Yellow.ai
Yellow.ai
A conversational AI platform whose customer-service agent handles support conversations over chat, voice and email for mid-market and enterprise teams.
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Product positioning
Explore the landscapeSupport operations · Connected suite
Editorial view of product scope. This is not a performance ranking.
The reviewed agent is scoped to customer service and documents live-agent handoff into Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Genesys and Intercom, so it is built to run against a help desk it does not require the buyer to adopt, while supplying its own builder, channel and knowledge tooling. That places it in support operations and connected suite.Editorial assessment
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What this review establishes
Source-based review
This review examines published product documentation and attributed reports. Workflow examples explain what to check in your setup. We have not operated this agent or measured its resolution rate; reported results remain attributed to their publisher.
Workflows, examples, and evidence
Evidence labels follow the published rubric. Each row explains what a source actually supports, the conditions that matter, and a scenario to validate. Illustrative scenarios are evaluation prompts, not completed tests.
What this agent was judged by
The independent evidence behind these verdicts comes mainly from practitioner forums and buyer reviews. Verdicts rest on 1 independent source across practitioner forums and buyer reviews. This is not the same yardstick for every agent, and that asymmetry is a known limitation.
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| Billing Illustrative scenario I was charged twice for the same order. Can you refund the extra payment? What to verify: Verify identity, inspect payment records, apply the refund policy, and confirm the payment-system result. If no authorized refund action is connected, hand off with the evidence. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Orders Illustrative scenario My order has not arrived. Where is it? What to verify: Retrieve the correct order and current carrier status. Distinguish a real tracking update from an estimate; do not invent a delivery date. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Returns Illustrative scenario I bought this 12 days ago and opened the box. Can I return it? What to verify: Check the actual return window, product exclusions, and order record. A policy answer and an executed return are different capabilities. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Product questions Illustrative scenario Does this adapter work with my exact laptop model? What to verify: Use a current, approved compatibility source. Ask for the model when missing and distinguish documented compatibility from an assumption. | Vendor-documented | Supported source formats and ingestion limits are not stated on the public documentation page. Yellow.ai documents a knowledge base tool that indexes a website or uploaded document set so the agent can answer from that content.Vendor-reported
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| Account issues Illustrative scenario I lost access to my email. Change the address on my account. What to verify: Follow the approved identity-recovery process before accessing or changing account data. Escalate when identity cannot be verified. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Complaints Illustrative scenario I have contacted you three times and the problem is still unresolved. What to verify: Recognize the repeat complaint, retain relevant history, and route it to the right team. Do not promise compensation outside the policy. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Human handoff Illustrative scenario Please connect me to a person who can approve this exception. What to verify: Transfer to an available team with the conversation and relevant records. Outside working hours, explain the actual follow-up path rather than promise immediate contact. | Vendor-documented | The escalation documentation notes routing rules cannot name a tool, so escalation must be triggered from the agent's instructions rather than routing logic, and warns that malformed SIP headers can drop calls during voice transfer. Both are authoring constraints with documented workarounds rather than capability gaps. Yellow.ai documents two escalation tools: Escalate to Agent, which routes chat into Inbox queues with round-robin, least-busy or specific-group assignment and passes a conversation summary to the human agent, and Transfer Call, which forwards voice calls over PSTN or SIP with custom headers for context.Vendor-reported
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| Small businesses Illustrative scenario A two-person support team wants to launch without a dedicated engineer. What to verify: Validate setup effort, existing help-desk support, required integrations, and ongoing maintenance. A small customer's story alone does not establish suitability for every small business. | Vendor-documented | One Capterra reviewer describes the platform as pricey relative to other AI-powered solutions, which bears on affordability beyond the free tier. Yellow.ai offers a self-serve free tier limited to one agent, limited channels and 1,000 records, including 500 resolutions per month before per-resolution charges apply.Vendor-reported
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| Mid-market Illustrative scenario A growing support team needs separate queues and connected order and account systems. What to verify: Validate routing, permissions, integration ownership, and handling of each team's policies in the intended configuration. | Not established | The reviewed sources do not establish this scenario. Validate it in your intended configuration. |
| Enterprise Illustrative scenario A multi-brand support organization needs controlled access across regional teams. What to verify: Validate data boundaries, audit records, escalation ownership, and the specific deployment requirements. A vendor's enterprise positioning is not proof of these controls. | External report | Yellow.ai publishes an Enterprise tier with unlimited agents, unlimited chat sessions, access to all channels and SOC 2, GDPR and ISO compliance, priced by quote.Vendor-reported
A Capterra reviewer reports achieving 50% ticket deflection with 95% customer satisfaction using the platform.Independent report
A regional platforms lead in telecommunications reviewing on Capterra cites the platform's core strength in South East Asian regional languages and dialects.Independent report
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Industries the sources place it in
An industry row says where Yellow.ai has been documented or reported working, not how well it worked there. Most rows are unknown for most agents, because the public record is thin. How industry evidence is counted.
| Industry | Evidence status | Evidence |
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| Retail and e-commerce | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
| Financial services | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
| Telecommunications | External report | The only independent source placing Yellow.ai in a sector is a Capterra reviewer working in telecommunications, writing about regional language coverage. One reviewer, on one dimension. A regional platforms lead in telecommunications reviewing on Capterra cites the platform's core strength in South East Asian regional languages and dialects.Independent report
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| Travel and hospitality | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
| Healthcare | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
| Public sector and education | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
| Logistics and delivery | Not established | No reviewed source places Yellow.ai in this industry. That is a gap in the public record, not evidence that the product is unsuitable. |
Documented capabilities
Yellow.ai's channel documentation lists 24 individually documented channels, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Slack, SMS, Telegram, Viber, Line, Zalo, Apple Business Chat, Google Business Messages and email.Vendor-reported
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Vendor documentation states the agent can create and update Freshdesk tickets, fetch ticket details, retrieve agent info, create notes and add watchers, and can create leads and opportunities in Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho CRM.Vendor-reported
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Capterra shows an aggregate rating of 4.5 out of 5 across 37 reviews, with sub-scores of 4.4 for ease of use, 4.4 for customer service and 4.3 for value for money.Independent report
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Yellow.ai publishes a free tier including 500 resolutions per month and then charges $0.99 per resolution, alongside Basic and quote-only Enterprise tiers.Vendor-reported
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Limitations and implementation conditions
A Capterra reviewer states that customer support can be slow to respond to inquiries, and another says the platform can be pricey compared to other AI-powered solutions.Independent report
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Yellow.ai's unclaimed Trustpilot profile carries a score of 2.9 from only two reviews, one of which says the company's customer service and escalation process are deeply lacking with no clear path to reach a human supervisor, while calling the technology itself capable.Independent report
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The public knowledge base documentation does not state which source formats can be ingested, nor file size or volume limits, so retrieval scope cannot be verified from published docs.Editorial assessment
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Independent evaluation of the customer-service agent is scarce: searches of trade press and analyst outlets returned no accessible articles assessing the product, and Gartner Peer Insights blocked retrieval.Editorial assessment
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Vendor figures disagree between channels: documentation lists 24 channels while marketing says 35 or more, the homepage says 650 brands while the vendor's own review-site listing says 1,100 clients, and the agent is credited with 135 languages against 500 or more for a newer voice product.Editorial assessment
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Basic product information
Yellow.ai is an agentic AI platform founded in 2016 in Bangalore. This record covers only its customer-service AI agent capability, the agent that answers and resolves support conversations, not the wider platform's sales, marketing or employee-experience uses. The agent is built in the vendor's Nexus builder, draws on a knowledge base tool for retrieval, can call help desk and CRM integrations, and escalates to humans through the vendor's Inbox product. Independent evidence about the agent is limited to software review sites; no accessible analyst or press evaluation of the customer-service agent was found.
- Deployment model
Delivered as a cloud platform; no self-hosted or on-premises option is published on the pricing page.Vendor-reported
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- Channels
Documentation lists 24 configurable channels including WhatsApp, web widget, email, SMS, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Telegram, Viber, Line, Zalo, Apple Business Chat and Google Business Messages, while the pricing page markets 35 or more channels on paid tiers.Vendor-reported
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- Languages
Yellow.ai states its agents interact in over 135 languages.Vendor-reported
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- Help desk and CRM integrations
Documented help desk and CRM integrations include Freshdesk, Freshservice, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Zoho CRM, with live-agent handoff connectors for Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Genesys Cloud, Intercom and Amazon.Vendor-reported
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- Knowledge sources
The agent answers from a knowledge base tool that indexes a website or a document set uploaded to Yellow.ai's Knowledge Hub; public documentation does not enumerate supported formats or ingestion limits.Vendor-reported
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- Actions in backend systems
Through Freshdesk the agent can create and update tickets, fetch details, modify forms, retrieve agent info, create notes and add watchers; through ServiceNow it can update tickets and access FAQ repositories; and through Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365 and Zoho it can create leads and opportunities.Vendor-reported
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- Human handoff
An Escalate to Agent tool places chat conversations in Inbox queues with configurable priority and assignment and delivers a conversation summary to the human agent, plus a Transfer Call tool for PSTN forwarding or SIP transfer on voice.Vendor-reported
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- Target customer size
Positions itself as an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform trusted by more than 650 brands, while also offering a self-serve free tier for single-agent use.Vendor-reported
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- Vendor-reported performance claims
Yellow.ai states one customer automates more than 70% of customer interactions and another reached a 50% deflection rate within six weeks.Vendor-reported
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