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HARCOURT & VANE
An EPIC CSX demonstration
designed & built by Alex Mead
The enquirySay it once, any way you like: type it, dictate it, or say it on video

Today: a form field and a queue position, understood by nobody until a human opens it.

One enquiry, carried whole,
from first words to booking-ready.

Write it exactly as you would say it. Nothing here is a real booking.

A demonstration of an AI-orchestrated cruise service model, designed and built by Alex Mead. EPIC CSX: Easy, Personalised, Intuitive, Contextual customer service experience.EPIC CSX: Easy, Personalised, Intuitive, Contextual service.

Say it onceWatch it readA person answersA quote that lives

Next: it is read live for intent, what matters most, sentiment, emotion and urgency

No need to type. Tap a story:

A fictional cruise line, prototype only. Your words go to an AI model to be read: not stored, never sent to an operator, never in the analytics.

The readThe AI reading the guest's own words, before any human sees it

Today: a form cannot tell urgency from anger.

Next: the one person who owns your enquiry

The ownerOne named Ambassador owns it, chosen by the read

Today: whoever answers next, and you explain it again.

JH

James Harrington has it

Guest Ambassador

Your Ambassador

Six channels, one record. The reply arrives with everything already read

The replyPick where the answer arrives. It carries everything already understood

Today: the answer comes back on one channel, often a blind callback that starts from nothing.

Pick the channel. The reply arrives there.

The living quoteOne shared quote your whole party can question, vote on and change

Today: a static PDF to one booker, where any change starts the whole thing again.

Sailing on · MV Larkspur

Norwegian Fjords Celebration

The Fjordline Overture · June · 8 nights
£30,720indicative · illustrative

One enquiry became eight fares and one shared decision. No chase, nothing asked twice.

Fjords 6 · Mediterranean 2 · decided inside the quoteBoth routes live while the table decides
Shared with your whole party. Questions, votes and decisions happen inside the quote, not in one inbox.

Next: the deposit lands and the same record carries on, on board and after

Elsewhere: handoffs and repeats, days to a group quoteHere: 1 read · 1 owner · 1 hour · 8 fares on one record
After you bookThe same record carries on: onto the ship, through what goes wrong, and into next year

Today: the deposit closes the file, and every conversation after it starts from nothing again.

Guided prototype · four things happen after the deposit. Open any one:

Next: what one enquiry became, and what it becomes next year

The hourWhat one enquiry became, from the guest's first words to a decision

Today: the same hour buys a queue position, a callback and a quote nobody else can see.

…and within the hour: eight fares on one record, the Fjords chosen together, and the Penthouse you asked for, held.

ElsewhereHandoffs and repeats. Days to a group quote.
Here1 read · 1 owner · 1 hour · 8 fares on one record
35–40%More enquiries progressed to quotation
25–28%Quote-to-booking conversion up
12–15%Revenue per guest up

Delivered proof of concept · three months · completed July 2026 · ranges exactly as delivered, never rounder and never higher. A high-touch luxury safari and premium escorted-travel brand operating across the Middle East and Africa, specialising in complex high-value journeys. The client is under NDA and cannot be named, and the anonymity is contractual rather than evasive. Luxury travel, not yet cruise, which is what a cruise pilot is for.

One relationship. Never reset.

Designed and built single-handed by Alex Mead, customer experience and service transformation leader. Greenfield to 3m+ customers in a year; service teams built from zero to 4,000+. This is the operating model he builds inside real brands, on the technology they already own.Built single-handed by Alex Mead, CX and service transformation leader. 3m+ customers in a year; teams from zero to 4,000+; built inside real brands on the technology they own.

Say it on video

The video never leaves your browser: nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored. Your words appear below where the browser supports live transcription; edit freely, or type what you said. Only those words are sent to be read.