Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Emerging Companies of the Year 2026
Business Honor

Front is designed to make it easier for businesses of all sizes to manage customer service at scale. Their philosophy is that solid customer relationships lead to long-term success and so they blend intelligent AI with human teamwork so that every interaction — a chat or an email — still feels personal. Even if you're growing fast, it's always tricky to maintain high levels of customer service and Front brings all your customer communications — from emails to texts to chats - into one unified view, no more bouncing between different interfaces.
More than 9,000 organizations rely on Front to streamline communication, coordinate internal teams, and respond faster without sacrificing quality. The platform replaces legacy help desks with an intuitive, collaborative interface that eliminates silos and reduces friction. Teams can easily manage handoffs, track next steps, and handle even the most complex inquiries with clarity and efficiency.
Their wins on G2 for Ease of Use and Automation demonstrate how they make it easy to combine the power of AI and human intervention, enabling businesses to continue providing and scaling outstanding support, and allowing teams to excel in their daily work. Customer support becomes less of a burden and more of a collaborative team effort.
Services Offered by Front
Front AI
Front AI is an intelligent customer service solution designed to help businesses scale their customer service operations without compromising quality and control. Front AI is a part of the Front platform and leverages the strength of automation, real-time support, and data-driven insights to increase efficiency and deliver better customer experiences. With a customer-focused approach, Front AI helps teams maintain control while growing their AI program responsibly.
The solution is built on three key pillars: Analyze, Assist, and Automate. The solution enables teams to analyze customer inquiries to understand contact trends, auto-track the reasons behind customer outreach, and offer data-driven insights to optimize routing and decision-making. Leveraging AI-powered assistance, the solution offers customer service teams suggested responses, context, and next steps to resolve customer inquiries quickly and correctly. The real-time assistance feature of the solution enables every team member to behave like a subject matter expert.
Front AI’s Autopilot functionality allows for seamless automation by answering common questions and routing complex issues to human representatives. Companies can also determine which conversations will be handled by AI, ensuring that quality is the top priority. Front AI uses collective knowledge sources and learning from conversations to provide consistent support 24/7. This enables teams to work more efficiently and provide exceptional service.
Omnichannel
Front’s Omnichannel platform enables businesses to provide seamless and high-quality support experiences over email, chat, SMS, voice, social media, and messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Slack—all in one workspace. With Front, all customer interactions are aggregated in one platform, ending silos and ensuring that customer support agents have the entire context, enabling the possibility of resolving issues faster and more personally.
The platform employs AI to summarize the conversation history, auto-categorize tickets, and route inquiries to the right support staff or team. Front’s AI agents are capable of routing common inquiries away, and complex inquiries are seamlessly routed to human support staff. Auto-drafted responses, knowledge base integration, and AI-powered suggestions help teams respond to customer inquiries efficiently without sacrificing quality. Load balancing and real-time updates assist in keeping the workflow organized even during peak times.
Front also provides functionality for performance monitoring, SLA monitoring, blockage analysis, and automated quality reviews with Smart QA scorecards. Front’s Omnichannel platform allows support to be always on and always helpful, empowering teams to delight customers at every touchpoint.
Ticketing
Front’s Help Desk Ticketing platform enables support teams to track, organize, and resolve customer inquiries efficiently without making interactions feel impersonal. Built for modern collaboration, it combines an intuitive interface with AI-powered automation to handle tickets quickly, even for complex support scenarios.
Tickets can be automatically routed and assigned according to topics, so customers can immediately get in touch with the right support person. Support teams can also operate in the background using @mentions, in-house to-dos, and threaded conversations, while macros and custom ticket statuses enable them to standardize processes according to unique team workflows. AI-powered writing tools enable support teams to respond to customers quickly without compromising quality, making common support a smooth process.
The Help Desk Ticketing system from Front also has advanced ticketing analytics that help in tracking resolution rates, team performance, and support. The incident management capabilities of the system also include mass notifications for situations where multiple customers are affected, and split-ticketing functionality ensures that new problems are solved instantly without affecting the support process. With the combined power of automation, collaboration, and analytics, the Help Desk Ticketing system from Front enables support teams to deliver outstanding customer support at all times.
Dan O’Connell - Chief Executive Officer