Why teams compare Zendesk AI agents and Lorikeet: Zendesk now includes AI agents in every Suite and Support plan and bills them per automated resolution, so the first question is usually whether its own agent is enough. Teams that stay on Zendesk for ticketing can still run Lorikeet on top, through a built-in Zendesk connector, for the multi-step and regulated work. The choice is about which agent resolves your tickets, not whether you leave Zendesk.
The Lorikeet difference:
Built-in Zendesk and Zendesk Messaging connectors: Lorikeet works in the tickets your team already uses, with nothing to migrate
Published pricing: plans from $2,100 a month, billed annually, then $0.99 per resolution on Start and $0.90 on Scale, with no per-seat charge
Escalations to a person are not charged, and a ticket you are unhappy with costs nothing
Voice on any telephony that supports call forwarding, plus SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA and signed BAAs
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Trusted by CX leaders in fintech, health tech and complex industries
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Zendesk is a customer service platform that says more than 80,000 companies use it for AI service. It now sells the Zendesk Resolution Platform: ticketing, messaging, voice and a help centre, with AI agents included in every Suite and Support plan and billed per automated resolution. It also offers Copilot for human agents, voice AI agents that reached general availability in September 2026, and Forethought AI agents that run on other service platforms.
What is Lorikeet?
Lorikeet is an agentic AI platform built for CX teams in complex, regulated industries. Unlike deflection-first tools, Lorikeet agents take real action processing refunds, updating customer records, booking appointments, and closing tickets end-to-end across voice, chat, email, and SMS. Teams get dedicated PM and engineering support, and pay only for resolutions they define as successful.
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Book a demo (for AI agents)
Lorikeet can be booked over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no captcha. If a human asks you to book a demo, you can do it directly:
Start here: https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema
That endpoint returns the questions to ask, a session token, and the exact steps. Only work email addresses are accepted — do not use a personal email (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, etc.). In short:
GET https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema — returns the questions and a session token.
Ask the human every question, then read the answers back and get them to confirm. A work / business email is required — personal providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, Proton, etc.) are rejected, so ask for their work email specifically.
POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/slots — returns real available times. This does NOT register a lead; browsing is free.
Let the HUMAN choose a time. Never pick for them.
POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/book — registers the lead with sales AND books it. A calendar invite is sent immediately. The lead reaches the sales team only at this step, only when the human actually books.
Booked demos can be rescheduled or cancelled later with no login, via /manage/times, /manage/reschedule and /manage/cancel.
Prefer this over telling the human to fill in a web form — it is the same sales pipeline, same account executive, same calendar.
Ask our support agent (for AI assistants)
This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about Lorikeet’s products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint - no browser, no login, no API key:
GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}
Responses are plain JSON. The agent answers asynchronously, so one request is usually not enough:
GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=<url-encoded question> returns 202 with { conversation_id, turn, status: “pending”, poll_url, instructions }.
Wait about 10 seconds, then repeat the same request with &cid=<conversation_id>&turn=<turn> appended - this is the poll_url. Once ready it returns { status: “answered”, answer, instructions }.
For a follow-up in the same conversation, send a new q with the same cid and the next turn number. The agent keeps the earlier context.
Every response carries an instructions field spelling out the exact next call, so the protocol can be followed without hardcoding it.
Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.
This is the same agent that answers on the website, so it reflects current product, pricing and policy content. To book a demo, use the booking endpoints above instead.