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An SLA report you can explain to the customer
Short answer
An SLA report you can explain to a client shows, next to each result, the ticket, the time it arrived, the employee's reply and the calendar used for the count. The automatic acknowledgement stays in the history and does not end the first-response measurement, if that is what was agreed with the client. At Syntalith the automation costs from €3,000 net, and with 40 SLA reports a month at 90 minutes each it pays back in 1.8 months.
How we workDetails ↓
- 01Call30 minutes with an engineer, free
- 02PrototypeA working system on your process and data, free
- 03ImplementationTarget and fixed price in the contract; 50% at signing
- 04Acceptance50% once the agreed target is met
- net for the automation of one process, build paid once
- from €3,000
- from signing the contract to acceptance
- 2–6 weeks
- free prototype on your cases
- €0
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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read
Statistics
Service desks: statistics 2026
1.8 mo.
payback of a €3,000 automation at 40 SLA reports a month: €2,094 of work today, €419 with checking and the model. Scenario.
15%
According to Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025), customer support agents working with AI resolved 15% more issues an hour on average, in a study of 5,172 people.
Source: Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2025) ↗
47%
According to the European Commission (2026), customer service is the most common use of AI among EU SMEs and mid-caps that already use it: 47%.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
90%
According to the European Commission (2026), 90% of companies using AI say that people take the decisions, and 2% of decisions are fully automated.
Source: European Commission, Flash Eurobarometer 578 (2026) ↗
20.0%
According to Eurostat (2025), 20.0% of EU companies with at least 10 employees used AI.
Source: Eurostat, 20% of EU enterprises use AI technologies (2025) ↗
Figures checked: 22 October 2026
SLA reporting: a Friday ticket and a reply on Monday morning
The agreement with the client measures the time to the first reply from an employee within service hours. A ticket arrives late on Friday afternoon, the system sends an automatic acknowledgement at once, and an employee replies on Monday morning. The client asks where the report's result comes from, and the service manager opens tickets looking for the messages the time was counted from.
The report shows the time the ticket arrived, the time of the employee's reply and the service calendar. The automatic acknowledgement is in the history, and under the agreed definition it does not end the measurement. A first reply also differs from resolving the case, so both times have their own results and events. A ticket missing a needed record stays visible with a note of what was not established, and does not vanish from the report.
- 01Ticketthe time it arrived and the client
- 02Calendarservice hours from the agreement
- 03Eventthe employee's reply; the automatic acknowledgement does not count
- 04Resultresponse time and resolution time separately
- 05Missing datathe ticket stays visible for clarification
- The previous report stays available
- You can see which ticket changed the result
- A disputed classification goes to the person responsible
- AI commentary only on checked results
What automated SLA reporting costs and when it pays back
- Today
- 40 SLA reports × 90 min = 60 h (€2,094)
- With the system, a person checks the output in 20% of the time
- €419
- Model, 1 call per case, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- €0.46
- Cost of one case
- €52.35 today, €10.49 with the system
- Saving
- €1,675 a month
Payback of €3,000
1.8 months
The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Model: 4,000 input tokens and 600 output tokens per call at Anthropic's rates, converted at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
The count covers the work around each case: searching, reading, writing and handing over. What remains is the time to check the result, 20% of today's work in the scenario. Before the quote we measure both times on 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, in a free test that takes 5 working days.
The scenario assumes 40 reports a month at 90 minutes each: collecting tickets, counting by the calendar, clarifying gaps and preparing the document.
Can your current help desk prepare this report
Atlassian describes in Jira Service Management SLA goals, work calendars and the conditions that start, stop and pause the measurement. If the ticket history and the rules are in one system, improving its report is enough. A connection makes sense when the manager collects events from several tools every month or retypes the result into a document for the client. Counting time by a calendar needs no AI, and a model can help prepare a commentary on checked results. Changes to SLA rules and their versions are covered in the article on changing SLA rules.
History and rules in one system
improve the report in the help desk
configuration
Events from several tools
an automation of the report for the client
from €3,000
Frequent rule changes for many clients
an app for rule versions
€3,000–7,000
Where to start
The first scope covers one client and the summary that is put together by hand today. The team names the calendar, the measurement definitions and the person who settles unclear cases. A client review by customer success is covered in training for client account reviews. We build this kind of system as part of our AI automations. For the free process review, a description of one case from the last few weeks and the tools it went through is enough. You do not need to send confidential documents, and you receive a written plan within 2 working days.
Worked example · Scenario
How we count the payback: SLA reports
We run the same count for your clients in the free process review.
€1,815
a month for 12 h a week of report preparation
Payback: 1.9 mo.
The hours for each firm size 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. We measured the model cost in our report system: a commentary with a check of the figures costs about €0.0002, converted at the NBP rate of 21 October 2026 and the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026.
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