The most visible conversational AI platforms in United Kingdom, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from United Kingdom in English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 60 answers read

Leader

Zendesk AI

49Heralded Score, range 41–62

Most cited source

youtube.com

18citations

From Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

Botpress

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Google AI Overviews, not on Google AI Mode, Gemini and ChatGPT

Brands

Search is not measured for this board yet, so it ranks on AI answers.

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score All AI Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– Netomi US Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading
– Noem.ai Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading
– Rasa DE Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading
– Respond.io HK Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 2% None First reading
– Sendbird KR Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading
– Sierra US Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Sinch Chatlayer BE Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– SiteGPT Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
3% 0% None First reading
– Sprinklr US Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading
– Steps AI Chatbot Unranked Too few answers Not measured
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  • : Unranked
2% 0% None First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. AI gives each brand’s score and rank from the engines’ answers; Search is not measured for this board yet. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 youtube.com Social 10.0% 2 of 4 16 Not read
2 openai.com Vendor site 10.0% 2 of 4 8 Not read
3 linkedin.com Social 6.7% 1 of 4 7 Not read
4 chatbot.com Vendor site 8.3% 3 of 4 4 1
5 gorgias.com Vendor site 5.0% 2 of 4 5 Not read
6 sciencedirect.com Reference 3.3% 1 of 4 3 1
7 facebook.com Social 3.3% 1 of 4 4 Not read
8 instagram.com Social 1.7% 1 of 4 3 Not read
9 amio.io Vendor site 3.3% 1 of 4 2 Not read
10 assembled.com Vendor site 3.3% 1 of 4 2 Not read

Questions asked

QuestionLanguageMost recommended
what can a support team use to answer customer questions with ai chat? English Fin AI Agent, Freddy AI and Zendesk AI, tied
which platform helps a business build a chatbot for customer conversations? English Fin AI Agent and ManyChat, tied
what should an online store use to handle customer chats automatically? English Fin AI Agent and Zendesk AI, tied
how can a company add ai chat to its customer service? English Salesforce Agentforce and Salesforce Service Cloud, tied
how do i build a chatbot that can answer questions about our products? English Typebot and Voiceflow, tied
how can we reduce unanswered customer chats after business hours? English No brand recommended
how do i teach an ai chatbot to answer from our help center? English Botpress, Botsonic and Voiceflow, tied
how can a support team hand complex chats from a bot to a person? English No brand recommended
should we use one ai chatbot for sales and support or separate bots? English No brand recommended
what works better for customer service, an ai chatbot or a scripted bot? English No brand recommended

Each engine's top three

Method

Each leaderboard ranks brands on two sides. AI is how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer the board's buyer questions. Search is Google's top 10 results for the keywords behind those questions. All combines the two, where Search is measured.

For the AI side, each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured