Prompting Action Flows with Admin Copilot
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!
Stop building one big bot
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
Closing the Resolution Loop with Custom Agents
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
Building more powerful and connected Action Flows
New Action Flow capabilities and connectors give AI Agents, Agent Copilot and background automations more ways to execute work across your business.
Introducing Lisbon. A Conversational Experience for the Zendesk Help Center
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
Leveraging the Automation Potential dashboard in Zendesk
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-
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Combining agentic procedures with embedded templates in AI Agents
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
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
Zendesk is making its topic, sentiment, entity and language detection available for all Suite Professional or above customers, giving you automated insights in your conversations. Agent Copilot is still required if you want to leverage these findings in triggers or automations. https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10745493624730-
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Messaging & Sunshine Conversations: the engine under the Resolution Platform
Most admins and agents using Zendesk never think about Sunshine Conversations. And that is rather the point. It sits underneath the entire conversational experience in Zendesk. It does not show up as a tab in Agent Workspace. It is not a single feature you'll find in Admin Center. But every web
Zendesk is adding five new action flow connectors: HubSpot, Chargebee, Stripe, Calendly, and GitHub. These let teams handle CRM updates, billing tasks, scheduling, and engineering handoffs directly in Zendesk. https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10934150610586-Announcing-new-action-builder-connectors?ref=internalnote.com
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Action Platform. The new way of automating Zendesk
A guide to Zendesk’s shift toward the Action Platform, showing how defaults stay in triggers while routing, integrations, and workflow logic move into Action Builder and Custom Actions.
Admin Copilot now surfaces updates to Macro content, as well as improvements for Trust and Safety as part of its recommendations. https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10621284039962-Announcing-macro-content-suggestions-and-trust-safety-recommendations
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Enriching Zendesk’s Knowledge Graph With External Sources
Zendesk’s Knowledge Graph turns knowledge into a connected platform layer. This article shows how Federated Search and Knowledge Connectors bring content from Help Centre, websites and internal tools into one graph, then surface, measure and improve it across channels.
Testing Zendesk's new Custom Agents
Zendesk’s Custom Agents and Agent Builder turn business logic into reusable AI components. For this article I've configured a family of agents that can handle real processes, improve reuse, and simplify automation.
Zendesk Relate 2026 - Evolving the Zendesk Resolution Platform
Zendesk Relate is the company’s flagship annual event for customer and employee service leaders, bringing together more than 2,000 attendees for three days of keynotes, product sessions, workshops, networking, and customer conversations. This year, the conference is taking place May 18–20 in Denver,
Zendesk Relate 2026 - Specialised AI Agents
In the previous article in this series, I laid out the new shape of the Resolution Platform. Resolution sits in the middle. Two flows feed it. The resolution flow handles the customer's question. The learning flow makes the platform better at the next one. This article is about the first flow.
Zendesk Relate 2026 - Proactive Copilots
In my introduction to Relate 2026 I described the Resolution Platform as two flows feeding each other. The resolution flow handles a customer's question. The learning flow makes the platform better at handling the next one. The previous article in this series covered the first flow. The Autonom
Zendesk Relate 2026 - Connected AI systems
The previous two articles in this series covered the two sides of the Resolution Platform. AI Agents resolving customer questions. Copilots closing the learning loop. But underneath these processes lies the platform itself. The engine that powers the resolution flow, runs the learning flow, and conn
How to embed Zendesk in your customer experience - Integrating Internal Note with Zendesk
Most people look at Zendesk, or any other CX platform, and might see it as a standalone environment where their agents interact with customers. And while this might have been true in the early 2000s, it's wrong today. Today, Zendesk functions as a resolution platform. It connects to your conten
Capped usage of AI summaries are now available to all Suite Professional or above customers. This way you can test the feature, see the impact at no additional cost. https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10497898168090-Announcing-Copilot-AI-ticket-summaries-for-Professional-plans-and-above
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Introducing Admin Copilot. Keep your Zendesk on target.
Zendesk Admin Copilot turns admins from manual configuration hunters into strategic operators. It surfaces account-specific insights, recommends fixes, and helps execute changes with approval, closing the loop between data, AI, and action.
What's new for Zendesk AI Agents Advanced
Zendesk is unifying its AI Agent offering and making agentic email GA. This roundup covers every notable AI Agents Advanced release in 2026 so far, from hybrid procedures and knowledge replies to new governance tools and conversation journey reports.