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Zendesk AI Agents are more than just answer bots. They can understand what an end customer is trying to achieve and help carry the request through to a resolution. By combining knowledge, context, procedures and actions, they can interpret a policy, recognise the situation, decide what should happe
Customers do not experience support as a blank slate. They arrive with an identity, an order, a plan, a history, and an expectation that the company should know enough to help. When an AI Agent ignores that context, it asks people to repeat information, offers options that do not apply to them, or f
Knowledge Connectors bring external content into the Zendesk Knowledge Graph, so the same information can support Help Center search, AI Agents and Agent Copilot. Dedicated connectors make common sources straightforward to connect. The Universal Connector extends that to any API.
Admin Copilot now supports Action Flows. Instead of building your flows by hand you can now describe what you need, and Zendesk's AI will build your flows for you!
AI Agents sit at the core of the customer experience. They are the conversational layer through which customers ask questions, receive answers, and move through to a resolution. But as AI capabilities evolve, so does the way we architect what sits behind that experience. https://www.zendesk.com/blo
If you've been reading this blog for a while, the concept of resolutions shouldn't be new to you. AI Automation makes it possible to handle conversations at a scale where just counting interactions becomes a less relevant way to measure your operational excellence. An automated workforce ca
New Action Flow capabilities and connectors give AI Agents, Agent Copilot and background automations more ways to execute work across your business.
Let's rewind the clock a decade or two. Customer Care at that moment was fairly simple. Customers reached out over email, and an agent replied back to them with an answer. This meant that your customer support workload was equal to the amount of incoming emails. Deflection, or self-service was
At Zendesk we've been pushing automation in Customer and Employee service forward. With AI Agents running your conversations autonomously, Copilots assisting your agents and admins, or the new Custom Agents running specialised processes alongside conversations. These agents run across a variety
Zendesk is adding six new knowledge connectors: Jira, Contentful, Notion, Amazon S3, Dropbox and Zendesk content from other instances. This and the new support for PDFs expands the available content for AI Agents and Agent Copilot. https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10735302080666-PDF-support-for-Knowledge-connectors-
Conversational AI Agents are designed to handle customer conversations from question to resolution autonomously. They can do this by generating answers based on knowledge sources, or they can follow instructions and handle specific, more complex, use cases with logical flows. A customer might ask &
After Relate 2026: five Zendesk releases ready for service teams today. From keynote vision to real-world service tools, find out how these releases can support your team’s workflows, knowledge, and automation right now. https://www.zendesk.com/blog/zendesk-insights/innovation/five-zendesk-releases