Aissist Insights
Discover the latest trends, insights, and innovations in AI-powered business automation.
Twelve multilingual AI customer service platforms compared on claimed language count, published per-language evidence, billing unit and verified price. Eleven publish a language count; not one publishes resolution rates broken out by language.
Nine white-label AI support platforms compared on branding depth, published price, reseller margin and client-transfer terms — with the margin math for agencies and BPOs, and a list of terms worth walking away from.
Zendesk action credits now apply only to third-party connectors and custom actions — native actions are unlimited. What the meter touches, the per-plan allowances, the volume at which overage actually starts, and why an AI layer on the REST API is unaffected.
Your AI agent issued a wrong refund or leaked a field — what you log, who you tell, and on what clock. The EU AI Act Article 55 vs Article 73 deadlines, a decision tree, and six vendor questions on incident notification and telemetry.
Anthropic's free commerce agent blueprint, launched September 2026 with 11 named partners — what it is, how it works, and the four open problems: repeat-run reliability, latency, measurement, and an ecosystem made entirely of parts.
A week-by-week countdown to Black Friday 2026, what a 4× ticket spike really costs against seat-based and outcome-based pricing, and how late you can still deploy on your existing helpdesk.
Decagon, Sierra and Aissist.io compared for mid-market teams on entry cost, deployment time, pricing model, voice and channels — every figure labelled Published, Reported or Vendor-claimed.
Per-seat, per-conversation, per-resolution, per-action and platform-plus-usage compared across ten AI agent vendors, with worked monthly costs at 2K, 10K and 50K conversations.
Resolution is a subset of deflection, handover sits outside it, and no AI vendor bills on proof the problem was solved — eight platforms compared on what actually triggers a charge.
