ThailandTelecomScale · $100K
AIS (Advanced Info Service)

The Gulf Edge–Google partnership named AIS first; the frontline is where it becomes visible to 45 million Thais

Make customer conversations the flagship of AIS's publicly announced Gemini Enterprise transformation: agentic billing, retention, and fibre-service workflows in Thai, on the new Bangkok cloud region.

Entry use case
Postpaid retention & churn-risk conversations
Expected outcome
Two-way retention outreach reaching 100% of the at-risk base with matrix-bounded offers, measured save rates, and full BOT/PDPA auditability
Recommended next step
Align with the Gulf Edge partnership team on making retention and billing the first production agentic workflows, with a Bangkok-region deployment plan.
What we understand

AIS (Advanced Info Service)'s operating reality

AIS is Thailand's largest mobile operator with roughly 45M+ subscribers, majority-influenced by Gulf Group following the Gulf–Intouch consolidation, and expanded into fixed broadband via the 3BB acquisition.

Public fact

Gulf Edge and Google Cloud publicly announced an AI-first collaboration (January 2026) under which AIS undergoes enterprise-wide AI transformation using Gemini Enterprise to build an agentic AI platform.

Public fact

Google's Bangkok cloud region is now live as part of a publicly announced $1B Thailand infrastructure investment — in-country residency for regulated workloads is available.

Public fact

The Thai mobile market is effectively a two-player race with True; retention economics on postpaid and convergence (mobile+fibre) bundles decide market-share momentum.

Reasoned inference

Post-3BB integration, fibre installation and fault experience is likely the most operationally strained journey — and the most visible to households.

Seller hypothesis — validate

AIS serves a large prepaid base plus Myanmar/Lao-speaking migrant segments where staffed language coverage is thin.

Reasoned inference

Publicly announced: Gulf Edge–Google Cloud AI partnership (Jan 2026) explicitly includes AIS enterprise-wide AI transformation using Gemini Enterprise, alongside the new Google Cloud Bangkok region. Frontline workflows are the natural first visible proof of this partnership.

Publicly reported Google Cloud relevance

Validate with the account team before outreach: Where Gulf Edge's CoE draws build-vs-partner lines for the agentic platform · Priority order between mobile retention and 3BB fibre journeys · Churn-model maturity and offer-matrix ownership within AIS marketing

Build vs buy

Why we have a right to win here

Partner-led target

Technically capable but needs industry workflows, integration, acceleration, or managed operations

Evidence: The Gulf Edge–Google Cloud partnership already names Gemini Enterprise as AIS's platform direction — the build-vs-buy question is publicly settled in favor of partnering. AIS's history is buying network and IT platforms from vendors while its teams orchestrate; the need now is delivery muscle that turns the announcement into production workflows.

Why they won't build the full stack: Building an internal stack would contradict the group's own announced strategy and delay the visible wins the partnership needs. AIS's advantage is distribution and data, not conversational-platform engineering.

What management is signalling

Service-revenue growth and 3BB integration economics feature in recent guidance, alongside the publicly announced Gulf Edge–Google Cloud AI partnership naming AIS for Gemini Enterprise transformation.

Inferencerecent investor communications (validate) · Jan 2026

GTM implication: Make retention and billing the partnership's first auditable production wins — the account is pre-sold at strategy level; the race is to measured workflows.

What already exists (don't pitch this)
  • MyAIS app and large LINE presence
  • Gulf Edge AI center-of-excellence context
  • Existing IVR and chatbot estate
  • Churn modeling and campaign infrastructure
What customers still can't do end-to-end (pitch this)
  • →Two-way retention conversations instead of SMS blasts
  • →Thai, Burmese, and Khmer voice coverage from one deployment
  • →Action execution in BSS/OCS for billing and package changes
  • →Save-rate and deflection attribution at cohort level
Opportunity map

Where agentic communications pays off first

WorkflowWhy it matters hereValueComplexitySpeedChannels
Postpaid retention & win-back
Personalized two-way conversations in Thai with offers bounded by approved economics; save rate attributed per cohort.
In a two-player market, every point of churn moves share; capacity-limited outbound teams reach a fraction of the risk base.
Friction today: SMS blasts with ~1% response; retention offers untracked against actual saves.
VoiceLINEMyAIS app
Billing & package service
Line-recognized billing answers, dispute intake with grounded ledger context, in-conversation top-up and package changes.
The largest absolute contact class across 45M subscribers; cost per human call is misaligned with prepaid ARPU.
Friction today: IVR trees in Thai only; bill-shock disputes escalate to social media.
VoiceLINEApp chat
Fibre install & fault journeys (3BB integration)
Proactive appointment and outage communication, guided diagnostics, dispatch avoidance measured.
Convergence bundles are the strategic play; fibre service failures put the whole bundle at risk.
Friction today: Post-acquisition system patchwork; installation reschedules and outage status require agent calls.
LINEVoiceSMS
Migrant-segment prepaid support (Burmese/Khmer)
Burmese and Khmer conversational support from the same deployment; segment NPS and top-up frequency measured.
Millions of migrant workers in Thailand are underserved in their languages — a loyalty wedge no staffing model can serve economically.
Friction today: Thai/English-only support excludes these segments entirely.
VoiceLINE
Watch the change

Postpaid retention & churn-risk conversations: today vs the agentic model

Scenario: A postpaid family flagged as churn-risk after a True fibre offer gets a Thai LINE conversation that diagnoses the real issue (coverage at the new house) and books a mesh-router install instead of a discount.
Today
same interaction, two worlds
Agentic layer
At-risk base contacted
capacity-limited fraction
100% attempted
Platform capability
Cost per contact
$13.50 median assisted
$1.84 median self-service
Benchmark
QA coverage
1–2% sampled
100% scored
Platform capability
Sources & assumptions
  • · At-risk base contacted: Platform capability; save rate measured in pilot
  • · Cost per contact: Gartner customer service cost benchmarks, 2024
  • · QA coverage: Platform capability: every interaction logged and evaluated
  • · Gartner, customer service cost benchmarks (2024): $13.50 median assisted vs $1.84 self-service per contact
  • · McKinsey, digital-first collections research: 20–25% NPL reduction among leaders; up to 40% opex reduction with gen AI
  • · Baymard Institute: ~70% average cart abandonment (meta-analysis)
  • · IAMAI–Kantar via IBEF (2025): 900M+ Indian internet users; 98% consume Indic-language content
  • · LeadSquared and vendor funnel studies: 78% of students choose the first institution to respond (directional, vendor data)
  • · HDI / ITSM operator benchmarks: $15–25 per L1 ticket; 40–60% of L1 volume is resets/status (validate per customer)
  • · Conventional-flow wait times and volumes are typical operator patterns — assumptions to replace with the customer's own baseline
  • · Agentic-flow behaviors (context retention, 100% logging, in-line policy checks) are platform capabilities, not projections
Recommended solution

One integrated stack, opinionated for this account

Channels · Tilicho Labs
VoiceLINEMyAIS appApp chatSMS

Voice & channel orchestration, telephony, conversational execution, session/state, routing, integration build. Capability coverage validated during implementation.

Intelligence · Google Cloud
Gemini reasoningEnterprise groundingWorkflow agentsMulti-agent orchestrationGoverned actionsEvaluation & analytics
Systems · AIS (Advanced Info Service)
Churn modelCRMOffer matrixBSS/billingOCSPaymentsOSS/field serviceTicketing

API access to these systems is the critical-path dependency.

Trust & languages
ThaiEnglishBurmeseKhmer

Identity-bound sessions, policy-bounded actions, 100% audit logging, human approvals at defined points, in-tenant intelligence.

Business case

The economics, with your numbers

Addressable monthly interactions6.0M
Seller assumption — replace in discovery
Current cost per interaction ($)$0.8
Industry benchmark scale — validate
Automation / assistance rate (%)55%
Seller assumption — pilot proves this
$4.8M
Current operating cost / mo
$17.8M
Modelled gross benefit / yr
0.1 mo
Payback on Scale
128%
3-yr ROI (modelled)
Automated/assisted interactions per month3.3M
Modelled AI run-cost per month (usage + cloud, system estimate)$1.2M
New monthly operating cost$3.3M

All figures are modelling estimates from the labeled inputs above — nothing here is customer-provided yet. The pilot's first job is replacing these assumptions with AIS (Advanced Info Service)'s measured baseline. Package price covers implementation only; recurring usage billed separately.

Recommended package

Scale — $100K implementation

Scale · $100K · A multi-channel production deployment10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows

Why this package for AIS (Advanced Info Service): The partnership context accelerates procurement, but disciplined delivery argues for a multi-workflow Scale deployment (retention, billing, fibre) that becomes the group's replicable blueprint rather than an unbounded program.

Included
  • 4–6 channels
  • 2–3 priority workflows
  • Multiple enterprise integrations
  • API credential & security setup
  • Advanced orchestration
  • Multilingual support
  • Agent Assist / human escalation
  • Production analytics
  • Expansion roadmap
Not included
  • ✕Usage & consumption (billed separately)
  • ✕Enterprise-wide governance build-out
  • ✕Multi-BU rollout
Recurring costs (separate from the package)

Packages cover implementation and integration only. Recurring costs are billed separately: Tilicho Labs platform usage (~$0.15/call-min indicative, usage only), Google Cloud consumption, telephony/carrier charges, managed operations, and support & optimization. No package includes unlimited usage.

Customer resources required
  • · API access + credentials for: Churn model, CRM, Offer matrix
  • · A named business owner for postpaid retention & churn-risk conversations
  • · Security review counterpart and policy sign-off (Churn model scope)
  • · Baseline metrics for the pilot's success thresholds
Executive messages

What to say to whom

CEO

“The Gulf Edge–Google partnership made AIS's AI ambition public. Customer conversations are where 45 million Thais will actually feel it — and where the partnership's first measurable wins can land within two quarters.”

CIO / CTO

“Gemini Enterprise is already the announced platform direction; Tilicho Labs supplies the communications layer and integration muscle to get agentic workflows into production on the Bangkok region fast.”

COO

“Retention coverage, billing deflection, and fibre-journey communication from one platform — each with its own measured baseline, so operational wins are provable, not anecdotal.”

Head of Customer & Service Management

“Your at-risk base gets 100% attempted two-way outreach instead of SMS blasts, and every save is attributed to the offer that earned it.”

Chief Risk / Compliance Officer

“NBTC consumer-protection rules and Thai PDPA consent enforced in configuration, with in-country processing on the Bangkok region and complete interaction logs.”

CFO / Procurement

“The partnership framing de-risks vendor selection; the Scale package caps implementation cost while usage scales with measured deflection and save-rate value.”

Outreach

Pre-built offer emails for AIS (Advanced Info Service)

Written from this account's own research — the strategic signal, the capability gap, the entry workflow, and the modelled economics — not a mail-merge template. Pick the moment and the persona, edit anything, then copy or open in your mail client.

Moment in the deal
Cold outreach — no prior conversation
Who it's addressed to
Cares about: The workflow itself and its daily failure modes
Register
Length
Draft — edit freely before sending
Open in mail client

Customer-safe by construction: drafts are composed only from customer-facing fields. Account tier, build-vs-buy classification, priority score, internal routing, and partner-commercial detail are not inputs to the composer, so they cannot appear in a draft. Money figures are always framed as modelled from the customer's own volumes. Read before sending — you own what goes out.

The pursuit

Tier 1 — immediate strategic pursuit

Why this tier

Thailand's largest mobile operator (~45M+ subscribers) whose parent group's digital arm, Gulf Edge, has publicly partnered with Google Cloud — with AIS explicitly named for enterprise-wide AI transformation using Gemini Enterprise. The most strategically aligned account in Thailand.

30 / 60 / 90-day plan
  • Day 0–30: Align with the Gulf Edge partnership team on making retention and billing the first production agentic workflows, with a Bangkok-region deployment plan.; confirm sponsor and baseline data access; validate: Where Gulf Edge's CoE draws build-vs-partner lines for the agentic platform
  • Day 31–60: architecture & security review with the platform team; Tilicho Labs scoping on Voice + LINE; pilot scope signed
  • Day 61–90: Scale package kickoff; postpaid retention & churn-risk conversations pilot in build; success thresholds locked with the Head of Customer & Service Management
Recommended next step

Align with the Gulf Edge partnership team on making retention and billing the first production agentic workflows, with a Bangkok-region deployment plan.

Entry: Postpaid retention & churn-risk conversations · Scale package · 10–14 weeks to production across priority workflows. Human fallback throughout; success thresholds agreed before build.

Start the pursuit

Research-based priority-account universe assembled from public information, market scale, communication volume, and solution fit. This is NOT an authoritative list of top Google Cloud customers; existing Google Cloud relationships are noted only where publicly reported. Validate every account with the account team before outreach.