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Freemium
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing contractors
Most AI support tools hit a wall the moment a ticket requires actual reasoning — they can search the help center, but the real diagnostic knowledge lives in past tickets, Slack threads, and API logs they cannot touch. Pluno is built for that gap.
850€ / mo · Free tier: 14-day free trial with full unlimited access to every module · Checked Jul 1, 2026
Pluno is a Zendesk-native AI agent that learns from resolved tickets to handle complex, product-specific issues — SSO failures, IdP misconfigurations, edge-case bugs — not just FAQ deflection. When confident, it resolves automatically and notifies the customer. When it is not, it escalates with a full diagnostic diff so the engineer inheriting the ticket is not starting from scratch. The vendor reports one customer auto-resolving 67% of complex tickets. The ceiling appears when your support operation extends beyond Zendesk — there is no API, no self-hosted option, and no public path to embed Pluno into a custom stack.
Bottom line: Pluno earns its place on a B2B SaaS team drowning in technical Zendesk tickets; teams that need an API to connect it to a proprietary CRM or want to self-host for data-residency reasons will find the architecture works against them.
1,000 to 3,000 tickets per month
500 to 1,000 tickets per month
For larger orgs that need custom terms, governance, and security
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Freemium
HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing contractors
Paid
Australian service businesses
Pluno is an AI support agent built specifically for B2B teams running Zendesk who face a category of ticket that generic AI tools cannot resolve: edge cases, SSO failures, migration errors, and product-specific bugs where the answer is buried in ticket #4021 from six months ago, not the help center. The core workflow is a learning loop — Pluno ingests resolved tickets and builds a diagnostic model from the troubleshooting steps and outcomes your team has already produced. On an incoming ticket, it searches that history alongside connected sources (help center, Slack, Jira, APIs), assembles evidence, and either auto-resolves with confidence or escalates with a structured diagnostic diff attached.
The differentiating feature is the confidence-gated escalation path. Rather than routing every ambiguous ticket to a human and dumping the conversation log, Pluno forwards a reasoned summary — cert fingerprint mismatch, reference to the prior ticket that matched, specific config steps — so the receiving engineer is diagnosing, not re-discovering. The vendor describes this as full context escalation, and a customer case study cites saving five minutes per ticket in search time alone using the AI Copilot feature.
Pluno fits cleanly on teams whose entire support operation runs inside Zendesk and whose ticket volume includes recurring technical issues that human agents handle through pattern recognition. It breaks in two places: there is no API, so teams that need Pluno’s intelligence piped into a custom portal or external CRM are blocked at the integration layer. And because it is SaaS-only with no self-hosted option, organizations with strict data-residency requirements beyond GDPR and SOC-2 compliance will need to verify whether the architecture satisfies their legal team before committing.
On the integration side, the vendor page describes tool calls to Auth Logs APIs and IdP Config sources as part of the resolution flow, and the AI Copilot surfaces answers from past tickets, the help center, Slack, and Jira in a single search interface built into the agent workflow. Jira ticket creation with diagnostic diffs is listed as a supported output — meaning engineering teams receive structured, actionable context rather than a forwarded email chain.
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