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International Women’s Day x Ophelos: spotlight series with Anca Maszni
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IWD x Ophelos: spotlight series, our chat with Anca Maszni, Chief of Staff
International Women’s Day x Ophelos: spotlight series with Shannon Lavery
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IWD x Ophelos: spotlight series, our chat with Shannon Lavery, Customer Operations Manager
International Women’s Day x Ophelos: spotlight series with Melissa Barber
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IWD x Ophelos: spotlight series, our chat with Melissa Barber, Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead
Ophelos joins forces with Intrum
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Read more about the acquisition.
How We Prioritise and Solve Accessibility Issues at Ophelos
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It’s been a year since we began making our website accessible. Here’s what we’ve learnt.
Building a Component Library with ViewComponent, Tailwind and Lookbook
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Learn how to set up and contribute to a component library with ViewComponent, Tailwind and Lookbook.
Reframing Perceptions to Welcome Customer Complaints
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Welcoming customer complaints and transforming them into feedback benefits your business, your customers and your team.
How To Walk A Mile In Your Customers’ Shoes
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Customer support has the power to make or break the customer experience. Discover how we ensure every customer feels listened to and support
Using Serverless Lambda Functions to Trigger Sidekiq Jobs
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Our approach to triggering Sidekiq jobs from outside Rails, using Typescript, Serverless, AWS Lambda and Redis.
Moving from Charity Work to Debt Collection
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Discover the perhaps unexpected similarities between altruism and accounts receivable.
4 Lessons: Building Our Data Team From Scratch
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Ophelos' Data Lead shares 4 lessons learnt while building their data team from scratch.
What Do Debt and Vaginas Have In Common?
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Discover the parallels between femtech and debt collection: taboo areas, ideal for investment, with brilliant new solutions emerging.
Demand Forecasting: how we use it to improve customer service
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Learn how we use demand forecasting to predict future inbound enquiries and improve customer support.
How will the New Consumer Duty transform the debt industry?
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We chatted to Risk & Regulation Advisor Erik Porter about timing, challenges and opportunities.
The FCA's New Consumer Duty: what it means for your business
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The FCA's New Consumer Duty lays out the new regulations that will further benefit and protect customers.
Inclusion first: why accessible design matters
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In this episode, we chat to the engineering team about how to build inclusive products.
Building a Data Lake to safely derive insight from sensitive data
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How to empower data scientists without compromising the security of sensitive data.
A message to CEOs: how to help customers through the cost of living crisis
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3 questions leaders should be asking themselves to support their vulnerable customers.
What is preventing innovation in the debt industry?
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Why has the debt industry been so slow to innovate? And how is tech the answer? Find out in the latest episode of Break The Cycle.
Interviewing at Ophelos: an overview of our hiring process
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Interested in joining the team? Here's everything you need to know about how we hire.
We’re partnering with Inbest to help people access their benefits
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Inbest is on a mission to simplify one of the biggest hurdles for benefits claimants - knowing which ones they’re entitled to.
Using machine learning to create personalised communication strategies
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In episode 2 of Break The Cycle, discover how we use machine learning to tailor communication strategies to every customer.
Where does debt fit into the customer journey?
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In our first episode of Break The Cycle we explore how companies can rethink the customer journey to care for customers in debt.
How is machine learning modernising debt collection?
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How can machine learning be applied to the archaic debt collection industry? And what problems can it solve?
Encouraging your customers to engage with debt during a cost of living crisis
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Understanding how customers categorise money into different 'mental accounts' can help improve your debt resolution strategy.
Why is analytics essential for your debt resolution process?
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Introducing Ophelos Analytics: your one stop shop for understanding performance, customer engagement and customer demographics.
Financial challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community
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It's pride month! In this article we delve into some of the ways that discrimination in the UK still affects people's finances.
Announcing our £5M Seed Round Funding
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A huge thank you to every single member of our team, to our clients for their trust, and to our users who inspire us to always improve!
Ophelos wins the 2022 Databricks Data Team Disruptor Award!
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We have been recognised as the company harnessing the power of data and AI to deliver solutions for some of the world's toughest problems.
We’re partnering with Plend to help improve financial inclusion!
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We'll be helping ethical consumer lender Plend with their customers who fall behind on payments.
Supporting people in debt who live with bipolar disorder
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As part of our series on vulnerabilities and debt, we take a look at how living with bipolar can affect a person's financial health.
Turbo Charging Your Rails Forms
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A tutorial from Graham, our Principal Software Engineer, on how to use the Turbo framework with Rails to build intuitive, reliable forms.
We’re teaming up with Yonder!
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We can't wait to begin work with the lifestyle credit card startup.
POV - You’re a Software Engineer at Ophelos
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Software engineer Katya Essina reflects upon some of the ways we've built a company culture that’s respectful, supportive and trusting.
An Introduction to Accessible Design at Ophelos
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Discover our approach to creating accessible software so that everyone can easily use our platform.
Energy firms need to use the cost of living crisis to rethink their collections model
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Here are the changes energy companies need to make to support their customers through difficult financial times.
We're offering our team free therapy
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Our team now have 24/7 access to mental wellbeing support, one-off therapy sessions and longer counselling courses.
We've partnered with Butter!
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We can't wait to work with Buy Now Pay Later firm Butter to help customers resolve debt in a more ethical, flexible and stress-free way.
Using complaints and disputes to improve customer satisfaction
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Complaints are an opportunity to fix problems and prevent them from reoccurring. Here's how.
Using machine learning to create customer-specific communications
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25% more recoveries, 28% less costs and 68% higher customer satisfaction - find out how we do it.
Being remote-first improves our business. Here's how.
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More flexibility? Increased productivity? Better work-life balance? What's not to love!
Tackling the taboo of debt collection with a digital approach
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Discover how tech can remove the shame and stigma so that both customers and businesses can have positive experiences.
The importance of good design when caring for vulnerable customers
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Discover the design principles our team uses to create a seamless, stress-free journey.
Chess, upside down helicopters and debt management
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Discover how reinforcement learning, an area of machine learning, can be used to solve complex tasks from winning games to fixing finances.
How flexible payment options can benefit both businesses and customers alike
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Discover how introducing more flexibility to repayment plans can prevent missed payments and broken plans.
We've partnered with Credit Kudos to help customers make more affordable repayment plans!
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Exciting news - we've chosen Credit Kudos as our Open Banking partner to make the repayment plans fairer, simpler and quicker.
Choosing a debt collection agency for the 21st century
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Outsourcing collections be very valuable to your company, though there's a lot to consider. Here are three key elements to look out for.
How can companies use language to care for vulnerable customers?
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Discover how companies can harness the power of words to improve brand image and provide better care for their most vulnerable customers.
Data reporting & analysis: how a reshuffle can revolutionise debt management
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Discover the new, innovative ways that debt agencies can share insights with their clients to benefit both the business and their customers.
How has Covid-19 affected income and spending?
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Whether the pandemic has allowed you to save money or taken a toll on your financial health, find out how to handle your new budget.
Using machine learning to detect vulnerability
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Here we explore how machine learning can be used to predict and prevent vulnerability.
What is NLP and how can it be used to detect vulnerability?
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Training computers to understand language can revolutionise the customer experience and help flag up where extra help may be needed.
Boosting customer engagement with digital communications
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Updating outbound messages with a digital-first strategy can be transformative for customer engagement and customer retention.
From vision to fruition: making our company values a reality
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We're putting substance behind our style, making sure that our company values drive every part of our interactions and creations.
Click & collect: why traditional debt agencies must go digital to keep up
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Taking a digital approach can cut costs, boost customer engagement and drive customer satisfaction. We explore how.
Introducing Ophelos
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Hello World! We're excited to announce our launch and a $2.3 million investment round to transform the debt collection industry for good.