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Where to Start UK businesses with 200-2,000 employees are making three technology decisions in 2026 that will define how they communicate with customers and employees for the next...

Most CX consulting rankings are built for FTSE 100 procurement teams: multi-year transformation budgets, dedicated programme offices, and the appetite to engage a Big Four firm...

Most platform guides for AI virtual agents fall into one of two traps. Either they recommend lightweight tools built for micro-businesses, or they push enterprise contact centre...

Most UK businesses with 200-2,000 employees are already running Microsoft Teams for meetings and messaging. The UC decision they are actually trying to make in 2026 is not whether...

UK businesses miss, on average, around 25% of inbound calls across all sectors. In some industries, that figure climbs closer to half. Every unanswered call is a service failure,...

If you're reading this, the question probably isn't "should we get a receptionist?" You've likely had a virtual receptionist service running for a year or two, it's doing its job...

Every UK business with a phone system is facing the same deadline. BT's PSTN switch-off in January 2027 will retire the traditional analogue and ISDN network that the majority of...

Ask ten vendors what the difference is between a chatbot and an AI virtual agent and you will get ten different answers, most of them designed to make their product sound more...

Consumer Duty has fundamentally changed the stakes for AI in financial services contact centres. Before July 2023, firms could deploy AI and measure success primarily through...

Fortay Connect helps UK financial services firms select and deploy the right AI technology for their contact centre - whether that is a chatbot, an AI agent, or a combination of...