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Clear my support backlog in 48 hours

Your AI CEO turns a 200-ticket backlog into one approval session.

Growth & executionCustomerOne-shot for backlogs; convertible to always-on first-response drafting.
Free to startNo credit card requiredUpdated Apr 2026

You'd think this needs hiring two contractors — Astra drafts every reply herself, you click approve, queue cleared by Friday.

The short answer

Astra clears your support backlog by reading every open ticket, drafting a personalized reply per ticket grounded in your docs and prior resolutions, and queuing them for your batch approval. She pulls all open tickets from Zendesk or Intercom, classifies each by type (bug report, how-to, billing, feature request, complaint), pulls the customer's account context from Stripe and your DB, drafts a reply that names the issue specifically, references their account state, and either resolves it or asks the one missing question. Bug reports get filed to Linear with reproducer steps. Feature requests get logged with vote count. Refund-eligible billing issues get pre-approved up to your set threshold. You approve replies in Lark in batches of 20 — typically 30 minutes total — and Astra ships them. A 200-ticket backlog clears in under 48 hours from start.

How Astra actually does it

  1. 1
    Pull and classify the backlog

    All open tickets from Zendesk/Intercom, classify into bug / how-to / billing / feature / complaint / spam. Sort by customer ARR descending.

    ZendeskIntercom
  2. 2
    Gather context per ticket

    Stripe customer record, recent product events from PostHog, prior tickets, account creation date, plan tier. Attach to ticket draft.

  3. 3
    Draft personalized replies

    Reference customer by name, name the specific issue, link to relevant doc or resolution, ask only the one missing question. Tone matches your past replies.

  4. 4
    Route bugs and feature requests

    Bugs → Linear ticket with reproducer + customer count affected. Features → log with upvote count. Refund cases → auto-approve under threshold, escalate above.

    LinearStripe
  5. 5
    Batch approval and ship

    Lark thread with 20 drafts at a time, approve/edit/skip on each. Astra sends approved replies, marks tickets resolved or pending, reports progress hourly.

What it looks like in chat

Clear my support backlog this week.
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Pulled from Zendesk: 217 open tickets, oldest 11 days. Classified: - 84 how-to (mostly answerable from docs) - 47 bugs (12 are duplicates of one Linear issue already in flight) - 38 billing (29 are auto-resolvable under your $50 refund threshold) - 31 feature requests (logged + upvoted) - 17 complaints (need your eyes) Drafted replies for the first 50 in Lark. Each references the customer by name, their plan, and the specific issue — example: "Hi Sarah, saw your Pro account got double-charged on April 18. Refunded the $79 to your Visa just now, should clear in 2-3 days. Sorry about that." Batching 20 at a time for approval. Estimate: 30 min of your time, all 217 cleared by Thursday EOD. Bug reports filed to Linear with affected customer counts. Start with batch 1?
What you get back

Every ticket in your queue replied to (or routed to Linear for engineering), a Lark approval workflow you can clear in 30 min, and a final report with resolution rate, response time, and top bug clusters.

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Frequently asked questions

What if a ticket needs information I have to provide?

Astra pings you in Lark with the specific question and the ticket context. If you don't reply within 4 hours she sends a holding response to the customer ("we're looking into this, will follow up tomorrow") so they don't feel ignored, and re-pings you next morning.

Can Astra issue refunds on her own?

Yes, up to a threshold you set (default $50). Above that she drafts the refund and asks for one-tap approval. Anything above $500 always goes to you with a justification — never auto-issued. Stripe refunds are logged with reason code in your accounting tool.

What if her reply tone doesn't match ours?

First batch acts as calibration — edit a few drafts and Astra updates her voice profile. By batch 3 she's matching your tone (concise vs warm, formal vs friendly) at ~95%. You can also paste 5 of your past best replies and she'll calibrate from those.

Will customers know it's AI-drafted?

Replies send from your support inbox under your team's signature. Astra never identifies as AI in customer-facing copy. The drafts are grounded in real account data and your docs, so they read as a human support agent who actually read the ticket.

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