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Opinionated walkthroughs written by the team that runs support on Miko every day. Each guide ends with a checklist you can hand to a teammate.

Featured guide

Reach 60% deflection in 30 days

A month-by-week plan: seed your knowledge base, measure unanswered questions, write the ten missing articles, then tighten the confidence threshold.

14 min readIntermediate

Setup

Structuring a knowledge base the AI can actually use

One topic per page, explicit headings, no PDFs of screenshots. Why chunking rewards clear structure.

8 minBeginner
Crawling a JavaScript-rendered docs site

Enable JS rendering, set include patterns, and verify what the crawler actually stored.

6 minBeginner
Theming the widget to match your brand

Colour tokens, radius, launcher copy, and how to mount the widget inside an existing app shell.

5 minBeginner

Operations

Designing handoff rules that agents trust

Confidence thresholds, keyword triggers, VIP routing and what to do outside business hours.

9 minIntermediate
SLAs and first-response time in Slack

Thread-based ownership, reminders, and reporting on time-to-human instead of time-to-close.

7 minIntermediate
Weekly review ritual for support leads

The four numbers to look at: deflection, escalation rate, unanswered questions, CSAT after handoff.

6 minBeginner

Advanced

Migrating from Intercom or Zendesk without downtime

Run Miko in shadow mode, compare answers against agent replies, then flip traffic gradually.

12 minAdvanced
Multilingual support with one knowledge base

Answer in the customer's language while keeping a single English source of truth.

8 minAdvanced
Building a custom chat UI on the Chat API

Streaming SSE, rendering citations, and persisting conversations in your own database.

15 minAdvanced
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