Forethought

AI-powered customer service platform for intelligent support automation.

by Forethought · Chatbots & Virtual Agents

Executive Summary

Forethought is an AI-powered customer service platform designed for enterprise support teams to automate workflows and enhance customer experience. It leverages 'Agentic AI' to resolve issues end-to-end, empower human agents, and provide actionable insights. The platform aims to reduce support costs and improve key support metrics by automating routine tasks and streamlining complex processes.

Use Cases

  • Automating common customer inquiries across chat, email, and voice channels.
  • Empowering human agents with real-time information and suggested responses to resolve complex issues faster.
  • Automatically classifying, prioritizing, and routing support tickets to the correct department or agent.
  • Identifying and filling gaps in knowledge bases and help center content to improve self-service.
  • Streamlining internal support for employees via platforms like Slack.
  • Reducing operational costs and improving customer satisfaction (CSAT) through increased automation and efficiency.

Features

Visibility

  • AI Surfaced Insights: Provides instant insights from historical ticket data and knowledge base content, including overall volume and top contact drivers.
  • Performance Analytics: Tracks and analyzes the performance of AI agents and support operations to identify areas for improvement.
  • Conversation Analysis: Analyzes customer conversations to understand trends, sentiment, and identify emerging issues.

Intelligence

  • Omnichannel AI Agent (Solve): Automatically resolves common customer issues end-to-end across various channels like chat, email, and voice with human-like conversations.
  • Agentic AI Copilot (Assist): Supports human agents in real-time by surfacing relevant knowledge articles, past cases, and suggesting intelligent responses and next steps.
  • Smarter Ticket Classification (Triage): Enhances ticket classification with pre-built or custom models to add context, prioritize cases, and tag tickets automatically, routing them to the right agent faster.
  • Knowledge Gap Discovery (Discover): Identifies gaps in the knowledge base and automatically generates new content, including articles and workflows, to improve self-service and agent efficiency.
  • Workflow Automation: Automates multi-step tasks and actions, such as processing refunds or checking order status, by integrating with third-party systems.

Support

  • Multilingual Support: Supports over 100 languages, enabling global deployment of AI agents.
  • Customization & Branding: Allows customization of AI agent responses, workflows, escalation paths, tone, and branding to match company guidelines.
  • Dedicated Customer Success Management: Provides dedicated customer success managers to guide users through implementation and ongoing product usage.
  • Implementation Engineering Team: Offers professional services and an implementation engineering team to assist with setup, data integration, and workflow building.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS with a multi-agent AI system
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SSO, MFA, Access Management, 2FA
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
Yes

Infrastructure

  • AWS

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • LLM

Integrations

  • Zendesk
  • Salesforce
  • Freshdesk
  • Intercom
  • Kustomer

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS in transit

Pricing

Model
Custom enterprise
Starting Price
Contact sales
Target Customer
Mid-market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Annual, Multi-year discounts
Free Trial
No (credit card required)

About Forethought

Forethought offers an advanced agentic AI platform for customer support, designed to automate and enhance customer service operations for enterprise-level businesses. It leverages generative AI and a multi-agent system to resolve issues instantly, predict and prioritize tickets, and assist human agents with relevant knowledge across various channels.

Founded: 2017 · Headquarters: San Francisco, United States · Employees: 51-200 · Private