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How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime

Not a pilot. 30,000 shoppers used Yamada Denki's 24/7 AI agent in two weeks—92% satisfaction.

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Why it matters

Real-world agent deployment at scale shows GPT-Realtime's viability for customer-facing autonomy. A major retailer moving from experimental to live production changes how practitioners budget for agent infrastructure.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. 30,000 users in first two weeks of deployment

  2. 92% positive survey response rate

  3. 24/7 multilingual support via GPT-Realtime

  4. Yamada Denki (major Japanese retailer) production deployment

  5. Two-week time-to-production window

  6. Built on OpenAI GPT-Realtime

Go to the source

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Publisher excerpt: avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.
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