Front's AI features

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Overview

Front offers a range of AI features designed to enhance user efficiency and boost productivity. Leverage Front’s AI features to streamline various tasks and improve your workflows.


Available features

AI Compose for email

Ensure messages are clear, error-free, on brand, and have the right tone to deliver exceptional service.

See this article to learn more.

AI Compose for Knowledge Base

Use AI to help draft, edit, and translate your knowledge base content.

See this article to learn more.

AI Summarize

Get up to speed on all the behind-the-scenes details of a customer inquiry, including internal comments.

See this article to learn more.

AI Answers for Front Chat

Instantly resolve chat inquiries with responses written by AI, sourced from your knowledge base. Use a Front Knowledge Base or an external knowledge base to power your chatbot.

See this article to learn more.


Features in beta

The following features are in open beta and are available to turn on until we reach capacity. See this article to review Front’s AI beta features.

Suggested replies [open beta]

Email channels only: Quickly resolve simple inquiries with AI-generated email drafts based on knowledge base content.

See this article to learn more.

Similar conversations [open beta]

Email channels only: See relevant conversations surfaced by AI to help address an inquiry with a similar issue.

See this article to learn more.

AI tagging [open beta]

Email channels only: Categorize messages by sentiment or topic, without the manual effort or maintenance.

See this article to learn more.


Enable or disable AI features

Prerequisites

  • You must be a company admin to manage AI features for all Front users in your company

  • You must be on a Front plan with access to AI features

Step 1

Click the gear icon on the top right of Front, then select company settings in the left sidebar. Select AI from the left menu.

Step 2

Navigate to the AI feature you'd like to manage. Toggle it on to enable the AI feature for your company. Some features may require you to select specific inboxes.

Click Save when finished.


FAQ

Is my data used for model training purposes, or any purposes other than to provide the AI output to the user?

No. We use text generation APIs from OpenAI and Mistral to power AI features within Front. The API providers do not train their models on any Front customer data. Your data is not used for any purpose other than to provide the AI output to the user. For increased reliability, we use these models through multiple providers, directly from the model creators, and from prominent cloud providers - Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. In accordance with the GDPR, all the providers are are listed as a subprocessors on our website here.

How is my data processed? Is my data protected?

We are not using your data to train AI models today. This may change in the future for new features, but each model will be specific to your company. Your data will never be cross-contaminated with other companies' data. Furthermore, we have extensive data processing agreements in place with our AI providers to ensure that they're not training their foundational models on any data that we send to them.

Is my data stored anywhere?

No. Zero data retention is applied to every API request for all the providers. Data is not saved anywhere after an API request has been completed.

Which provider powers AI features in Front?

We're using OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon AWS which are industry-leading AI providers. Specifically, we use the text generation API.

(GDPR) Is OpenAI a Front subprocessor?

Yes, OpenAI is a Front subprocessor as detailed in our publicly available subprocessor list found here.

(GDPR) Is Microsoft Azure a Front subprocessor?

Yes, Microsoft Azure is a Front subprocessor as detailed in our publicly available subprocessor list found here.

(GDPR) Is Amazon AWS a Front subprocessor?

Yes, Amazon AWS is a Front subprocessor as detailed in our publicly available subprocessor list found here.

Are there rate limits?

Yes. Each teammate account has a limit of 200 requests per day. Actions counted as requests:

  • AI Compose: Each compose action or transformation

  • AI Summarize: Each manually-triggered summary


Pricing

Refer to the Pricing section for each AI feature article to learn more.