Decagon vs Teneo

Decagon is a conversational AI platform for building, optimizing, and scaling customer experience agents. It brings chat, voice, and email into a shared intelligence layer, and its supported channels also include SMS and WhatsApp. Teams can define agent workflows in natural language through Agent Operating Procedures. Tools for simulated conversations, unit testing, versioning, experimentation, analytics, observability, and ongoing conversation review support agent development and monitoring. Duet analyzes customer conversations to find workflow gaps and generate, test, and refine procedures. Connectors, APIs, MCP support, and custom tools connect agents with data, actions, and escalations; SIP trunking supports voice connections. Listed integrations include Salesforce, Intercom, Zendesk, Confluence, Contentful, Kustomer, Amazon Connect, and RingCentral. Decagon also lists workflow actions, human handoff, multilingual support, and API access. Security features include AES-256 storage and backup encryption, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, and zero data retention with AI providers. The paid platform runs on the web and through an API, with pricing available on request.

Teneo is an enterprise conversational AI platform that runs on top of an existing contact center. It combines Teneo Linguistic Modeling Language with large language models, including models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Its voice agents let customers explain issues in natural language; agents can resolve routine requests or pass complex cases to human agents with conversation context. Teneo says it supports 86+ languages and has more than 17,000 AI agents in production. It orchestrates contact center platforms including Genesys Cloud and Amazon Connect, with pre-built connectors for both, and offers low-code, drag-and-drop integration nodes plus a Public API. Teneo Studio supports building, testing, deploying, analyzing, and optimizing conversational solutions; documentation also describes a web widget. Deployments are available on-premise, in private cloud, and as SaaS. The company says it is ISO 27001 certified, and its SaaS delivery is covered by SOC 2 Type I and Type II reports for Security. The product is paid, with pricing on request, and a free trial is listed. A Teneo 8 promotion offers select organizations two months of free access, a custom AI agent, and onboarding sessions.