Vendor lock-in represents the most significant risk to contact centre AI strategies today, with organisations repeating the mistakes of the cloud migration era by over-relying on single providers and inflexible contracts that cannot adapt as the AI landscape shifts. True multi-vendor flexibility requires more than surface-level commitments—it demands genuine compliance governance, swappable AI models across languages and use cases, and vendor-agnostic orchestration built in from the start, not retrofitted later. Rather than rushing to deploy AI, CX leaders should prioritise defining desired business outcomes first, then selecting vendors capable of evolving alongside your strategy as technology and requirements inevitably change.
Picking the wrong AI vendor today could set your contact center back for years. That’s the core message from Rhys Harris, Product Director of AI at Content Guru, who joined CX Today to break down why flexibility needs to be baked into every AI decision — not bolted on later. The conversation c
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