Readyly
Also known as: Sunlight Technologies, Readyly (Sunlight Technologies)
Network of multilingual AI agents for local government and support teams that answers residents across phone, text, chat, email and web and completes transactions like permits, utility service and inspection scheduling.
Readyly is a network of multilingual AI agents that automates citizen and customer service, sold primarily to local governments and secondarily to commercial support teams. Residents reach it however they already get in touch, by website, live chat, inbound phone call, text, email or social, in over two hundred languages, and the agent works out what is being asked instead of waiting for a keyword. Three roles divide the work.
AI Agents engage residents and resolve routine requests end to end, AI Co-Pilots give staff real-time context, AI-drafted responses and auto-translation, and AI Analysts route requests between purpose-built agents, tag interactions by topic, sentiment and urgency, and surface trends. Agents arrive pre-trained on more than a hundred common resident workflows including applications, grants, complaints and permit statuses, and go beyond answering to complete transactions such as permit requests, utility start and stop service, inspection scheduling and code enforcement, integrating with more than forty platforms including Salesforce and OpenGov.
During emergencies the platform delivers real-time alerts by phone, text or chat, a use its Arcadia, California customer describes during the Eaton Fire. Every deployment is fine-tuned by Readyly's own AI engineers on the community's content and workflows. Readyly states SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and NIST AI RMF compliance, WCAG 2.1 accessibility, PII masking, and that data is encrypted and hosted in the United States. It is sold by Sunlight Technologies, Inc. with offices in New York and Connecticut, and its named customers include Arcadia and Los Altos Hills in California, Mount Vernon, Woodstock, Lawrence in Kansas, and Brussels.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.readyly.com
Category
Customer support agent
Funding status
Pre-Seed
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Connects with more than forty platforms, naming Salesforce and OpenGov, and integrating with permitting, records, CRM and communications systems local governments already run. Agents take authenticated action instead of only reading, automating permit requests, utility start and stop service, inspection scheduling and code enforcement, and completing forms. Readyly publishes no integration directory and no public API or SDK for its own platform.
In practice
Residents ask about permits and utility service in many languages and across every channel. Readyly's agents understand the request in over two hundred languages and complete permit requests, utility start and stop service and inspection scheduling in your systems.
An emergency hits and residents flood your phone lines. Readyly sends real time alerts and emergency updates by phone, text or chat, and its Arcadia deployment answered hundreds of resident calls during the Eaton Fire.
Your staff handle the complex cases that need a person. Readyly routes those cases to the right team, and AI Co-Pilots give staff real time context, GPT-enhanced responses and auto translation.
Sources & related URLs
Agentic Index coverage score
7.5 / 14 capabilities · 54%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
|---|---|
|
Agents write into the customer's systems of record. Readyly connects with more than forty platforms, naming Salesforce and OpenGov among them, and integrates with permitting, records, CRM and communications systems. It contrasts itself with generic bots that rarely integrate or need custom development. The actions are writes, not lookups. Agents automate permit requests, utility start and stop service, inspection scheduling and code enforcement, and they complete forms, all of which change state in a system a municipality runs. The platform works with the tools a customer already uses instead of replacing them. Readyly publishes no integration directory, so only two of the more than forty platforms are named, along with a set of system categories. Sourcereadyly.com how-it-works, government solutions and businesses pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
|
Work runs across a network of purpose built agents, not one bot. AI Analysts route requests between them and continuously optimize internal operations. Each request follows a set sequence. The agent evaluates context, pulls from thousands of documents or systems if needed, then takes the next best step, either responding directly or handing off to the right team. The sequence can end in a transaction, not just an answer. Agents automate permit requests, utility start and stop service, inspection scheduling and code enforcement with full system integration, and they complete forms. Readyly says routing is accurate across departments, and configuration is offered per department. Readyly's engineers configure the orchestration during onboarding. Readyly names no workflow builder, canvas, node model or authoring surface for customers, and no branching, retry or failure handling construct. Sourcereadyly.com how-it-works and government solutions pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
|
The agent evaluates context and pulls from thousands of documents or systems as needed before acting. Agents are trained exclusively on client provided information, and the platform is rigorously customized to a community's own content, workflows and voice. Resident data is not shared or trained on, and Readyly claims 99 percent accuracy with under 1 percent hallucinations by its own benchmark. It names no index, embeddings layer, graph, retrieval mechanism, refresh cadence or way to manage sources. Its wording about training on client data describes fine tuning, and it does not separate that from retrieval. Sourcereadyly.com how-it-works and resources pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
|
Customers configure escalation rules without a developer, through no code control over workflows, messaging and escalation rules. Routing hands complex issues to the right team every time and to the best fit team member. AI Co-Pilots give staff real time context, GPT-enhanced responses and auto translation, and alerts are automated. With the Co-Pilot, a staff member composes the reply with its help. Readyly describes no review and approve surface, approval queue, pre send gate, confidence threshold, publish step or way to hold agent output for review. Readyly says the AI Agents resolve up to 99 percent of resident inquiries and complete permits, utility changes and inspection scheduling on their own, so the autonomous path is the main path. Its AI ethics statement says human oversight is maintained where necessary, but it names no mechanism. Sourcereadyly.com businesses, government and how-it-works pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Security, Identity & Governance | Partial |
|
SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework are all claimed, with a badge for each. Readyly adds WCAG 2.1 accessibility and a commitment that resident data is neither shared nor trained on. Its DPA names a Data Protection Officer reachable at a published security address, and PCI DSS SAQ is in progress. Readyly does not say who inside the customer's own organization can do what. It names no SSO, SAML, SCIM or OIDC, no RBAC, no roles and no granular permissions. Enterprise Access Controls appears as a bullet with no detail, and the DPA says the Services enable segregation of responsibilities and application functional access. Under the DPA, Readyly grants its own personnel need to know access, and that access is audited. The published legal documents are the Terms, Privacy Policy and DPA, and there is no trust center. Readyly claims SOC 2 Type 2 for itself, while the DPA attributes annual SOC 2 Type 2 examinations to the cloud environments hosting the Services, so the two claims cover different entities. Sourcereadyly.com government and how-it-works pages, readyly.com DPAread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Observability & Auditability | Partial |
|
AI Analysts tag interactions by topic, sentiment and urgency, surface real time trends, provide segmentation analytics and continuously optimize internal operations. Reports cover resolution rates, staff hours saved and resident satisfaction, so a customer can see volumes, categories and sentiment across the queue. Readyly names no run trace, decision log, tool call record, reasoning view or action audit trail. It does not say how a customer could find out what a given agent retrieved, which system it called, or why it answered as it did. The agents carry out permit requests, utility service starts and stops and inspection scheduling for public bodies that have records requirements. Sourcereadyly.com government solutions and how-it-works pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
|
Context holds through an interaction. Residents get what they need in one simple conversation, without bouncing between channels or departments, and AI Co-Pilots surface customer history to staff in real time. State carries within an exchange, and prior contact is visible to a human agent. Readyly does not say whether memory is scoped per resident, per department or per workflow, how long it lasts, or whether an operator can inspect or delete it, including for one resident. Self healing learning from outcomes feeds improvement into the model. The customer history a Co-Pilot displays is the record the customer's own system already holds. Sourcereadyly.com homepage and government solutions pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Deployment & Data Residency | Not documented |
|
Among its trust commitments, Readyly says all data is fully encrypted and hosted securely in the U.S. Hosting is in that one region, and customers cannot choose another. Readyly names no VPC, on premises, single tenant or customer tenant deployment. Its DPA says the Services are hosted in cloud environments and names no choice among them. Sourcereadyly.com government page, readyly.com DPAread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Prebuilt Agents / Templates / Packs | Full |
|
Packaged workflows ship ready to use. The AI Agents come pretrained on more than a hundred common resident workflows, including applications, grants, complaints and permit statuses. Readyly calls the platform fully configurable with 100+ ready templates, and also says it automates permits and requests with 100+ AI Agents. The named use cases ship ready, not as projects to scope. They cover permit requests, utility start and stop, inspection scheduling, code enforcement and emergency alerting, so a municipality gets working workflows for its common jobs. Readyly publishes no template gallery or catalog listing the hundred plus workflows, and it does not say which workflows ship for a given set of systems. Sourcereadyly.com how-it-works and homepageread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
|
Residents reach the agent through website, live chat, inbound telephone calls to the main line, SMS, email reply and social, each an independent queue with its own arrival path. The agent listens across all of them without waiting for a keyword and understands the request however it is asked, in over two hundred languages. Voice runs both ways on the main line, and the Arcadia deployment answered hundreds of resident calls during the Eaton Fire. The platform also starts outbound contact, sending real time alerts during critical events and emergency updates by phone, text or chat. Residents get help without bouncing between channels or departments. Readyly names no webhook catalog, event subscription or scheduled runs, so work starts by channel, not by event. Sourcereadyly.com homepage, how-it-works and government solutions pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Model Flexibility & Routing | Not documented |
|
The platform is sold as a managed outcome, not a configurable stack, and Readyly describes no customer or admin control over the model. The only model it names is the GPT family, behind the GPT-enhanced responses AI Co-Pilots give staff. Readyly names no provider selection, routing rule, per workflow assignment, bring your own key path, or temperature or reasoning setting, and no routing across providers. Tuning is Readyly's own work, done as a service. A team of expert AI engineers fine tunes every deployment, not off the shelf tools. Sourcereadyly.com businesses and how-it-works pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
| APIs / SDKs / MCP Extensibility | Not documented |
|
No API, SDK, developer documentation or MCP endpoint is published for Readyly's own platform, and the product is sold as needing none. Customers get no code control over workflows, messaging and escalation rules, with no dev team required, and for governments the platform self installs and is tuned by Readyly's engineers. Readyly has no developer section, documentation subdomain or reference of any kind, and its only login is an account page. Integrations run inward. Readyly connects to more than forty platforms including Salesforce and OpenGov, which brings outside systems in but does not let outside software call the platform. Sourcereadyly.com businesses, how-it-works and homepageread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
|
Interactions can be reviewed after the fact. AI Analysts tag interactions by topic, sentiment and urgency and surface real time trends, so a customer can read back what happened and find where the agent is failing. Readyly describes no way to test a change before or after release, with no evaluation harness, scored test cases, quality gate in a release path or controlled post deployment experiment. Improvement comes two ways. The system is self healing and learns continuously from outcomes, and a team of expert AI engineers at Readyly fine tunes every deployment. Sourcereadyly.com government solutions, how-it-works and homepageread 2026-09-05 |
|
| Browser / Computer-use | Not documented |
|
Systems are reached through integrations, not browser, desktop or computer control. Readyly connects with more than forty platforms including Salesforce and OpenGov and with permitting, records and communications systems, and it sets this integration with government platforms apart from bots that need custom development. Its channels (chat, voice, text, email, web and social) are conversational surfaces the agent speaks through, not interfaces it operates. The agent also completes forms and answers telephone calls. Sourcereadyly.com how-it-works and government solutions pagesread 2026-09-05 |
|
The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Pricing
Contact sales
Automation as a service, sold via direct sales to mid market and government; specifics undisclosed.
Cost watchouts
Managed fine tuning, integration, and per volume scaling drive total cost; quoted directly.
Variable cost rationale
Unestablished. With no published unit of pricing, whether cost scales with interaction volume, resolved requests, departments or seats cannot be determined from the public surface.
Sales call required
Yes, required for paid access
Free / trial
No public free tier; a Zendesk marketplace app installs in about two minutes but platform pricing is sales led.
Lowest paid plan
None public (a Zendesk marketplace agent assist add on exists separately).
Key ambiguities
Nothing about the commercial model is published: no tier structure and no unit of pricing, so whether Readyly charges per resident interaction, per resolved request, per department, per seat or as an annual platform fee cannot be determined. Whether the engineer-led fine-tuning that every deployment receives is bundled or billed as implementation is unstated, as is whether the local government and Readyly for Businesses lines are priced differently. The site supports an automation-as-a-service model with managed fine-tuning; a Zendesk marketplace app installing in about two minutes, described in older material, does not appear on the current site and may belong to the earlier commercial product.
Related vendors
- Decagon — AI agent platform purpose-built for customer support, with deep…
- 5.Y — 5
- Ada — Agentic customer experience platform whose AI agents autonomously…
- Aisera — Enterprise agentic AI platform that orchestrates specialized agents…
- ASAPP — Generative AI for enterprise contact centers that plugs into…
- Assembled — AI customer support orchestration platform that unifies autonomous…
Alternatives to Readyly
The closest documented capability profiles to Readyly among customer support agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.
- Worknet7.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Readyly
- Cendra7.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails
- Konvo7.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Testing, Debugging & Optimization
- Siena AI7.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence
- BIK8.0 / 14Adds documented APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility
- Gradient Labs7.0 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Human Oversight & Guardrails
Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded