Salesforce Brings Agentic AI to the Field Service Sector

Surging demand is putting field service teams to the test. Inefficient scheduling is the leading time drain in the field service teams, with qualified tradesmen and technicians wasting nearly a full workday every week on administrative tasks that should be spent on hands-on repairs and customer care. Meanwhile, experienced personnel are departing faster than new talent enters the area, resulting in an increasing vacuum in service coverage.

That is why Salesforce is introducing Agentforce for Field Service, a digital labor platform designed specifically for field service that augments dispatchers and technicians with trusted AI agents to remove scheduling bottlenecks and tackle common, time-consuming chores.

Agentforce seamlessly integrates into existing data systems and user interfaces, scheduling appointments autonomously, assisting with filling schedule gaps, real-time troubleshooting, and summarizing job reports, allowing teams to complete jobs faster, reduce truck rolls, and better serve more customers than ever before.

With audio playback and natural language voice commands, field technicians can easily engage with Agentforce and consume information while on the go, increasing productivity, safety, and reaction times.

How Everything Comes Together

Agentforce for the Field Service enables enterprises with in-field staff to swiftly and securely install AI agents capable of executing tasks proactively or during the flow of work. This agentic AI technology is based on pre-built topics and actions and is powered by Data Cloud, Salesforce’s hyperscale data engine that unifies structured and unstructured Data.

Such as customer service history, external products, catalogs, or connected asset insights, to ensure Agentforce’s responses are accurate and timely. The Atlas Reasoning Engine, Agentforce’s brain that replicates or even outperforms human thinking, turns raw data and metadata into intelligent actions.

What Agentforce for Field Service Offers Across Industries

Schedule appointments: Onsite service appointments typically take 17 minutes to schedule, 15 minutes to change, and 12 minutes to cancel. Customers may now arrange, reschedule, or cancel service appointments in less than five minutes by contacting Agentforce on-demand, 24/7, in natural language, via web or messaging channels.

Agentforce will determine the work type based on the context of the discussion and create a Work Order and Service Appointment. The AI agent will then query possible technicians based on location and abilities necessary, taking into account any limits expressed by the consumer in real-time, and recommending the best available time slots. It can then add the service appointment to the schedule and complete the booking without human intervention.

Resolve Schedule Gaps: When cancellations, no-shows, or early task completions occur, Agentforce may now assist dispatchers in making quick and precise adjustments to the schedule.

Agentforce uses the Salesforce Field Service optimization engine to optimize appointments based on work duration, available components, and traffic statistics. This helps achieve company objectives like satisfying SLAs and reducing overtime. The dispatcher can then select from these options and swiftly update the schedule to ensure that activities operate smoothly.

Listen and work on the go: Using Pre-Work Brief playback, a technician can listen to an Agentforce-generated overview of the work order, allowing them to arrive at a job site completely prepared.

Additionally, iPhone users can communicate with Agentforce via a Siri shortcut, which will launch the AI agent in the Field Service mobile app and initiate any request it has been configured to perform, such as surface information, compose a post-work summary, or book a follow-up appointment.

Instead of returning a lengthy summary of difficult-to-follow instructions, Agentforce will walk the technician through each step in a back-and-forth discussion and can change its responses based on the context of the conversation or photo analysis, resulting in higher first-time fix rates.

Wrap-up jobs: At the conclusion of each service appointment, Agentforce can aid in creating a detailed Post-Work summary report by including data gathered by the technician throughout the job.

Once produced, the technician can utilize natural language to direct Agentforce to improve the summary by adding new information or altering what was previously summarized. Agentforce can interpret the meaning of the request and rewrite the summary unaltered.

Powering Field Teams with Agentforce

• An HVAC manufacturer can now handle preventative maintenance visits independently. When an AC or heating unit reaches a certain usage or performance level, Agentforce for Field Service may immediately alert the customer by SMS, provide a service appointment, and collaborate with them using natural human language to determine the optimum day and time for the repair.
• A hardware company with thousands of installation and repair appointments can use Agentforce for Field Service to intelligently close schedule gaps caused by last-minute cancellations. Dispatchers can work directly with Agentforce from their dispatch console to fill technicians’ schedules with appointments that are optimal for location, time, and competence.
• A communications service provider (CSP) technician can utilize Agentforce for Field Service to troubleshoot a network issue on-site. Agentforce may change its direction based on what the technician has already tried, evaluate photographs provided by the technician to determine whether something was installed incorrectly, and lead them through the troubleshooting process.
• A roadside assistance specialist can utilize Agentforce for Field Service to quickly get up to speed on their approach to assist a customer who has broken down on the side of the road. Agentforce can communicate what servicing is likely required, provide a vehicle description, and notify the technician of any risks while on the way. Once on-site, they can utilize voice commands to request problem assistance from Agentforce.
• Lineworkers at a power utility can accomplish projects more effectively by assigning Agentforce for Field Service the task of creating summaries of their work orders based on the forms filled by the technician and the troubleshooting actions taken on-site. The lineworker can then provide Agentforce input to help modify the summary and save it to the appropriate work order.

Salesforce Point of View

Agentforce for Field Service transforms the way work is done in vital industries such as manufacturing, telecommunications, utilities, and consumer home services. Powered by data and intelligence, this is a huge leap in AI innovation that addresses the inefficiencies that afflict field workers today, eliminating the pain of back-and-forth scheduling and providing field reps the ability to make context-aware judgments and handle real-world complexities more efficiently. This is only the beginning of a labor revolution in which digital and skilled personnel work together to provide better, faster service, boost customer happiness, and accelerate growth in the field service industry.” — Taksina Eammano, EVP and GM of Field Service at Salesforce.

Conclusion

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Salesforce Brings Agentic AI to the Field Service Sector

How Everything Comes Together

What Agentforce for Field Service Offers Across Industries

Powering Field Teams with Agentforce

Salesforce Point of View

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