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City of Kingsport: Grace Goes Live With a Twenty-Year System Replacement

May 19, 2026 · Dial AI

Kingsport replaced a customer system it had run for two decades and put an AI agent on the phones the same week. Grace now handles 30+ concurrent calls, resolves more than 60% end to end, and does it about 50% faster than a human agent.

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