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AI training for multilingual shared services: clearer handovers
Short answer
AI training for shared services teams teaches people to write a handover in another language so that the reader knows what was agreed, where the data are and what to do next. The key exercise is fixing a fluent summary that does not say what happens next. At Syntalith team training costs from €1,150 net a day. With 12 people each saving 1 hour a week, it pays back in 0.7 months after licence costs.
- net per day of closed training for the team
- from €1,150
- people in one training group
- up to 15
- after this time, we measure the effect on the same tasks
- 30 days
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Statistics
Shared services and AI: statistics 2026
0.7 mo.
payback of a €1,150 training at 12 people saving 1 hour a week each: €1,813 of time regained, €214 of licences a month. Scenario.
15%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved on average 15% more issues an hour, in a study of 5,172 people.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
30%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), less experienced support agents with AI raised the number of issues resolved an hour by 30%.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
40%
According to a study published in Science (2023), ChatGPT cut the time 453 professionals spent on writing tasks by 40%.
Source: Noy and Zhang, Science (2023) ↗
15.1%
According to Eurostat (2025), 15.1% of people aged 16 to 74 in the EU used generative AI tools for work.
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
Address confirmed, register not yet updated
A German-speaking colleague confirmed the delivery address with the supplier, but the address has not been changed in the main supplier register. The master data team makes that update. The first draft of the English handover reads: „The supplier's delivery address has been confirmed”. The colleague reading the text asks whether they still need to do anything.
The corrected note from the exercise:
The delivery address has been confirmed with the supplier. The supplier master record still needs to be updated. Master Data team: please update it using the confirmed address in the source ticket.
In the second trial the register is already updated, and the procurement team has to confirm the change to the requester. The author addresses the request to the new reader: „The supplier master record has been updated. Procurement team: please confirm the update to the requester.”
- 01Findingwhat has already been confirmed
- 02Statewhat has not been done yet
- 03Readerwhich team takes over the case
- 04Taska specific action for the reader
- 05Sourcea link to the ticket with the data
- The reader knows what to do after reading it
- Closed findings do not look open
- The data stay in the source ticket, with no retyping
- A colleague playing the reader says what they will do
What it costs and when it pays back
- Time saved
- 12 people × 1 h a week × 4.33 = 52.0 h
- Value of that time
- €1,813
- Licences
- $240 (€214)
- Left after licences
- €1,599 a month
Payback of a €1,150 training
0.7 months
The hours saved are the scenario's assumption, which we check by timing the tasks before the training and after 30 days. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Claude Team licences at $20 per person a month, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
We measure the hours in the scenario before the training and after 30 days, on the same team tasks. If after a month checking AI texts takes as long as writing from scratch, we change the exercises or the scope of the tool.
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved on average 15% more issues an hour, in a study of 5,172 people (Quarterly Journal of Economics). In shared services we also count the handovers that came back with a question about the next step.
Translation may already be in your system
Zendesk describes conversation translation in tickets, covering incoming and outgoing messages outside the voice channel. If the team uses such a feature, we practise on it. For handovers that repeat all the time, a shared template with room for the completed task and the request to the reader is enough. Choosing a translation tool is a separate decision, and customer correspondence about the scope of an offer is covered in AI training for export teams.
The same handovers every day
a shared note template
no training
Varied threads and readers
training on handovers with AI
from €1,150 a day
Handovers between systems
automated ticket handover
from €3,000
Where to start
We set the programme on the type of ticket that most often comes back with the question „what do we do next?”. We suggest working in pairs: the person who prepares the note and a reader from the next team. We run the workshop as part of team training. For the free analysis, a description of one task the team does every week and of the tools it uses is enough. You get the written training programme within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: a shared services team
We run the same count for your centre in the free analysis.
€5,817
a month for answering 2,000 customer emails
Payback: 0.6 mo.
5 minutes to read an email and write a reply and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 3,000 + 600 tokens per message with a draft reply, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
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