Cresta
AI for contact centers — real-time agent assist
Overview
Cresta provides real-time AI guidance for contact-center agents during live customer calls — surfaces best-next-action suggestions, auto-generates call summaries, scores conversations against quality rubrics. Used by Vodafone, Cox, Brinks, Intuit and other major enterprise contact centers.
Use cases
What you can produce with Cresta
- Give live agents real-time on-screen coaching during calls, with best-next-action suggestions triggered by what the customer just said.
- Auto-generate a summary and disposition for every call so agents skip manual after-call wrap-up notes.
- Score 100% of conversations against your own QA rubrics automatically instead of manually reviewing a random sample.
- Surface why top performers win — mining transcripts to identify the behaviours that correlate with conversions or resolutions — and turn those into coaching plans.
- Deploy virtual agents that handle routine customer conversations end-to-end and hand off to humans with full context.
- Track compliance in real time by flagging required disclosures an agent missed while the call is still in progress.
- Pull answers from your knowledge base into the agent's screen mid-call so they respond without putting the customer on hold.
ASEAN Perspective
Cresta in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Cresta is a strong enterprise contact-center AI platform: real-time agent assist, automated coaching, conversation intelligence and increasingly autonomous virtual agents, all trained on a company's own interaction data. For large sales and support operations it can drive measurable gains in conversion, handle time and consistency, and it is a credible competitor to the likes of Gong and Genesys-native AI.
Caveats are the usual enterprise ones: significant implementation effort, data integration, and premium, custom pricing that rules it out for smaller teams. It is English/Western-market centric with limited public detail on ASEAN-language support and data residency. Best for established contact centers with volume to justify the investment, not lean teams.
What people say
Cresta is one of the more validated products in the contact-center AI category. It carries a 4.7/5 rating on G2 as of early 2026, was named a Leader in Forrester's Conversation Intelligence Solutions for Contact Centers report (Q2 2025) with the top score for current offering, and reportedly passed US$100M ARR in 2026. Its customer roster — United Airlines, Cox Communications, Marriott, Intuit, Vodafone — tells you the intended buyer: this is enterprise software, with the large majority of G2 reviewers coming from mid-market and enterprise companies.
The praise is remarkably consistent. Real-time agent coaching is the feature users cite most: live best-next-action hints and behavioural nudges during calls that reviewers credit with lifting average performers toward top-performer behaviour while supervisors focus elsewhere. G2 reviewers score it around 9.2/10 for ease of use, and auto-generated call summaries and QA scoring against custom rubrics are repeatedly mentioned as genuine time-savers that replace manual after-call work and random-sample QA.
The complaints are equally consistent. The two most common on G2 are knowledge-assist accuracy — suggestions that don't match what the caller is actually asking — and transcription inconsistency with accented or bilingual speakers, a real concern for global or multilingual operations. Reviewers also warn that Cresta is not turnkey: getting the AI tuned to your business's playbooks and vocabulary demands a dedicated internal investment before the platform performs well. Pricing is quote-based and enterprise-grade, which smaller teams find opaque.
Cresta genuinely fits large contact centers — hundreds of seats, high call volumes, existing QA programs — where even single-digit percentage gains in handle time or conversion justify the cost and tuning effort. Small support teams looking for a plug-and-play AI assistant are better served by lighter helpdesk-native tools; Cresta's value only compounds at scale.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
This entry was compiled from publicly available data including Cresta's official website, press releases, documentation, and reputable third-party publications. RECATOOLS is not affiliated with Cresta unless explicitly stated.
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