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Handle multi-thread conversations end-to-end
Integrate with your existing inbox to resolve complex inquiries and maintain context across replies and follow-ups.
Scale AI email support globally
Respond in 60+ languages with accurate, policy-aligned resolutions. Improve CSAT while reducing cost-to-serve.
Unified intelligence across channels
Ada’s unified Reasoning Engine™ powers shared intelligence across email, messaging, and voice. Your team manages your AI agent in one place, reducing operational complexity and delivering consistent, brand-aligned experiences everywhere.
See how AI agents resolve email end-to-end
”Staffing is our #1 risk factor in customer service. Hiring an AI agent to answer customer emails means we have a resource that can immediately become an expert in our product, and is guaranteed to stay with us forever. That's incredibly valuable to our support team—and our customers, too.”
Erich Rothaus
Senior Manager, Customer Support Operations at Tilt
Turn your SOPs into automated workflows with Playbooks
Handle complex tasks with structured workflows. Playbooks let your AI agent follow multi-step SOPs using real-time data, without relying on rigid, scripted frameworks.
AI email support capabilities that drive performance
Customers rarely ask just one thing. Your AI agent understands and resolves multiple questions in a single email, reducing back-and-forth and speeding up resolution.
Respond instantly with accurate, brand-consistent replies. Keep context across email threads so customers don’t have to repeat themselves.
Detect auto-replies such as out-of-office messages to prevent reply loops, and continue responding in the same thread even if the subject line changes.
Answer common questions, resolve requests, and hand off to your team when human support is needed—without losing context.
Sync with the systems that power your business
Connect Ada with business-critical systems like Zendesk, Salesforce, and Twilio to automate actions, personalize responses, and unlock faster resolution across every channel.
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Frequently asked questions
Ada Email handles the full range of structured, intent-driven inquiries: order status and tracking, account updates, billing and payment questions, returns and refunds, policy lookups, and FAQ-type requests.
For each email, an Ada-powered AI agent reads the content, identifies the intent, pulls relevant information from your connected backend systems, and sends a resolution-quality response—not a templated acknowledgment asking the customer to wait for a human.
For enterprise teams drowning in email volume, that means inbound queues that actually move. Customers who get a real answer in minutes, not next-business-day.
Ada offers stringent data security and privacy protections for Email AI, including SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, PCI DSS, and AIUC-1 certifications, with zero data retention (ZDR) across all LLM providers.
Customer data is never stored with LLM providers or used to train third-party AI models. PII is redacted according to your configured data policies and never exposed in analytics dashboards or third-party systems.
All interactions are logged at the conversation level for audit and compliance purposes, with retention schedules governed by your enterprise agreement. For regulated industries, Ada's legal team engages directly to address sector-specific email compliance requirements.
For more information, check out our trust and safety page.
The Reasoning Engine™ parses multi-issue emails, where a customer raises three separate questions in one message, and identifies each distinct intent to address all of them in a single coherent response.
For each identified intent, the Ada-powered AI agent follows the appropriate Playbook, pulls data from connected systems as needed, and composes a unified reply. Issues that fall outside the AI agent's configured resolution scope are flagged for human review, with the email pre-triaged and full context attached so the human agent can respond efficiently and within the same thread.
Ada Email supports multiple inboxes within a single deployment, so support@, billing@, returns@, and any other team inboxes can run on the same AI agent, with intent routing tailored to each.
Issues that fall outside the AI agent's configured resolution scope are flagged for human review, with the email pre-triaged and full context attached so the human agent can respond efficiently.
Ada Email integrates with Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud, Freshdesk, Microsoft Dynamics, Help Scout, Kustomer, and custom-built helpdesk platforms through the Developer Toolkit.
An Ada-powered AI agent can monitor an inbox, classify and resolve incoming emails autonomously, and log every interaction back into your helpdesk, so your human agents have full visibility into what Ada handled.
Emails that require human attention route into your helpdesk queue with Ada's classification and context summary attached.