The clearest signal is when your RPA bots are handling less than 60% of the interactions they were designed for because exceptions, edge cases, and system changes have eroded their reliability. If your team maintains a growing backlog of bot failures that require human intervention, the cost of RPA may already exceed its value. When business requirements demand automation across unstructured channels - chat, messaging, email - that RPA cannot natively process, AI becomes necessary rather than optional. Organizations undergoing cloud migrations are well positioned to make the transition, since modern AI automation platforms integrate more cleanly with cloud-native contact center infrastructure. The transition is most successful when planned alongside a broader platform modernization rather than as a standalone project.
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