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Lightsage Raises $4M to Build the Growth Stack for Internet Software’s Newest Customer: AI Agents

September 9, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Lightsage founders

Lightsage is building the Agent-Led Growth platform, helping software companies – spanning ecommerce, payments, consumer businesses and more – to understand and improve how AI agents discover, successfully use and pay for their products..

How AI Agents Are Changing the Way Businesses Connect Their Systems

September 7, 2026 by Ian Miller
Agentic automation

Enterprise technology stacks have grown more complex with every new application a company adopts. Sales teams rely on a CRM, finance runs on an ERP, support lives in a ticketing platform, and marketing has its own suite of tools..

Genesys Puts Agentic AI to Work Across the Customer Journey

September 4, 2026 by Ian Miller
Agentic AI contact

Genesys kicked off its annual Xperience event by detailing significant financial growth alongside a broad expansion of its agentic AI and orchestration capabilities. Reporting its second-quarter performance, the CX vendor revealed..

Quiq Launches Voice Assist: Agentic AI That Acts During Live Calls

September 3, 2026September 3, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Quiq Voice Assist

New capability extends Quiq’s agentic AI Assistants to voice, giving human agents guidance that adapts in real time to the conversation, and the ability to act on the agent’s behalf, all on the same trusted, governed platform..

Who Holds the Strings? If You Control the ‘Outcome’ You Can Stand Behind It

September 1, 2026 by Claire Butcher, Sabio Group
AI strings

Generative AI has moved beyond experimentation and into value creation. According to Google Cloud’s ROI of AI report, 88% of agentic AI early adopters report ROI from at least one GenAI use case. Claire Butcher of Sabio Group, explains.

Anticipatory Customer Service: Help Before Customers Ask

August 27, 2026 by Ian Miller
A helpful store assistant anticipating a customer's needs

A retailer sees a shipment is delayed, checks the order, and contacts the buyer before the tracking page becomes a source of frustration. That small moment can turn a complaint into relief. That is the promise of anticipatory customer service..

Kohl’s Appoints Arianne Parisi as Chief Customer Officer

August 27, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Arianne Parisi, Chief Customer Officer (CCO), Kohl’s

US retail chain Kohl’s has announced the appointment of Arianne Parisi as Chief Customer Officer (CCO), a newly created position aimed at streamlining the company’s end-to-end customer experience strategy..

evaluagent and Fynto Announce Strategic CX Partnership

August 26, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Contact center manager using call analysis software

AutoQA and conversation intelligence vendor evaluagent has announced a strategic partnership with Fynto, an advisory firm that connects enterprises with CX technology and outsourcing providers. The agreement marks the latest addition..

Crescendo Launches the AI-Native Customer Experience Platform

August 25, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Customer service agent talking to a customer using a headset

Crescendo today launched Crescendo Customer Experience Platform, an AI-native platform that consolidates CCaaS, ticketing, workforce management, quality assurance and knowledge. Specialised AI agents run all of it end to end..

Hire for Heart: Why Attitude Rules Customer Service

August 25, 2026 by John Tschohl
Customer service representative (CSR) job interview

Every successful company has the need to hire people who have the skills and personalities needed to build a winning customer service team and to drive revenues. John Tschohl explains that while skills can be taught, attitude is king..

Verizon Partners with Google Cloud to Scale Gemini Enterprise Across CX and Operations

August 24, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Verizon contact center agent and Google Cloud

Verizon has expanded its strategic relationship with Google Cloud, announcing a new agreement to deploy Google’s full-stack AI capabilities—including Gemini Enterprise and advanced data infrastructure—across its CX touchpoints..

How To Create a Brand Name That Reflects Business Goals and Unique Identity

August 24, 2026 by David Maricich, Maricich Health
David Maricich, President & Chief Creative Officer, Maricich Health,

When starting a brand, finding the right name can be one of the most difficult tasks. In a very small physical space, brand owners must convey what they do, who they are, and what makes them special. Here are the steps you can take..

Car Shipping Quotes: Why the Lowest Bid Usually Costs More

August 19, 2026 by Mike Sandy
Car shipping carrier on the road

Car shipping has a pricing problem. Quotes for the exact same route — same vehicle, same dates — can vary by $300 or more depending on which company you ask. The instinct is to take the lowest number. That instinct is frequently wrong..

European Contact Centre and Customer Service Awards Unveils Shortlisted Finalists

August 19, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
European Contact Centre & Customer Service Awards (ECCCSAs) 2026

Anticipation is building across the continent, with organisers of the European Contact Centre & Customer Service Awards (ECCCSAs) 2026 revealing the finalists for this year’s awards. Now in its 26th year, the ECCCSAs celebrate the people..

Clearwave Unveils Unified Agentic AI Workforce to Automate Patient Journeys

August 13, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Healthcare contact center agent on a call from a patient

Healthcare technology provider Clearwave has launched its new AI Patient Engagement Platform, introducing an agentic AI workforce designed to handle heavy administrative workloads across the end-to-end patient lifecycle..

Stagecoach Launches Dedicated Customer Service Bus in West Sussex

August 13, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
A stagecoach bus and passengers

Bus operator Stagecoach South has launched a dedicated mobile customer service bus aimed at providing face-to-face assistance to passengers across West Sussex, Hampshire, and Surrey. The mobile support unit will tour town centers and community events..

£17.9bn Expected Consumer Spend This Golden Quarter Will Prove Harder for Marketers to Win, Epsilon Research Shows

August 11, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
A women shopping in a retail store for clothes

A new report published today by Epsilon, a global leader in data and identity, investigates the gap between consumer intent and marketer expectations, based on a survey of 2,000 UK adults and 200 marketers..

Echovane Raises Funding to Make Complex Market Research a Done-For-You AI-Native Service

August 10, 2026 by CSM Newsdesk
Echovane founders Himadri Roy, Smriti Gupta, Vipul Nair

Founded by product and technology leaders from Amazon, Stripe, Gojek, and Razorpay, Echovane has raised $1 million to build AI agents that execute market research end to end, used by Fortune-500 companies including P&G, Haleon, and Kantar..

Sabio’s AI Chief: “AI’s ‘Token-Maxing’ Era Is Over; End of Subsidies Now Forcing Corporate Reckoning”

August 5, 2026 by Joe O'Brien, Sabio Group
Stu Dorman, Chief AI Officer , Sabio Group

The era of firms burning through artificial intelligence “tokens” with little regard for cost has come to an end, according to a leading industry figure, as the withdrawal of price subsidies forces businesses to confront how little value AI spending has delivered..

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