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AI Customer Support Platforms 2026: Intercom Fin, Decagon, Sierra, Ada
How to evaluate AI support agents on resolution rate, escalation behavior, and unit economics.
Creators · Tools Literacy · ~7 min read
The premise
AI support vendors quote resolution rates that mean different things — normalize the metric before comparing.
What AI does well here
- Resolve clearly answerable tier-1 tickets autonomously
- Hand off cleanly with the conversation history intact
- Pull from your knowledge base with attribution
- Adapt tone to your brand voice
What AI cannot do
- Handle accounts/billing actions without secure write access
- Detect novel issues that require human judgment
- Fix root causes — they reduce ticket volume, not bug count
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