NICE, UJET, Kustomer and XCALLY all promise to fix your customer service. They come at it from four very different places - and the gap between them says a lot about where support software is heading.

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.