Agentic Index
Assembled vs Forethought (2026)
Both automate support work and they answer different questions about it, at 10 and 8 of 14.
Assembled unifies autonomous agents across chat, email, SMS and voice with an agent copilot and workforce management, connecting automation directly to staffing across a blended human, AI and outsourced workforce. Forethought resolves tickets end to end with Autoflows expressing logic in natural language. Forethought asks how tickets get resolved; Assembled asks how many people you still need once they are, which is the question your finance function will ask next.
Choose Assembled if
- Documented coverage is broader and staffing is the planning problem you cannot solve.
- A blended human, AI and outsourced workforce is what you actually run.
- Connecting deflection to headcount planning is the missing link.
Choose Forethought if
- Resolution quality is the current problem and staffing is already managed.
- Autoflows in natural language avoid the decision trees that broke your last attempt.
- Triage and discovery alongside resolution is the scope you need.
| At a glance | Assembled | Forethought |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Customer support agent | Customer support agent |
| Entry price | Not public; custom pricing across Core, Pro, and Enterprise tiers, quoted through sales | Custom annual contract (contact for pricing) |
| Free / trial | Demo on request; no public free tier | — |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | contact only |
| Feature | A Assembled |
F Forethought |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | A Assembled |
F Forethought |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Not public; custom pricing across Core, Pro, and Enterprise tiers, quoted through sales | Custom annual contract (contact for pricing) |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
tiered subscription (Core, Pro, Enterprise), quoted through sales | — |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tier
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | — |