First Contact Resolution (FCR) With AI: How to Raise It Without Faking It

First contact resolution predicts both support cost and loyalty — every 1% of FCR tracks to about 1% of CSAT and 1% of operating cost. Here is what FCR is, what a good rate looks like in 2026, how AI agents raise it, and how a careless AI deployment quietly wrecks it by counting deflections as…