TICKET MANAGEMENT

Escalate breached first-response SLA from Intercom to PagerDuty

Watches Intercom conversations for first-response SLA breaches and, when a high-priority customer waits too long, pages the on-call support engineer through PagerDuty and posts…

CategoryTicket Management
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerwebhook
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerIntercom first-response SLA breach eventIntercomIntercom
  • LogicKeep only unreplied, priority-tagged conversations
  • ActionFetch conversation details from IntercomIntercomIntercom
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident on support on-callPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputPost breach summary to Slack channelSlack

What it does

It catches support conversations that have blown past their first-response promise and turns them into a real, acknowledgeable page instead of a number on a dashboard. Only conversations that are still unanswered and tagged high priority trigger a page, so on-call stays quiet for normal volume.

When to use it

Use it when your support team commits to a first-response time for priority or paid-tier customers and you need a hard backstop. It is built for teams who treat a missed first reply as an incident, not just a metric.

How it works

  1. 1An Intercom webhook fires when a conversation's first-response SLA is marked breached.
  2. 2A filter confirms the conversation is still unassigned or unreplied and carries a priority tag, dropping everything else.
  3. 3The flow reads the conversation to pull the customer name, plan tier, and wait time.
  4. 4It opens a PagerDuty incident on the support on-call schedule with the conversation link and elapsed time.
  5. 5It posts the same summary to the support Slack channel so the wider team has context.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect IntercomConversations, contacts, articles.
  2. 2
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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