Qualtrics
Also known as: Qualtrics Experience Agents, XM Platform, Qualtrics XM, Agent Studio
Experience Agents bring agentic AI to the Qualtrics XM Platform, resolving customer and employee issues inside surveys and tickets, grounded in decades of experience data with human approval and FedRAMP High governance.
Qualtrics is the creator of and a leader in the experience management (XM) category, and Qualtrics Experience Agents bring agentic AI to that platform. Announced at the X4 Summit in March 2025 and in production with customers by October 2025, Experience Agents are specialized autonomous AI agents that interact directly with customers and employees to resolve issues in real time, automating routine interactions and delivering personalized resolutions within surveys and tickets while coordinating handoffs when human oversight is required. Agents are authored in Agent Studio, where a specific agent is created for each workflow, and they act inside survey flows and ticketing: a Ticketing Agent provides summaries, recommends actions, drafts email responses for human approval, and performs approved ticket actions such as status updates, escalation, or reassignment.
Qualtrics positions Experience Agents against more transactional agents from systems of record by grounding them in its proprietary human experience data, roughly twenty years of customer and employee feedback captured across hundreds of thousands of touchpoints, so agents understand why issues occur rather than only executing tasks. Every agent action on tickets is visible in an AI activity log, and agents apply make goods within guardrails. Early results cited include TruGreen cutting escalations thirty percent in a week, with Stanford Health Care testing patient care coordination under human oversight.
Experience Agents are built on LangChain's LangGraph platform, and Qualtrics is developing an open source framework for cross vendor agent interoperability. The platform holds ISO IEC 42001:2023 certification and FedRAMP High authorization for AI. More than one third of the customer base has upgraded to AI capabilities, and Qualtrics announced a 6.75 billion dollar acquisition of Press Ganey Forsta to extend industry expertise across customer, patient, employee, and market research.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.qualtrics.com
Category
Customer support agent
Subcategory
Experience management agents
Funding status
Private (taken private by Silver Lake and CPP Investments, 2023); leader in the experience management category; acquiring Press Ganey Forsta for 6.75 billion dollars
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Experience Agents are built on LangChain's LangGraph platform; operate within surveys and ticketing workflows in the Qualtrics XM Platform; draw on survey, call, chat, and digital experience analytics data; Qualtrics is developing an open source framework for agent interoperability across vendors.
In practice
A customer expresses frustration in a post service survey and an Experience Agent resolves the complaint in the moment, applying a make good within brand guardrails to turn a detractor into a promoter
A Ticketing Agent summarizes a ticket, recommends actions, and drafts an email response that a human agent approves before it is sent
A digital Experience Agent detects checkout friction for a high value customer and completes the transaction while waiving a fee as an apology
Sources & related URLs
Research sources
Capability coverage
11.5 / 14 capabilities · 82%
| Integrations & Tool CallingExperience Agents operate within surveys and ticketing in the XM Platform, draw on survey, call, chat, and digital experience analytics data, and perform ticket actions like status updates, escalation, and reassignment. qualtrics.com Experience Agents and support overview pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
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| Workflow OrchestrationAgents are built on LangChain's LangGraph platform, trained on each company's policies and runbooks, and coordinate handoffs to humans; a specific agent is created for each workflow in Agent Studio. qualtrics.com support overview and CX Today coverage retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Knowledge Grounding & RAGAgents are grounded in Qualtrics' proprietary human experience data, roughly twenty years of customer and employee feedback across hundreds of thousands of touchpoints, plus each company's policies and runbooks, so they understand why issues occur. qualtrics.com Experience Agents page and CX Today coverage retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Human Oversight & GuardrailsAgents recap the situation, suggest a resolution, and once approved carry out the action, apply make goods within guardrails, draft emails for human approval before sending, and coordinate handoffs when human oversight is required. qualtrics.com Experience Agents and support overview pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Security, Identity & GovernanceQualtrics achieved ISO IEC 42001:2023 certification and FedRAMP High authorization for AI capabilities, one of only a handful of platforms meeting both, with guardrails keeping every action on brand and accountable. qualtrics.com Oct 2025 PR and Experience Agents page retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Observability & AuditabilityAll actions agents perform on tickets are visible within the AI activity log in Tickets, and agent recommendations and actions appear directly within agent created tickets. qualtrics.com support overview page retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Memory & State PersistenceThe more context and feedback captured in the XM Platform, the more powerful every Experience Agent becomes, with each interaction adding to the intelligence, and agents predict trends based on experience context including past interactions. qualtrics.com Experience Agents and agentic-ai-in-cx pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Deployment & Data ResidencyQualtrics holds FedRAMP High authorization, the US government's highest security standard for cloud products, delivering AI capabilities at that level, and customers choose when and where to deploy agents. qualtrics.com Oct 2025 PR and Experience Agents page retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & PacksShips specialized Experience Agent types including survey Experience Agents and Ticketing Agents, authored in Agent Studio, plus a broader set of specialized agents interacting across channels. qualtrics.com support overview and news pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Triggers & Channel CoverageAgents act inside surveys the moment feedback is given, detect friction across digital experiences and step in instantly, and are triggered within agent enabled ticketing workflows across channels. qualtrics.com Experience Agents and support overview pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Full |
| Model Flexibility & RoutingAgents are developed on LangChain's LangGraph platform and Qualtrics is building an open source framework for agent interoperability, but customer selectable models or routing across providers is not detailed. qualtrics.com news pages and diginomica coverage retrieved 2026-07-08. | Partial |
| APIs, SDKs & MCP ExtensibilityQualtrics is developing an open source framework for cross vendor agent interoperability, a tacit acknowledgment that organizations run multiple agents that must work together, but a documented public agent API, SDK, or MCP interface was not retrieved. diginomica and qualtrics.com news coverage retrieved 2026-07-08. | Partial |
| Testing, Debugging & OptimizationQualtrics previewed Synthetic Research to artificially test and provide feedback on CX scenarios, and agents build slowly with customer feedback, but a dedicated agent testing or evaluation harness for Experience Agents is not documented. TechTarget and diginomica coverage retrieved 2026-07-08. | Partial |
| Browser & Computer UseNo browser or computer use capability documented; Experience Agents act within surveys, tickets, and digital experience touchpoints rather than operating a browser or desktop. qualtrics.com pages retrieved 2026-07-08. | Unable to verify |
Pricing
Contact sales (AI add on to XM Platform)
AI capabilities layered on XM Platform licensing
What is public
That Experience Agents are an AI upgrade on the XM Platform and adoption levels are public; dollar figures are not.
Billing mechanics
AI capabilities including Experience Agents licensed on top of the Qualtrics XM Platform via enterprise contracts; more than one third of customers have upgraded to AI capabilities.
Cost watchouts
Experience Agents are an upgrade on top of existing XM Platform licensing; cost scales with the number of agents, workflows, and interaction volume across CX, EX, and other programs.
Variable cost rationale
Cost scales with the number of agents, workflows, and interaction volume across experience programs on top of base platform licensing, but no public metering exists so exposure is inferred.
Additional watchouts
Layered on top of existing XM Platform spend; model the full program (agents, workflows, interaction volume) rather than a single agent.
Sales call required
Yes — required for paid access
Free / trial
No public free tier for Experience Agents; enterprise licensing and demo
Key ambiguities
Experience Agent pricing and its relationship to base XM Platform licensing are not publicly detailed.
Missing data
Experience Agent list pricing, per agent or per interaction rates, relationship to base platform licensing.
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