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  For customer inquiry automation to work well, a business needs to decide more than how many conversations AI can handle. It also needs to decide when automation should stop and a person should take over. Automation can work well for answering common questions, collecting information, and explaining the next step . But continuing an automated conversation can create problems when a customer asks for a person, the system repeatedly fails to understand the request, or the customer needs a decision that requires human authority. The principle is simple: when a conversation moves beyond what the automation can reliably or appropriately handle, the system should stop trying to generate an answer and route the conversation to the right person. What Signals Should Trigger a Human Handoff? Not every customer conversation needs the same treatment. But businesses using customer conversation automation should consider at least the following situations as potential handoff triggers. First, th...