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Agent-to-Human Handoff

Agent to Human Handoff empowers you to move a conversation from your AI agent to a live team member when a user needs nuanced help, such as for a disputed transaction or a request to "speak with a human."

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Agentic Workflow

Agentic workflows let you automate complex tasks and entire customer journeys using autonomous AI agents that make decisions, adapt to changing conditions, and continuously optimize each step without your constant input.

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AI Intent Recognition

AI Intent Recognition identifies the true purpose behind a customer’s message, whether typed or spoken, allowing digital assistants or campaigns to respond appropriately.

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AI Marketing Engine

An AI marketing engine automatically analyzes your customer data and empowers your brand to deliver real-time, personalized campaigns with minimal manual setup.

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Complexity Threshold 

A complexity threshold is the point where an automated marketing workflow, such as a personalized email campaign, becomes too intricate for basic automation and needs advanced AI logic or manual oversight. 

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In-App Personalization

In-app personalization means making every interaction inside your app feel uniquely tailored for each user based on live data, such as their purchase history, behavior, or preferences.

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Insight Agent

An Insight Agent is an AI-powered assistant that delivers instant, actionable marketing analytics and answers through a conversational interface, eliminating the need for manual data analysis.

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Task-Oriented AI Agent

A task-oriented AI agent is an autonomous system designed to analyze customer data, make decisions, and complete specialized tasks for you in marketing or support workflows, such as automatically recommending products to shoppers based on browsing behavior or resolving support queries in real time.

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What are Autonomous Agents?

Autonomous agents are AI systems designed to operate independently, making decisions and taking actions without waiting for step-by-step human input.

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What is a Headless AI Agent?

A headless AI agent is an artificial intelligence system that runs entirely in the background, with no screens, no chat windows, and no direct user interface.

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What is a Multi-Agent System (MAS)?

A multi-agent system enables you to solve larger problems by assigning different tasks to a team of AI agents, each working independently but communicating in real time.

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What is a Personalization Management System (PMS)?

A Personalization Management System (PMS) is an integrated software solution that empowers you to tailor messaging, content, and experiences for individual users based on their data, behavior, and preferences, often across multiple channels, in real time.

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What is a Reasoning Engine?

A reasoning engine helps your AI systems analyze your data, apply stepwise logic, and decide on actions much like a human problem-solver.

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What is a Shopping Agent?

A shopping agent is an AI-powered assistant that helps your customers find, compare, and purchase products efficiently, much like an in-store expert guiding shoppers in real time.

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What is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI is an advanced form of artificial intelligence that goes beyond responding to prompts. It can plan, decide, and act autonomously toward a goal.

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What is Agentic Personalization?

Agentic personalization uses autonomous AI agents to deliver real-time, tailored customer experiences across all touchpoints, helping your team proactively adapt content, interactions, and recommendations before customers even ask.

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What is AI Customer Segmentation?

AI customer segmentation allows you to automatically divide your customer base into meaningful groups using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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What is an AI agent?

An AI agent automatically analyzes customer data, makes decisions, and completes marketing or support tasks for you, like recommending products or answering complex queries. 

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What is Contextual Personalization?

Contextual personalization adapts your digital experiences, such as website banners or app recommendations, to each user’s live setting, such as their device, location, or weather.

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What is Conversational SMS Marketing?

Conversational SMS Marketing drives real-time, two-way interactions with your audience through personalized text conversations, rather than traditional one-way promotional blasts. 

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What is Cookieless Personalization?

Cookieless personalization lets you create tailored experiences for your visitors without relying on third-party cookies or intrusive tracking.

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What is Customer Journey Orchestration?

Customer journey orchestration helps you guide each customer’s experience in real time across all channels. 

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What is Multimodal AI?

Multimodal AI is an advanced form of artificial intelligence that can interpret and generate information across multiple data types, such as text, images, audio, video, and sensor data.

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What is Omnichannel Personalization?

Omnichannel personalization means tailoring every customer’s experience to their preferences across all touchpoints, including web, email, SMS, app, and in-store.

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What is Personalized SMS Campaigning?

Personalized SMS campaigning refers to sending text messages to your customers that are tailored to their preferences, purchase history, or recent behaviors.

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What is Polyphonic AI?

Polyphonic AI is an architectural approach where multiple AI agents or models work simultaneously, each specializing in reasoning, creativity, or data analysis to solve a problem in coordinated harmony.

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What is Predictive AI Modeling?

Predictive AI modeling enables you to anticipate specific outcomes, such as which customers will make a purchase, likely churn, or preferred engagement channels, by analyzing patterns in historical and real-time data.

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What is Predictive Personalization?

Predictive personalization uses machine learning and data analytics to deliver tailored experiences, offers, or content to individual customers based on their predicted behaviors and interests. 

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What is Real Time Orchestration (RTO)?

Real Time Orchestration enables you to shape customer experiences as they unfold, using up-to-the-second data from browsing, purchasing, and engagement events. 

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What is Segment-Based Personalization?

Segment-based personalization lets you tailor marketing messages and experiences to distinct audience groups based on shared characteristics.

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What is SMS Marketing Automation?

SMS marketing automation lets you send targeted text messages, like birthday discounts or order updates, at exactly the right moments.

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