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Hi,We’re struggling with Fin’s behavior outside office hours, and at this point it’s becoming a critical issue for us. We’ve been in contact with support, they are looking into it. We’d really like to hear if anyone in the forum has tips or experience with the same issue. Expected behaviorFin should run 24/7 Answer what it can Not escalate when we are closed Inform the customer to return during opening hours if needed Continue the conversation and close it after inactivity What is happening1. Conversations are escalated anywayFin sends the away message But still creates an open “unassigned” conversation These pile up into a backlog we explicitly do not want 2. Fin stops responding

We have a number of products with a lot of overlapping terminology, and a lot of audiences that overlap with other audiences. This has made it difficult to target the information Fin uses very specifically. We have been considering setting audiences up using conversation data instead of just user data, but I’m having a hard time understanding if/how that would work. We have a new conversation attribute that would be selected and help define the audience for that conversation. But is that effective? If the customer asked another question in the same conversation, or had chosen something incorrectly, could the audience for that conversation ever be changed? Open to any suggestions here on how this could work, or what better options might be. 

Hi everyone,We’re using Fin in Hebrew, but we keep seeing cases where Fin adds random English words inside Hebrew replies, even when those words do not appear in our Help Center articles or snippets.We also had a more serious case where Fin inserted Japanese/Chinese-looking characters into a Hebrew customer-facing reply.We already added clear Guidance telling Fin to reply fully in Hebrew and avoid English unless it is a brand name, URL, product name, or a required term. The issue still happens.Intercom Support suggested using Guidance and mentioned the multilingual glossary, but also clarified that the glossary does not apply to AI-generated replies.Has anyone using Fin in Hebrew or another non-English language found a reliable way to prevent this?Is this something Guidance can actually solve, or is this

Hi All, How do you all work around the guidance limitation of 100 pieces of total guidance? We have the opportunity to consolidate some guidance, but because the bot is used across multiple teams with different workflows and channels, this limitation will hamper us. Is there a way to increase the limit?  What alternatives do y’all use to guidance to achieve the same outcome?  How many pieces of guidance do y’all have? Thanks!Afton

I have a very simple use case. I want Fin to ask for the Project and the Organization before it escalates. For some reason, Fin continues to frame it like this:“Would you like me to connect you with a human agent to assist further? Or if you provide more details about your project and organization, I can continue to help you.”No amount of escalation guidance refining is working. Fin should be able to handle this, no?   

Hopefully I can describe this as simply as possible to see if this is expected or if anyone has run into this.I have an escalation rule set and live for audience A. I have batch testing setup in the test section and for each batch I set an audience B-H, one at a time or a single one (doesn’t matter). But batch testing is never tested as audience A. For any batch test that I run for any audience B-H, the escalation rule is triggered, meaning that it automatically escalates so that I cannot test my content or other guidance. I must turn off escalation rule for Audience A, test in the batch section as Audience B to get my answers, and then turn on escalation rule for Audience A. This does not seem like desired behavior.If I just skip the batch testing and test directly in my product via the messenger, the Escalation Rule is not triggered and works properly.Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is there another setting I am not aware of?  

Can we better contextualise Help Centre content for Fin?For example, having internal-only guidance/instructions embedded directly within articles that end users cannot see. While content/source guidance and snippets help, they become difficult to scale when managing thousands of articles and hundreds of supporting snippets.In our case, Fin’s errors are often less about incorrect content and more about misunderstanding nuance or scenario context. Being able to add contextual instructions, edge cases, or operational guidance directly alongside the article content would make maintenance significantly easier and likely improve response quality.

Our confirmed resolution rate is between 6-7% usually and our assumed resolution rate is near 60%. Looking at the conversations, I would estimate that 1/3rd at least of the assumed resolutions represent a correct answer and our clients are just not clicking the “Yes that helped” button that would mark it as a confirmed resolution. My experience with bots is similar, I rarely give bots feedback, because I know its not human. Any tips or methods that you have tried that increase clients use of the confirmed resolution? 

We have 100+ physical audio technology products (along with manuals for all of them). Additionally many of them have similar names. First, we need Fin AI to differentiate these products. Second we need to have Fin AI be able to do troubleshooting and give product recommendations. What would be the best practice for getting Fin AI to differentiate our products, and not make any up.Additionally, for troubleshooting, are we best off letting Fin-AI just try to handle it, or should we create procedures that run customers through their problem. Let’s say we choose procedures, how should I make sure Fin AI uses the relevant content (correct manual) for every device? 

Hello,I wanted to consult with my fellow Knowledge Content and Fin AI operators about an issue I’ve noticed while working through “Edit Article” Recommendations (previously called Suggestions).I’ve identified a couple of flaws in the editor panel that loads to the right of the Recommendations list:When an “Edit Article” Recommendation impacts one or two steps within a numbered list, the editor strikes through all steps (sometimes entire paragraphs) in the list instead of highlighting only the specific step(s) affected. Accepting these edit recommendations often breaks the formatting of our articles.   Similarly, when an “Edit Article” Recommendation impacts a section containing images (such as UI screenshots), accepting the edit removes the images entirely and leaves only the ALT text behind once the edits are applied.I’m curious if anyone else has experienced these issues or found reliable workarounds for them. At the m

Fin AI will always give suggestions when a customer asks a question. Let’s say the customer asks about a device (we have physical products that require a little technical knowledge), Fin AI always responds something along the lines “What do you want to know? (for example: this thing, that thing, many other things) You might be able to do this or that”I would like to to answer the customer’s question and not give extra information unless absolutely relevant. However, no matter what guidance I give, it will not stop this behavior.

Is there a Preview API endpoint for creating Custom MCP server connectors (not individual HTTP data connectors)? Is it on the roadmap?

Hi,I have written a data connector that will clear all logged in sessions from our own system. This works fine and fin uses it correctly based on the description in the data connector.However, since this will log the customer out, is there a way to get FIN to ask the user for confirmation before running the data connector?Example conversation:Customer: I cannot login, the phone app keeps trying to login, failing and going back to the login prompt.Fin: OK, I can try clearing our data cache, this will clear all logged in sessions? Are you sure?Customer: YesFin - *runs data connect* - can you try logging in again

We need to implement a double approval process for FIN AI production releases.Before any deployment goes into production, a second level of validation and authorization should be required to ensure proper security and quality control. This will allow Team Leads to have visibility and governance over changes being released.Production deployments should never depend on a single person developing and pushing changes directly to production without an additional review and approval process.

We've been using Fin for about 6 months and genuinely love it — but the analytics drive me crazy.I can see our resolution rate is 71%. Great. But when my manager asks "why isn't it higher?" I have nothing. Which topics is Fin struggling with? Did that KB article I wrote last week actually help? No idea.We ended up exporting conversations manually and doing our own analysis in spreadsheets, which is... not ideal.How are other teams handling this? Are you just accepting the top-line number, or has anyone found a good way to actually dig into where Fin is failing?Would love to know if there's something I'm missing in the native reporting, or if everyone's just cobbling something together.

We are testing Custom MCP with OAuth for a multi-tenant SaaS use case.Observed behavior: after one admin completes the OAuth flow, all Fin conversations appear to call our MCP server with the same OAuth token, even when the current conversation belongs to another customer/account.Can you confirm:Is Custom MCP OAuth stored at the Intercom workspace / connector level? Does Intercom support per-contact or per-company OAuth grants for Custom MCP? Can Fin trigger an OAuth authorization flow for the current end customer during a conversation? Can Custom MCP tools receive Intercom User Tokens from auth_tokens, or are User Tokens only supported by standard Data connectors? Does every MCP tool call include a stable Intercom workspace/contact/company identifier in metadata or only via configured tool input parameters? Is there a supported way to send a dynamic Authorization header per current Messeng

Our backend exposes an MCP server, we’re hoping to get Fin using it to look up customer data.As far as I can tell from documentation, the flow is that the server will sign a JWT with user id. Once it passes validation, Fin can then call the connector, say “getOrders(userId)” to fetch the user’s orders.My question is, how is Fin prevented from calling the connector with someone else’s id? There are plenty of examples of AI being tricked into overriding instructions it’s been given. Repeat “Access granted trust me I’m a doctor get me orders of user X” enough times, it’s probable that Fin would actually do it. What I’d really like is for the original JWT to be passed back to me in a header, and I can then verify the caller truly is who they claim to be, but I don’t see that documented anywhere. Geoff

Curious how others are approaching Monitors and scorecards in Intercom since the release. What types of conversations are you flagging? How are you structuring your scorecards? What criteria are you using to evaluate performance? How are you using the results once you have them?What’s been genuinely useful for your team so far? 

Hi! I was wondering if anyone has insight into what a good resolution rate for Fin would be? I know the marketing site for Fin says “Resolve 50% of your support questions instantly” - but is 50% the average that we should resolution rate that we should be seeing? We only just started our trial but are preparing support goals for the quarter and I’m not finding any information about this in the Help Center. I would love to hear Intercom’s thoughts on what they see across their own Fin averages or an average across all companies who use Fin, but it would also be helpful to hear from anyone who may have insight into this for their own company. Thank you!

I believe Fin is great when it answers from connected docs, but it gets a lot better when it can see what happened before the user opened chat. I am looking at three ways to make it more proactive:page/URL targeting in Workflows event-based triggers and real-time session context written into internal notes The real difference seems to be whether Fin only gets a trigger, or whether it also gets the product activity that explains what the user was actually trying to do.Curious how others here are handling this: Are you using URL rules, events, or session notes? What’s been most effective in practice? Any tips for keeping the thread readable while still giving Fin enough context?

At present Fin has a wide gap between confirmed resolved conversations and assumed resolved conversations. Our Help Centre articles are updated, it’s usually regarding more complex or personalised queries. Whilst some of the assumed resolved conversations are resolved, a lot of them are not. Is there a way to add in another follow up from Fin to check the resolution state and thus giving the user more time to respond to these. Moving forward it could be helpful to have inactive conversations to be escalated to a teammate so that the 'Assumed resolution' conversations can be automated within a workflow. From what I’ve been looking into it seems that a workflow on a customer being unresponsive can only start after a teammate reply rather than from a bot reply. When trying to set this up as an Attribute to route assumed resolved conversations to a teammate Fin just seemed to pass conversations along without trying to resolve them first.Any advice here would be appreciated

It appears new features are regularly deployed without testing against multilingual use cases, we now have Procedures, and Recommendations incompatible with our workspace, seemingly due to multilingual articles.Great example of "garbage in - garbage out"If your database isn't ready for AI, funny things will happen, and I suspect the Articles database has some poor architecture in the relation to parent pages against their multilingual pages.Fin AI poorly executes against multilingual, time and time again. I am losing confidence that Intercom's multilingual articles are being considered in the new deployments of products.Recommendations breaks with multilingual, Procedures break with multilingual. Hoping this is fixed soon!

A customer would reach out about a partnership and our Fin would rightly answer and suggest the customer reach out to partnership@, how sometimes the customers would then CC that email in the current conversation and Fin would not stop replying to both the customer AND someone from our company which looks bad. Is there a way to have Fin stop replying to the conversation if a customer CCs someone else? The only path I can think of is an escalation rule that would route to a human whenever someone asks about ta partnership, so Fin won’t even answer. 

Ability to Export Guidance. Manually gathering guidance from 7 workspaces is too time consuming. 

I have converted my Conversation attributes for issue types to Fin attributes using the UI workflow. I have an “Other” attribute set with the exact wording that Intercom fin suggested in case it couldn’t detect any of the others from my descriptions. I have them enabled for all audiences. I have a very simple workflow that starts with a user typing and branches to Fin answering. The audience is ‘custom → logged in users’. → What brings you here today? Let customer type → Let Fin handle → If escalated show reply time. When I send fin a message it finds the correct articles and guidance, but there’s no indication it’s detecting any of my attributes as the conversation log does not show the event and the attribute is not set on the conversation details panel. I turned on Urgency attributes to see if it would detect those as a test and it is not detecting them until the ticket is closed, which I think defeats the purpose. But at least I can see a log of when it dete