Brainfish
Also known as: Brainfish Pty Ltd, Ask Brainfish, Brainfish AI
AI customer support agent that answers only from your approved knowledge sources, cites every source, and resolves questions across chat, email, in product, and Slack.
Brainfish is an artificial intelligence customer support platform positioned as AI support agents designed for business to business teams. Founded in Sydney in 2023 and now operating from Sydney and San Francisco, the company raised a six point four million dollar pre Series A led by Prosus Ventures in 2025 and is run by co founder and chief executive Daniel Kimber. It began as an instant answer engine and has since repositioned around grounded agents that resolve customer questions across a company's website, product, help center, and messaging tools rather than simply deflecting them.
The foundation of the product is a self updating knowledge layer. Brainfish ingests a team's documentation, tickets, recorded calls, and conversations from tools like Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, Loom, Zendesk, Salesforce Knowledge, Help Scout, Helpjuice, Mintlify and ReadMe, along with OpenAPI specs, websites and any HTTP source, then routes the exact slice each agent needs at the moment of a question.
Its defining discipline is that it answers only from approved sources and cites the exact documents behind every response, with a confidence score attached, so there is no fabrication or paraphrase. It auto detects content drift as a product ships, flags stale articles and can rewrite them, and drafts new articles from calls and Slack threads.
The same knowledge layer powers every surface a team uses, so answers stay consistent across an embedded chat widget, an AI powered help center, a contextual agent inside the product, and the same agent inside Slack and Teams. Answers are personalized with live account, product, and user context, and the agent sends replies directly for cases a team trusts while escalating the rest to a human with full conversation context.
Brainfish also drafts ticket replies inside the helpdesk a team already runs, positioning itself as the knowledge layer underneath tools like Zendesk and Intercom rather than a replacement for them. An AI Actions add on takes it past answering into automating workflows and advanced support tasks through tool calls and custom API integrations, configured without code.
For measurement, Brainfish tracks resolution rates, deflection, and customer satisfaction, surfaces the questions its knowledge layer is failing to answer, and recommends improvements to specific agent responses, closing the loop between insight and content.
On security it publishes a trust center and carries SOC 2 Type II audited annually, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, and General Data Protection Regulation compliance, with single sign on through Okta or Azure AD, customer managed encryption keys, private tenants, and a choice of United States, European Union, or Australia hosting that stays in region for both storage and inference. It never trains its models on customer data.
It also ships a Model Context Protocol server so engineering teams can plug Brainfish into their own artificial intelligence surfaces, though it publishes no API reference or SDK for its own platform, and it does not publish prices: the plan structure and quotas are on the pricing page but every number comes through sales.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://brainfishai.com
Category
Customer support agent
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
In practice
A software user gets stuck on a complex feature at midnight. Rather than file a ticket, they ask Brainfish inside the product and get an instant answer from approved docs, with the exact source cited.
A support team is buried in repetitive how to questions. Brainfish deflects the routine ones with cited self service answers across the help center and in product, freeing agents to focus on the genuinely complex cases that need human expertise.
An internal team keeps asking the same questions in Slack. Brainfish answers them directly in Slack from the company's own knowledge, so the platform support channel stops getting clogged with repeat requests.
Agentic Index coverage score
7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Across many classes of tools, the agent acts rather than only retrieving: Brainfish states plainly that it reads from and writes to the tools a team already runs, and the named set spans helpdesk (Zendesk, Intercom, Help Scout), CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot), messaging (Slack, Microsoft Teams), documentation (Notion, Confluence, Mintlify, ReadMe), storage (Google Drive), mail (Gmail), issue tracking (Linear, Jira), revenue intelligence (Gong) and video (Loom), plus OpenAPI specs and any HTTP source. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Partial |
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Beyond answering, an AI Actions add-on automates workflows and handles advanced support tasks through custom API integrations, tool calls, MCP and callbacks, configured with no code or low code and purchased in blocks of five actions, and a Workflows surface is marked as a new capability, so execution goes further than retrieve, answer and escalate. No multi agent execution, branching runtime or agent to agent handoff is documented, and what the Workflows surface does is not described. Sourcebrainfishai.com/pricingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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A maintained knowledge layer rather than context assembled per question: Brainfish ingests from Notion, Confluence, Google Drive, Loom, Zendesk, Salesforce Knowledge, Help Scout, Helpjuice, Mintlify, ReadMe, OpenAPI specs, websites and any HTTP source into a single store, keeps it current by flagging stale articles and drafting new ones from calls and Slack threads, and routes the slice each agent needs at the moment of a question. Every answer is drawn only from approved sources and cites the exact documents behind it with a confidence score. Sourcebrainfishai.com/pricingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
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Brainfish offers two mechanisms, neither of them an approval surface of its own. Grounding is a constraint rather than a gate: the agent answers only from approved sources and cites them, which bounds what it can say but reviews nothing. Autonomy is set by a trust threshold, with the agent sending directly for cases a team trusts and escalating the rest to a person with full conversation context under configurable rules, which routes rather than holds for sign-off. Where a human does approve, it is on a draft reply inside Zendesk or Intercom, and that gate belongs to the helpdesk rather than to Brainfish. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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A Trust and Safety center at trust.brainfi.sh, linked from the site header and footer, sets out both a compliance posture and access controls. On compliance it lists SOC 2 Type II, audited annually by an independent third party, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, GDPR with right to delete built in, and a stated commitment that models are not trained on customer data. Access controls include single sign-on with Okta and Azure AD named as supported identity providers, private tenants, and customer-managed encryption keys for enterprise, and sensitive fields are obfuscated before any snapshot, with snapshots processed then discarded by default. The route to obtaining the SOC 2 report is not published. Sourcetrust.brainfi.shread 2026-09-05 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Partial |
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Brainfish reports resolution rate, deflection and customer satisfaction, surfaces the questions its knowledge layer is failing to answer, and cites the exact source documents behind every answer with a confidence score, which is genuine answer provenance: a reader can see which document produced a given reply. That is provenance for the output, not reconstruction of the run; no step-level decision trace, tool-call log or configuration audit trail is documented. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Not documented |
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No memory layer with a stated scope or lifetime is documented. Answers are personalized with live account, product and user context supplied at the moment of the question, which is per-request assembly, and the pricing FAQ states that sensitive fields are obfuscated before any snapshot is taken and that snapshots are processed and discarded by default, which describes state deliberately not retained. The persistent store the product does keep is the knowledge layer, which holds the team's content rather than agent memory. Sourcebrainfishai.com/pricingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Hosting runs in the United States, European Union and Australia, with the region chosen by the customer. Brainfish states that data stays in-region, that EU hosting carries no quota, SLA or support difference from the US region, and that it does not egress to other regions for inference or storage. Private tenants and customer-managed encryption keys are offered on top. No self hosted or on premises build is offered, and EU hosting is gated to Platform and above. Sourcebrainfishai.com/pricingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Not documented |
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No prebuilt agent, template gallery, cloneable starter or marketplace of packaged assets is documented. The product ships as a single configurable support agent pointed at the customer's own knowledge, and the onboarding pitch is a working agent built against your own content rather than one chosen from a set. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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Inbound conversation queues bring work to the agent as well as channels: Intercom live conversations and Zendesk tickets flow in from the helpdesk the team already runs, alongside asking in Slack, answers in Microsoft Teams, the embedded chat widget, the AI help center, an in-product agent and email, with proactive prompts surfaced before a user asks. No scheduled or cron style trigger is documented. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
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No model selection, routing or bring-your-own-model control appears anywhere in the customer-facing configuration surface, and no provider is named; the vendor states only that models are not trained on customer data. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Partial |
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Brainfish ships a native Model Context Protocol server so engineering teams can plug it into their own AI surfaces, with Claude named as a supported client, and the AI Actions add-on is sold on APIs, tool calls, MCP and callbacks. The APIs in that description are the customer's own systems being called by the agent, and no public REST API reference or SDK for Brainfish's own platform is published; the developer resources published are a changelog and a status page. ReadMe, Mintlify and OpenAPI specs appear on the site as knowledge sources Brainfish ingests from, not as its own developer documentation. Sourcebrainfishai.com/pricingread 2026-09-05 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Live performance feeds back into content: the product surfaces the questions its knowledge layer is failing to answer and recommends improvements to specific agent responses, an optimization loop after deployment measured against resolution and deflection. The artifact being improved is the knowledge, not the agent's configuration, and no test suite, conversation simulation, scenario set or scored evaluation of the agent itself is documented. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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Its route out to other systems is programmatic: Brainfish states that it reads from and writes to the tools a team already runs, naming those tools and their integrations. No browser control, hosted session, virtual desktop or computer use is documented. Sourcebrainfishai.comread 2026-09-05 |
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