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Two contact-center companies - one built on decades of compliant outbound dialing, the other on AI-first cloud - are stitching their stacks together. The bet is simple: enterprises want the smart part without the legal risk.

Twilio, UJET, Cisco, Alvaria, CloudTalk and Gladly all promise to handle your customers - but each one was built for a very different company. Here is who each is really for.