Arabic-first citizen assistant for a service ministry
A ministry serving millions of citizens, with a contact center absorbing routine inquiries that could resolve in seconds, and a mandate to serve citizens in their own language — dialect included, not just fusha.
- Team:
- 4 engineers · 1 lead · ministry SMEs embedded
- Timeline:
- 12 weeks to assisted launch, 6 months to full rollout
What gets built
- Dialect-aware assistant across web and WhatsApp, grounded in the ministry’s actual policy corpus
- Escalation design: uncertain or sensitive cases route to human agents with full context attached
- Arabic evaluation suite covering MSA and Gulf dialect variants, gating every release
- Sovereign deployment with complete audit trails for oversight bodies
The numbers we sign up to move
- Containment rate on routine inquiries, measured against the call baseline
- Arabic answer accuracy vs. the eval suite, published internally per release
- Median citizen wait time for the cases that still need a human