Every channel, one customer.

Email, messaging and the phone on one customer record. The first reply drafted from their history, resolved when your rules allow, held for a person when they do not.

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Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Connects your mailbox, store, billing and a phone number.

The reply starts from the record

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

The ticket that knew about the call

Customer service software organises tickets. It does not usually know the customer called yesterday, that their invoice is overdue, or that a deal is open with them. Here those are the same record, so the agent that drafts the reply has read all of it, resolves what your rules allow, and holds a refund, a credit or a promise for the person you named. The phone lands on the same record as the email.

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Chase the 14 overdue invoices

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Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

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Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

RUN-2088

Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

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Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

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Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

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Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

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Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

$0.14

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Board pack pulled together

$0.31

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two things it does on day one

Drafts from the record

Order, invoice, last call and open deal read before the reply is written. Sent under your rules, or held for a person with the draft ready.

Get started

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

Answers the phone too

A number Daciel holds, answered in your name, booked or transferred, filed on the same customer as the ticket.

See the AI receptionist

Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What is customer service software?

Customer service software is the shared inbox and ticket queue a team answers customers from: email, chat, messaging, sometimes phone, with assignment, status, macros and reports. Zendesk, Freshdesk, Intercom, Gorgias and Front hold the search, priced per seat, with AI agents priced per resolution on top.

How customer service works in Daciel

Connect the channels

Mailbox, site chat, messaging, your store and billing, and a phone number Daciel holds.

Write the rules

What the agent may resolve alone, what waits for whom, tone, hours, what it must never promise.

Tickets arrive with a draft

The customer identified, the record read, the reply drafted. Your team edits or approves.

The phone lands on the same record

Calls answered in your name, transcribed and filed on the customer.

Reports from the ledger

Resolved, waiting, by channel and by kind, with the query under each figure.

Customer service software, compared

Help desks priced per seat and per resolution, and Daciel priced per business with the phone on the record. Compared on channels, control and the month's cost.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
Zendesk AI	Established support teams already on Zendesk's ticketing	Email, chat, messaging, voice as a separate product	Escalation rules and SLAs; AI resolves or hands off	Per seat, plus AI agents priced per automated resolution; published on their site
Freshdesk	Small teams that want a conventional ticketing tool with a free tier	Email, chat, social; phone via Freshcaller	Ticket workflows and approvals for agents; the bot deflects or assigns	Free tier, then per seat; published on their site
Intercom Fin	Teams already on Intercom's inbox with high chat volume	Chat, email, in-app. Phone via a separate product	Handoff to a human agent; no per-action approval queue	$29–$132 per seat, plus $0.99 per resolution
Gorgias	Shopify stores; the clearest small-business pricing in the category	Email, chat, social, SMS and voice as add-ons	Rules and macros; the agent resolves or escalates	Help desk not priced per agent; AI charged only when it resolves
Dacielthis site	Businesses of 5 to 200 people that want the inbox, the phone and the ledger handled under one approval queue	Email, connected messaging, and a phone number bought inside the product	Per-action permissions; anything gated is held for a named person with an expiry, on the record	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

Competitor pricing as published on each vendor's site, read 2026-08-19. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the row says so.

Your rules, your approver

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Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Daciel

ElevenLabs

Answers in a voice you would not know from a person.

Daciel

Twilio

A direct line of its own, answering from the first ring.

Daciel

Cloudflare

Domains provisioned and shielded at the edge before they are asked for.

Daciel

Anthropic

Frontier reasoning on the work, with the trace kept for every line.

Connects to

Binding replies are heldRefunds, credits, exceptions and promises wait for the named person, with an expiry

Permissions from the connectorReads and writes as the person who connected each system

Every channel filedEmail, chat and call on one customer, for whoever picks up next

Safe to put in front of customers. The agent answers from your records in your tone, anything that binds you waits for a named person, and every reply is on the record.

How permissions work

Questions people ask before buying

Is Daciel a help desk?

Yes, a shared inbox with tickets, assignment and status, where the reply is drafted from the customer's whole record and the phone lands on the same record.

Can we keep Zendesk or Freshdesk?

Yes. Connect it and the agent works inside it with the permissions of the person who connected it. Or move the queue to Daciel.

What can the agent resolve alone?

What your rules allow: status, hours, where something is, what a document says. Refunds, credits and exceptions are held for a named person.

Does the price depend on seats or resolutions?

No. Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.

Does it handle the phone?

Yes. A number Daciel holds is answered in your name, with 500 minutes a month included, and every call is filed on the customer.

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