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Practical, honest writing on outsourcing, customer experience, back-office quality and the human side of AI, from the team that runs it every day.
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Customer experienceOutsourcing patient support and healthcare admin safely
How healthcare providers, insurers and health-tech companies can outsource scheduling, billing, claims and patient helpdesks while protecting patient data and keeping empathy at the centre.
3 min read
People and cultureInside the Maxed Academy: training young Kenyans for customer careers
How the Maxed Academy prepares young people with little work experience for paid roles in customer service and digital work, and why it matters to the clients they serve.
3 min read
AI and dataSpeech data for African languages and accents: why it matters and how it is collected
Speech models still struggle with African languages and accents. Here is how diverse, consent-tracked speech data is recorded, transcribed and checked.
2 min read
AI and dataThe human exception team behind your automation
Why automation projects stall on exceptions, and how a human team that reviews low-confidence outputs, monitors bots and categorises failures keeps workflows moving.
2 min read
AI and dataContent moderation done right: consistency, context and moderator wellbeing
What good content moderation looks like in practice, from policies and enforcement matrices to appeals, reporting and the safeguards that protect moderators.
3 min read
AI and dataHuman-in-the-loop chatbots: when the bot should hand over
How to design the hand-off between a chatbot and a human team, so customers never repeat themselves and every escalation makes the bot better.
3 min read
AI and dataRLHF explained: how human feedback trains AI models
A clear explanation of reinforcement learning from human feedback, what evaluators actually do, how consistency is maintained and how to run an evaluation programme.
3 min read
AI and dataWhy AI still needs trained human data annotators
As models improve, human judgement moves up the stack rather than disappearing. Here is where trained annotators still matter, and what separates good training data from bad.
3 min read
Operations and qualityWhat to delegate first to a virtual assistant
The tasks founders and managers should hand to a virtual assistant first, how to set them up in the first two weeks and how to make the arrangement last.
3 min read
- Debt collection that protects customer relationships
- Outsourced sales development: how an SDR team fills your pipeline
- Technical support tiers explained: Tier 1, Tier 2 and when to escalate
- Back-office accuracy: double checks, sampling and root-cause fixes
- How QA scorecards work, and how to build one with your partner
- Call centre metrics that matter: service level, abandonment and first contact resolution
- Preparing customer support for Black Friday and seasonal peaks
- Moving on from founder-led support: when and how to hand it over
- Writing a customer service playbook your outsourced team can follow
- Live chat best practice: handling 2 to 4 chats at once without losing quality
- Omnichannel customer service: one queue for phone, email, chat, WhatsApp and social
- Data protection when outsourcing to Kenya: GDPR, UK GDPR and the Kenya Data Protection Act
- Serving African customers: WhatsApp-first support, mobile money and local languages
- Time zones as an advantage: covering UK, Europe, US and Gulf hours from Nairobi
- Kenya vs the Philippines for outsourcing: an honest comparison
- Why companies are outsourcing to Kenya
- Running a BPO pilot: how to test a partner with 3 to 5 agents
- How BPO pricing works: per agent, per contact and per task explained
- Dedicated team or shared agents: which outsourcing model fits you?
- Offshore, nearshore or onshore: where should your outsourced team sit?
- How to choose a BPO partner: 12 questions to ask before you sign
- What is BPO? A plain-English guide for growing businesses
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- Outsourcing guidesHow outsourcing works, what it costs and how to choose and work with a partner.6 posts
- Customer experienceRunning customer service, call centre and chat support that customers rate highly.7 posts
- Operations and qualityBack-office accuracy, quality assurance, technical support, sales and collections.6 posts
- AI and dataThe human work behind AI: annotation, evaluation, moderation and automation support.6 posts
- Kenya and AfricaWhy Kenya, time zones, data protection and serving customers across Africa.5 posts
- People and cultureTraining, careers, community work and the people behind Maxed BPO teams in Nairobi.2 posts

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