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Acqueon and Cresta Team Up to Create a “New Tier of Customer Engagement Technology”

Acqueon and Cresta have pooled their resources to launch a solution with the power to unlock “a new tier of AI-enabled customer engagement technology.” Let’s take a closer look at the tech and see whether it lives up to its “new tier” billing.

Webinars

Unlocking growth: The role of generative AI in enabling service-to-sales transformation in contact centers

Unlock the power of service-to-sales transformation in contact centers with insights from Robin Gareiss and James Russell. Learn to assess readiness, leverage data, and implement actionable strategies. Join the webinar for key market trends and practical tips.

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3 key considerations for successfully deploying AI for customer care

Learn three key considerations any organization should reflect on before deploying AI for customer care in a successful way

Press Releases

Acqueon and Cresta Launch AI-Powered Revenue Generation and Recovery Solution

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GenAI for the contact center – see it in action

Transform your contact center into a revenue powerhouse with generative AI! Learn from success stories at Holiday Inn, Intuit, CarMax, Cox Communications. Join our exclusive webinar to unlock the potential of enterprise-grade LLM technology tailored for your business. Register now for a chance to receive custom Nike shoes as our thanks!

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Cresta wins the 2024 Business Intelligence Group AI Excellence Award

Learn why Cresta is recognized by Business Intelligence Group for delivering innovative knowledge management solutions to its customers

Press Releases

Cresta Wins 2024 Business Intelligence Group Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award

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Cresta and Brinks Home

Brinks Home™ is one of the largest home security and alarm monitoring companies in North America. They sought to streamline and transform call center operations and substantially improve the agent experience and QA processes. Supported by Cresta’s team, Brinks Home was able to seamlessly integrate Cresta within their various contact center solutions, including their legacy on-premise technology.

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How Brinks saves time, cuts costs, and drives improvement with Cresta

Learn how Brinks Home partnered with Cresta's real-time generative AI platform to save time, streamline workflows, and cut costs.

Reports Library

Future of Contact Center Employees

Explore the transformative impact of AI on contact center employees in CCW Digital's Market Study, sponsored by Cresta. Gain insights into employee sentiments, essential skills, and challenges faced by supervisors.

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The intersection of generative AI and big data: A turning point for financial services

Learn how the relationship between generative AI and big data is poised to transform the way financial institutions operate, interact with customers, and drive growth

Press Releases

Cresta Named Rising Star Organization by CX Awards

Cresta recognized as an industry leader in innovative artificial intelligence solutions for the contact center

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Cresta named ‘Rising Star Organization’ by CX Awards

Read on to learn why Cresta has been recognized as a 'Rising Star Organization' by the 2024 CX Awards, which recognizes CX tech innovation.

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Cresta for post-call

Cresta provides 100% visibility into every customer interaction, and leverages generative AI and machine learning to tackle the complexities of large-scale operations.

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How Vivint transformed performance management and QA with Cresta

Learn how Vivint has transformed performance management and QA, powered by Cresta's real-time generative AI.

Webinars

Navigating customer experience with generative AI: Do’s and Don’ts

Join Analyst Sheryl Kingstone from 451 Research, and Scott Kolman, CMO of Cresta as they talk about the impact of generative AI on customer care and how companies can successfully navigate AI adoption.

Reports Library

2024: The Year of Ubiquitous Enterprise AI

Embark on a profound exploration of Enterprise AI in Opus Research's white paper, delving into the transformative landscape of 2024. Uncover the intricate evolution of AI, witness organic enterprise deployments, and navigate the ethical considerations of responsible AI practices. Opus Research sheds light on the nuanced dynamics, emphasizing the human-centric change management crucial in this era of technological disruption.

Webinars

Transforming contact center quality assurance & coaching

Watch Veronica Semler, VP of Member Servicing at Oportun, and Adam Walton, Chief Customer Officer at Cresta, discuss how Cresta's solutions fueled Oportun's transformation journey, optimizing agent performance and unlocking insights from member conversations.

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Streamlining front-end development: Insights from Cresta’s tech stack

Take a close look at Cresta’s front-end (FE) architecture: how the main FE repository is structured, our build and deployment processes, and our approach to code generation.

Press Releases

Cresta Wins Five9 VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year Award

Cresta recognized for helping organizations reimagine their customer service experiences in 2023

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Cresta named Five9 VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year Award for second consecutive year

Learn why Cresta has been awarded Five9's VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year for the second year in a row, and what our winning partnership looks like for joint customers.

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Responsible AI: Cresta’s approach

Read on for an introduction to Cresta's approach to responsible AI, and the four key pillars underpinning our process.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta Responsible AI Principles

This document outlines Cresta’s commitment to ensuring fairness, transparency, privacy, quality, and risk mitigation as we develop and deploy generative AI for the world’s leading contact centers.

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Generative AI’s role in the rapid advancement of CX

To clarify the value of generative AI in improving customer experience, Metrigy Research explored Generative AI’s Role in Rapid Advancement of CX in a recent whitepaper. We’ll highlight some of the report’s key insights to support your CX journey.

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Navigating responsible AI: A deep dive into Cresta’s approach

Discover Cresta's commitment to responsible AI practices shaping the future of customer interactions in leading contact centers. Join us to explore how AI empowers customer experiences responsibly.

Press Releases

Cresta Receives 2023 Future of Work Agent Experience Award

Cresta's Integrated Suite of Intelligent Products Recognized for Improving Customer Service

Reports Library

Generative AI’s Role in Rapid Advancement of CX

Companies that haven’t yet explored the use of generative AI could quickly find themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the technology haves and the technology have-nots. This report explores ways to keep ahead on CX advancements including: assisting agents with in-the-moment advice and surfacing insights for impactful business outcomes.

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How Ocean-1 enhancements beat GPT-4 in powering Knowledge Assist

Today, we share an update to Ocean-1: A small 7B Ocean model beats GPT-4 in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) while being 100x more cost-effective.

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Build vs. Buy: Pros and cons of building your own generative AI solution

Is it better to build your own generative AI solution or to partner with an AI provider? Let's explore both sides of the debate to clarify the best path forward.

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AI predictions for 2024 and what it means for your business

To help cut through the AI hype, call out common misconceptions, and offer predictions for AI in 2024, Cresta recently co-hosted a discussion with Opus Research, bringing together perspectives from leading industry experts on what lies ahead.

Ebooks Library

Building the Foundation for Contact Center Agent Success with AI

Unlock the power of AI in your contact center! Explore strategies for exceptional employee experiences and unparalleled customer satisfaction in this latest whitepaper by Frost & Sullivan. Discover how AI revolutionizes agent performance. Download now for transformative insights.

Reports Library

How to Capitalize on Generative AI

This 'Harvard Business Review' article draws on research comprising studies of specific generative-AI projects and broad analyses of how the technology will affect tasks and jobs throughout the economy.

Media Coverage

In 2023, generative AI made inroads in customer service

This year saw the rise of new intelligent capabilities for contact centers to support human and virtual agents in their abilities to deliver effective answers and services faster.

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Reimagine coaching and QA with Cresta’s cutting-edge AI

There’s a particularly compelling opportunity to fundamentally reimagine coaching and QA functions using generative AI. Learn how Vivint, a leading provider of home security systems, has evolved in these areas thanks to Cresta.

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Unlocking personalization at scale with the power of AI

For revenue-generating and service-to-sales contact centers, personalization is no longer a nice-to-have. We'll explore 4 ways to scale personalization in the contact center.

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Security as a competitive advantage: evolving with the threat environment

Your contact center’s security may be vulnerable, and that’s a bigger (and more costly) problem than ever before.

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How to gamify (not game) with Generative AI in the contact center

Value-add gamification is a compelling opportunity in the contact center. But how do you get a true reflection of your conversations without employees gaming the system?

Webinars

AI predictions for 2024 and what it means for your business

Unlock the future of AI with Opus Research and Cresta! Explore top AI predictions for 2024, unravel the crucial role of data, decode the true costs of AI, and navigate external challenges. Elevate your business in the post-transformer era—reserve your spot for an insightful webinar!

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How custom summarization saves hours of after-call work

One of the most remarkable abilities in large language models (LLMs) is to distill extensive and complex information into concise, coherent, and meaningful summaries.

Datasheets Library

Cresta Opera: harnessing AI to create outcomes with clicks, not code

The no-code command center for building AI driven rules that power coaching, QA, and real-time agent assistance

Press Releases

Cresta Raises Bar with Generative AI for Contact Center Efficiency

Enhanced solutions empower contact center leaders to turn data-driven decisions into better customer outcomes with AI

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Introducing our Fall ‘23 release: Leveraging generative AI to empower better outcomes

Our Fall 2023 Release leverages state-of-the-art generative AI to transform contact center operations with enhancements to Knowledge Assist, Outcome Insights, and Opera.

Webinars

Reimagine coaching and QA with Cresta’s cutting-edge generative AI

Explore the future of contact centers in our exclusive webinar! Discover Cresta's game-changing generative AI, transforming agent coaching, QA, and reshaping the industry. Hear real success stories and stay ahead of the revolution – reserve your spot now!

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How to maximize the value of your telco’s ServCo (and why it’s so urgent)

In light of lackluster financial performance, telcos are increasingly unbundling their operations, and dealing with complicated dilemmas that emerge in the fallout. We’ll explore what those challenges look like, and outline how telco leaders can drive greater value from their ServCos.

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How generative AI helps drive efficiency and effectiveness in care organizations

It’s impossible to overstate the value of positive customer experiences, but businesses are clearly struggling to crack the code on quality care. Fortunately, generative AI can demystify care and help contact centers deliver the experiences customers crave.

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Creating the super coach: How AI elevates contact center managers

For most managers, traditional coaching is time consuming, monotonous, and not all that effective. Let's explore where coaching goes wrong, the enterprise-wide impact of lackluster coaching, and what you can do about it.

Press Releases

Cresta Named a Leader in The Aragon Research Globe™ for Enterprise Coaching, 2024

Cresta is identified for strengths in omnichannel, real-time coaching, and more.

Reports Library

The Aragon Research Globe for Enterprise Coaching, 2024

The enterprise coaching market has quietly emerged as the need to automate the process of live and post interaction coaching is now apparent. Enterprise Coaching the most popular in Sales and Contact Centers but it is not limited to those roles. In Aragon's first Enterprise Coaching Globe, they evaluate 15 providers.

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Cresta recognized as Leader in The Aragon Research Globe for Coaching

Coaching is a long-established best practice for managers hoping to drive agent performance, but traditional coaching is time consuming and labor intensive, making it difficult for supervisors to effectively coach even a small team of agents — let alone scale coaching to entire contact centers.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Telco & Communications

The telco and communications industry is facing a multitude of challenges. Cresta’s generative AI platform drives real business results in every interaction.

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Cresta CTO & Co-Founder on Driving Contact Center Revenue with AI

Cresta’s CTO and co-founder, Tim Shi, recently discussed the impact if AI on revenue generating contact centers with analyst Jon Arnold. Here are highlights from that discussion.

Webinars

Revenue generation strategies in the communication space

Dive into the heart of enterprise communications with Cresta and EM360! This exclusive webinar features insights from Analyst Jon Arnold and Tim Shi, Co-Founder and CTO of Cresta. Explore innovative revenue strategies, exceptional user experiences, and the hottest opportunities in the contact center industry.

Reports Library

The US Customer Experience Decision-Makers’ Guide

The "US Customer Experience Decision-Makers' Guide (2023-24 – 6th edition)," a pivotal annual report dissecting the CX strategy, performance, operations, and technology landscape of organizations in the United States. This report is the result of extensive research, where 187 senior CX and customer contact professionals participated in a detailed structured questionnaire between June and August 2023. Their responses form the backbone of this authoritative study, providing valuable insights into the industry's pulse.

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The Impact of Generative AI on Revenue-Generating Contact Centers

For sales-focused organizations, generative AI represents an exciting opportunity — if properly leveraged.

Press Releases

Cresta Recognized on 3rd Annual Intelligent Applications Top 40 List

IA40 Summit in Seattle October 10th & 11th Celebrates the 2023 Winners Innovating with AI and Generative AI

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5 Reasons Your Post-Call Solution is Letting You Down

If you suspect that your post-call solution isn’t providing the level of benefit it should be, you’re probably right.

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Cresta Launches Hardphone Integration, Bringing Cloud Functionality and Generative AI to On-Premises Contact Centers

This new hardphone integration enabling legacy, on-premise contact centers to access the benefits of the cloud, without fully committing to a cloud transformation.

Press Releases

Cresta Announces Expansion of Voice Platform Integrations to Include Hardphone Support

New offering brings cloud functionality and generative AI to on-premise contact centers

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Cresta CMO Talks Generative AI and the Future of Contact Centers with CMSWire

Cresta’s CMO, Scott Kolman, recently caught up with CMSWire to discuss the generative AI buzz, the skepticism ingrained in traditional businesses like contact centers, and more

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Travel and Hospitality

In a volatile post-pandemic world, hospitality contact centers are in need of repeatable success. Cresta’s generative AI platform combines deep insights, intelligent automation, outcome-oriented coaching, and real-time interaction guidance to drive real business results in every interaction.

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Generative AI Transforms Travel and Hospitality Contact Centers

Learn why generative AI is transforming the way that a leading travel and hospitality company is driving revenue and conversions.

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Bridging the Performance Gap: Identifying Behaviors for Powerful Sales Outcomes

In this webinar recap, learn more about Cresta's evolving approach to identifying the key outcomes that bridge the performance gap.

Webinars

Generative AI revolutionizing the contact center

Discover the transformative power of generative AI in business and communication. Join us in this EM360 Podcast episode as Analyst Jon Arnold, Tech Thought Leader, discusses with Scott Kolman, CMO at Cresta, how AI is reshaping contact centers, overcoming challenges, and propelling successful communication strategies."

Press Releases

Silicon Valley’s Alex Cramer Joins Generative AI Leader Cresta to Lead Sales

Cramer was most recently an executive at Gong and Dynamic Signal

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Cresta Gives Back: Volunteer Day for Our CS Team

Learn how Cresta's CS team gave back with a volunteer day in honor and memory of our coworker, Alfredo Dominguez.

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Cresta Named ‘Strong Performer’ in Conversational Intelligence

Cresta has been named a ‘Strong Performer’ in The Forrester Wave™: Conversational Intelligence for Customer Support, Q3 2023

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Cresta Named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Conversational Intelligence for Customer Service, Q3 2023

Cresta has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Conversational Intelligence for Customer Support, Q3 2023 report, which evaluates 11 vendors across 32 criteria of CICS providers. Download your complimentary copy of the report today.

Press Releases

Cresta Named a Strong Performer in Conversational Intelligence for Customer Service in Independent Analyst Evaluation

Webinars

The Impact of Generative AI on Revenue-Generating Contact Centers

Join Cresta’s CMO, Scott Kolman, and Forrester’s Research Director, Seth Marrs for an exclusive and groundbreaking webinar that delves into the transformative world of generative AI and its profound influence on modern contact centers.

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How three leading companies rely on customized strategies to drive dependable sales performance & outcomes

Cresta analyzed over 6M conversations to determine how often contact center agents are following real-time prompts from Cresta to perform certain behaviors. We then calculated the KPI impact of following these behaviors at the right time. Read on to learn about how this impacted three leading businesses.

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John Donovan on the Potential of Large Language Models in the Enterprise

John Donovan, prior CEO of AT&T Communications, shares his c-level insights on deploying large language models in the enterprise.

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Does One Large Language Model Fit All?

Learn about the pros and cons of public and private large language models and why that matters in the modern contact center.

Webinars

Bridging the performance gap: Identifying behaviors for powerful sales outcomes

We analyzed over 6 million conversations to explore key selling behaviors and the importance of a tailored, three-step approach that not only closes the sales performance gap, but drives successful outcomes. Watch this webinar to learn more!

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Sales Performance Gap 2.0: Deliver the Outcomes your Contact Center Needs

In our latest ebook, Cresta analyzed 6M+ conversations to determine the outcomes that are driving sales performance in the contact center.

Video Library

Cresta’s CX promise

Julian Tiongson, Manager of Product Marketing at Five9 interviews Chris Reese, Director of Customer Value at Cresta at CCW 2023.

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How Five9 and Cresta Work Together For Exceptional Customer Experiences

Learn more about how Cresta and Five9 partner together to deliver exceptional customer experiences in the contact center.

Ebooks Library

How customized strategies drive dependable sales performance & outcomes

In this ebook, we’ve analyzed over 6 million conversations to deliver new insights on the types of outcomes that result from contact center agents adhering to key behaviors - ultimately allowing for the creation of a more concrete, repeatable, and ultimately, predictable playbook.

Webinars

Public and private large language models: How to apply public LLMs to enterprise data

Join Cresta CTO, Tim Shi, Cresta VP of Marketing, Scott Kolman and John Donovan, former CEO of AT&T Communications, for a webinar on how public language models and private custom data models differ, coexist, and transform the enterprise.

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New report: The Inner Circle Guide to Next-Generation Customer Contact

“The Inner Circle Guide to Next-Generation Customer Contact” is a research report digging into the tech revolutionizing contact centers.

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The Inner Circle Guide to Next-Generation Customer Contact

“The Inner Circle Guide to Next-Generation Customer Contact” is a contact center and CX research report based on surveys with over 400 UK & US organizations and 1,000 customers from each country. Download the report to learn more.

Media Coverage

SalesTechStar Interview With Scott Kolman, CMO At Cresta

Contact centers were primarily used to drive customer support goals but recent years have seen businesses using contact centers to impact actual sales journeys: Scott Kolman, CMO At Cresta comments on these changes.

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Recap: Cresta at CCW 2023

Cresta participated in CCW 2023, learning and educating attendees on how our generative AI-powered products transform the contact center.

Solution Briefs Library

Boost Productivity, Enhance CX

Harnessing Generative AI for 
unparalleled customer support for chat

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Four Key Ways to Ensure Your Generative AI Plan is Ready

AI-enabled apps are increasing significantly; companies are forging ahead with adding all types of AI capabilities to CX apps because of the substantial benefits. Make sure your generative AI plan is ready to go.

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Introducing Ocean-1: First Contact Center Foundation Model

We’ve created Ocean-1, a foundation model for the contact center. This large language model is the culmination of our experience in deploying generative AI systems for large enterprises and signifies our latest milestone in advancing the cutting edge AI technology for customer facing conversations.

Video Library

Cresta Virtual Agent Demo

Take the guesswork out of chatbot automation for the contact center. Cresta Virtual Agent helps you discover conversation reasons and behaviors, and automate conversations by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) – the same generative AI technology behind revolutions like ChatGPT.

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How to Use ChatGPT to Diagnose Revenue Opportunities

Learn how to use ChatGPT to diagnose revenue opportunities in this latest post from Cresta's co-founder and principal data scientist.

Media Coverage

CNBC – Squawk on the Street

Aired on June 2, 2023 - Cresta CEO Ping Wu: "Our goal is not to replace agents our goal is to make them better at their jobs and more efficient and more productive."

Media Coverage

New Research Unveils Promising Sales Growth Potential in Contact Centers

To better understand operational shifts and determine how they affect customer service and sales teams across industries, Cresta commissioned a survey of 300 sales and service-to-sales leaders who run revenue-generating contact centers at large enterprises.

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Reimagining Post-Call Through the Power of AI

Why do enterprise businesses need a generative AI-powered post-call solution? We explain why - and how - in today's webinar recap!

Media Coverage

Cresta Selects AI Heavyweight as New CEO

Cresta has appointed the former Google AI executive Ping Wu as its new CEO.

Press Releases

Cresta Names Ex-Google Exec Ping Wu as CEO for AI Advancement

Wu to leverage extensive AI experience to spearhead new contact center product innovation and drive growth

Infographics

How Collections Teams Can Navigate Compliance without Sacrificing Performance

Riding years of economic tumult, collections teams are grappling with market trends that amplify the existing challenge of performing their work.

Webinars

The real story on generative AI for customer engagement

In this webinar from Thursday, June 15th, 2023, Cresta's VP of Marketing, Scott Kolman, and Metrigy's CEO & Principal Analyst, Robin Gareiss discussed the key findings of a recent study done by Metrigy with more than 600 companies to understand how they use advanced technologies for better customer interactions.

Media Coverage

Embedding AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking

As AI continues to revolutionize industries, CEOs are discussing how to integrate this new superpower. They are also considering important questions around data privacy, competition, cost, accuracy, and speed.

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How Generative AI Can Help Collections Teams Navigate Regulations

Generative AI plays a critical role in supporting collections teams as they navigate a complex regulatory environment and growing volume, enabling better compliance and enhanced performance despite the external factors at play. 

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The Emerging Stack of Generative AI

In this article, we aim to shed light on the recent advancements in generative AI and provide a view of how the future AI technology stack will unfold.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Health Insurance

Deepen policyholder trust and loyalty with each interaction. Reduce compliance infractions and costly productivity loss. Uncover valuable right-sizing opportunities. Scale efficiency and best practices to new and seasonal representatives. Do it all in real time.

Ebooks Library

Compliance at Scale: How Collections Teams Can Navigate a Complex Regulatory Landscape

Macro trends affecting the collections industry today and the key strategies that collections contact centers should be looking to deploy to stay ahead amid these seismic shifts.

Webinars

Reimagining post-call through the power of AI

Join us for a webinar on the critical role of a post-call solution in increasing agent effectiveness and driving business success. Learn how it can bridge performance gaps, provide insights, and ensure consistency through real-time coaching.

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Two Types of Contact Center Agents Most Impacted by Real-Time Coaching

Real-time coaching can fundamentally change the contact center. But it will especially impact two types of contact center agents. Read on to learn more!

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ABCs of Contact Centers: The Tech Driving Modern Customer Experience

Generative AI technology in contact centers is changing the customer experience for good and companies are reaping the benefits. Read on for best practices on implementing and deploying this technology most effectively.

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Report: Sales Effectiveness in Revenue-Generating Contact Centers

Cresta fielded a survey of 300 sales and service-to-sales leaders who run revenue-generating contact centers at large enterprises. Here is a sneak peek at just three of the findings from our new report.

Reports Library

Sales Effectiveness in Revenue-Generating Contact Centers

Cresta surveyed 300 sales and service-to-sales leaders to understand how they are navigating industry-wide changes, adopting new best practices, and preparing for the future.

Datasheets Library

PII Redaction | Cresta Chat and Voice

In this document, we outline how Cresta handles sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) in a secure, compliant manner while aligning with industry best practices aimed at protecting the privacy of end users and mitigating business risks for customers.

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Learn More: Cresta’s Post-Call Solution

Learn more about Cresta's Post-Call solution, which increases agent effectiveness through outcome-oriented coaching and business insights. 

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Cresta Leadership Update

Read on for an update from Cresta's leadership on what's to come in Cresta's bright future.

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Going Deeper: How Cresta Integrates With AWS

Learn more about how Cresta integrates with AWS to improve our shared customers' experiences.

Media Coverage

04/04/2023

The ABCs of Contact Centers: The Tech Driving Modern Customer Experience

Generative AI technology in contact centers is changing the customer experience for good and companies are reaping the benefits.

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3 Ways AI Will Transform Operations Across the Enterprise

Cresta VP of Product & Engineering offers insights on the true impact that generative AI is already having on customer-related operations in McKinsey webinar.

Webinars

Sales effectiveness in revenue-generating contact centers

Discover how sales leaders in various industries are pivoting towards revenue generation, the best practices they have adopted, and the universal challenges they face. Whether you're a seasoned sales leader or new to the field, register now to secure your spot and explore the future of revenue-generating contact centers.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Collections

Transform your collections strategy with the power of generative AI in the contact center.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Retention

Retain more customers, more efficiently using generative AI assists and insights.

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Cresta Post Call Solution

Increase agent effectiveness through outcome-oriented coaching and business insights

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Sales

Increase sales efficiency and effectiveness with AI

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Generative AI 
for the Contact Center

Cresta centralizes and amplifies the knowledge, insights, and coaching your contact center needs to reach peak performance. Our products seamlessly work together to close the gap between insight and action and unlock each team’s superhuman abilities.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Airlines

Cresta helps airlines achieve stable success in a turbulent market. With a Real-Time Intelligence suite designed to drive business results, the sky's the limit.

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Cresta for Finance

Cresta’s Real-Time Intelligence suite helps financial businesses unlock growth, deliver better customer experience, and ensure compliance — all while helping managers and agents work more efficiently and effectively.

Solution Briefs Library

Cresta for Home and Auto Insurance

Deepen policyholder trust and loyalty with each interaction. Reduce compliance infractions and costly productivity loss.

Solution Briefs Library

Solution Packaging

A set of AI-powered solution bundles focused on specific use cases. The solution bundles are intended to help you better discover the capabilities Cresta provides and to help you get started quickly.

Datasheets Library

Cresta Virtual Agent

Drive efficiency and business outcomes through intelligent automation and generative AI.

Datasheets Library

What Sets Cresta’s Real-Time Intelligence Apart

A key benefit of Cresta is the power of our underlying AI platform - the Real-Time Intelligence Platform - which takes advantage of the latest research and advances in conversational AI, large language models, natural language understanding, and more.

Datasheets Library

Auto Summarization & Note Taking

With Cresta's Auto Summarization & Note Taking, say goodbye to tedious tasks and After Call Work that are slowing down your agents.

Datasheets Library

Knowledge Assist

Cresta’s Knowledge Assist gives agents seamless access to the information they need to resolve customer issues quickly.

Datasheets Library

Cresta Agent Assist for Voice

Cresta’s AI-driven Agent Assist uses real-time coaching and guidance to help agents expertly navigate customer conversations. With Agent Assist, agents get the support they need to deliver business outcomes and world-class CX.

Datasheets Library

Cresta Insights

With Cresta Insights businesses can extract customer insights from conversational data and instantly take action.

Infographics

Understanding the Agent Lifecycle

How AI-driven real-time coaching stops the revolving door of agent attrition, increases productivity, and improves CX

Infographics

Cresta for Health Insurance

Maximizing sales and customer value with AI in Health Insurance - Four strategies to drive sales and customer value

Infographics

Cresta for Retail

Retail has been transformed by the rise of digital channels, and the growing importance of customer experience. This is where Cresta’s AI-driven Real-Time Intelligence comes in.

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How Will the Adoption of Generative AI Impact the Contact Center?

Cresta co-founders and CMO explore the real ways that generative AI will impact the contact center and all of the many ways contact centers stand to benefit from AI adoption in this webinar replay.

Press Releases

Cresta Expands its Generative AI Solutions for the Contact Center

Cresta announced the introduction of several new solutions and enhancements to its Cresta Real Time Intelligence Platform, a comprehensive portfolio of AI-powered products and solutions that seamlessly work together to help organizations grow revenues and retain customers.

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Cresta Expands Generative AI Solutions for the Contact Center

Learn about the latest solutions and enhancements to Cresta's real-time intelligence platform, powered by generative AI.

Press Releases

Cresta Named Winner in 2023 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards

Cresta, a leading provider of generative AI for the contact center, announced today that Business Intelligence Group has named the company a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program

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How do Americans Feel About Engaging Virtually?

Cresta conducted a survey of 2,000 U.S. adults in November 2022 to better understand how Americans feel about engaging with virtual agents, and how these opinions may differ by geography and demographics. Here are our findings.

Press Releases

Cresta Receives 2023 CUSTOMER Magazine Product of the Year Award

The 2023 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award recognizes vendors that are advancing the call center, CRM and teleservices industries one solution at a time. The award highlights products which enable their clients to meet and exceed the expectations of their customers.

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Seven Predictions for Generative AI in the Contact Center

AI has crossed the inflection point for working with human language. The innovations around large language models has led to a Cambrian explosion of applications. We believe that, more than ever, the future contact center will be fundamentally built around AI.

Webinars

Generative AI: What does it mean for the contact center?

ChatGPT, a cutting-edge Generative AI model, is transforming contact centers as they migrate to the cloud. Cresta, a leader in the field, invites you to join their discussion on how this technology can be deployed effectively, its impact on the future of contact centers, and its human implications.

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4 Ways Porsche is Driving Best-in-Class Customer Experience

Let's walking through some of key takeaways on how to foster rock-solid customer care and a best-in-class quality assurance program.

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Stop the Revolving Door: How to Reduce Attrition in the Contact Center

To better understand the state of agent attrition and how the agent lifecycle has evolved over the last few years, we looked at data from over 6,000 agents across nearly 4 million conversations.

Video Library

Cresta Opera Demo

Cresta Opera is the first no-code solution that lets anyone build powerful, flexible and dynamic AI powered logic in just a few clicks.

Media Coverage

02/14/2023

The Race to Build a ChatGPT-Powered Search Engine

Greylock Partners General Partner Saam Motamedi joins Ed Ludlow to discuss how likely Microsoft's AI-powered Bing search engine is to take over Google. Plus, his thoughts on AI investing trends and the state of the VC ecosystem. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Cresta’s Real-Time Intelligence: 6 Ways our Generative AI is Different

What’s behind Cresta’s all-in-one AI platform? How does it work and why is it different?

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Why Personalization is Central to the Smart Contact Center

We discuss CCW's latest report on the role of personalization in customer service and revenue growth, and the need for 'smarter' tech in the contact center.

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ChatGPT and Generative AI in the Enterprise

ChatGPT, a recently released Generative AI model, has taken the world by storm and sparked the interest of business executives. Its ability to generate fluent and useful text has understandably captured the attention of many leaders, across a wide variety of industries, looking to stay ahead of the curve.

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Five9 Names Cresta VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year

Cresta has been named VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year by Five9, a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center.

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Cresta Wins Five9 VoiceStream Partner of the Year Award

Cresta has been named VoiceStream Innovation Partner of the Year by Five9, a leading provider of the intelligent cloud contact center.

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How Porsche is using AI to drive customer experience

Learn how Porsche is using AI to drive customer experience in an exclusive webinar with Porsche North America's Manager of Customer Care and Cresta AI's Customer Success Leader. Discover how to enhance your customer experience with AI by registering now.

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Maximizing sales and customer value with AI in the health insurance industry

Explore key trends impacting challenges in the insurance industry and critical strategies for success

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01/18/2023

A Look Ahead at CRM in 2023

CRM industry insiders see plenty of opportunity for savvy operators.

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Cresta Insights Demo

With Cresta Insights businesses can extract customer insights from conversational data and instantly take action. Identify key trends, answer critical business questions, and uncover unknown unknowns, like why customers are calling in. Use these insights to make data-driven decisions and inform business and contact center strategy.

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Crested Recognized as an “Innovator” for Conversational AI

Cresta, the leader in real-time intelligence for the contact center, has been listed by Aragon Research, Inc in the "Innovator" section of the Aragon Research Globe for Conversational AI in the Intelligent Contact Center Report. The report recognizes the leading providers using conversational AI technology to improve customer and employee experience.

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Aragon Research Names Cresta as an Innovator for Conversational AI

Aragon Research, Inc has released their latest report, Aragon Research Globe for Conversational AI in the Intelligent Contact Center Report, listing Cresta in the “Innovator” section. The report is the first of its kind as it specifically focuses on conversational AI capabilities and solutions targeted to the contact center.

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The Aragon Research Globe™ for Conversational AI in the Intelligent Contact Center (ICC), 2022

This report covers 14 major providers in this market and reports specifically on their conversational AI offerings as well as some overall trends Aragon sees in 2023 and beyond.

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4 Trends Shaping Contact Centers in the Insurance Industry

Four trends continue to have tremendous impact on the intersection of contact centers and generating value in the insurance industry, and require a strategic and full response.

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Making your contact center smart with AI

Join Cresta’s VP of Marketing, Scott Kolman, as he dissects the CCW study and walks through why it’s so critical to equip your contact center with real-time intelligence - and how to get there.

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How AI helps insurance providers grow revenue and improve the customer experience

Explore key trends impacting challenges in the insurance industry and critical strategies for success

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4 Sales Behaviors Proven to Increase Revenue and Drive Conversions

Through analyzing more than 340,000 inbound sales conversations across a variety of industries, we were able to uncover the key behaviors that top sales performers are doing, that most predict a value add for both customers and businesses.

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Case Study: Fortune 500 Company Drove 7% Increase in Revenue

With open enrollment – and peak volume for customer service calls – approaching, the company was seeking a solution to streamline their operations.

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12/22/2022

Channel Futures’ 2023 UCaaS Outlook: The Year of Democratization

AI and Customer Experience (CX) Will Become More Interconnected

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12/27/2022

23 AI predictions for the enterprise in 2023

In honor of 2023, these are 23 top AI and ML predictions experts think will be spot-on for the coming year.

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12/22/2022

AI Brings Holiday Joy to the Retail Contact Center

Outlining the challenges facing retail contact centers in the holidays, and how technology is helping to navigate them

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Cresta Named 2022 Hot Vendor by Aragon Research

Aragon Research’s Hot Vendor Awards are a yearly opportunity to select and recognize companies across different markets that are ‘noteworthy, visionary, and innovative.’ Cresta has been specifically recognized in the category of AI for the Contact Center.

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Aragon Research Names Cresta a “Hot Vendor”

Cresta announced it has been included in the list of “Hot Vendors” in the 2022 report by Aragon Research, Inc.

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Smart Contact Centers

Which contact center needs are most urgent? Which solutions should you prioritize? How will technology impact the role of agents? This market study has the answers!

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Three Ways AI Supercharges Your Contact Center

Learn how Cresta brings no-code Artificial Intelligence to the contact center, making agents into top performers and supercharging revenue.

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Using AI to maximize revenue and boost conversion

Join Cresta’s VP of WW Sales, Matthew Mulqueen and VP of Marketing, Scott Kolman, as they talk about the challenges facing Sales teams today and steps sales teams can take to elevate sales team performance.

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Zoom and Cresta Partner to Deliver Real-Time AI Intelligence

Zoom customers can now maximize revenue generation, reduce customer turnover and improve call coaching and compliance

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AI Coaching Demo

Cresta Agent Assist gives every agent their own personal AI-powered coach on every phone and chat conversation. That helps agents improve soft skills and follow proven best practices.

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Cresta Opera: Supercharging your contact center with no-code AI

Join Cresta Product Manager, Jessica Zhao, for a complete overview of Cresta Opera and its easy to use, powerful capabilities to supercharge your contact center with automated coaching, immediate visibility, and self-serve management.

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Unicorn AI Startup Cresta Adds Veterans to Leadership Team

"Scott and Adam bring decades of customer engagement experience to Cresta at an important time for our company," said Zayd Enam, CEO of Cresta.

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How to Build Differentiated CX in Financial Services

How can financial services leaders build better CX to foster a loyal customer base? In a complex industry growing more saturated, a few key opportunities to stand apart have emerged. We’ll outline the ways financial businesses can differentiate themselves, and highlight the ways Cresta can help. Read this blog post to learn more.

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Smart Compose and Suggestions for Chat Demo

Eliminate repetitive tasks with polished, AI-generated responses that are based on the most common replies from your top agents. With a press of a button, quickly auto-complete sentences, saving agents up to 5 hours per week.

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A Three-Phased Guide to Happier Agents

As customer service agents grapple with high volume and increased pressure, it’s harder than ever to perform well. Agents who are good at their jobs are happier (and vice versa) — happy agents are less likely to leave. But long ramp times and short tenure mean many agents only achieve proficiency right before churning. Read this blog post to learn more why contact center should want to make their agents happy.

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Auto Note Taking & Summarization Demo

Contact Center Agents spend a whopping one-third of call time on post-call activities, from writing notes and summaries to copy-and-pasting them into different applications. Meet Auto Summarization & Note Taking, and say goodbye to tedious tasks and After Call Work that are slowing down your agents.

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How Cresta Helps Airlines Improve Customer and Agent Experience

When airlines leverage the power of real-time intelligence, they’re bound to see compelling results. Read this blog post to learn more!

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Knowledge Assist Demo

Simplify knowledge management. Cresta Knowledge Assist unifies siloed knowledge bases into one powerful real-time experience. Our AI offers the right information at the right time, so contact center agents get the information they need to resolve customer issues fast.

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How Cox and Cresta partner to increase revenue

Cresta’s Real-Time Coaching Platform helped Cox communications grow revenue per conversation by 30% and reduce ramp time by 2 weeks. Read this blog post to learn how!

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Assisted automation: The end of after call work is here

Join this webinar to learn how Cresta’s Real-Time Auto Summarization & Note Taking automates away tedious tasks like post-call work so that agents can provide better service and move through calls more efficiently.

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09/07/2022

How Contact Center AI Helps Create More Efficient Agents and More Satisfied Customers

CEO & Founder, Zayd Enam, discusses contact center AI and the value it brings to the hospitality industry.

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08/31/2022

How A.I.-Powered Voices Could Transform Customer Service

Inc. cited Cresta’s data on contact center turnover and highlighted the positive impact of conversational AI on customer experience.

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08/10/2022

Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive

CEO & Founder, Zayd Enam, sat down with Ishani Ummat from Madrona Ventures to discuss the innovative work happening at Cresta.

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Cresta and Five9: Teaming up to create the Intelligent Contact Center

Cresta and Five9: Teaming up to create the Intelligent Contact Center

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08/02/2022

Cresta brings more AI-powered insights and chatbots to the contact center

Cresta announces additional AI-driven tools to enable smarter business insights and better outcomes.

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Summer ‘22 product release webinar – Powering insight to action

Join Cresta’s Product Team to learn how our Summer 2022 Release enables modern contact centers to move from insight to action and usher in a new era of contact center productivity while delivering a faster and better customer experience.

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Cresta Expands Vision for Real-Time Intelligence

Introduction of Insights and Chatbot products and updates to Director and Agent Assist enables a new era of contact center productivity.

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Announcing Our Summer ’22 Release – Powering Insight to Action

The Cresta Summer 2022 Release: An all-in-one AI platform for the modern contact center that makes it easy to go from insight to action in no time.

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Introducing Automatic Summarization

After Call Work is one of the biggest time wasters in the modern Contact Center. Agents spend a whopping ⅓ of call time on post-call activities...

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07/05/2022

No Room for Lazy AI in Contact Centers, Says Cresta CEO

Zayd Enam and Moshe Beauford discuss “Lazy AI” and how artificial intelligence can enhance the bottom line and increase agent productivity.

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Cresta Achieves TISAX Compliance

Today, Cresta is excited to announce that we’re expanding our security compliance footprint with our recent achievement of TISAX compliance.

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Cresta recognized for Sales Readiness in Q2 2022

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Friday Five: CX right now

Join Cresta's Shannon Hitson and Brittany Bell as they discuss five tips that are empowering organizations to prioritize their initiatives, improve customer experiences, and recession-proof their business.

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Simplifying The Agent Workflow

Introducing Omni Search and Guided Workflows. Now agents have everything they need to be a top performer on day one. No more searching for answers and workflows across knowledge bases.

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You can’t spell retail without AI

Retailers must rethink their contact center strategy to support the new normal of omnichannel selling by incorporating new technologies. Listen to the webinar to learn more.

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06/07/2022

10 new AI unicorns flying high in 2022

Cresta has been included as one of Venture Beats 10 unicorns “flying high” in 2022.

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Hot Vendors in AI for the Contact Center, 2022

Retailers must rethink their contact center strategy to support the new normal of omnichannel selling by incorporating new technologies. Listen to the webinar to learn more.

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Cresta Named “Hot Vendor in AI for the Contact Center”

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05/31/2022

Where Does AI Go Next?

Asheem Chandna & Saam Motamedi, Partners at Greylock, discuss the immediate implications of AI for sales and customer service centers.

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The 15 Critical Contact Center KPIs to Track

Most successful organizations track key performance indicators (KPIs) to make informed business decisions. Contact centers are no different...

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What to do About the New World of High-End Retail

When COVID-19 hit, social distancing and lockdowns forced us all inside. But this didn’t prevent us from requiring items with high purchase prices: diamonds for engagement rings, for example...

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Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive?

Cresta is featured in The New York Times for its ability to drive productivity and results for customers like CarMax.

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Cresta Agent Assist Overview

Cresta’s Real-Time Intelligence amplifies the best practices of top performers across your contact center team, guiding agents through customer conversations with AI-powered coaching and key automations like Auto Summarization, Knowledge Assist, and more.

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Driving high-end retail with AI

Learn the 8 Ways Retail Contact Centers Are utilizing artificial intelligence to improve customer experiences and Sales.

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Cresta Director: Real-Time Visibility for Managers

Hear what customers are saying about Cresta Director, which provides real-time visibility of 100% of agents calls and chats in a contact center. Cresta lets you track agent performance, get alerts, provide live assistance, and more. Here how Blue Nile and Holiday Inn Club Vacations are using Cresta Director to drive better agent performance - and better customer experience.

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Cresta Named to CB Insights 100 List of Innovative AI Startups

CB Insights named Cresta to its annual AI 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.

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Real-Time Adherence: Keeping Contact Center Agents on Track

Maintaining high adherence scores can be challenging for even highly-sophisticated contact centers. There's a delicate balance between finding the right people, in the right areas, at the right time of day.

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Cresta Agent Assist: Real-Time Coaching

Hear what customers are saying about Cresta Agent Assist, which provides real-team coaching for agents in contact centers. Cesta learns the best practices of your top performers and then amplifies them across your entire team, improving overall performance. Here how Blue Nile and Holiday Inn Club Vacations are using Cresta Agent Assist to drive better agent performance - and better customer experience.

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Holiday Inn Club Vacations

Holiday Inn Club Vacations is a resort, real estate and travel company with a mission to be the most loved brand in family travel. With 28 resorts in top travel destinations across the US, fostering Customer Obsession is a key strategic focus to grow their customer base and business.

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Blue Nile Drives Better CX with Cresta

Blue Nile is the leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, helping their customers celebrate life's big and small moments. Hear how Michael Hopkins, SVP of Sales & Service, uses Cresta to help them delight their customers. He discusses how Cresta’s Agent Assist solution helped reduce ramp time, deliver real-time coaching and guidance, deliver real-time manager visibility, and increase sales conversions.

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Introducing Coaching Plans and Scorecards

Introducing Cresta's Coaching Plans and Scorecards, a contact center's home for coaching and scoring. Managers can score conversations, monitor agent performance over time, and create data-backed coaching plans, all through a single console.

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How Gamification Can Keep Your Contact Center Agents Engaged

Gamification is the secret to some of the most successful contact centers. It encourages reps to achieve goals, motivates them to be more productive, and makes them feel more fulfilled in their roles. The happier the employee, the better the customer experience.

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CX Leaders: Trends & CX Insights Report

The Execs In The Know, CX Leaders — Trends & Insights: 2021 Corporate Edition, sponsored by Cresta, is designed to provide a wide-lens view of the customer experience industry, touching on many topics, including consumer preferences, CX strategies, best practices, and more.

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3 Effective Strategies for Reducing Contact Center Turnover

Contact center leaders can use three simple but effective strategies to reduce agent turnover, improve agent well-being, and create a healthy and sustainable culture. Read the blog now.

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Cresta’s Commitment to Security with GitHub

Security of the Cresta platform is a core part of our strategy and competitive advantage. Cresta leverages GitHub in our software supply chain to ship secure code and cultivate a culture of security at Cresta.

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What Comes Next? Taking Contact Center QA From Reactive to Proactive

Quality assurance (QA) is a key element of contact center performance management. But the QA process is far from perfect. Thanks to modern advances in AI, QA is getting a much needed uplift.

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Cresta Agent Assist for Chat

Cresta’s AI-driven Agent Assist helps every agent expertly navigate customer conversations, helping
them be more productive, more effective, and having faster and easier access to answers. Cresta
assists agents as the speed of conversation.

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Cresta Now Available as a Genesys Premium AppFoundry Application

Cresta’s powerful AI platform combines with Genesys Customer Experience Platform to further enable real-time intelligence in the contact center.

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Five9 and Cresta Partner for AI-Driven Real-Time Intelligence

Cresta and Five9 Announce Real-Time Integration Powered by Five9 VoiceStream.

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Tiger Global Backs Cresta as Company Value Quadruples

Tiger Global Leads Series C, Genesys, Five9, J.P. Morgan and Zoom Join the Investment Round.

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The CX game changer

The contact center is the front door of your business and the relationship between your customer and your agent has never been more important.

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Series C: The Contact Center is the Front Door of Your Business

Cresta announces its Series C funding of $80M at a $1.6B valuation. Cresta also discusses why the contact center is now the front door of your business, critical for customer experience.

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Cresta’s Commitment to HIPAA

Cresta furthers its commitment to security and privacy through the support for HIPAA compliance.

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Cresta Wins Most Innovative Product at the 2022 CX Awards

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How to Clone Your Best Agents (Ethically)

Cloning humans, while technically legal, is very, very not cool (ethically). But you can clone your top agent behaviors, 100% ethically, with AI-driven contact center training.

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Why Transcription is Vital to Contact Center AI

No matter how rapidly contact center AI (CCAI) evolves, it’s important to understand it remains tethered to an easily overlooked factor — transcription accuracy — and it's crucial to understand why.

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Holiday Inn Club Vacations: Driving Customer Obsession with Cresta

Hear how Holiday Inn Club Vacations uses Cresta to help drive its Customer Obsession focus, improving customer experience, and helping managers provide better coaching.

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Reducing Ramp Time & Agent Attrition in Contact Centers

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Cresta Insights Report: Reducing Ramp Time & Agent Attrition

Learn How AI-Driven Real-Time Coaching Stops the Revolving Door of Agent Attrition, Increases Productivity, and Improves CX.

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Report Shows Real-Time Coaching Benefits the Agent Lifecycle

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Cresta Insights Report: Reducing Ramp Time & Agent Attrition In Contact Centers

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Why You Need Agent Assist for Your Contact Center

Agent Assist as a Service for Contact Centers Real-Time Coaching is just the beginning. Real-time text and speech-based insights will be critical for better customer experience.

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How Cresta Understands Conversations

Learn the different methods Cresta's AI uses to understand the complexities of human conversation.

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5 Takeaways from CCW Vegas 2021

Hear Cresta's five observations about the contact center industry following this year's CCW Vegas Conference.

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Driving Better CX to Celebrate Life’s Big and Small Moments

Hear how Blue Nile, the world's most trusted online fine jeweler, uses Cresta to drive better Customer Experience - and more sales.

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Agent Assist as a Service for Contact Centers: Real-Time Coaching Is Just the Beginning

See why Aragon Research is calling Agent Assistance the next frontier of the intelligent contact center, and how to get started with this technology.

Press Releases

Cresta Welcomes Jared Lucas as Vice President of People

Cresta adds strategic human resources leader with passion for building high-performing teams.

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Cresta Named One of the Top 40 Intelligent Applications for 2021

Goldman Sachs and Madrona Venture Group Sponsored Report Identifies Cresta as a Leader with AI-Driven Real-Time Coaching for Contact Centers

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3 Future-Forward Contact Center Performance Management Tips

Demand for customer support continues to grow not only in size but complexity.

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CX Employee Experience: How to Help Agents Love What They Do

In contact centers, we’ve heard time and time again: the bedrock of customer exp

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Contact center employee churn: How to stop the revolving door

Employee churn isn’t new — but today’s businesses are experiencing never-before-seen attrition levels. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employee turnover rates are at near-record levels across the U.S., including retail, healthcare, and the foodservice industry.

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Can You Hear a Smile?

Increased sales, larger deals, greater retention –– the benefits of offering great customer experiences (CX) are many and well documented. But significantly less research has been conducted into the relationship between customer experience and employee experience (EX) in the contact center. In short, so much time and energy are focused on the benefits of pleasing customers we forget there’s a serious upside to pleasing agents. And this is a big miss for those in CX leadership.

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5 Steps to Close the Contact Center Performance Gap

What is inconsistent agent performance costing your contact center each year?

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3 Compounding Benefits of AI-Driven, Real-Time Coaching

Cresta’s real-time coaching provides contact center agents with versatile coaching in-the-moment. By going beyond 1:1 coaching sessions and putting coaching into action during customer conversations, teams are able to unlock new levels of productivity.

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Shifting customer care from cost center to value center

We are seeing a shift in the role customer care teams play across the customer journey. Care teams are shepherds of customer experience and are fast becoming the key to unlocking top-line growth.

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Contact Center ROI: Transform Cost Centers into Value Centers

Like the call centers of yesteryear, modern customer service (CS) contact centers aren't known for being money makers for big brands. If anything, they're traditionally seen as cost centers, with a big focus placed on efficiency and cost savings. But CS leaders are challenging traditions as they continue to adapt to the pandemic rethink the contact center in the age of remote work.

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Close the Retention Performance Gap with Real-Time Coaching

Our performance gap analysis of almost 20,000 conversations from a Fortune 50 software company revealed that top performers had a 65% higher retention rate than bottom performers. And through our additional analysis of 70,000 conversations from a leading telecom company, we determined that the bottom quartile performers had 42% more churn per conversation and 48% more lost revenue per conversation. These discrepancies in our metrics represent massive opportunities for retention teams.

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2021’s Top 5 Contact Center Agent Swear Words

Unsurprisingly, these are three utterances that were completely absent from the 1.84 million customer conversations we analyzed from more than 15 contact centers to determine which swear words are most used by contact center agents.

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The 4 “Magic” Behaviors that Close Sales Performance Gaps

We’ve identified a surprising gap in sales performance. We analyzed 340,000 sales conversations in Q1 2021 and discovered top performers generated $47 million in sales, compared to just $19 million by lower performers (~2.5x). So, what exactly made for such a huge gap between top and low sales performance?

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Scale for Success with Real-Time Customer Service AI

In contemporary marketing, the phrase “at scale” usually means big or more. But in business, it’s becoming clear, post-pandemic, that more doesn’t always mean better.

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Contact Center AI: Fuel Lasting Success in Modern CX

For leaders working to bring about lasting change, the pandemic continues to exacerbate the challenges inherent to digital CX.

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Driving real-time conversation intelligence in contact centers & sales

Learn how Conversation intelligence is helping organizations unlock business insights, modernizing legacy workflows, and enabling adopters to outpace their competition.

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How Conversational AI Helps Build A High-Performing Support Team

Only recently available at scale, conversational AI uses digital and telecommunication technologies to create a programmatic, intelligent way to converse with customers in an engaging and effective way.

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The ROI of Real-Time Agent Guidance

Aberdeen Strategy & Research highlights how AI helps align agent performance with customer expectations.

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Closing The Sales Performance Gap

We looked at over 340,000 sales conversations to identify what set top performing salespeople apart from their peers.

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6 Reasons I Joined Cresta After Google

I was very impressed with what the Cresta team had accomplished and was also intrigued by the direct impact I can make on the company's top and bottom line.

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Cresta Welcomes Google Contact Center AI Co-Founder Ping Wu

AI Pioneer Ping Wu Joins as Vice President of Engineering and Product to Accelerate Technology Roadmap and Innovation

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Average Handle Time Isn’t Sexy But It’s Vital for Modern Contact Centers

Free throws in basketball aren't sexy, but they're fundamental. Footwork in baseball isn't sexy, but it's fundamental.

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Cresta Recognized for Real-Time Coaching and Management

Cresta recognized in Forrester’s New Tech: Conversation Intelligence For B2B Revenue, Q3 2021 report for Real-Time Coaching and Management.

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Why Contact Center AI is a Big Deal for Customer-Focused Brands

The pandemic spurned a mass customer adoption of digital channels. Yet, despite (or perhaps because of) this mass adoption, 58% of customers surveyed in 2021 said they now expect more from customer service.

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GraphQL for the React Redux Developer

Migrate toGraphQL using the Apollo Client library to take advantage of advance GraphQL features.

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Building ML to Make Humans More Effective

It’s one thing to add machine learning and artificial intelligence features to an existing software platform. It’s quite another to build an entire company around machine learning technology, and to provide practical, everyday value to enterprise organizations.

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Demo Day: Cresta’s Platform – Auth, APIs, and More

Cresta's path to a robust API layer that allows us to support our 1st party usage and potential future 3rd party usage

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Cresta Listed in Now Tech: Conversation Intelligence Report

Cresta AI, has been listed in Forrester's Now Tech: Conversation Intelligence, Q2 2021 Report. Read the report now!

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Cresta Shifts Customer Care From Cost Center to a Value Center

Cresta's latest release uses its Expertise AI to help customer care teams move faster and drive top-line growth.

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Cresta’s Summer ’21 Release

Taking Customer Care from a cost center to a value center

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Quantifying The Performance Gap

We looked at over 100,000 customer conversations to quantify the gap between top and bottom performers. This report outlines our findings and steps you can take to start closing your Performance Gap today.

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How Science Fiction Inspires Human-AI Collaboration at Cresta

AI shines best when it's collaborating with humans.

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An Innovative Approach to Closing the Agent Performance Gap

Every organization suffers from a performance gap between its top employees and the rest. This issue is as prevalent as ever when it comes to the contact center

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What is the Performance Gap Costing Your Business Each Year?

Imagine if every employee performed like a top performer?

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4 Ways to Assist Contact Center Agents with AI & Automation

Today’s modern contact center provides critical touchpoints for a variety of customer communications. Whether it’s phone calls, texts, webchats, email, or social media channels, contact centers have evolved beyond

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Cresta On Forbes AI 50 2021: Most Promising AI Companies

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Why Real-Time Artificial Intelligence?

Creating engaging and satisfying customer experiences can be challenging for even technically sophisticated contact centers

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Verizon, Google, and More Join Cresta’s Strategic Board

Cresta, the Expertise AI provider to the enterprise, today announced key appointments to its Strategic Advisory Board

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Prioritizing the CX Metrics That Matter

Metrics can define an organization’s culture and operational style. They’re also a key component of how contact center teams are evaluated

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Investing in Cresta: Supercharging Agents in Real-Time

Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Nailing customer experience is tough. Every conversation, across every channel, counts. And while much in our lives has changed since the 1960s, the site of these customer conversations has not: the contact center.

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Stanford Dropouts Raised $50 Million To Improve Conversations

In June 2017, Zayd Enam had just presented research in a team meeting at Stanford’s AI laboratory when the doctoral student was pulled aside by his professor.

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Sequoia and More Back Cresta’s Expertise AI as Growth Quadruples

Cresta, the Expertise AI provider to the enterprise, today announces the closing of its Series B fundraising round of $50 million, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Allen & Company, and Porsche Ventures.

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A Letter From the Founders

At Cresta, we’re on a mission to enable everyone to be 100x as effective at work. And today, we’re excited to announce our $50M Series B round of funding.

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Cresta for Voice: AI for Phone-Based Sales and Service

Using AI to improve voice-based customer conversations and make Earthlink’s award-winning customer service teams even better.

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Announcing Cresta for Voice

Bringing Cresta's Real-time Expertise AI to phone-based sales and service teams.

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Cresta’s Spring Release

We’re excited to share our Spring 2021 Release: The Sound of Expertise.

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Scaling Behavior Change Across 1,000 People

Cresta combines machine learning and cognitive psychology to drive behavior change at scale, transforming every agent into an expert agent.

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Expertise From Chat Bot to Agent: An End-to-End Chat Solution

Create a seamless customer experience that passes customers from expert chat bot to expert agent.

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Enterprise-Grade Security and Monitoring

Learn more about Cresta’s compliance and security capabilities, including SOC2 Type II and SSO.

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Spring Launch: But Wait, There’s More!

Cresta's Spring Launch is packed with new features and improvements to drive customer value and make our users happy.

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Maximizing Contact Center Productivity

Contact centers are operationally-complex and offer no shortage of challenges for managers and front-line workers.

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Improve Your Net Promoter Score with Cresta

Call centers have been flooded with an unprecedented amount of call volume since the beginning of the pandemic as customer

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The Economist: Does AI mean the end of jobs as we know them?

Hello, my name is Sebastian Thrun and I have the great pleasure and privilege to be with Zayd Enam, the CEO of Cresta. Hi, Zayd 

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A Modern Approach To Improve Employee Engagement & Satisfaction

With so many disruptions affecting workers, business leaders have a tremendous opportunity to

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How We Reduced Our Labeling Cost by 10x

How we reduced our labeling cost and efforts by over 10x, while continuously pushing our accuracy benchmarks forward

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Porsche Ventures Invests in Leading AI Company Cresta

Additional improvements and features on Porsche Connect will be the first touchpoint to benefit from the investment

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What’s Your Average Handle Time (AHT)?

Average Handle Time (AHT) is a tried-and-true metric impacting several mission-critical contact center key performance indicators (KPIs)...

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Action Directed GPT-2

How we made a new controllable language model to make chat agents more effective by making them follow best actions.

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Cresta joins AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) Partner Network

Now, customers can easily bring contact center solutions into their business, and immediately add Cresta’s unique ability to quickly improve each agent in their real-time interactions.

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Former AT&T CEO, John Donovan, Joins Cresta’s Board

John brings more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry to Cresta’s board.

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Former AT&T CEO, John Donovan, Joins Cresta’s Board

2020 is the crucible every enterprise software vendor needs to prove how resilient their apps & platforms are, showing prospects why moving workloads and apps to the cloud need to happen now.

Blog

Announcing Cresta for Customer Service

Real-Time Assistance and Conversational Insights for Customer Service Teams

Case Studies

How a Fortune 50 SaaS Company Improved NPS by 19% in 5 Weeks

The Fortune 50 SaaS provider is on a mission to power prosperity around the world. Their intuitive web, mobile, and cloud solutions generate more money, more time, and more confidence for 50 million people globally. The SaaS provider has continuously innovated on their path to realizing this mission. For the SaaS provider, leveraging AI to unlock efficiencies is core to improving their customer experience.

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Leading Brands Share Best Practices for Building High-Performing Remote Teams

More than $1 of every $5 was spent online in the second quarter of 2020, the highest e-commerce penetration on record. With consumers flocking to digital channels, customers are now interacting...

Webinars

How to drive sales during work from home

Leading retailers have moved to virtual contact centers and sales teams, but what comes after connectivity?

Blog

3 Key Concepts for Creating AI Product Experiences

AI-powered products are more prevalent than ever before: automatically organizing your photos, driving a car without any human input, and helping you craft a perfect email.

Case Studies

Helping a Leading Retailer Sell From Anywhere

Mandatory store closures have left the retail sector especially hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of store closures, a leading mattress manufacturer and retailer needed to quickly transition brick-and-mortar retail sales to online channels.

Blog

Cresta: A System of Record for Expertise

Think about the last time you taught someone something difficult. Did you just tell them...

Blog

So You’ve Moved to a Virtual Contact Center, Now What?

Curious to know how your virtual contact center strategy is faring? We asked a panel of ex...

Blog

Five Lessons For Transitioning to a Remote Contact Center

As the world unites to slow the spread of COVID-19, businesses are stepping up to play th...

Press Releases

Cresta Launches with $21M of Funding

Cresta Launches with $21M of Funding To Enable Office Workers to be Experts on Day One®

Press Releases

Founder of Google’s Moonshot Factory and Udacity makes a big new bet

Founder of Google’s Moonshot Factory and Udacity makes a big new bet

Blog

Experts On Day One

Becoming an expert is difficult. We spent years in our PhD programs sitting in classrooms, reading papers, and programming to become “experts.”

Press Releases

AI startup Cresta launches from stealth with millions from Greylock and a16z

AI startup Cresta launches from stealth with millions from Greylock and a16z

Press Releases

Forbes Names Cresta One of the Most Promising AI Companies

Cresta named one of America’s most promising AI companies by Forbes

Case Studies

How A Top Telecom Unlocked $13 Million in Revenue With Cresta

Cresta was enlisted by the third-largest telecommunications company in the United States. They provide digital cable television, Internet, telephone, and smart home services to millions of customers nationwide. Their live chat sales team handles a variety of conversations, from customers looking to discover new offerings, to customers moving residences, to brand-new customers who are just setting up their services. The live chat team also operates through a business process outsourcer (BPO), which gave the telecom provider limited visibility into the live chat team's operations and performance. Without visibility, pinpointing strategies for improvement became extremely challenging. In came Cresta.

Press Releases

The creator of Google’s self-driving car project is now working to automate boring office functions

The creator of Google’s self-driving car project is now working to automate boring office functions

Press Releases

The Shape of Work to Come

The Shape of Work to Come

Press Releases

The Business of Artificial Intelligence

The Business of Artificial Intelligence

Case Studies

How Cresta doubled the sales conversion rate for a Top-5 SaaS Company

The company needed a way to get more value from their sales teams without sacrificing quality in their customer interactions or significantly altering the way their salespeople do business.