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Cloud Tech Gurus (CTG) is a Technology Matchmaker. We take away the hassles, frustration and time generally associated with sourcing solutions.
We are transforming how companies source/procure contact center and business solutions, and at no cost to our clients. Cloud Tech Gurus (CTG) is a Master Agency or Technology Marketplace comprised of expert contact center/customer engagement consultants (which we call Advisors) and 130+ next-generation, best-of-breed and disruptive Technology Suppliers. Between our expert Advisors and our Supplier
You've never actually seen your whole contact center. Until now.
Genesys Cloud and Amazon Connect just went live on Peregrine Discover. Connect your org and it maps the entire environment automatically: every IVR, queue, routing flow, user, and integration, into one visual view.
The stuff nobody can see today:
→ IVR logic built by someone who left two years ago
→ Routing rules no one documented
→ Integrations that work until they don't
Discover finds all of it. No consultant engagement. No six-week discovery. And it's free, permanently. Not a trial, no credit card.
Run Genesys Cloud or Amazon Connect? You can map your environment today.
On Five9, NICE CXone, Avaya, Cisco, or Talkdesk? Join the waitlist now. Platforms onboard in signup order, and your position locks the moment you register. Sign up early and you move your whole platform up the list.
The 2-minute walkthrough is in the video. Then grab your spot.
If you inherited your contact center tomorrow, could you say what's actually running inside it?
Your biggest contact center cost never shows up on the P&L.
Call it the attrition tax.
A 1,000-seat operation at 40 percent attrition loses about 400 agents a year. At $10,000 to $20,000 to replace each one, that's $4M to $8M walking out the door. Quietly. Every year.
We dug into what the 2026 data actually says. A few things tend to stop people:
• 40 percent of all attrition happens in the first 90 days. It's a hiring problem before it's a retention problem.
• Only 9 percent of agents who can't quickly reach a supervisor are highly satisfied. Among those who can, it's 57 percent. One variable, a 6x swing.
• Top-quartile operators are 8x more likely to use AI on the floor, and they post 4.6x better CSAT.
The best teams now predict who will leave 30 to 90 days out, before the agent has decided. Early deployments are cutting attrition by more than half.
Full breakdown link in the comments.
What's driving attrition in your operation right now?
Your agents are losing deals on live phone calls.
When a customer raises a budget objection or asks a tough compliance question, agents usually have seconds to respond. Relying on memory or static cheat sheets often leads to missed opportunities and extended handle times.
One of our partner solutions solves this by providing instant in-call guidance.
The platform analyzes live audio and prompts recommended responses in under 0.4 seconds. It acts as a real-time copilot that guides agents through complex conversations while automatically scoring 100 percent of calls for quality assurance.
Real operational results include:
- 300 percent increase in agent sales per hour
- 67 percent reduction in new hire ramp time
- 83 percent decrease in total QA review time
You do not need more supervisors listening to recordings. You need real-time support where it matters most.
Drop a comment below or send a DM to explore this solution.
In your CCaaS, do you have a single view of every IVR, route, queue, user, and integration, so you can see how they connect before one of them breaks?
Could your team pull up every routing rule in your contact center right now?
Most can't. Here's the 60-second fix.
"We have AI."
Christa Heibel has walked into healthcare orgs that say exactly that - pointing to a speech analytics tool quietly recording calls in the background. Getting zero value from it. No use case, no one touching the data.
Having the tool isn't readiness. Readiness is boring: documented processes, clean workflows, knowledge management, and one clear use case before you spend a dollar.
If it doesn't improve the business, top line or bottom line, why are you buying it?
That's one moment from the full webinar, where Christa Heibel (CH Consulting Group), Kevin O'Brien (Authenticx), and Fred Stacey (Cloud Tech Gurus) also get into:
→ Where healthcare really sits on the AI curve (willingness is high — deployment is ~18%)
→ The tools actually in play: speech analytics, agent assist, AI agents
→ Why most AI projects fail — and it's rarely the technology
→ How to measure real ROI, hard and soft
→ Where patient experience is headed over the next 3–5 years
No demos. No pitch. Full conversation 👇
https://bit.ly/4wjw9Wm
Most contact center AI is bolted on, not built in.
Walk into most enterprise operations and it's the same picture. Routing in one system. Workforce management in another. Analytics somewhere else. A layer of AI stretched across the top, hoping it all connects.
It technically works. It just doesn't work well. Agents jump between tools, data sits in silos, and the AI only ever sees part of the picture.
One of our partners built the opposite. An AI-first platform where routing, workforce management, quality, analytics, and AI agents sit on a single foundation. The intelligence isn't an add-on. It's the ground floor.
But the platform is only half the story. What matters is what your operation actually needs. We're operators first, so we help you diagnose that, then point you to the right fit.
New video breaks down why built for AI beats bolted on. Where does your stack land?
07/16/2026
What if your contact center was perfectly staffed. Every hour. Every day.
No overstaffed Thursdays. No Monday scramble. No 2 a.m. shift nobody wants.
That's the premise of the new episode - out now. Darren Prine sits down with Jon Brown (SVP Client Results at LiveOps), who's spent 25 years building gig CX before the industry had a name for it.
Inside:
→ Why the traditional 8-hour shift fails across the whole demand curve
→ How 30-minute precision intervals put agents exactly where the calls are
→ Paying only for productive time — and cutting staffing costs 25–30%
→ Sourcing specialized, brand-passionate talent that performs like full-timers
→ Real ROI on surges, upsell, and attrition
Watch the full conversation → https://bit.ly/3TnCpO1
What If Your Contact Center Was Perfectly Staffed — Every Hour, Every Day? | Jon Brown, LiveOps Your call volume swings 3x before lunch. Your shift schedule doesn'...
07/15/2026
We watched one desktop app solve four CX problems yesterday.
Our Gurus sat through a live demo of a speech AI platform, and here's what stuck with the team.
The same lightweight install that neutralizes agent accents in real time, translates live conversations across 30+ languages, and lifts standard phone audio to near-studio quality just added a fourth capability, and it's the one that matters most for regulated teams.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. It turns a live call into compliance alerts and post-call summaries in seconds. A risky phrase reaches a supervisor in 5–8 seconds, while there's still time to act.
The unlock isn't the AI. It's where the AI runs.
Everything happens on the agent's desktop. Voice never leaves the machine, and PII is redacted before any text is processed. That one design choice clears the infosec review that stalls most speech analytics deals for two quarters.
We've spent 4,000+ hours evaluating CX tools, and the pattern holds: the ones that win don't need a rip-and-replace or a language line at $3 a minute. They prove value in a low-risk POC, often on a single team, before procurement ever gets involved.
If you're weighing accent friction, multilingual coverage, call-audio quality, or real-time compliance, tell us which one in the comments, we're glad to talk through what's worked and what hasn't. Which of the four is costing your team the most right now?
6 a.m.: 60 calls. 7 a.m.: 90 calls. 8 a.m.: back to 30.
Your call volume swings 3x before lunch. Your shift schedule doesn't move at all.
So you make the bet every contact center makes: overstaff and torch labor, or understaff and torch your CX. There's no version where you win.
Jon Brown (SVP Client Results at LiveOps) has spent 25 years killing that tradeoff. On the new episode:
→ Staffing to the exact call count every 30 minutes — not the peak, not a forecast
→ Volume spikes? Trained agents on the phones in minutes, not hours
→ Why your best talent chooses gig work — and why that shows up in your NPS
→ The receipts: 25–30% lower cost, higher upsell, and the COVID surge they scaled to thousands of agents in 72 hours
The model that fixes the demand curve → https://bit.ly/4aN5Sag
Full episode drops Thursday, July 16. This is the preview.
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