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Intercom

AI-first customer service platform with messenger and bots

PaidFeaturedAdded Aug 1, 2011

About

Intercom is a conversational customer service platform that combines live chat, AI chatbots, a help center, and proactive messaging. Its AI agent Fin can resolve up to 50% of support queries automatically using your help center content. Intercom excels at in-app messaging, product tours, and targeted outreach based on user behavior. It is widely used by SaaS companies for both support and customer engagement throughout the lifecycle.

Tags

live-chatai-chatbotmessengercustomer-engagementhelp-center

Origin Story

By Eoghan McCabe

The Problem

Customer communication was broken — businesses talked at customers, not with them.

Building It

Founded in 2011 in Dublin, grew to $250M+ ARR serving 25K+ businesses.

What It Means

Customer communication should be personal, conversational, and proactive.

The Dream

To make internet business personal through AI-powered conversations.

Pricing

ModelPaid
Starting at$39/mo

Essential at $39/seat/month, Advanced at $99/seat/month, Expert at $139/seat/month. Fin AI agent charges $0.99 per resolution.

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Category

Customer Support

Problems Solved

  • High Support Ticket Volume
  • Reactive Only Support
  • In App Communication

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