Transparency emerges as the new battleground for consumer trust in AI

As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in everyday digital experiences, companies are facing a new reality: consumers want to know what is happening to their personal information, why it is happening, and how it affects them. For years, many organisations treated privacy as mainly a legal and compliance exercise. Lengthy terms and conditions and …

The compounding cost of delay – Why waiting until 2029 for AI readiness is a losing strategy

Singapore’s plan to train 40,000 tech professionals in agentic AI by 2029 is a serious and necessary investment. For the CX industry, the more pressing question is whether enterprise environments will be ready to deploy AI effectively when the new cohort of trained AI engineers arrives. Based on what we see across enterprise AI deployments …

How Australian organisations are scaling their AI / CX pilots

The Australian customer experience (CX) landscape has reached a critical inflection point. The era of speculative AI experimentation is drawing to a close, replaced by an urgent mandate for enterprise-wide integration. While the first half of 2025 saw a staggering 119% surge in AI agent adoption across the country, moving these initiatives out of the …

AI is not a cure all for customer service

AI is rapidly becoming entrenched in customer service operations, and its impact is reshaping the way contact centers function. Organisations are deploying AI to analyse customer interactions and uncover patterns that would have been impossible to identify manually at scale. The pressure to adopt these technologies is growing because the potential value is enormous. While …

The rise of the customer service super agent

Something interesting is happening in the world of customer service. Faced with demand for ever-accelerating response times, teams are tapping AI-powered experience orchestration, giving rise to a generation of super agents. But fragmented systems are holding many back.  Three-quarters (75%) of Australian consumers believe it takes too long to get a service response, according to …

Zendesk unveils the future of agentic AI at Future of Service event

An audience of over 600 professionals across CX, IT, and operations attended Zendesk’s Future of Service event in Sydney last week. The event focused heavily on how AI has become a core component of high-value customer and employee experiences. As well as showcasing a range of local success stories from brands such as Petstock, MYOB, …

Governed agents – Keeping the guardrails on agentic AI

As digital agents gain the ability to access bank accounts, manage supply chains, and interact with customers, guardrails need to be put in place to ensure safety, compliance, and ethical alignment. Agentic AI focuses on the ability to complete a goal with minimal human intervention. While productive, unconstrained agents pose significant risks, including unpredictable behaviour, …

Your new customers aren’t human and they’re not all the same

At 6.47 am, Natalia’s inbox explodes. Tyler, Maya’s AI assistant, wants one ergonomic desk chair with sustainability certifications and machine-readable warranties. A smart city’s building management system needs 200 chairs and API integration for their municipal procurement system. A large multinational’s corporate AI platform invites real-time negotiations for bulk office furniture. Three machine customers. Three …

El Jannah dishes Up AI-powered customer service

In the competitive world of Quick Service Restaurants (QSR), the ‘secret sauce’ isn’t always in the kitchen. For El Jannah, the iconic Australian charcoal chicken chain, it’s increasingly found in the cloud. Since launching its AI pilot in September 2025, El Jannah has transformed how it interacts with its community. By integrating Salesforce Agentforce into …