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Decagon claims its customer service bots are smarter than average
OUR TAKE Decagon isn’t just a tech demo, but a utility designed to solve real-world customer support challenges. Its generative AI platform combines a deep technical background and a deep understanding of customer needs, enabling the company to bring innovation and efficiency gains to the customer s…
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OUR TAKE Decagon isn’t just a tech demo, but a utility designed to solve real-world customer support challenges. Its generative AI platform combines a deep technical background and a deep understanding of customer needs, enabling the company to bring innovation and efficiency…
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OUR TAKE Decagon isn’t just a tech demo, but a utility designed to solve real-world customer support challenges. Its generative AI platform combines a deep technical background and a deep understanding of customer needs, enabling the company to bring innovation and efficiency gains to the customer support space. –Revel Cheng, BTW reporter Along with Ashwin Sreenivas, Zhang co-founded Decagon, a generative AI platform to automate various aspects of customer support channels.
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Decagon , which sells primarily to enterprises and “high-growth” startups, develops what amount to customer support chatbots. The bots, driven by first- and third-party AI models, are fine-tunable, capable of ingesting a businesses’ knowledge bases and historical customer conversations to gain greater contextual understanding of issues. Zhang is well aware of how stiff the competition is in the market for AI-powered customer support. By one estimate, the sector could be worth $2.89 billion by 2032, up from $308.4 million in 2022. Both Zhang and Sreenivas have technical backgrounds, having worked at both startups and larger tech orgs. Zhang was a software engineer at Google before becoming a trader at Citadel, the market-making firm, and founding Lowkey, a social gaming platform that was acquired by Pokémon GO maker Niantic in 2021. Sreenivas was a deployment strategist at Palantir before co-founding computer vision startup Helia, which he sold to unicorn Scale AI in 2020. Also read: AI’s medical revolution: Making doctors quicker and better
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- Zhang co-founded Decagon, a generative AI platform for automating every aspect of the customer support funnel with Ashwin Sreenivas.
- Decagon, which sells primarily to enterprises and “high-growth” startups, develops what amount to customer support chatbots.
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