PParloa builds an AI Agent Management Platform for enterprise customer experience across voice, chat, and messaging. The platform lets organizations design, deploy, and manage AI-powered conversational agents and route interactions, integrating with CRM/CCaaS systems. It coordinates multi-channel conversations through a centralized management layer, enabling training, testing, and deployment with data flows to human agents when needed. Its goal is to help large enterprises deliver consistent, scalable customer experiences by connecting AI agents with existing enterprise data and workflows.
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Go live with agentic CX use cases faster with Parloa Marketplace. Gosia Siwiec-Kisiel Director of Product Marketing @Parloa Jakob Wolff Martinez Staff Product Manager How much of your AI roadmap is stalled by routine? While you may get one AI agent up and running fast, build proof that it's driving meaningful business value, and know what you want to automate next, the steps to get that next use case live can be long and arduous. Oftentimes, deployment gets stalled by routine IT and security reviews, integrations, and conversation flow redesigns. At Parloa, Parloa believe that once you've implemented AI in your CX operations, you shouldn't need to repeat the same work for every new use case. That's why Parloa launched Parloa Marketplace. Parloa Marketplace brings Connectors, partner-built Solutions, and agent capabilities together for enterprises to scale deployment across their organization. New use cases can be launched as soon as the business case is clear, without building agents from scratch. Connect to commonly-used systems for faster deployment. AI agents deliver the best customer experience when they have the full context of the customer: who they are, their previous experiences, what products or plans they use. The only way they can access such information is through integrations to existing business systems. While connecting AI agents to external systems is essential to increasing automation and resolution rates, establishing those connections can be time-consuming. That's why Parloa Marketplace includes Connectors for Salesforce, Servicenow, Zendesk, MS Dynamics 365 CRM, and more commonly-used products out-of-the-box. These pre-built integrations significantly reduce the manual effort required to get more agents up and running. For a full list of Parloa integrations, visit its integrations page. Launch specialized use cases with industry expertise built in. Connectors ensure AI agents have access to the right information, but to successfully deliver a new use case, AI agents also need to understand how to solve the problem within the context of your business and industry. In regulated industries or highly-specialized use cases, the complexity of such workflows can often be where projects stall. Solutions within Parloa Marketplace are built with industry expertise at their foundation, bundling the capabilities needed to successfully work through a service use case. Parloa vets every Solution for security, AI safety, and proven build practices before adding it to the Marketplace, so you can confidently use them to launch new customer use cases faster. When implementing a Solution, your team can review what's included (questions, actions, rules, and routing), add a Solution to your AI agent through a guided setup, and adapt it to your processes before go-live. Even when your requirements or processes are unusual and you don't end up using a ready-made Solution in its entirety, you can still reference how others have solved the same problem. Let's take a case-intake journey as an example. A Solution would encompass a full agent workflow, including gathering of the information required, creating a case in the service system, and routing it to the appropriate team. With these steps already assembled, your builders would focus only on the more specific policies and requirements related to your business. Leverage the Parloa Partner ecosystem. Many of the Solutions that exist in Parloa Marketplace come from Parloa's partners, systems integrators and software vendors who have spent years solving CX problems. Within Parloa Marketplace, customers can browse a public catalog of Partner Solutions. If a Solution requires additional implementation work to be more specific to a business, the partner who built it can help customize it. Standardize and reuse workflows across large organizations. Parloa recognizes that while enterprises often run customer service across several business units, regions, and brands, one small central team is in charge of building all of the AI agents. As a result, this team spends much of its day repeating workflows for different regions instead of expanding agentic CX into more meaningful use cases for customers. That's why Parloa designed Parloa Marketplace to empower central teams to share what they build within the organization. Now, once a central team creates one agent for one use case, regional and unit-specific teams can leverage it in their own deployment, reducing time to expansion. The central team can track which version is used where, so consistency in agent quality is maintained across the organization. Get a head start on your next agentic CX use case. Laying the foundation for AI agents should be the most time-consuming part of any agentic implementation. Once you have it, you shouldn't need to rebuild it. Parloa Marketplace gives agent builders the tools to build that strong foundation, with templates and workflows to grow more efficiently. Now no region, brand, or team will be stalled by routine. New Connectors and Solutions are continuously being added. If you're a Parloa Partner with a Solution you think customers would find valuable, reach out to the Partnerships team. Interested in learning more about Parloa Marketplace? Talk to Parloa.
Parloa WAVE 2026: AI is changing customer service. The operating model must change with it. Gosia Siwiec-Kisiel Director of Product Marketing @Parloa If you are only focused on using AI to make customer service cheaper, you're doing it all wrong. AI agents have been handling customer service conversations for companies for a few years. Today, personal AI agents are beginning to handle the other side of the chat or call on behalf of your customers. With the new kinds and growing volumes of interactions, the question is how to turn all the information that's available into revenue and loyalty. Insights from conversations provide potential for much more than just better experiences. AI agents are now capable of learning more about each customer over time and remembering that context in future interactions, making them more relevant and personalized. That gives customer experience (CX) a greater role in strengthening customer relationships and contributing to revenue growth. But to achieve these new ambitious goals, everything a business learns from customer interactions also has to translate into constant improvement of the AI agent. As companies deploy more agents, agent optimization needs to be increasingly taken over by AI, while the role of human teams becomes more about control and providing feedback. Meanwhile, the nature of interactions will continue to change as personal AI agents represent customers and bring new challenges for companies to solve. At WAVE 2026, Parloa CEO & Co-founder Malte Kosub identified these changes as three shifts shaping the future of CX. He explained how Parloa is helping companies adapt to them: 1. Personal agents drive explosive volume. As more customers adopt personal AI agents to handle their service requests, the effort to contact support will approach zero. Parloa plans to help companies ensure reliable service, regardless of whether they're handling requests from humans or their personal agents. Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware will operate as a governance layer, designed to sit between personal agents and company systems. Where protocols, such as Poppy, will ensure secure access, Personal Agent Middleware will apply company-defined workflows, permissions, and guardrails to requests, coordinate the steps needed to complete them, and record what happened and why. The shift for CX leaders is bigger than accommodating another channel. It's preparing service operations to handle requests that arrive through agents, while preserving the company's processes and accountability. 2. AI in CX is becoming a revenue driver. For years, many CX programs have been measured by efficiency: average handle time, containment, and cost to serve. Those measures still matter, as they help lower the cost of running a service operation. But a conversation can also reveal what a customer needs, what's frustrating them, or what might make them stay or buy again. Parloa calls these signals shared by customers but missed on dashboards the "Dark Journey," and Parloa has built two products to uncover it, Parloa Context Intelligence and Parloa Lens: Parloa Context Intelligence helps agents understand each customer and decide what to do next based on existing information about the customer, what the customer has shared in previous conversations, and cues they reveal in the moment. It lets AI agents make informed decisions on whether they should just resolve a request or whether there is potential to generate new revenue by suggesting relevant products and services. With Context Intelligence, there's no awkward upsell attempts and no customers repeating themselves over and over again. Context Intelligence lights up the individual aspect of the Dark Journey. Parloa Lens identifies how the experience is breaking at scale and how to fix it. It uncovers the difference between what a dashboard shows and what customers actually experience. Parloa Lens is a unified observability and analytics solution that provides enterprises with 360-degree visibility into AI agent performance. It analyzes every service conversation at scale, showing what's working and what's not, and catches problems before they become broad-scale risks. Parloa Lens includes performance monitoring that covers operational signals such as containment, tool calls, and anomalies as well as quality control metrics like agent tone, empathy, and solutioning. What makes Lens unique is its advanced diagnostics, which track sentiment changes or customer frustration across conversations, as well as regulatory and compliance metrics. Now, Parloa Lens also includes Custom Metrics, which allow businesses to evaluate what matters to their own industry and use case, such as whether an outbound sales conversation resulted in a confirmed order. Lens also now includes a Relationship Score, which is one clear metric that leaders can track to know how AI agents are affecting customer relationships over time. It combines multiple metrics from every conversation, weighted by how much they shape the customer experience. Compliance caps the score: if personal data is exposed or a required disclosure is missed, strong performance elsewhere can't hide it. 3. Agents evolve into self-improving systems. Insights matter most if they lead to agent and experience improvements. As companies build more agents and release more versions, that process needs to become increasingly automated. Parloa Navigator, an agent design and optimization co-pilot, works alongside Parloa Lens to shorten the path from diagnosis to fix. When Lens flags an improvement opportunity, Navigator investigates what's causing the problem and suggests a line-level fix to the prompt, which teams can accept or reject. Agent builders, the experts behind your CX program, get final approval on what ships. This is what progression to automated improvement looks like: business experts remain in control of the customer experience, while letting automation drive efficiency. Parloa has now gone an additional two steps further towards automated continuous agent improvement with Automated Simulations & Evaluations and Agent A/B Testing: Using Automated Simulations & Evaluations, Parloa Navigator drafts a complete test suite for the agent's intent, tool calls, handoffs, and conversation paths in minutes. Business experts have final review of the new version drafts before they're launched. Automated Simulations & Evaluations show whether the new version works across the scenarios that matter. Automated Agent A/B Testing ensures the new version is better than the version your customers are already using. Parloa's new Automated Agent A/B Testing compares the new agent version to the one that's currently deployed, against the same evaluation scenarios and quality metrics, with results shown side-by-side. Teams can clearly see where the new version improved, regressed, or stayed the same. After reviewing scores, human experts make the final decision on what ships. Together, Automated Simulations & Evaluations and Agent A/B Testing make continuous improvement of AI agents faster, while letting teams maintain control over the rollout. The operating model is the next CX decision. Scaling AI in the enterprise is not just a matter of deploying more agents. It's a matter of deciding how the business will serve new kinds of requests, turn conversations into useful understanding, and release agent changes with evidence behind them. At WAVE, Parloa's announcements addressed how Parloa is preparing its customers for each shift. Personal Agent Middleware helps companies reliably handle requests from personal AI agents. Context Intelligence and Parloa Lens shed light on interactions, making it possible to understand customers and improve service quality at scale. Parloa Navigator works alongside Lens, with Automated Simulations & Evaluations and Agent A/B testing, to support automated agent improvement with humans in control. Service operations are being tested with what types of interactions their teams can handle, how personalized they can be, and how well they can learn and adapt with the information they have. It's not a situation of wait and see, it's a matter of acting now. Ready to act on each shift? Talk to Parloa.
McKinsey and Parloa team up to help companies adopt customer-service AI. McKinsey's survey found about 30% of roughly 500 organizations had reached level-three maturity in key AI governance areas. The partnership has no announced implementation timetable. Oct 28, 2026, 7:18 AM PDT McKinsey & Company and Parloa announced a customer-service AI partnership Wednesday, pairing readiness reviews and agent design as companies face concerns over governance and security for agentic systems. McKinsey's teams, including QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, are expected to assess whether clients are prepared to use agentic AI and help develop solutions. The firms also plan to advise on technology choices, governance structures and talent needs. Parloa said its platform supports building, optimizing and managing AI agents across customer relationships and service channels. Discover more Economic analysis reports Financial market insights Daily news updates Parloa said it and McKinsey are already advising several large clients together, though it named none. The announcement did not disclose pricing, commercial terms or an implementation timetable. McKinsey Partner Brian Blackader said the collaboration could improve service quality, customer loyalty and revenue. The announcement reported no measured results. McKinsey's 2026 AI Trust Maturity Survey gathered responses from about 500 organizations between December 2025 and January 2026. About 30% reached maturity level three or higher in strategy, governance and agentic AI governance. Nearly two-thirds cited security and risk as the leading barrier to scaling agentic AI. The figures do not establish that the other organizations have no governance controls. Parloa also cited a survey that it said found fewer than 25% of customer-experience operators felt confident designing and evaluating AI agents. Its announcement did not provide the survey's sample size or field dates. The new alliance follows a separate arrangement in which clients could contract with Parloa for its platform and hire TELUS Digital for implementation and related services, TELUS Digital said. EconoTimes previously reported on that partnership. McKinsey Partner Becca Kleinstein is scheduled to speak at Parloa's WAVE Summit in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 4-5.
Beyond authorization: Ensuring reliable service when personal AI agents are your customers. Csaba Tamas Chief Product Officer @Parloa Consumers are excitedly turning to AI to take care of the tasks they never wanted to handle: fighting a bill, booking an appointment, initiating a return, etc. The quick adoption of products like Meta's personal AI agent Muse, which surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded app in the App Store just 10 days post-launch, is evidence of such enthusiasm. But an AI agent contacting customer service doesn't operate the same way a human customer does, and businesses must adapt to this new reality. They need to verify what the customer authorized and guide the request through the right steps to resolution. Giving the personal agent access is only the beginning. That's why at WAVE, Parloa Inc. announced a governance layer for personal AI agents. Now, Parloa Inc. is building on it with middleware to ensure every support interaction adheres to the permission and workflow guidelines of its customers' companies and industries, whether the request comes from a human or their personal AI agent. What happens when customers' agents request service? Until recently, if a customer lost a card, they would call the support line, and an agent (human or AI) would verify their identity, ask when the card went missing, check for transactions after that date, reverse any that appeared, and handle the cancellation. When arranging a replacement card, the agent could also offer an eligible customer the option to upgrade to a premium card. These agents were able to complete the workflow because they knew which backend systems and system connections (APIs) to leverage in the right order. A customer's personal AI agent arrives without that knowledge. It can search a website to find out how to connect and use a customer's credentials to sign in, and then view information or make changes as told it is told to. But just because a personal AI agent can access a system doesn't mean it can resolve the problem. It doesn't know the brand's internal procedures or the sequence of API calls it should follow, and it has limited information on the workflow. This leaves the brand with a few challenges: how to map customers' permissions to API access credentials and ensure effective resolution, while maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction even when the personal agent wasn't instructed and optimized by the brand. Identity and API connection give access. There is growing excitement around protocols to create a common way for personal AI agents to identify themselves, sign in, and operate with full permission of the customer. While these open standards provide identity and API access, they don't contain every brand's process knowledge, risk policies, or operational controls. So, they can't guarantee execution. Once protocols are in place and the agent gets through the door, it's up to the brand to enforce its policies, run processes consistently, check risky actions before they happen, and keep a clear record of what was done and why. While Parloa implements protocols such as Poppy, Parloa Inc. is really focused on what happens next. Who has control after access is granted? Parloa Inc. believe that personal AI agents should be able to request complete outcomes, while the brand stays in control of the workflows, credentials, policies, and consequential actions that appear throughout the interaction. Because a brand doesn't control the incoming agent's model, instructions, or memory, Parloa Inc. need to provide middleware that ensures guardrails toward effective resolution by the personal AI agent. Access and permissions to enterprise APIs should be governed based on the credentials of the human customer who owns the personal agent, and each step in the workflow should maintain the level of control its risk calls for. Looking up an order, for example, is a low-risk, read-only task, so personal agents can carry it out as a skill over Model Context Protocol (MCP). Issuing a refund, on the other hand, is a high-risk, irreversible task that requires a Process Agent with a sequence of steps and guardrails configured by the brand. No matter the use case, many interactions require several steps, from identification, authorization, lookup, to resolution. For that, Parloa AI agents are needed to govern the conversation. Keep your brand in control with Personal Agent Middleware. Parloa Inc. is building Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware to let brands control how personal AI agents use their systems. It sits between a customer's personal AI agent and a brand's systems, working across personal-agent providers, protocols, and backend systems to apply rules to incoming requests and offer complete tasks, rather than a plethora of system functions. Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware is being designed with three customer goals in mind: 1: Control which agents can act and what they can do. The middleware verifies agents and checks what the customer has authorized them to do. Permissions and trust tiers control access. Higher-risk actions may require extra verification, confirmation, or human approval and have limits on value, rate, and frequency. These controls ensure the personal AI agent can only retrieve information the customer is allowed to access from backend systems. Security checks filter attempts to manipulate AI instructions, limit personal data exposure, and protect tool descriptions from any tampering. Data residency controls govern where data is handled. 2: Turn requests into reliable processes. AI agents see only the tools relevant to the customer and the request. The brand's process knowledge stays on its servers. Process Agents can pause, ask follow-up questions, and then resume the activity. A connector layer brings the brand's systems behind one connection point using MCP or Poppy and handles retries, duplicate requests, and system failures. 3: Make every process traceable and manageable. The middleware tracks each request from the customer into an underlying system and records what the customer approved. Replay and compliance exports help brands review what happened and why. AI assistance helps brands draft skills from existing procedures, test them before launch, and manage updates through versioning and gradual rollouts. With Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware, one connection point and one set of tasks work across every agent provider and protocol, so you don't need to be continually integrating. And by ensuring all refund, dispute, and address changes follow the same set of rules, no matter who starts the conversation, risky actions are checked before they happen and credentials stay behind a lock and key. Every event is recorded in case of any questions, and measurable resolution empowers you to track success rates and cost per resolved intent. What's next. Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware is available through a limited design partnership. Built on open standards including Poppy, MCP, OAuth 2.1 token exchange, and Agent2Agent (A2A), it will continue to adapt as protocols for personal AI agents take shape. At Parloa, Parloa Inc. has always been focused on helping the world's leading brands provide service their customers trust. With Parloa's Personal Agent Middleware, Parloa Inc. is delivering on that promise by building for the next channel that customers use to interact on their behalf, always empowering brands to stay in control of their policies, and of the outcome.
TELUS Digital partners with Parloa to help enterprises build and manage AI agents for stronger customer relationships. Published on 10/14/2026 at 08:06 am EDT S&P Capital IQ TELUS Digital announced a partnership with Parloa. Established in Germany, Parloa brings a robust European enterprise footprint and experience supporting deployments subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other European regulatory requirements, while TELUS Digital offers its existing delivery presence and regulated-industry expertise across North America and Europe. TELUS Digital will serve as an implementation partner, introducing prospective and current enterprise clients to Parloa's AI agent platform and helping them put it into production at scale. Enterprises that choose to deploy Parloa can contract directly with the company for the platform itself and engage TELUS Digital for implementation, integration, change management, managed services and other professional services. The Parloa partnership is the newest addition to TELUS Digital's AI capabilities for customer experience. The Parloa partnership extends TELUS Digital's AI-powered CX solutions for enterprise clients in industries including telecommunications, retail, travel and hospitality, media, banking, financial services and insurance, and healthcare, supported by a global delivery footprint of 83,000+ team members across 35+ countries. (C) S&P Capital IQ - 2026
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Industries
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$564.3M
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2017
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