United Kingdom · Customer Service · C-Suite (20+ years)

Chief Customer Officer (CCO)

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  • Experience bandC-Suite (20+ years)
  • Reports toChief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • UK framework levelUsually an executive or board-level role

Also advertised as VP, Customer Experience · Chief Experience Officer (CXO) · Executive Director, Customer Strategy

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1What this role really is

This isn't just a job; it's the ultimate accountability for how our customers feel about us, from their very first interaction to their long-term loyalty. You'll be the voice of the customer at the highest level, shaping our entire company strategy to put customer needs first. Frankly, you're the one who makes sure we don't just talk about customer-centricity, but actually live it, day in, day out.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Experience Management Platforms (e.g., Qualtrics, Medallia)Strategic

Leading vendor selection, managing enterprise license agreements, architecting the overall data collection strategy, and interpreting high-level dashboards for strategic decision-making.

Text Analytics / Sentiment Tools (e.g., Thematic, Clarabridge)Architect

Defining the business value and ROI of sentiment analysis, overseeing the integration of text analytics data into the enterprise data warehouse, and using aggregated insights for strategic planning.

CRM / Support Platforms (e.g., Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk)Strategic

Working with RevOps/SalesOps to ensure feedback data is a first-class citizen within the CRM, influencing data schema, and ensuring seamless customer interaction data flow for holistic views.

Data Visualization / BI Tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)Strategic

Governing the suite of CX dashboards for the entire business, presenting and defending insights from these dashboards to the C-suite and Board, and ensuring data integrity.

Data Warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery)Advanced

Partnering with Data Engineering to define the schema and ETL processes for all VoC data entering the warehouse, ensuring data quality and accessibility for strategic analysis.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Enterprise CX Strategy & VisionN/AN/AN/A
P&L Management & Budget AllocationN/AN/AN/A
Organisational Design & Leadership HiringN/AN/AN/A
External Representation & Investor RelationsN/AN/AN/A

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Enterprise NPS/CSAT/CES Score
Overall relational Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), or Customer Effort Score (CES) across all customer segments.
Target · Sustained 5-10 point increase in NPS YoY, or >90% CSAT.

Achieving a consistent NPS of 60+ across all segments by Q4 2025, up from 50 in 2024, demonstrating real progress in customer loyalty.

Customer Churn & Retention Rate
The percentage of customers who stop using our service and the rate at which we retain existing customers.
Target · Reduce churn by 2-5% annually, increase retention by 3-7% annually.

Reducing enterprise-wide customer churn from 12% to 10% in 12 months, directly linking this to improved customer experience initiatives you've championed.

Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) Growth
The predicted revenue that a customer will generate over their relationship with the company.
Target · Increase average CLTV by 10-15% through enhanced customer loyalty and engagement.

Demonstrating that improved onboarding and proactive support, driven by your strategy, led to a 12% increase in average customer spend over a three-year period.

Customer Advocacy & Referral Rate
The percentage of customers actively recommending our products/services to others.
Target · Increase organic customer referrals by 15-20% YoY.

Launching a new customer advocacy programme, directly linked to positive feedback, that generates £1M in new revenue from referrals within its first year.

Board & Investor Confidence in CX Strategy
The degree to which the Board and investors trust and support the customer experience strategy.
  • Regularly invited to Board meetings to present CX strategy and results
  • investor calls frequently highlight customer-centricity as a key differentiator
  • positive feedback from Board members on strategic presentations
  • budget approvals for CX initiatives without significant challenge.
Organisational Customer-Centricity
The extent to which customer feedback and needs are embedded into decision-making across all departments.
  • Customer feedback metrics included in all executive-level dashboards
  • Product roadmaps directly reflect customer pain points and requests
  • Marketing campaigns are validated against customer sentiment
  • other C-suite leaders proactively seek your input on strategic initiatives
  • internal surveys show high employee understanding of customer impact.
External Brand Reputation & Perception
How our brand is perceived in the market regarding customer service and experience.
  • Positive mentions in industry reports and analyst reviews regarding customer experience
  • improved ratings on public review sites (e.g., Trustpilot, G2)
  • reduced negative social media sentiment
  • industry awards for customer service or innovation in CX.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Driving Enterprise-Wide Impact

You'll spend your days strategising how to shift company culture, influencing product roadmaps, and seeing your vision for customer experience become a reality across the entire organisation.

Seeing a new company-wide initiative, which you championed based on customer feedback, directly lead to a measurable increase in customer loyalty and revenue.

Being the Voice of the Customer at the Highest Level

You'll regularly present to the Board and CEO, ensuring customer needs are at the forefront of every major strategic decision. You're the ultimate customer advocate.

Successfully convincing the executive team to re-prioritise a major product launch based on critical customer feedback, even if it means short-term discomfort.

Building and Leading High-Performing Teams

You'll be coaching, mentoring, and developing a team of senior leaders, empowering them to drive CX initiatives within their own domains and fostering a culture of excellence.

Watching your direct reports grow into strong, independent leaders who successfully execute complex CX programmes under your strategic guidance.

What frustrates people
  • Getting other C-suite members to genuinely prioritise customer experience over short-term revenue goals.
  • The sheer scale and inertia of a large organisation, making rapid, widespread change incredibly difficult.
  • Dealing with 'customer-centricity theatre' – where people say they care about customers but don't act on it.
  • The constant need to justify CX investment with hard ROI, even when the benefits are long-term and qualitative.
  • Managing a large team of diverse leaders, each with their own challenges and priorities.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable routine; expect constant strategic shifts and urgent issues.
  • Direct, hands-on work with individual customer feedback; your focus is on the aggregate and strategic.
  • A role where you can avoid internal politics; influencing is a core part of the job.
  • An easy ride; this is one of the most challenging and impactful roles in the company.

6Who you work with

This role truly shapes the company's entire strategic direction. You're not just improving a department; you're instilling a customer-first culture that dictates product development, marketing campaigns, sales approaches, and operational efficiency. Your decisions directly influence our market position, investor confidence, and ultimately, our ability to grow and innovate. Frankly, without a strong CCO, a company risks losing its way in a competitive market.

Inside the business
  • CEO and Executive Leadership Team
  • Board of Directors
  • Chief Product Officer
  • Chief Marketing Officer
  • Chief Operating Officer
  • Chief Financial Officer
Outside the business
  • Key Investors and Analysts
  • Industry Regulators
  • Strategic Partners and Vendors
  • Major Enterprise Clients
  • Media and Public Relations

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A proven track record (15+ years) of leading large-scale customer service, customer success, or customer experience organisations.
  • Demonstrable experience in driving significant, measurable improvements in enterprise-level CX metrics (e.g., NPS, churn reduction).
  • Extensive experience managing P&L for a significant business unit (£10M+).
  • Prior experience presenting to and influencing C-suite executives and Board of Directors.
  • A history of successfully building and developing high-performing executive teams.
  • Deep expertise in VoC programme design and implementation at an enterprise scale.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Quantum Computing Impact on CX Analytics

Though still nascent, quantum computing promises to revolutionise data processing, enabling analysis of previously impossible datasets. As CCO, you need to understand its potential to unlock deeper customer insights and predictive capabilities.

Quantum machine learning basics · Optimisation problems in CX · Data security in a quantum era

  • This year: Read introductory articles and whitepapers on quantum computing's business applications.
  • Next 1-2 years: Attend executive briefings or workshops on quantum's potential impact on data analytics.
  • Longer term: Engage with our R&D or Data Science teams to explore early-stage quantum pilots or partnerships.

Quick win: Identify a 'grand challenge' CX data problem that current computing struggles with, and keep it in mind as quantum evolves.

Web3 & Decentralised Customer Experiences

Blockchain, NFTs, and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) could fundamentally shift customer ownership, loyalty programmes, and data privacy. As CCO, you need to understand how these technologies might empower customers and disrupt traditional CX models.

Blockchain fundamentals for business · Customer data ownership (self-sovereign identity) · Tokenised loyalty programmes · DAO-driven customer communities

  • This year: Explore leading Web3 projects in consumer-facing industries.
  • Next 1-2 years: Participate in industry forums discussing the future of customer loyalty in Web3.
  • Longer term: Consider pilot projects exploring tokenised customer rewards or decentralised feedback mechanisms.

Quick win: Follow key thought leaders in Web3 and CX on social media to stay informed on developments.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly engage with industry thought leaders and attend executive-level CX conferences (e.g., Forrester CX Summit, Gartner CX Symposium).
  • Participate in peer CCO networks or executive forums to share best practices and challenges.
  • Mentor emerging leaders within the organisation, fostering the next generation of CX talent.
  • Publish articles or speak at industry events, positioning yourself and the company as a leader in customer experience.
  • Continuous learning in areas like AI, data ethics, and organisational psychology to stay ahead of the curve.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Ethical AI Governance for CX

As AI becomes embedded in every customer interaction (chatbots, personalised recommendations, sentiment analysis), ensuring ethical use, transparency, and fairness is paramount. A single AI misstep can cause a massive brand crisis.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Chief Customer Officer (CCO)

4 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Data-led Decision MakingInstitute of Sales Professionals · covers 2 of 8 standardsLevel 6
  2. Lead change in an organisationNCFE · covers 1 of 8 standardsLevel 7
  3. Lead Organisational ChangeInstitute of Sales Professionals · covers 1 of 8 standardsLevel 6
  4. Data Science FoundationsOTHM Qualifications · covers 1 of 8 standardsLevel 7
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Ethical AI Governance for CX

As AI becomes embedded in every customer interaction (chatbots, personalised recommendations, sentiment analysis), ensuring ethical use, transparency, and fairness is paramount. A single AI misstep can cause a massive brand crisis.

  • AI bias detection and mitigation
  • Explainable AI (XAI) in CX
  • Customer data privacy in AI
  • Human-in-the-loop design

Digital Empathy & Hyper-Personalisation at Scale

Customers now expect highly personalised, emotionally intelligent interactions across all digital channels. Simply automating isn't enough; we need to deliver genuine empathy through algorithms and digital design, at scale.

  • Emotional AI in CX
  • Proactive and predictive service
  • Contextual personalisation
  • Ethical boundaries of personalisation

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Voice of the Customer (VoC) Program Architecture
  • CX Metrics & Analytics Governance
  • Customer Journey Mapping & Optimisation
  • Qualitative & Quantitative Research Synthesis

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    VP, Customer Experience / Director, Global CX

    5-10 years at VP/Director level prior to CCO

    Skills to master

    • Leading large, multi-functional teams
    • owning significant P&L
    • developing and executing business unit-level CX strategies
    • influencing senior stakeholders.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently exceeding CX and business targets within your domain.
    • Successfully leading major cross-functional CX initiatives.
    • Building and mentoring strong leadership teams.
    • Demonstrating strategic vision beyond your immediate remit.
  2. 2

    Chief Operating Officer (COO) with strong CX focus

    3-7 years as COO in a smaller/mid-sized company

    Skills to master

    • End-to-end operational excellence
    • P&L management across multiple functions
    • process optimisation
    • driving customer-centricity through operational efficiency.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven ability to scale operations while maintaining high customer satisfaction.
    • Deep understanding of the entire customer journey from an operational perspective.
    • Successfully integrating customer feedback into operational improvements.
  3. 3

    Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with strong CX background

    5-10 years as CMO with a focus on brand and customer loyalty

    Skills to master

    • Brand building
    • customer acquisition and retention
    • market research
    • integrating brand promise with actual customer experience.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully building a strong brand reputation based on customer experience.
    • Driving customer loyalty and advocacy through marketing initiatives.
    • Deep understanding of customer segmentation and targeting.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This CCO role isn't just a job; it's a capstone for a distinguished career in customer experience. It's about leaving a lasting legacy on our company's culture and market position. The pathways from here are vast, limited only by your ambition and continued drive to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Data-led Decision MakingLevel 6

Applied to your work in Chief Customer Officer (CCO)

The objective of this unit is to provide learners with an understanding of key data sources that support strategic decision-making and the data requirements for effective team decision-making. Learners will be able to critically analyse data from various sources to identify trends and insights, and recommend improvements to decision-making processes based on data analysis.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Chief Customer Officer (CCO)

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Enterprise NPS/CSAT/CES ScoreOverall relational Net Promoter Score (NPS), Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), or Customer Effort Score (CES) across all customer segments.Achieving a consistent NPS of 60+ across all segments by Q4 2025, up from 50 in 2024, demonstrating real progress in customer loyalty.Sustained 5-10 point increase in NPS YoY, or >90% CSAT.
  • Customer Churn & Retention RateThe percentage of customers who stop using our service and the rate at which we retain existing customers.Reducing enterprise-wide customer churn from 12% to 10% in 12 months, directly linking this to improved customer experience initiatives you've championed.Reduce churn by 2-5% annually, increase retention by 3-7% annually.
  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) GrowthThe predicted revenue that a customer will generate over their relationship with the company.Demonstrating that improved onboarding and proactive support, driven by your strategy, led to a 12% increase in average customer spend over a three-year period.Increase average CLTV by 10-15% through enhanced customer loyalty and engagement.
  • Customer Advocacy & Referral RateThe percentage of customers actively recommending our products/services to others.Launching a new customer advocacy programme, directly linked to positive feedback, that generates £1M in new revenue from referrals within its first year.Increase organic customer referrals by 15-20% YoY.
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Chief Customer Officer (CCO) to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 8 · in progressAI Fluency→ Chief Executive Officer (CEO)→ your design
Where this takes you

This CCO role isn't just a job; it's a capstone for a distinguished career in customer experience. It's about leaving a lasting legacy on our company's culture and market position. The pathways from here are vast, limited only by your ambition and continued drive to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Chief Customer Officer (CCO)
  • Voice of the Customer (VoC) Program Architecture
  • CX Metrics & Analytics Governance
  • Customer Journey Mapping & Optimisation
  • Qualitative & Quantitative Research Synthesis
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Chief Customer Officer (CCO) is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

    3-7 years as CCO

    Enterprise-wide leadership

    • Holistic business strategy across all functions
    • Public company leadership and external representation
    • Shareholder value creation
  2. Board Member / Non-Executive Director (NED)

    Post-CCO role, often concurrent with other executive roles

    Governance and strategic oversight

    • Strategic advisory for multiple organisations
    • Mentorship for executive teams
    • Industry thought leadership and advocacy
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, as CCO, your time is precious. You're paid to think big, not get bogged down in data synthesis or report drafting. That's where AI comes in. We're not talking about replacing human judgment, but augmenting your strategic capabilities, freeing you up to focus on what truly matters: driving enterprise-wide customer transformation.

Our AI Hub isn't just for analysts; it's a strategic partner for executives. Imagine having a co-pilot that can instantly digest vast amounts of market data, summarise complex customer sentiment across millions of data points, and even draft your initial board presentations. This isn't science fiction; it's how you'll operate here.

Strategic Insight Synthesis

Feed AI competitor analysis, market reports, and internal customer feedback data. Ask it to identify emerging trends, potential threats, and new growth opportunities for customer experience. It'll give you a concise summary, highlighting key strategic implications, saving you hours of research.

Executive Report Generation

Provide AI with raw CX metrics, key qualitative themes, and your strategic objectives. It can draft initial versions of board reports, investor updates, or internal executive summaries, complete with suggested narratives and data visualisations. You'll then refine and add your unique strategic lens.

Stakeholder Communication & Alignment

Use AI to help craft persuasive arguments for your CX initiatives, tailoring messages for different executive audiences (e.g., CFO vs. CPO). It can even simulate potential objections and help you prepare responses, ensuring smoother buy-in for your strategic programmes.

Predictive CX Modelling

Collaborate with AI to build sophisticated models that predict customer churn based on behavioural and feedback signals. This isn't just about identifying at-risk customers, but understanding the *drivers* of churn at an enterprise level, allowing you to proactively design retention strategies.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Chief Customer Officer (CCO)?

Common routes in include VP, Customer Experience / Director, Global CX (5-10 years at VP/Director level prior to CCO), Chief Operating Officer (COO) with strong CX focus (3-7 years as COO in a smaller/mid-sized company) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) with strong CX background (5-10 years as CMO with a focus on brand and customer loyalty). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) progress to?

This role can lead on to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (3-7 years as CCO) and Board Member / Non-Executive Director (NED) (Post-CCO role, often concurrent with other executive roles), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 8 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Chief Customer Officer (CCO)?

Increasingly, Ethical AI Governance for CX and Digital Empathy & Hyper-Personalisation at Scale. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Chief Customer Officer (CCO), works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 8 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Chief Customer Officer (CCO): personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 8

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Customer Service

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

Your skills as a CCO are highly transferable across almost any industry, particularly those that are customer-facing or undergoing digital transformation. From FinTech to healthcare, retail to automotive, the need for a strong customer advocate at the executive level is universal. Your ability to translate customer insights into business strategy is a universal language.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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