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AI Customer Service Agents Are Closing Tickets Without You
Intercom's Fin, Ada, Forethought, Gupshup, Five9 and Amazon are racing to build support agents that resolve tickets on their own. As the platforms buy up the startups, here is who does what - and where the real money is going.
AI Customer Service Agents Are Eating the Call Center
A pack of well-funded startups - Decagon, Ada, Uniphore, Omilia - plus Amazon, Kore.ai, Capacity and Five9 are teaching software to resolve support tickets end to end. The prize is a customer service market worth hundreds of billions, and the humans who used to answer the phone.
AI Is Quietly Taking Over the Customer Service Call
Dialpad, Amazon, RingCentral, Gladly, UJET and Broadvoice are betting that the future of customer service has no hold music and no script - just AI agents that answer on the first ring. Here is who is fighting for the world's most hated phone call.
The AI Contact Center Land Grab, in Eight Companies
Dialpad, UJET, Regal, Twilio, Bright Pattern, Kustomer, Mitel and XCALLY are all chasing the same moment - the second a customer reaches out. Here is how eight very different companies are betting on what happens when AI picks up the phone.
Trengo Bet the Company on WhatsApp Beating Email
The Utrecht startup pulled a dozen messaging channels into one inbox and raised $36 million on a simple hunch - that customers would rather text a business than email it. Now its AI is chasing the 84% of questions nobody wants to answer twice.
Six Help Desks, Six Different Ideas of Support
Intercom, ProProfs, Jitbit, LiveAgent, Giva and SysAid all promise to tame the queue. Their real differences begin with what each one believes a support team should become.