Fin by Intercom vs. Tidio

The only experience I have with Fin is supporting T1 SaaS. I've never tried to hook Fin up to external tools for T2 support, nor used in another industry. But that said, Fin is ALWAYS my recommendation for anyone looking for the best T1 SaaS chatbot on the market. Fin gives quality answers, not robotic answers. I've heard from several of my users that they enjoy our chatbot. I mean, when you get CSAT comments giving kudos to the AI bot, who the customer KNOWS is AI? That's a win. I even had a COO email me directly asking what tech we were using because they were that impressed with Fin. I was a Zendesk diehard before switching to Intercom, and Fin is the biggest reason I'll never go back.

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Tidio is well suited for businesses who want to chat with their site visitors in real time. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the user experience on the visitor side is great as well. Perfect for installing on a marketing site, proprietary portal, and more. Can set up an after hours bot to help triage requests from clients and prospective clients when you are back in office.

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• Serves as the first point of interaction.
• Answers questions based on the knowledge base.
• Tries to suggest a solution for reported issues (in some cases).
• Gives the option to improve its answer.
• Learns from other conversations and replies by humans.
• Understands other languages.
• Interprets images (somewhat).

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• Very intuitive interface and management.
• Scalable plans that don't require me to purchase features I don't need.
• Super simple chat bot administration.

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• Being able to give Fin by Intercom explicit instructions on when to say or do something... guidance sometime works but not always
• Ability to set clear holiday hours so users know the team will not get back to them without having to change existing workflow/intro copy. When Fin by Intercom escalates during a holiday, it often shares the wrong "expected response time is"
• Being able to see last month's usage numbers would help us track plan utilization better

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• Unable to ban visitors by site referrer (spam sites)
• Chatbot conditional logic could be a bit simpler/cleaner
• Occasional issues with the desktop app (in browser never gives us trouble though)

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We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.

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The Intercom plattform is amazingly well and this allows us to use FIN to its fullest potential. You have various ways of customizing your agent (from name, voice, guidance, escalation rules) and you have various built-in ways of understanding your performance and where you can improve (optimizer, topic explorer, etc.). And of course you can use FIN to ask questions about FIN! And FIN from Intercom is very well trained on itself, helping with most setup questions easily.

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always there

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works perfect

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Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.

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Easy to know the learning path

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The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.

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We used it a few years ago, and it was not as feature-rich for our needs. It lacked true AI capabilities, was hard for users to understand, and created workaround issues. The internal ticket system was difficult to use and led to many missed issues and calls.

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• New role opportunities — Using the “Fin-first” approach has reduced the workload for our Tier 1 team, giving them more time to focus on their own career growth. It’s also opened the door to a dedicated, AI-focused role, where a team member regularly reviews Fin’s answers and makes updates to help it perform even better.
• Enabling Fin has also reduced our response time and allowed us to meet SLA's.

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• Helped us get new deals from site visitors
• Helped us get renewals from current clients

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