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EPISODE · Mar 18, 2026 · 5 MIN

Contextual Intelligence For Contact Centers

from What's Up with Tech? · host Evan Kirstel

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] contact center already tells you what’s happening. The harder question is why and what you should do next. From the Enterprise Connect floor, we sit down with Ray Bohoac CEO of Spearfish.ai to unpack a practical approach to contextual intelligence that connects customer conversations to the back-office data that actually explains outcomes.We get specific about how Spearfish moves teams beyond classic contact center KPIs like service level, QA, and CSAT, using a “signals” architecture that learns from calls and correlates them with systems like ERP, sales, and operational data. Ray shares a standout customer story: an apparel brand hears repeated complaints about a shoe wearing out, then traces those calls to the exact product and lot number, tracks the issue into the supply chain, and gets proactive with customers before the problem snowballs. That’s root cause analysis built for speed, not a report you read a month later.We also talk about reality: multi-vendor environments, legacy tech, and a market crowded with agentic AI companies. The big takeaway is the feedback loop. When AI and humans do more work automatically, you still need a way to measure what changed, what worked, and what needs adjusting in real time across support, operations, training, and marketing. Ray also highlights expansion into non-traditional “contact center” settings like 211 organizations, proving the same foundation can drive mission-critical outcomes.Subscribe for more conversations on contact center innovation, customer experience analytics, and applied AI, then share this episode and leave a review. What back-office data would you connect to customer calls first?Support the showMore at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

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Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] Your contact center already tells you what’s happening. The harder question is why and what you should do next. From the Enterprise Connect floor, we sit down with Ray Bohoac CEO of Spearfish.ai to unpack a practical approach to contextual intelligence that connects customer conversations to the back-office data that actually explains outcomes. We get specific about how Spearfish moves teams beyond classic contact center KPIs lik...

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