2026

Parloa

Entrant

Parloa

Category

Service & Solution Innovation - Consumer Satisfaction (CX)

Client's Name

Berlin Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport, HSE

Country / Region

United States

Our innovation efforts have been guided by one central question: how can we enable enterprises to create the most meaningful customer relationships imaginable? This lens has shaped every feature we’ve introduced, every enhancement we’ve prioritized, and every breakthrough we’ve brought to market.

We advanced beyond transactional automation by embedding emotional intelligence into our core agents. Leveraging CRM data pass-through and custom configurations, our AI now provides personalized welcome messages while also remembering key customer details for future interactions. Customers don't have to repeat themselves, resulting in an interaction that feels not just efficient, but genuinely human.

As enterprises scale globally, language diversity has become a barrier to seamless service. In response, Parloa launched real-time translation within conversations. Customers can speak in their native language while agents instantly understand and reply accurately, regardless of channel.

Another key innovation was the introduction of simulation environments that let companies test thousands of interactions before agents go live. These modules assess accuracy, compliance, and performance under pressure — giving enterprises confidence in reliability at scale, shifting AI deployment from risky experimentation to a rigorous, enterprise-grade process.

We just released Data Hub, a new capability in our AI agent management platform, which gives customers secure, programmatic access to granular AI agent-customer interaction data that’s ready to query, enrich, and visualize in the analytics tools they already use. It brings event-level insights from every customer conversation with their AI agents straight into their analytic workflows, so they can track agent performance like any other critical business metric.

Credits

Co--Founder, CEO
Malte Kosub
Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer
Stefan Ostwald
 
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Entrant

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Category

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Country / Region

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Entrant

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Category

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Country / Region

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Entrant

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Category

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Country / Region

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Entrant

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Category

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Country / Region

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