
Sharpen, UJET, Cisco, Voiso, Gladly, Enghouse, Bright Pattern and Mitel are all chasing the same moment - the second you dial support. Here is who is winning, who is bleeding, and who is quietly betting the human on the other end is optional.

San Francisco's UJET calls itself CCaaS 3.0 and treats the phone as an app, not a switchboard. Ottawa's Mitel spent fifty years wiring the old way - now both are racing to work out what a human agent even does once the AI picks up first.

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.