KOHO

Self-Serve Support Tooling

Reduced support escalations by 50% by shifting issue resolution from engineering to support.

50%
support escalations
+1
engineer capacity

Context

Support teams relied on engineers to resolve a high volume of repetitive issues, creating a bottleneck that slowed response times and pulled engineering away from product work.

My Approach

  • Identified high-frequency escalation patterns and highest-impact workflows

  • Designed support-facing tooling to enable direct issue resolution

  • Collaborated with backend to define scoped APIs for safe access

  • Defined tickets and acceptance criteria to guide implementation

  • Led rollout enablement and demo to ensure adoption by support

Impact

  • Reduced support escalations by 50%

  • Freed up 1 engineer to return to feature development

  • Improved resolution speed and support team autonomy

Takeaway

The highest leverage was from shifting ownership. Giving the right team access to the right tools unlocked both speed and capacity.

Tradeoffs

  • Prioritized a narrow MVP focused on the highest-volume issues

  • Limited data exposure to reduce risk rather than enabling full system access

  • Invested in enablement early instead of expanding feature scope


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