How The Linens Company Scaled Customer Engagement Across Malaysia and Singapore

Founded with a mission to bring premium comfort and elevated living into every home, The Linens Company offers a curated range of high-quality bed linens, bedding accessories, pillows, duvets, towels, and home essentials across Malaysia and Singapore. The brand focuses on combining luxurious comfort, thoughtful design, and everyday practicality to create a better sleep and living experience for its customers.

As customer inquiries continued to grow across multiple digital channels, The Linens Company faced a common challenge shared by many retail brands: delivering fast, personalized customer service at scale while maintaining a consistent brand experience.

With customers reaching out through Instagram and Facebook Messenger daily, the customer service team was spending significant time answering repetitive questions such as:

• Product recommendations
• Collection information
• Store locations
• Delivery inquiries
• Virtual consultation bookings
• General customer support
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As the business expanded across both Singapore and Malaysia, maintaining rapid response times became increasingly difficult, especially outside of business hours. The team needed a solution that could:

✓ Respond instantly to customers

✓ Deliver a consistent brand experience

✓ Reduce manual workload

✓ Support multiple markets and languages

✓ Increase customer engagement without increasing headcount

The Linens Company partnered with MantaGO to implement an AI-powered conversational commerce solution across Instagram and Facebook Messenger. The AI assistant was designed to:

• Instantly greet incoming customers
• Guide shoppers through product discovery
• Recommend best-selling collections
• Share store location information
• Answer frequently asked questions
• Route complex inquiries to the team when necessary
• Support customer engagement 24/7
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By creating a seamless conversational journey, customers could receive immediate assistance without waiting for a human agent.

9,142 Customer Conversations Managed

Over the first six months, the AI assistant successfully handled more than 9,142 customer messages, significantly reducing the workload on customer service staff.

2,282 Customers Engaged

The automated experience enabled The Linens Company to engage 2,282 customers, helping more visitors discover products and receive support whenever they needed it.

30 Seconds Saved Per Response

By automating repetitive inquiries, each customer interaction saved approximately 30 seconds of manual handling time.

18 Hours Reclaimed in 6 Months

These efficiencies translated into approximately 18 hours of operational time recovered, allowing the team to focus on higher-value activities such as customer relationships, sales consultations, and business growth.

Why It Worked

The success of the project came from combining automation with customer experience.

Instead of replacing human interaction, the AI assistant became the first point of contact, providing immediate responses while ensuring customers could still reach a team member whenever needed.

Key benefits included:

• Faster response times

• Improved customer satisfaction

• Consistent brand messaging

• Increased engagement rates

• Greater operational efficiency

• 24/7 availability across social channels

MantaGO helps brands automate customer engagement across social messaging platforms through AI-powered conversations, enabling businesses to acquire leads, answer inquiries, recommend products, and support customers 24/7 while reducing operational workload.