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Human-led support for Shopify & SaaS

Real humans. Unreal customer experience.

Trained, dedicated agents inside your Shopify or SaaS stack from $15/hour, all-in — billed to the minute, itemized every Monday. No bots. No overhead. No surprises.

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7-day free trial  ·  No contracts  ·  No card required

Works inside the CX stack you already use — plugged in, in 60 seconds

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What you get

Everything a support team should be.
None of the overhead.

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Shopify revenue ops

Agents live in your admin — tracking orders, rescuing carts, upselling with taste.

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SaaS retention

At-risk accounts spotted in conversation and saved with judgment, not macros.

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24/7 human coverage

Follow-the-sun teams in Lisbon, Manila and Bogotá. Your 3 a.m. customer meets a person.

Every channel

Email, live chat, socials, phone — one warm brand voice at every door.

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QA on every reply

Conversations scored against your rubric. Below 95, we retrain on our dime.

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38-second responses

Median first reply, around the clock. Yes, seconds — the ledger proves it.

For Shopify brands

Turn your inbox into a checkout lane

Order tracking, exchanges, rescued carts — handled inside your Shopify admin by people who know your catalog cold.

  • Carts rescued in the conversation, not by coupon blast
  • Pre-sale questions answered before the tab closes
  • Refunds turned into exchanges, exchanges into upsells

For SaaS platforms

Churn, intercepted by actual judgment

Cancellation energy shows up in support first. Our agents read it, save the account, and brief your team before renewal day.

  • At-risk signals flagged from live conversations
  • Saves handled with empathy, not retention scripts
  • Weekly insight digest straight to your Slack

How it works

Live in four steps.
Saving by the first Monday.

  1. 1

    Connect

    Plug in your helpdesk, store, and Slack. Takes 60 seconds.

  2. 2

    Train

    We ingest your brand voice, past tickets, and macros.

  3. 3

    Launch

    Your agents go live in a shared Slack channel. Nothing is a black box.

  4. 4

    Scale

    Costs drop, CSAT climbs, and the Monday ledger itemizes both.

Why 1st-verse

Real humans beat every alternative.

A managed agency that charges a premium for the same human work. An in-house desk you pay for through the nose. A bot your customers can smell. Or a fully-managed human team on your brand — from $15 an hour.

Best value 1st-verse Managed agency In-house desk Support bots
100% human agents, always
Live in under an hour < 60 min weeks to onboard weeks to hire days to build
24/7 follow-the-sun coverage
Trained on your brand voice scripted
QA scored on every reply add-on if staffed
Scale up or down instantly min. retainer
No contracts, no overhead retainer + setup annual plans
All-in cost from $15/hr ~$35/hr ~$31/hr Cheap— until they churn

Pricing

One simple rate. Keep the difference.

From $15 an hour buys the agent, the training, the QA, the management and the tooling. Slide your weekly hours — the ledger does the rest.

$15 /hour, all-in
billed to the minute

up to 40 hrs / week

20hrs / week
  • Dedicated, named agents — never pooled
  • Recruiting, training & QA included
  • Management & tooling included
  • 7-day free trial · no contracts
Rates scale as you grow — published, never gated
  • Up to 40 hrs/wk$15/hr
  • More than 40 hrs/wk$12/hr
  • 24/7 coverage$10/hr
  • Multiple agents?
Monthly ledger est.
In-house agent base wage · $22/hr $1,907
Benefits & overhead taxes, tools, mgmt · +40% $763
In-house, all told $2,670/mo
or, route to 1st-verse
1st-verse agents same hours · $15/hr, all-in $1,300/mo
You keep, monthly$1,370
You keep, yearly$16,440
Numbers verified live on your stack during a 15-min call.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

What does “$15/hour, all-in” actually include?

Everything. The agent’s time, recruiting, three weeks of brand training, ongoing QA scoring, team management, and the tooling they work in. No onboarding fee, no platform fee, no minimum. You’re billed to the minute, and the Monday ledger itemizes every one of them.

Are these really humans? No AI anywhere?

Every reply your customers receive is written by a named human agent. We use software for routing and QA analytics behind the scenes — never for customer-facing conversation. It’s in the contract: no bots, ever.

How fast can we actually go live?

The connection takes about 60 seconds — helpdesk, store, Slack. Your agents then train on your past tickets and macros for one to three days, and go live in a shared Slack channel where you watch every reply from day one.

What if the quality isn’t there?

Every conversation is QA-graded against your rubric. If an agent scores below 95, we retrain them on our own time, not your invoice. And the first 7 days are free — if we’re not obviously better than what you have, walk away owing nothing.

Can you cover nights, weekends and spikes?

Yes — follow-the-sun teams in Lisbon, Manila and Bogotá cover 24/7. For launches and holiday spikes we pre-stage extra trained agents on your account so response times hold while volume triples.

Ready to give your customers
real humans?

Fifteen minutes with our team. Your stack, your hours, your real number — no pitch, no obligation.

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