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Sierra's round, led by GV and Tiger Global, pushes total funding to about $1.585B, while Decagon sits at a $4.5B valuation. These are outcome-priced agents that resolve tickets end-to-end, eating into Zendesk and Intercom seat revenue. The category is effectively closed to new entrants without nine-figure backing. (Sacra)
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HubSpot announced on April 2 that its Breeze Customer and Prospecting Agents move to outcome-based pricing effective April 14. $0.50 per resolved conversation. $1 per lead recommended for outreach. HubSpot CCO Jon Dick: "you pay when it works, full stop." HubSpot has 228,000 c...
No platform fee, no seat charge for the agent, while Sierra, Decagon, Ada, and Lorikeet all run custom enterprise contracts, with third-party estimates putting Decagon at roughly $95K–$590K/year (Drag). Intercom also added "Procedures" this year, letting Fin issue refunds and...
Incumbents are folding agent capability into base subscriptions, Zendesk's June 12 change drops its Advanced AI add-on and bundles agentic reasoning into base Suite plans, Salesforce ships 50 agents out of box, while AI-native players meter it, Microsoft Agent 365 at $15/user/...
Presence is positioned as production-grade agent deployment for customer-facing and internal workflows, putting OpenAI directly against Sierra, Decagon, and the agent layers Salesforce and ServiceNow ship. The frontier labs want the application layer, not just the tokens under...
HubSpot quietly switched Breeze AI agents to $0.50/resolution pricing on April 14. That makes five. Intercom at $0.99/resolution (already past $100M ARR on this model). Sierra at $150M+ ARR on pure outcome pricing. Salesforce at $2/conversation or $0.10/action. Zendesk launchi...
Zendesk made Forethought AI agents a paid add-on for autonomous resolution plus predictive routing. That mirrors Salesforce's $2 Help Agent and Intercom's Fin. The category is shifting off seats and onto per-resolution pricing across the board. If you sell support tooling, the...
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