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The CRM and customer-service giant says the acquisition will combine Cresta’s voice-first customer experience platform with Salesforce’s Service Cloud to connect customer conversations to outcomes like resolution, retention and revenue.
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, a voice-first operating system aimed at improving customer experience. The move, announced on Monday, reflects Salesforce’s broader push to embed conversational AI deeper into customer service workflows, with voice agents positioned as the next step after traditional chat and ticketing.
In its announcement, Salesforce described Cresta’s product as a platform that can resolve complex customer calls end to end. The platform includes voice agents designed to hold natural, real-time conversations, handle interruptions, and operate at enterprise scale, targeting service interactions that Salesforce says are hardest to get right because they occur in the moment and often involve high-stakes issues.
Salesforce said Cresta also connects automated voice handling to human support. Beyond directing or assisting, the Cresta platform coaches human representatives in real time, and it analyzes interactions to test and improve voice agents over time. Salesforce presented this as a closed loop that keeps voice automation and the people who supervise it aligned to the same quality standards.
The companies also positioned the integration around breaking down data silos. Salesforce said customer conversations are often trapped in disconnected systems, leaving businesses without clear linkage between customer context and the tools used to act. It argued that as voice agents take on more complex calls, “listening” alone is not enough, and customer insights must be connected to the customer and to the systems that complete work.
Salesforce said it will combine customer history and the systems teams use to get work done with Cresta’s conversation understanding and its ability to drive action through voice agents. It said that together with Service Cloud, businesses will be able to connect customer conversations to outcomes, including resolution, retention and revenue.
Two executives underscored the rationale from different angles. Kishan Chetan, EVP and GM of Agentforce and Service Cloud at Salesforce, said voice is where service is hardest to get right and where it matters most to customers, emphasizing Cresta’s track record of handling complex, high-volume calls for large brands. Ping Wu, Cresta’s chief executive, framed the deal around Cresta’s goal of turning customer interactions into a competitive advantage through a “single agentic operating system for customer experience,” adding that uniting with Salesforce will embed real-time conversation intelligence and agentic experiences into Salesforce’s customer-service platform.
Salesforce said Cresta’s voice agents are used by leading brands including Marriott, Comcast and Alaska Airlines. Salesforce did not provide specific adoption metrics in its announcement, but it presented the examples as proof points that the technology can scale to enterprise contact center and telephony environments.
The company said after the transaction closes, Cresta will continue to support the contact center and telephony platforms its customers rely on today. Salesforce also said the agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approvals, and that the deal is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal year 2028.
A key detail missing from Salesforce’s announcement is the purchase price and the expected financial impact, which are often disclosed in later filings or subsequent updates. The companies also did not outline specific timelines for integrating Cresta’s capabilities into Salesforce’s Service Cloud beyond the expectation that voice, customer context, and outcome tracking will be combined within Salesforce’s customer service platform. That means customers and partners will likely have to wait for additional information on product integration milestones and how support for existing Cresta customers and telephony partners will be managed during the transition.
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