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Pylon

Support platform for B2B teams that work in Slack, Teams and email

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Pylon turns customer conversations from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and phone into tracked issues with owners, statuses and SLAs. It adds AI agents that answer routine questions, plus account-level views for B2B support teams. The vendor reports 1,500+ B2B customers.

  • Ticket management
  • Omnichannel inbox
  • Ticket routing
  • SLA management
  • Macros and canned replies (not listed)
  • Support analytics (not listed)

Also includes

  • Knowledge base
  • Live chat
  • Customer satisfaction surveys
  • Custom ticket fields
  • Automations and triggers
  • AI suggested replies
  • Phone integration
  • CRM integration

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