How Agentforce Helps Financial Institutions Retain Clients and Save Time

Key Takeaways

• AI-Driven Automation: Agentforce automates routine tasks, saving time for higher-value activities.
• Seamless Integration: Easy setup within Salesforce without extensive development.
• Proactive Retention: Quickly identify at-risk clients and reach out with personalized offers.
• Time Savings: Automates hours of work in minutes.
• Flexible Communication: Engage clients via email, Slack, or Salesforce.
• Empowering Teams: Helps teams make smarter, faster decisions.

What is Agentforce?

Introduced during the September 2024 Dreamforce conference, Agentforce is Salesforce’s latest AI-powered solution that takes automation and user interaction to the next level. Building upon earlier products like Einstein and Copilot, Agentforce combines generative AI and the advanced Atlas Reasoning Engine to enable conversational interactions between users and Salesforce. With Agentforce 2.0 set for release in February, many organizations are gearing up to integrate this innovative product into their workflows.

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How Agentforce Works in Salesforce?

Agentforce’s core capability lies in its AI ‘Agents,’ which are designed to perform tasks, retrieve data, and make decisions within Salesforce environments. These agents operate securely within defined datasets and organizational guardrails, ensuring sensitive information remains protected. All these parameters can be configured quickly using an intuitive interface similar to Salesforce’s Flow Builder, minimizing the need for extensive development resources.

Once your financial service sales Agents are up and running, users can set them to retrieve data or perform tasks. Agents can handle queries and tasks across various channels such as Slack, email, web forms, or directly within Salesforce. They interpret user intent and execute actions like retrieving data, summarizing knowledge base articles, running workflows, or even prompting Apex processes.

The potential for these agents is obviously enormous, as they can free up human resources for other tasks, leaving the Agents to handle simple, low-level tasks within Salesforce. But what does this mean for financial institutions? Let's explore a hypothetical use case specifically for Financial Services and find out how Agentforce can be a dependable assistant in client retention.

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Use Case: Improving Client Retention in Financial Services

Banks and financial institutions invest significant resources to manage customer attrition. From analyzing account activity to reaching out with tailored offers, representatives often spend hours attempting to retain clients and grow their client base.

What if these representatives could turn to a reliable and efficient AI assistant to help them identify which accounts to spend their efforts on?

Meet Kimberly, a Direct Sales Representative at a regional bank with over 1 million clients. Her role involves maintaining and growing her portfolio of customers. Recently, the bank noticed an increase in attrition among younger clients. Kimberly, eager to address this challenge, turns to her Agentforce assistant for help.

Kimberly’s expertise lies in building customer relationships, not analyzing complex data sets. However, she knows that minimal account activity often signals potential attrition. She asks her Agentforce assistant in plain English language to:

“Identify account holders under 35 years old, who have not made a deposit in 30 days.”

Within moments, the agent provides a list of accounts matching her criteria. Kimberly reviews the list and identifies a subset of clients at risk. She then instructs her Agentforce AI assistant to send a targeted promotional email to those clients using a prebuilt template. The financial service sales agent handles the task seamlessly, completing in minutes what would have taken Kimberly hours.

Thanks to this next-gen AI Assistant, Kimberly was able to:

Why Do You Need Agentforce for Your Financial Institution?

Agentforce isn’t just about efficiency; it’s about empowering teams to make smarter, faster decisions.

Here’s how it can help:

1. Simplified Workflows: Handle complex queries in plain language, no advanced technical skills required.
2. Proactive Retention Strategies: Quickly identify and act on signs of potential attrition.
3. Time Savings: Automate repetitive tasks, freeing employees for higher-value work.
4. Seamless Communication: Engage clients via email, Slack, or other channels without leaving Salesforce.

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Empower Your Team with Accelirate’s Tailored Agentforce Solutions

Agentforce can help your business with any number of use cases like the one above. It offers several opportunities for improving operational efficiency and client retention, while ensuring stronger customer relationships and driving growth. We can help you explore how Agentforce fits into your organization’s specific goals and ensure the expected ROI. Contact us today for a consultation and find out about the possibilities.

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