CVC Corp
conversational agent covering the hours when the physical network is closed, qualifying leads and handing them to salespeople at opening
Reporting its second quarter 2026 results on 13 August 2026, Brazilian travel distributor CVC Corp said its virtual agent Lia, which talks to customers while its stores are closed and qualifies leads for sales consultants, recorded 1.3 million interactions over the previous month, with 50% of those customers subsequently engaging with a consultant in store.
Key points
- Lia is CVC Corp's virtual agent, talking to customers when the stores are closed.
- 1.3 million interactions between Lia and customers over the previous month.
- 50% of customers who interacted with Lia went on to engage with a consultant in store.
- Management puts the increase in conversion since Lia went live at 150%.
Objective
Recover demand that shows up when the physical network is closed. CVC Corp sells travel through a network of stores whose value rests on the consultant, but whose opening hours let every intent expressed in the evening or overnight walk away. Lia occupies that window: it answers, understands the project, qualifies the lead, and the consultant finds a prepared file in the morning rather than a cold form. The commercial bet is that in-store conversion rises because the customer has already moved forward, not because the salesperson works faster.
The deployment
CVC Corp is Brazil's main travel distribution network, built on a footprint of physical stores. Since early 2026 the company has run Lia, a virtual agent that takes over customer channels when the stores are closed, roughly from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. according to management's description on the earnings call. Lia talks to the customer, understands the travel project, qualifies the lead, and passes that work to consultants at opening. The mechanism is therefore not end-to-end automated selling: it is an overnight relay whose output is a better prepared sales conversation. The figures given at the second quarter 2026 results disclosure on 13 August 2026 cover the previous month: 1.3 million interactions between Lia and customers, and 50% engagement, management specifying that half of the customers who interacted with Lia went on to engage with a consultant in store. The executive further states that conversion has grown 150% compared with the period before Lia. The quarter's financial context is difficult on other grounds: net revenue fell 6.5% to 319.5 million reais and the adjusted net loss widened to 51.3 million reais, driven notably by higher airfares. What the case does not say: the exact baseline behind the conversion figure, the scope of channels Lia covers, and how much of the network is involved.
Results Proof B
The figures are those given by CVC Corp management at the second quarter 2026 results disclosure on 13 August 2026, which is a level A event by nature. The level retained is B because the only source reached carrying the statements about Lia is a secondary transcript of the earnings call (Investing.com), the company's primary document not having been obtained at collection. The figures do measure the system itself (interactions with the agent, engagement of customers who went through it, conversion before and after it went live) and not company context: the quarter's financial results, which are down, are cited as context and are not attributed to AI by any source, either favorably or unfavorably. Honest caveat on the most striking figure: the 150% increase in conversion is an executive claim with no published baseline or measurement method, and it is reported as such rather than as an independently measured result.
How it works
Inferred typical approachThe internal detail is not public. Here is a proven approach that leads to the same result, to adapt to your stack.
The stack in detail
- outil Lia CVC Corp's customer virtual agent, in production since early 2026. It talks to customers while the stores are closed, qualifies requests and prepares the consultants' work for reopening.
- plateforme Nouvelle plateforme de vente Sales platform described by management as designed AI first, in which Lia is meant to carry the customer relationship and lead qualification.
How it runs, concretely
For ops teams-
1Contact outside opening hours customer
The customer reaches out to CVC when the stores are closed and enters a conversation with Lia.
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2Qualifying the project AI
Lia talks through the travel project and qualifies the lead.
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3Building the file AI
The collected elements are structured and attached to the customer for in-store pickup.
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4Handover store consultant
At opening, the consultant picks up a file already qualified rather than a cold contact.
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5In-store conversion store consultant
The consultant closes the sale; post-Lia engagement is tracked as the system's metric.
The quality of the qualification produced overnight. If the agent hands over an incomplete or misunderstood file, the consultant starts from scratch in the morning and the gain disappears. Consultant availability at reopening to handle the qualified flow also conditions everything else.
How your customers perceive this type of use
Sourced studiesLes consommateurs n'acceptent pas les chatbots par defaut : 64% prefereraient que les entreprises n'utilisent pas d'IA dans leur service client (Gartner, 2024) et pres d'un utilisateur sur cinq du service client par IA n'en retire aucun benefice (Qualtrics, 2025). L'acceptation se construit sur trois conditions mesurees par Salesforce : savoir qu'on parle a une IA, pouvoir escalader vers un humain, comprendre la logique de l'agent.
Acceptance conditions
- Etre informe qu'on parle a une IA et non a un humain (pres de 75% le demandent, Salesforce 2024)
- Un chemin d'escalade clair vers un agent humain (45% plus enclins a utiliser l'agent IA, Salesforce 2024)
- Une logique de l'agent clairement expliquee (44% plus enclins, Salesforce 2024)
Red lines
- Rendre l'humain injoignable : c'est la premiere inquietude des consommateurs sur l'IA dans le service client (Gartner 2024) et 50% craignent que l'IA les coupe du contact humain (Qualtrics 2025)
- Remplacer le service client par l'IA sans alternative : 53% envisageraient de partir chez un concurrent (Gartner 2024)
Sources: Salesforce 2024 · Gartner 2024 · Qualtrics 2025
How to replicate
Inference, not sourcedData prerequisites
- An inventory reference that can be queried in conversation (destinations, availability, conditions)
- A reliable link between the overnight conversation and the customer file picked up in store
- Sales history to define what actually counts as a qualified lead
- Measurement separating customers who went through the agent from those who did not
Org prerequisites
- A physical network whose opening hours leave a window of untreated demand
- Agreement from the network that the agent prepares the sale rather than taking it
- Processing capacity at reopening, without which the qualified flow goes stale
- Clear disclosure to the customer that they are talking to a machine
Possible stack
- Conversational agent connected to the inventory reference
- Structured need qualification pushed into the sales management system
- Routing of the file to the relevant point of sale
- Comparative tracking of conversion with and without the agent
The plan, step by step
- Step 1Quantify inbound requests during the window when the network is closed.Deliverable: Volume and nature of demand currently going untreated.
- Step 2Define what a qualified lead is together with the consultants themselves.Deliverable: Qualification grid shared between the agent and the network.
- Step 3Connect the agent to the inventory reference and the sales management system.Deliverable: Complete lead file, available at reopening.
- Step 4Open with a subset of volunteer points of sale.Deliverable: Measured pilot on a narrow part of the network.
- Step 5Compare conversion of agent-sourced files with that of standard contacts.Deliverable: A reading of the true effect, independent of the sales narrative.
First step: Start by measuring the demand lost outside opening hours. The case only holds if a meaningful share of inbound requests arrive when nobody can answer; without that number, an overnight agent solves a problem you do not have.
Sources
- S1 Earnings call transcript: CVC Corp posts mixed Q2 2026 as July sales improve Secondary archive pending
- S2 CVC (CVCB3): prejuizo liquido ajustado sobe mais de 3 vezes e vai a R$ 51,3 mi no 2T Established press archive pending
- S3 CVC Corp, centre de resultats (relations investisseurs) Primary archive pending
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