FAQ
The Collaborative Agentic AI Innovation Journey with SES (Società Elettrica Sopracenerina) and Spitch is a phased conversational AI transformation from a FAQ voicebot to a multilingual agentic AI ecosystem. It combines NLU, LLMs, RAG, and a Knowledge Agent.
The collaboration began in 2023 with a focus on automating recurring FAQ requests on the voice channel for the Swiss Italian market. The first deployment was an Italian voicebot built with Natural Language Understanding (NLU).
In 2024, SES extended the FAQ experience to a digital chat channel. In 2025, the solution became multilingual with a German voicebot for the Swiss German market.
The project moved from rule-based NLU to generative AI. SES implemented a multilingual chatbot powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), grounded in SES documentation.
The Knowledge Agent gives SES control over knowledge governance. It lets the company manage, organize, and update the documents used by the chatbot, improving autonomy, agility, and content maintenance.
Key milestones include:
- 2023: Italian FAQ voicebot
- 2024: Digital chat channel
- 2025: German voicebot
- Shift from NLU to LLM + RAG
- Introduction of a Knowledge Agent
SES gained faster customer support, multichannel FAQ automation, multilingual consistency, and greater control over internal knowledge management.
The partnership demonstrates how conversational AI, agentic AI, and knowledge management can evolve in stages through close collaboration between a utility provider and an AI technology partner.