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Government & Environmental Services

Ministry of Environment, Water & Agriculture

Handling hundreds of thousands of agricultural and environmental service requests annually with extensive call center queues.

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68%

inquiries and service requests automated end to end without human intervention

14 sec

average automated response and verification turnaround time

94.2%

constituent satisfaction score across farmers and agricultural operators

The ApproachDeploying eChat conversational AI with native Saudi dialect understanding, integrated directly with central knowledge repositories and licensing workflows.

In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the agricultural, environmental, and water sectors represent vital national infrastructure supporting hundreds of thousands of farmers, livestock breeders, and commercial enterprises. With rapid expansion in digital portals, the Ministry experienced substantial operational pressure on telephone support centers, especially during seasonal subsidy rounds, water well permit cycles, and environmental compliance audits. Extended hold times presented a genuine hurdle to meeting national standards for constituent digital experience.

In close collaboration with our engineering team, the Ministry designed and launched an intelligent conversational architecture built upon enterprise language models tailored for government services. The platform was trained on thousands of official ministerial decrees, regulatory frameworks, and procedural handbooks, linking inquiries directly to the core citizen registry and enabling real-time status verification for agricultural rights and permit workflows.

eChat was deployed as the primary conversational touchpoint across official WhatsApp Business channels and the unified ministerial portal. The engine delivered native Saudi dialect comprehension across regional governorates, welcoming voice notes from rural constituents who prefer spoken Arabic over typed digital forms. Incoming voice notes were accurately transcribed, classified by operational intent, and answered with contextual guidance in both voice and text formats.

"The conversational assistant fundamentally transformed constituent access to ministry services, compressing hours of wait time into seconds while understanding local dialect perfectly."

Eng. Fahad Al-Otaibi

Advisor of Digital Transformation & Constituent Experience · Ministry of Environment, Water & Agriculture

The implementation relied on the Unified Inbox to manage edge cases and complex policy inquiries. Non-routine requests were automatically routed to designated subject-matter officers alongside pre-filled response drafts and structured conversation summaries. Operational supervisors gained live visibility into SLA compliance, queue resolution speeds, and constituent feedback indicators without administrative friction.

The operational transformation produced decisive gains across all key delivery benchmarks. Routine call volume dropped dramatically, while round-the-clock service availability eliminated queuing barriers for rural communities. Agricultural producers can now verify subsidies and inspect permit statuses within seconds through conversational interactions, strengthening civic trust and cementing the Ministry's leadership in digital public service delivery.

This case study, metrics, and narrative are illustrative samples for development purposes and subject to final review prior to launch.

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