Salesforce to buy Fin for $3.6 billion in AI agent push

Salesforce Inc. on Monday signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin, the customer agent company formerly known as Intercom, for about $3.6 billion, marking the CRM giant's largest bet yet on autonomous AI agents for enterprise service.

"Fin brings proven agent technology, a deep commitment to customer success, and an incredible AI team that will complement Agentforce with powerful service agent capabilities," said Marc Benioff, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. "Together, we'll help companies of every size seize this opportunity — accelerating time to value with trusted agents that deliver measurable outcomes at scale."

Fin's core offering, its AI Agent powered by the proprietary Apex model, resolves complex customer queries end-to-end across live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone and Slack. The technology has demonstrated industry-leading resolution rates that outperform top commercially available frontier models, with the AI Agent resolving on average 76 percent of support volume end-to-end for existing customers.

The acquisition comes as Salesforce's own Agentforce platform reached $1.2 billion in annual recurring revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, up 205 percent from a year earlier. Fin's packaged offerings and proprietary models will complement Agentforce's deeply customizable platform with fast-to-value deployment options particularly suited for small and midsize businesses and commercial organizations that need to launch quickly and integrate with existing systems.

"This is a major win for consumers of the world," said Eoghan McCabe, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Fin. "Our technology has defined this category and set the new standards for what great customer service looks like today. By joining forces with Salesforce, we can deploy it far and wide at a rate far faster than we could have ever achieved on our own."

Fin brings a long-tenured technical AI team and an established global customer base of more than 30,000 companies to Salesforce. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce's fiscal year 2027, subject to customary regulatory clearances. Salesforce said the transaction will not affect its fiscal 2027 financial guidance or its capital return program.

The $3.6 billion price tag underscores the intensifying competition among enterprise software giants to dominate the AI agent market. Rivals including Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and ServiceNow Inc. have all made aggressive moves to embed autonomous agents into their platforms, betting that AI-powered customer service will be one of the fastest-growing segments in enterprise software over the next several years.

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