is to make training based on veteran employees’ experience more repeatable and easier to refine.
Real-time assistance during calls. During customer conversations, the platform is intended to surface relevant business information and response suggestions using the customer’s question, conversation context and corporate knowledge. This could help agents locate accurate answers faster and reduce differences in service quality between experienced and less-experienced staff.
Automated post-call review. After calls, AI can summarise conversations, extract key information and support service-quality analysis. This may reduce repetitive documentation work while giving managers more structured information for coaching and operational improvement.
The three stages are designed to reinforce one another: training prepares agents, live assistance applies organisational knowledge in customer interactions, and post-call review captures information that can inform subsequent training and quality management.
For NTS, which has operated contact centers for more than 38 years, the challenge is preserving institutional knowledge as employees change roles, new agents join and customer needs evolve. Converting experienced agents’ approaches into documented knowledge and AI-supported workflows could make that expertise more accessible across teams.
The arrangement also builds on an earlier partnership between Aurora Mobile and AI Storm announced in June 2026. That collaboration established a broader effort to test Aurora Mobile’s EngageLab and GPTBots.ai products within NTS’s business operations in Japan. The latest announcement details a more specific application focused on contact center training, live-call assistance and quality evaluation.
The commercial significance will depend on implementation results. AI suggestions must be accurate, relevant to the customer’s situation and consistent with company policies. Call summaries and quality evaluations also need review processes that account for transcription errors, missing context and potentially misleading AI-generated assessments.
Neither company has yet published independent performance data showing reductions in training time, average handling time or operating costs. The project should therefore be viewed as an operational validation effort, not proof that the technology has already delivered measurable improvements.
The NTS deployment illustrates a human-led approach to enterprise AI: automate repetitive tasks and make organisational knowledge easier to access, while retaining people in the customer interaction and decision-making process.
For contact center leaders, the most useful measures of success will include new-agent proficiency, response accuracy, escalation rates, customer satisfaction, after-call work and quality-assurance consistency. Businesses will also need clear policies governing customer data, call recording, access to knowledge sources and human review of AI-generated recommendations.
If the initiative produces measurable improvements, it could provide a model for applying AI to other service operations where experience is difficult to transfer and consistent responses matter. For now, the partnership gives GPTBots.ai a live Japanese contact center environment in which to test that proposition.
Veteran knowledge becomes reusable: GPTBots.ai aims to capture NTS’s 38 years of contact center experience in AI-supported training and workflows, helping service leaders spread expertise across teams.
AI supports live agents: Real-time information and response cues could help contact center staff answer inquiries more consistently, provided suggestions remain accurate and relevant to each conversation.
Training and quality connect: AI role-play and post-call analysis create a feedback loop, potentially helping managers identify recurring knowledge gaps and refine agent coaching.
Japan is the deployment market: AI Storm’s local business presence and NTS’s operating experience provide a setting to validate enterprise AI within Japanese customer service operations.
Outcomes remain unproven: No quantified productivity or customer satisfaction results have been announced, so buyers should look for evidence on accuracy, efficiency and service quality before scaling.
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