Examines damaged storage devices, performs diagnostic tests, recovers lost files, documents recovery results, and advises customers on backup practices.
What should stay human.
Keep and amplify
Talk through what happened to the device, agree the diagnosis, and be clear about the chance of recovery and the data risk
Examine the storage device, run diagnostic tests and carry out the agreed recovery on the customer's media
Write a diagnosis, a recovery plan and a quote, including limits and what may not come back
Automate
Track each device through intake, diagnosis, recovery, verification and return
Send a consent, authorisation and ID check before work starts, including how residual media will be handled
Invoice the job from the agreed diagnosis and any approved extra work
Tasks, by type of work.
Each task has an experience tag (CX, SX or BX), a verdict, and example agents that often help with this kind of work. Agent suggestions come from our editorial scores, not vendor claims.
Inbox
AmplifyCX · Customer experience
Answer questions about timing, pricing, success rates in general terms, and how files will be returned
Common questions can be drafted from the service information. Anything about a particular device, a chance of recovery or a privacy issue goes to the technician.
Write a diagnosis, a recovery plan and a quote, including limits and what may not come back
An agent can draft from a similar case. The technician sets the method, the fee and the honest limits, because a failed drive is not a standard file copy.
Document what was recovered, what failed, and how the data is being returned
An agent can prefill a report from the job log. The technician confirms the facts, because the customer will rely on the result and the chain of handling.
Talk through what happened to the device, agree the diagnosis, and be clear about the chance of recovery and the data risk
This is a careful conversation about someone else's files, often when a backup was not kept. It should stay with the technician, and the work is only on devices the customer has authorised.
Admin
Keep humanCX · Customer experience
Examine the storage device, run diagnostic tests and carry out the agreed recovery on the customer's media
This is skilled hands-on laboratory and bench work. No agent does it. The work stays inside the authorised engagement; it is not a method for accessing anyone else's systems or data.
Time freed, and where it goes.
Work an agent can take on
What comes off the desk.
Track each device through intake, diagnosis, recovery, verification and return
Send a consent, authorisation and ID check before work starts, including how residual media will be handled
Invoice the job from the agreed diagnosis and any approved extra work
Keep chain-of-custody, consent and job records complete
Where those hours should go
Back into people, and the business.
CX —Talk through what happened to the device, agree the diagnosis, and be clear about the chance of recovery and the data risk
CX —Examine the storage device, run diagnostic tests and carry out the agreed recovery on the customer's media
CX —Answer questions about timing, pricing, success rates in general terms, and how files will be returned
CX —Talk with a customer when little or nothing can be recovered, a cost has risen, or a delay has occurred
CX —Share simple backup-practice advice after the job, without overstating what will prevent the next failure
SX —Staff experience: more time for the work that needs a person
BX —Write a diagnosis, a recovery plan and a quote, including limits and what may not come back
BX —Document what was recovered, what failed, and how the data is being returned
Seen at
Business types where this role often appears, with a note on how it shows up there.
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