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The AI customer service agent that pays for itself

It learns your business from your website and docs, answers in seconds on every channel, and hands the tricky cases to your team with the whole story attached.

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24/7, no queue

The AI agent answers customer support questions the moment they arrive, at any hour, in any volume.

Multilingual support

It replies in the languages you allow, so global customers get help in their own words.

Handoff with full context

When a case needs a person, human agents pick up the thread with the whole conversation attached.

Over 35,000 brands run their customer conversations with Text

ToyotaS&P GlobalUnileverHuaweiMotorola SolutionsAdobePayPalKPMGHyundaiLGMcDonald'sMercedes-Benz

What is an AI agent platform?

AI agents for customer service resolve customer inquiries on their own, answer from your business content, and know when to bring in your team.

Knowledge base sources feeding the AI agent: a help center URL, a product catalog PDF, and a text file, marked as updated

More than a chatbot with better answers

AI customer service agents combine large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing to understand customer intent and write specific answers from your own content. The difference from a scripted bot is autonomy: an AI agent evaluates the goal, plans the steps, and acts on them. It checks an order, creates a ticket, or escalates to customer service representatives, without a decision tree telling it where to click. For customer support teams, that means fewer repetitive tickets and a better customer experience for everyone who writes in.

Why service teams deploy them now

The proof is in production. Across Text customers, the AI agent resolves an average of 73% of conversations on its own, and it scales customer support interactions to any volume: Funded Trading Plus absorbed 15 times more chats overnight and kept a 93% CSAT with the same team. Companies automate support for simple economics: automating repetitive inquiries lowers labor costs while AI support holds service quality steady around the clock. For AI agents for customer service, a traffic spike is routine work, and your support teams get the interesting part.

Routine customer questions marked resolved by the AI agent: return policy, order shipping status, and a password reset

73%

of conversations resolved by the AI agent on its own, on average, across Text customers.

24/7

The AI agent works without downtime. Customer expectations do not keep business hours.

Up to 266%

lift in visit-to-order rate reported by Shopify stores using Text's AI agent.

How AI agents for customer service work

Customer service AI agents run every conversation through the same loop: perceive the situation, reason about it, act on it, and log the outcome.

Recent orders panel in chat showing a paid and fulfilled Shopify order next to the customer conversation
Perceive

It reads the whole situation

The AI agent captures the customer's message along with the context around it: the page they are on, their order history, past customer interactions, even screenshots they attach. Account details from your store or CRM sit in view, so it knows who is asking before it answers.

Reason

It plans against your rules

The agent weighs the question against your knowledge base and instructions, decides whether it can resolve the case alone, and picks the next step. Simple customer queries get answered on the spot. Sensitive ones follow the boundaries you wrote.

Custom instructions editor where you define the AI agent's role, tone, and boundaries
Multi-step skill that gets the chat transcript, qualifies the lead with AI, creates it in Salesforce, and posts to Slack
Act

It completes tasks for the customer

Beyond answering, the AI agent executes multi-step service workflows: it creates and updates tickets, collects customer details, issues a discount code, or calls your backend systems through a webhook mid-conversation. AI agents complete tasks like these without human intervention, so service requests that used to wait for a person get done in the chat.

Measure

Every interaction is logged

Each conversation lands in your reports: what the AI agent resolved, what it transferred to human agents, and how customers rated it, so you know exactly where to improve service quality next.

Reports overview with earned sales, AI agent sales, total cases, and automated chats per hour

Skills are how your AI agent takes action

A skill is a plain-sentence rule that tells the AI agent when to act and what to do. No code, no flow charts. These five ship ready to run - watch each one work before you sign up.

Chat Supervision

When a customer asks about a product, pull a teammate in to keep an eye on the sale.

Test this skill on your website

Abuse Detection

When a chat turns abusive, close it with a policy warning.

Test this skill on your website

After-Hours Support

When the team is offline, collect the details and promise a reply the next business day.

Test this skill on your website

Instant Transfer

When a customer writes in Spanish, route the chat to the Spanish-speaking team.

Test this skill on your website

Advanced Transfer

When a question needs an expert, transfer it to the Support team.

Test this skill on your website

Write your own

Trigger on intent, keywords, or the page the visitor is on. Up to ten skills per agent.

Write your own skill

Trained entirely on your own knowledge base

The AI agent answers only from sources you approve, so every reply reflects your business and delivers accurate, up-to-date answers.

Website section of the Knowledge hub, scanning site pages to train the AI agent

Website

Paste a URL and the agent scans up to 5,000 subpages, then rescans on the schedule you set, from every 5 days to once a year.

Files section of the Knowledge hub with uploaded documents that feed the AI agent's knowledge base

Files

Upload PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, or CSV files up to 50 MB each. Product sheets and policies become relevant information the agent can quote.

Articles section of the Knowledge hub for writing knowledge sources directly in the platform

Articles

Write answers directly in the platform for the customer questions your website does not cover. Edits go live in real time.

Knowledge hub overview listing the website, file, and article sources the AI agent draws from

One update fixes every answer

The same knowledge management layer powers the AI agent in chat, the reply suggestions your support agents see, and the Copilot they ask questions to. Change a price or a policy in one source, and every answer follows within minutes.

Build your knowledge base

Human agents and AI agents, one team

The most effective AI systems complement human agents. Support AI agents take the volume, and you decide who takes the first line.

AI agent transferring a customer conversation to Sara, a human agent, with the full chat history attached

AI first, or AI as backup

Per team, you pick the priority: the AI agent handles everything and human agents get what is left, or your team leads and the agent steps in when everyone is busy or offline. When it escalates, the handoff carries the full context, and if nobody picks up within 30 seconds, it creates a ticket, so customer support never drops a request.

An AI copilot behind every reply

Support agents get agent assistance on their side of the desk too: reply suggestions drafted from the knowledge base, a Refine tool that fixes tone and grammar in one click, and AI summaries so the next person reads three lines instead of thirty. The AI copilot answers their questions from the same sources, and personalized support gets faster without getting colder.

Give your team a copilot
AI-drafted reply tagged with the language, answer length, and tone of voice rules applied to it

Connect AI agents to your backend systems

AI agents earn their keep when they can touch your core business systems. Connect AI agents to enterprise platforms and everyday tools through native integrations, webhooks, and an API - the difference between an AI agent platform and a bot bolted onto your site.

Shopify

Live orders, carts, and products sit next to the conversation. The agent answers about account details and order status from real data.

CRM workflows

Qualified leads land in Salesforce or HubSpot automatically, with the conversation attached. No copy-paste between tools.

Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Slack

New contacts join your Klaviyo or Mailchimp list, and wins get posted in Slack the moment they happen.

Customer profile with contact details, total spend, and order count beside a list of their recent conversations

Webhooks during the conversation

A custom skill can call any external endpoint mid-chat: check a coupon's eligibility, look up a delivery in your logistics tool, read a subscription tier from your billing system, or push the customer's event into your customer data platform. Seamless integration with enterprise platforms is one HTTP request away, and everything the agent did is logged in the skill runs.

One AI agent, every channel your customers use

Frictionless omnichannel access improves the customer experience: one queue, the same AI agent, the same knowledge, the same rules everywhere.

Messaging channels feeding one Text inbox where the AI agent and support teams work the same queue Messaging channels feeding one Text inbox where the AI agent and support teams work the same queue

Website chat widget

Live with a copy-paste snippet or the Shopify, WordPress, and Webflow apps.

WhatsApp and Messenger

The same AI agent answers on the WhatsApp integration and Facebook Messenger, in the same inbox.

SMS and email

Twilio-powered texts arrive as chats. Forwarded email becomes tickets, so customer support covers every queue you have.

AI agents that sell while they solve

Every support conversation is a chance to recommend a product, recover an abandoned cart, or close a sale. Text AI agents find the opportunity automatically.

A chat interface with an AI customer support agent recommending headphone models to a customer through automated product suggestions. An AI customer service agent exchanging automated chat messages with a customer, showing how customer service software collects email and phone details through conversational messaging. A chat interface showing an AI agent recommending headphone accessories to a customer, illustrating an automated cross-sell interaction with product options. An automated chat between an AI sales agent and a customer, sharing a discount code and demonstrating how AI messaging tools assist with checkout and conversion optimization. A conversation between an AI customer support agent and a customer about international shipping, illustrating how customer service automation and an AI agent provide delivery details and real-time support. A chat between an AI sales agent and a customer discussing a bulk order quote, showing how AI agents and customer service automation assist sales teams with discounts and wholesale requests.

Product recommendations

Your AI agent matches customers with products they actually want. Personalized suggestions based on browsing history, cart contents, and conversation context.

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Lead capture

Generate and qualify leads instantly, in the right moment. Lead generation becomes part of the conversation experience.

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Cross-sell and upsell

Deliver timely, relevant messages based on behavior and intent. Every nudge feels personal and drives action.

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Personalized offers

Serve tailored offers at the perfect moment. Context-aware incentives drive sales without feeling pushy.

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Instant FAQ answers

Automate over 80% of chats and tickets. Your team gets time back, and customers get answers instantly.

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Smart handoff to humans

Transfer conversations with full context and zero repetition. Pick up the thread seamlessly to keep the momentum.

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From weeks of waiting to same-day answers

Fuse runs student housing across Eastern and Central Europe. When maintenance requests piled up, the team put Text's AI agent on the front line.

"When I started at Fuse, a tenant with a serious issue could wait weeks for a response. After onboarding Text, even as ticket volume grew, we got that down to a day."

Kamelia Kasakova, Head of Operations at Fuse

63%

Faster resolution time

66%

More tickets handled, same headcount

+20 pts

Customer satisfaction

Agent performance, measured in dollars

Resolution rates, customer satisfaction scores, and the revenue AI agents for customer support create, all in one report.

AI agent performance report with resolution rate and handled conversations

Service quality you can audit

The AI agent report tracks the resolution rate, handled conversations, transferred chats, and customer satisfaction split by who answered: AI alone, human agents alone, or both. If you sell online, sales are attributed for 30 days after the chat, because 80% of chat-related sales happen after the conversation ends. A wins counter keeps the running total of sales closed, leads qualified, and customers served on screen.

Wembley

$1.5M

Revenue after 8 months

Sephora

+25%

Average order value

Stratco

80%

AI resolution rate

Deploy your AI agent in minutes

Teams deploy AI agents in minutes. The AI tools are no-code from signup to go-live: point at your content, set the rules, done.

  1. Add your knowledge

    Start the free trial with your business email and paste your website URL. The AI agent builds its knowledge base from your pages, files, and articles.

  2. Set instructions and skills

    Pick a tone of voice, write instructions for role and boundaries, choose your languages, and turn on the skills you want. Test it before customers see it.

  3. Go live everywhere

    Add the widget with a snippet or the AI chatbot builder integrations for Shopify, WordPress, and Webflow. Plug in WhatsApp, Messenger, or SMS when you are ready.

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Free for 14 days. No credit card required.

AI customer service agents, explained

Customer service AI agents have moved from experiment to default. Here is what buyers weigh, and the key features they compare, before choosing an AI customer service platform.

What AI agents change about customer service operations

The economics move first. Automating repetitive inquiries lowers labor costs, with industry benchmarks putting the reduction in service operations costs at up to 30% and the drop in first-response times at up to 74%. Studies of customer support operations also report customer satisfaction gains of 15 to 20% and a 25 to 40% cut in low-value work for support teams.

Analyst projections put over 70% of customer queries in the hands of AI-powered virtual assistants within a few years, and support teams that deploy AI agents report leaner service operations, improved customer satisfaction, and a better customer experience at the same time.

Behind the numbers sits a deeper change: customers get guided self-service instead of static documentation, service teams scale to thousands of simultaneous conversations during peak times, and customer interactions are logged for analysis. The AI tools that win track trends across service interactions, including customer sentiment, and turn them into operational decisions.

Text inbox where the AI agent resolves student housing chats, with AI agent views, a solved queue, and a customers served counter

Key features of customer support AI agents

Vendors package the same core differently - an AI agent platform, an AI agent builder, an AI agent studio - so compare key features instead of labels.

Grounded answers

The best AI agents reply from your knowledge base alone and show the relevant information they used.

Clean escalation

A handoff to human agents carries the full conversation, following the agent operating procedures you set: when to answer, when to act, when to hand off.

Real actions

AI agents for customer service should complete tasks: retrieve customer data from your CRM or customer data platform, execute multi-step service workflows, and connect to backend systems via APIs.

Omnichannel by default

One customer service platform supports chat, email, and messaging, so customer interactions land in a single queue instead of five tools.

Multilingual and personal

Multilingual support and personalized service, shaped by each customer's history and customer needs.

Honest reporting

Resolution rate, customer satisfaction scores, and agent performance in one view.

It should not matter whether you run a lean helpdesk or an enterprise service cloud; the key features stay the same. Text covers it as part of a complete AI customer service software stack, so support agents, tickets, and reporting are already there.

How support teams put AI agents to work

Ecommerce teams automate support around orders - where is my order, returns, product availability - and an AI chatbot for ecommerce doubles as an AI shopping assistant that recommends and sells. SaaS companies lean on AI-powered customer support for onboarding and how-to customer questions in everyday support operations. Service teams in regulated industries answer from published policies: an AI chatbot for banking handles rates and fees questions and escalates the sensitive cases. The pattern behind every use case is the same: customer expectations moved to instant, specific answers, and AI agents for customer service are how customer support catches up without burning out the people doing it.

Will AI agents replace customer service teams?

No. The most effective deployments pair AI support with people: the agent absorbs routine tasks and repetitive customer issues without human intervention, and human agents keep the judgment calls, the exceptions, and the relationships. Some customer requests need empathy, and some need technical support from an engineer. A customer service chatbot that only deflects tickets treats every conversation as a cost. An AI agent that reads customer needs treats each one as a chance to help someone buy, renew, or stay. That is the difference between cutting customer support and upgrading it - and why improved customer satisfaction is the number that decides whether your deployment worked.

Frequently Asked Questions

An AI customer service agent is software that resolves customer inquiries on its own. It combines large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing to read each question, understand customer intent, and write a specific answer from your business content. Unlike a scripted bot, it can also act: create tickets, check orders, and hand conversations to human agents when a person is the right call. The payoff is a faster, more consistent customer experience.

No developer needed. Sign up for a free Text trial, paste your website URL, and the AI agent builds a knowledge base from your content automatically. Choose a tone of voice, pick which pages to train on, add custom answers where you want them. Most teams take AI support live the same day.

The AI agent answers strictly from the content you provide. It doesn't pull from random internet sources or third-party data. Test it on your real customer questions before going live, refine your knowledge base as you learn which customer issues come up, and you stay in full control of what it knows and how it responds.

It runs skills: it sends personalized welcome messages, creates and updates support tickets, collects customer details mid-conversation, offers discount codes, and calls your backend systems through webhooks to check an order or a subscription. Each skill toggles on or off to fit how your customer support teams actually work.

Yes. You choose whether the AI agent replies in one language, several, or all of them, and it sticks to your list. Multilingual support works out of the box, with no separate setup per language. Serving people in their own words is one of the quickest customer experience wins.

Text meets SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, PCI DSS (SAQ A), and Data Privacy Framework standards. The AI agent trains only on the content you provide, and it stays away from other customers' data and outside sources. Your information stays under your control.

The best AI agents for customer service share the same key features: grounded answers from your knowledge base, clean escalation to human agents, actions in your backend systems, and reporting you can audit. Whether a vendor calls it an AI agent platform or an AI agent builder, test it the same way: connect your content, run your real customer questions, and measure the resolution rate. Text's customer support AI agents are built for exactly that test, and the free trial makes it easy to run.

A chatbot follows a script and breaks the moment a customer phrases something differently. AI agents for customer service understand context, remember conversation history, learn from your customer data, and take action: creating tickets, offering discounts, calling your backend systems, and routing conversations. Those are the key features a script cannot deliver. And because it's part of Text's AI customer service software, it's connected to your live chat, help desk, and reporting from day one: one AI agent platform instead of a patchwork.

Websites (full site or single pages), uploaded files (PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, CSV, up to 50 MB), and articles you write directly in the platform. Knowledge sources auto-update on the schedule you set, so your AI agent stays current on its own.

Yes. Tone of voice (professional, concise, friendly, casual, or polite), response length (short, standard, or long), and custom instructions up to 10,000 characters, where you define its role, personality, and constraints. It sounds like your brand from the first message.

That's how it's built. The AI agent handles repetitive customer requests. Human agents handle the conversations that need judgment or a personal touch. Handoffs come with full context, so nobody starts from scratch, and if no teammate picks up within 30 seconds, the AI agent creates a ticket instead. Your customer support agents get agent assistance built in: AI-powered reply suggestions and an AI copilot to respond faster.

The AI agent report shows the resolution rate, how many customer interactions it handled, customer satisfaction scores for AI-only and AI-assisted chats, and how many conversations were transferred to human agents. If you sell online, sales that start in a conversation are attributed in dollars.

Every Text plan is a full customer service platform with an AI agent and a set number of AI resolutions included; you can check current plans on the pricing page. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial, no credit card required, so you can count what it resolves before you pay anything.

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