Why Candor

Build, Buy,
or Partner

Most care AI arrives as a license plus a professional services invoice, and the work of finishing it lands back on your team. We take the whole job: the build, the integration, the operation, and the improvements after go live.
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How We Compete

Four ways to put AI in front of your customers, compared

Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team
01
Turnkey Service Provider
WHY IT MATTERS
We only get paid when it works.
We build, run and improve it
Platform + paid professional services + your team maintains it
Platform + paid professional services + your team maintains it
Your engineers own it
02
100% of Your Roadmap
WHY IT MATTERS
Vendors paid for professional services hours have no reason to finish your roadmap. Features go missing and the invoices keep coming. Eventually you build your own team, or hire specialists in their walled garden, to deliver what was promised. We are paid only on resolution, so building your entire roadmap is how we earn.
Your full roadmap, built by us
Billed by the hour, no incentive to finish
Billed by the hour, no incentive to finish
Stuck behind internal priorities
03
100% of Your Portfolio
WHY IT MATTERS
Collections, retention, outbound, and the rest. The ones vendors avoid because they’re the hardest.
Every line of business
Typically easy inbound intents
Typically easy inbound intents
Hardest queues never get prioritized
04
Pay Only for Results
WHY IT MATTERS
You pay nothing until a conversation resolves.
No build fees, minimums or professional services
Build fees, minimums, ongoing professional services
Build fees, license, AI add-on, professional services
Engineering resources and token costs
05
Token Price Risk
WHY IT MATTERS
Model prices change monthly. That risk shouldn’t sit on your P&L.
Ours
Theirs
Theirs
Full token usage burden
06
No Knowledge Base Project
WHY IT MATTERS

Cleaning a knowledge base is a six-month detour. We build it the way a BPO would, from your recordings, chat logs and training materials.

Send us everything, messy is fine
Knowledge project first
Knowledge project first
Knowledge project first
07
Future Proof
WHY IT MATTERS
You’re never tied to one vendor’s model. When something better ships, we move you onto it.
Best model per job, upgraded at our cost
Stuck with their model. Pay to upgrade
Stuck on their roadmap. Pay to upgrade
You upgrade it yourself
08
CX Workflow Expertise
WHY IT MATTERS

Excellent resolution and CX can only be achieved by teams that fully understand workflows and how to improve them continually.

Built by people who ran care at scale
Technologists
Technologists
Only if you have it in-house

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01 Turnkey Service Provider

We build, run and improve it
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Platform + paid professional services + your team maintains it
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Platform + paid professional services + your team maintains it
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Your engineers own it
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

We only get paid when it works.

Your full roadmap, built by us
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Billed by the hour, no incentive to finish
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Billed by the hour, no incentive to finish
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Stuck behind internal priorities
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

Vendors paid for professional services hours have no reason to finish your roadmap. Features go missing and the invoices keep coming. Eventually you build your own team, or hire specialists in their walled garden, to deliver what was promised. We are paid only on resolution, so building your entire roadmap is how we earn.

Every line of business
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Typically easy inbound intents
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Typically easy inbound intents
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Hardest queues never get prioritized
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

Collections, retention, outbound, and the rest. The ones vendors avoid because they’re the hardest.

No build fees, minimums or professional services
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Build fees, minimums, ongoing professional services
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Build fees, license, AI add-on, professional services
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Engineering resources and token costs
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

You pay nothing until a conversation resolves.

Ours
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Theirs
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Theirs
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Full token usage burden
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

Model prices change monthly. That risk shouldn’t sit on your P&L.

Send us everything, messy is fine
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Knowledge project first
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Knowledge project first
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Knowledge project first
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

Cleaning a knowledge base is a six-month detour. We build it the way a BPO would, from your recordings, chat logs and training materials.

Best model per job, upgraded at our cost
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Stuck with their model. Pay to upgrade
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Stuck on their roadmap. Pay to upgrade
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
You upgrade it yourself
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

You’re never tied to one vendor’s model. When something better ships, we move you onto it.

Built by people who ran care at scale
Candor
Service, delivered and run for you
Technologists
AI Agent Platforms
Sierra, Decagon, Ada, Parloa, PolyAI
Technologists
CCaaS AI Add-Ons
Genesys, NICE, Five9, Talkdesk
Only if you have it in-house
Build It Yourself
Hyperscaler models plus your team

Excellent resolution and CX can only be achieved by teams that fully understand workflows and how to improve them continually.

Handle Every Call, Not Just Straightforward Ones

A payment call is rarely just a payment

Most bots are built for the clean version of a disposition. The real version is the customer whose mother just died and who missed the payment because of it, the one filing with a state regulator, the one whose identity was stolen, or the one planning to dispute the charge with their card issuer. We build the workflows your best agents use for those, which is why we can cover the whole portfolio and not just the FAQ calls.

Modeled on Your Top 1%

Built from how they actually handle calls
We study the top 1% of your agents, find what they do differently, and build your bot accordingly. The reference is your own recordings and transcripts.

Workflows for the Hard Cases

Bereavement, disputes, fraud and more
A customer who is grieving, suing, filing with a regulator or reporting identity theft gets a designed path, with handoff to a human at the right moment.

Fast Where It Counts

About 2.5 minutes to resolve
Our bots resolve in about 2.5 minutes against a 10 minute human handle time, so there’s no need to trade reasoning time or guardrails for a faster first word.

An End to End Service

We design it, build it, integrate it, run it and keep improving it

We Hand You a Running Queue

There’s nothing for your team to learn
A platform hands you an authoring tool and a market of certified contractors to hire from. We hand you a queue that’s running. You approve requirements and review progress, and the build sits with us.

Hands On, Start to Finish

We get our hands dirty
We don’t write the deck and leave the hard part to you. The people who design your flows are the people who build, test, and maintain them.

One Team Across Every Channel

One build, one account team
Voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp, etc. are built together and run by the same people, so customers get a consistent answer no matter where they engage.

Billed on Your Definition of Resolution

Auditable in your own contact records

Resolution Is Yours to Define

We bill per resolved intent, measured however you already measure resolution, and map our rate to your budget definitions.

Escalations Never Reach Your Invoice

A bad answer costs us, not you
When a call escalates to a human, nothing is billed for it. Every use case we haven’t solved for yet is revenue we can’t bill, so the incentive to finish your roadmap sits on our side.

Up to 20% Below Your Current Cost

Against your human agents plus their software
There’s no platform fee, no implementation fee and no minimum, so there’s nothing to earn back. You’ll save money from the first resolution.

We Ran the Buying Seat

We bought this category before we built in it

Founded by BPO and CX Operators

We fielded billions of these calls before we automated them

Candor was founded by the leadership of an international BPO and CX leaders from the world’s best brands. And the operations they’ve led have been recognized industry wide.

Our Head of GTM Was a Client First

And a hard one to convince
He ran CX and care at the world’s largest D2C telco, interviewed about 25 vendors, then ran three in parallel while champion challenging his own internal build. Only Candor held up at scale with a CX he was willing to put in front of his customers.

Enterprise Voice Since 2017

9+ years of production voice and chat
Candor has run voice bots for the world’s most respected brands, starting with Amazon Alexa bots back in 2017.

Best Component Wins

We don't sell a model, so we have no reason to defend one

We pick, build and maintain every component at our own cost: speech to text, text to speech, orchestration and the models themselves. Each is chosen on what performs in your queues and swapped when a better model or component ships.

Keep Up With the Latest Models

Deprecations and price moves are ours
Models get deprecated and list prices move. Both trigger rebuild work, and both sit on our side of the invoice, because we’re paid on resolution rather than on usage.

No Usage Risk on Your Side

Volume spikes don’t change your unit economics

An outage or a billing cycle spike is our cost to absorb. You pay for the intents that resolved, no matter what it took to resolve them.

Champion Challenge Us

The way you already run your BPOs
You already run two or more contact centers against each other, compare CSAT, cost and FCR, and move share to the winner. Do the same here. Keep what you have in flight, give us a slice, and measure both on the same terms. We’re confident we will win.

Talk to Someone Who’s Owned Queues

Nothing upfront. A risk free POC, live in 4 to 6 weeks. You only pay for what we resolve.

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