Generative AI at Zendesk

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Zendesk offers multiple generative artificial intelligence features to enhance the delivery of exceptional customer service at scale. These features leverage large language models (LLMs) developed by third-party vendors, which are not trained on Zendesk data.

Understanding Generative AI Features

Our platform offers a variety of generative AI capabilities designed to enhance your experience and productivity. Here's a quick overview to help you navigate these features:

1. Agent Copilot Features

Agent copilot includes multiple generative AI functionalities that assist you across different tasks. All copilot capabilities are centralized within an AI hub, providing you with a streamlined place to explore, manage, and adopt AI-powered tools effortlessly.

Learn more: About agent copilot | Monitoring and optimizing effective AI setup in your account

2. AI Agents Features

AI Agents leverage generative AI technologies to autonomously resolve service inquiries across channels, handling multi-step workflows, executing actions across connected systems, and improving over time by learning from each resolution.

Learn more: Getting started with AI agents

3. QA Features

QA employs generative AI to automate and enhance the quality review process through AI-generated prompt suggestions and prompt-based insights.

Learn more: About AI insights in Zendesk QA | Creating AI prompt-based spotlight insights

4. Other Generative AI Features

Apart from copilot and AI agents, we offer additional generative AI features that complement your experience, such as generative search.

Protecting Your Data

We’re committed to protecting your information while providing powerful AI features to enhance your experience. In this section, you’ll find important details about how we safeguard your data, the agreements that protect your privacy, and the guidelines for using AI-powered services safely and responsibly. Visit our Trust Center to learn more about our data protection practices and commitments.

1. Contractual Protections

All of the protections contained in your Zendesk Customer Agreement apply to your use of any generally available AI features. If you've entered into a Data Processing Agreement or Business Associate Agreement with Zendesk, those protections will also apply.

Learn more: Advanced Compliance for details on how Zendesk AI can be used in compliance with your HIPAA obligations.

2. Third-Party Contract Restrictions

Zendesk is committed to implementing appropriate terms with our LLM vendors to protect your Service Data, including all required Data Processing Agreements and/or Business Associate Agreements. For any LLM vendors considered Zendesk’s sub-processors, these vendors cannot use your Service Data to train their models.

Learn more: Sub-processor Policy

3. Zero Data Retention

Zendesk integrates LLMs into the Services in two ways:

Using LLMs hosted on infrastructure platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Azure, Groq, or Fireworks AI. This means that the LLM provider never accesses your Service Data, and is not a sub-processor of Zendesk.

Using LLMs directly hosted by the model provider. For these LLMs such as OpenAI, Google Gemini, and ElevenLabs , Zendesk leverages ‘zero data retention’ endpoints, meaning request and response bodies are not persisted to any logging mechanism and exist only in memory in order to serve the request. No data is stored by the LLM provider following the delivery of the output.

4. Data Locality

No LLM provider stores Service Data to provide generative AI functionality – all processing occurs with zero data retention. Zendesk also takes additional steps to secure data residency commitments from our service providers. For example, Zendesk is one of the first companies to access OpenAI’s European endpoints, enabling European customers to leverage generative AI with extra confidence.

Customer Control

To manage key AI features in your account, see Turning Zendesk AI features off or on.