
Beyond the Chatbot: The Era of Native AI Agents in Messaging
For years, the interaction between a business and a customer on messaging apps has followed a predictable, often frustrating pattern. A customer sends a message, waits for a human to wake up or finish their lunch, and eventually receives a response. When businesses tried to automate this, they introduced "chatbots"—rigid, decision-tree based scripts that felt like talking to a vending machine. If you stepped one inch outside the predefined options, the bot would break, leaving you with the...