September 24, 2026
The blank slate is costing you more than you think
Every customer engagement stack has a villain: the blank slate. Mike Powrie names it, prices it, and explains why memory beats AI in customer conversations.
September 24, 2026
Human and AI, in the right places
How much of your contact centre should you automate? Wrong question. Mike Powrie on where AI earns its place, where humans do, and why the handover decides it.
September 24, 2026
Four services, one memory
Messaging, voice, email and identity are four systems with four memories. Here is how they become one continuous conversation, and why the register changed things.
September 24, 2026
The most expensive sentence in customer service
"Sorry, can you repeat that?" is the most expensive sentence in customer service. Mike Powrie on why conversations lose their memory, and what it costs.

August 23, 2026
Salesforce is retiring Open CTI in 2028. Here is what it means for your contact centre.
Most contact centre leaders I speak to have not read the Salesforce help article yet. It is short, it is written in the flat procedural language these notices always use, and it sets a date that a lot of 2027 planning is going to end up revolving around.

August 23, 2026
Five Things NeonNow IQ Does That Your Agents Will Actually Notice
Five NeonNow IQ features your agents will actually notice: real-time assist, sentiment alerts, post-call summaries, smart routing and quality insight.
June 19, 2026
What Does AWS-Powered Actually Mean for Your Contact Centre?
What does building on AWS actually mean for your contact centre? Security, uptime, compliance and scalability explained in plain terms for IT and ops leaders.
June 19, 2026
Why Most AI Contact Centre Projects Fail (And What To Do Instead)
Why do most AI contact centre projects fail? Explore the four implementation failure modes and what organisations getting it right do differently.
August 23, 2026
The Case for Keeping Humans in Your Contact Centre
Klarna replaced 700 agents with AI. Then it started rehiring. Here's what every contact centre leader should learn before their next AI decision.
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June 18, 2026
NeonNow IQ builds your contact centre before your first coffee goes cold
Setting up a contact centre used to mean weeks of planning, specialist resource, and a project timeline nobody was fully comfortable signing off. NeonNow has changed that.