
Enterprise support is being rebuilt around AI agents. On one side, a St. Louis specialist that crossed $100M in recurring revenue; on the other, the largest software company alive shipping the same feature straight into Copilot.
The San Francisco community software company has spent more than a decade on a quiet bet: the best help desk is a crowd of customers answering each other in the open.
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.