Can an agent replace Delighted?
A simple NPS and CSAT tool from Qualtrics: send a one-question survey by email, web or SMS, collect scores and comments.
Mostly. Keep the cheap sending and collection plumbing if it is wired in; that part works and costs little. The half of the pitch that justified the price — trend analysis, comment themes, follow-up — is exactly what an agent does from the raw responses.
- Indicative spend
- €200/mo
- What it actually costs
- from about €200/mo; the free tier covers very small volumes
- Verdict
- You still want the storage and the interface. You no longer need the tier you are on.
What the agent takes over
Every job this product exists to perform, with our verdict on each. Follow one through for the step-by-step breakdown.
- Customer researchMostly, for analysing what customers have already said. An agent reads every ticket, review, call transcript and survey response and finds the patterns nobody has time to look for. It cannot conduct the interview.MOSTLY
- Data analysisMostly. An agent cleans, queries, models and visualises quickly and competently. The risk is not that it computes wrongly — it is that it answers the question you asked rather than the one you meant.MOSTLY
- Reporting and dashboardsYes. Pulling from several systems, reconciling the definitions, building the view and explaining what moved is exactly what agents do well — and it removes the recurring tax of someone rebuilding a spreadsheet every Monday.YES
What is left of it
Thin. Sending a one-question email is not hard; the analysis was the value, and that has moved.
What you would still need it for
- Survey delivery and response collection already wired into your product
What replaces it
- An agent reading responses via the API and reporting themes weekly
- A plain email plus a form if you want to drop the tool entirely
The brief
What you would tell an agent to take over from Delighted, assembled from the jobs above.
I want to downgrade Delighted. It currently does: A simple NPS and CSAT tool from Qualtrics: send a one-question survey by email, web or SMS, collect scores and comments. Take over this work: - Customer research — MOSTLY. Mostly, for analysing what customers have already said. An agent reads every ticket, review, call transcript and survey response and finds the patterns nobody has time to look for. It cannot conduct the interview. - Data analysis — MOSTLY. Mostly. An agent cleans, queries, models and visualises quickly and competently. The risk is not that it computes wrongly — it is that it answers the question you asked rather than the one you meant. - Reporting and dashboards — YES. Yes. Pulling from several systems, reconciling the definitions, building the view and explaining what moved is exactly what agents do well — and it removes the recurring tax of someone rebuilding a spreadsheet every Monday. Do not take over: - Survey delivery and response collection already wired into your product These stay with me across all of it: - The interviews - Judging what people mean versus what they said - Deciding what to act on - Framing the question - Knowing the data’s history - Deciding what to do about the answer - Choosing the metrics - What the numbers mean for the plan - Anything shown to investors Before we start, tell me: which of these you cannot do with the access I can actually give you, and what would break if this ran unattended for a month. — brief built at cananagentdo.com/delighted
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Downgrade Delighted
You are paying for a tier priced on labour you no longer need. Keep the part that stores and sends; move the work.
Build the replacementPrices are indicative list rates for a small team and change often — check yours before cancelling anything.