
Former Google, Meta leaders launch Palona AI, bringing personalized, emotive customer agents to non-techie enterprises
A new startup called Palona debuted last week that aims to fix this sorry state of affairs. It equips direct-to-consumer enterprises — think pizza shops and electronics vendors — with live, 24/7 customer support sales agents that are uniquely reflective of each business’s brand personality, voice, inventory stock and value proposition. The electronics vendor has a “wizard” agent made by Palona, while the pizza shop gets a surfer dude agent personality — naturally.