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Customer-service AI is splitting by control rights. Helpdesk and CCaaS incumbents keep gravity when they own records and channels; specialists win when a narrow workflow needs faster action, better voice execution, or auditable outcome economics.
AGENTSCustomer experienceGLOBAL
2026-06-16
Customer-service AI is moving from answer bots to workflow agents. The useful approval test asks whether the agent has approved action rights, can prove accepted resolution after repeat contacts and handoffs, and has a tested recovery path when the service path fails.
AGENTSCustomer experienceGLOBAL
2026-06-16
Developer voice infrastructure has made the voice-agent prototype cheap: telephony, streaming speech, interruption handling and model routing now arrive as APIs. The production bottleneck is still the buyer's contact-centre operating layer: latency budgets, consent, tool permissions, logs, evaluation, failover and CRM writes.
INFRACustomer experienceGLOBAL
2026-06-01