Appi AI: autonomous intelligence behind every community experience

Give every colleague and customer communication, support, and next steps that feel timely and personal, without your teams chasing it all manually. Appi AI powers Engage by spotting what matters, choosing the right next action, and delivering it across the channels your audience already uses.

Engage
Active
AI Layer — added on top
Comms AI
Search AI
Agentic AI
Admin AI
Analytics AI
Your 5 engagement pillars
Communi­cation
Accessi­bility
Enable­ment
Feed­back
Recog­nition

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Why AI-CEP matters now

More content, more channels, more journeys. Less time to manage them.

Organisations are creating more content, more channels, and more customer and colleague journeys than teams can manage manually. Messages get missed. Support questions repeat. Leaders struggle to see what is working. Communities lose momentum.

Appi AI helps Engage communities become more intelligent over time. It spots behaviour, identifies friction, guides people to the next best action, and gives teams clearer insight into where engagement, service, and performance can improve.

Reduce manual work

Automate repeated communication, reminders, support questions, and journey nudges so teams spend less time chasing actions.

Increase engagement at scale

Reach people with more relevant messages, content, and guidance based on who they are, what they need, and where they are in the journey.

Turn community data into decisions

Surface patterns across behaviour, sentiment, completion, and participation so leaders can act sooner.

Three generations of engagement

You're not buying an upgrade. You're skipping a generation.

For thirty years, the technology meant to connect your people has been catching up to how people actually work. Each generation solved the last one's problem — and inherited a new one. Engage is the third generation. The others are still trying to bolt their way out of the second.

Generation one
01
1995 — 2010

The intranet.

Static pages, top-down broadcasts, document libraries nobody updated. The first attempt at putting a company online — read-only, soon abandoned, replaced by Slack, email, and a dozen apps nobody had time to integrate.

Read-only
Generation two
02
2010 — today

The CEP, run by humans.

Engagement platforms unified comms, content, lifecycle, and feedback — but humans still did the thinking. Decide who gets what. Write the message. Find the answer. Bolt-on AI followed: a chatbot here, a search agent there. Smart in pieces. Dumb together.

Many disconnected agents
Generation three
03
From now

The AI CEP, run by one intelligence.

Engage is the platform. Appi is the intelligence. Not many agents working in parallel, but one mind that knows every member, remembers every interaction, and acts across the whole platform — for colleagues and customers, in real time.

One intelligence

Skipping a generation isn't reckless. Staying on this one is.

First, the platform itself

A Community Engagement Platform is the place your people actually show up.

Most companies still run colleague comms on email and customer comms on broadcast. Both fail the same test: nobody belongs there. A CEP gives you one branded place where every person you employ, and every person you serve, has a reason to return — and every interaction makes the next one richer.

i — Communications

Where the right message reaches the right person

News, updates, recognition, alerts — translated, personalised, and delivered on the channel that fits each member's life.

ii — Knowledge

Where every answer already lives

Policies, products, processes, payslips, partner rates — searchable, scoped to each person's permissions, plain-language out.

iii — Lifecycle

Where people are guided, not chased

Onboarding, training, renewals, follow-ups — sequenced journeys that move each person to the next right thing.

iv — Feedback & signal

Where leadership hears the truth fast

Sentiment, search behaviour, engagement patterns, advocacy — read continuously, not surveyed quarterly.

That's the platform. Branded, secure, integrated with the systems you already run. Thousands of organisations build community on it. What changes from here is what runs on top of it.
What changes with Appi

The trade-off every leader knew. Gone.

Until now, scale meant broadcast. Personal meant small. Every CEO, every HR director, every CX leader has lived inside that compromise: bigger reach, thinner relationships. Appi collapses it. One intelligence knows every member, every shift, every signal — and acts on it before your team has to.

50
people you can know personally without help.
50,000
people Appi knows personally for you, every day — colleagues and customers alike.
Why this matters to you

One platform. Three very different business cases.

Whoever signs the cheque, the impact lands on numbers they're already measured against. Here's what changes — by the role reading this page.

i
For the CEO

One investment. Two transformations.

Most companies buy one platform for the workforce, another for the customer base, and a third stack of AI tools that depreciate every year. Engage is one platform with one intelligence — colleague engagement and customer engagement compounding together.

  • 1 stackReplaces colleague comms, customer comms, and the AI tooling sprawl. One contract, one team, one source of truth.
  • Both ↑Engaged colleagues retain customers. Engaged customers attract talent. Appi reads and lifts both at once.
  • Gen 3You skip the bolt-on era entirely. New AI capabilities ship to your platform — you don't keep buying replacements.
ii
For the HR Director

Your team is doing strategic work again.

The hidden tax on every HR function: hours per week answering questions that already have answers. New starters waiting months to ramp. Disengagement only visible after the exit interview. Appi removes the tax — your team gets to do the work they were hired for.

  • −29%Drop in avoidable inbound queries. Appi answers from your real, permission-scoped policies — not generic AI.
  • +35%Faster new-starter ramp-up. Onboarding journeys Appi runs without anyone having to chase.
  • LiveSentiment signals reaching leadership before the survey does. See disengagement before it becomes turnover.
iii
For the CX & Marketing Director

Renewals you don't have to chase.

Most customer comms are broadcast. Most lifecycle journeys are spreadsheets and reminders. Appi replaces both with one intelligence that personalises every interaction and runs the lifecycle end-to-end — so renewal stops being an event and becomes a habit.

  • +31%Higher repeat purchase. Appi reaches the right person at the moment they'll act, in their language.
  • +12 NPSClearer comms, easier support, stronger experience across every stage of the lifecycle.
  • Advocacy becomes a flywheel. Customers in your community recruit the next thousand on your behalf.
Meet Appi

One mind. One memory. Every interaction.

Most “AI platforms” are a bag of agents bolted to the same login: a search bot, a writing bot, a chat widget, an analytics tool. Appi is one intelligence. It remembers what each member asked yesterday when they ask today. It uses what your CEO needs to communicate to decide what your frontline needs to know. It connects the dots no federation of agents ever could.

Generation two

A federation of agents.

Locally smart. Collectively dumb. Each one solves a slice; none of them know what the others know. Five logins, five contexts, five bolt-ons.

Search botChat widgetWriting AIAnalytics toolTranslator
Generation three

One intelligence. One memory.

Appi reads every conversation, every member, every signal across the whole platform — and uses what it knows in one place to act in another. The whole is genuinely greater than the parts.

Appi
i
Appi knows.

Every policy, product, process, person and permission across your CEP. Plain-language answers to plain-language questions, scoped to who's allowed to see what — across colleagues and customers, on the same intelligence.

Communications &
Knowledge
ii
Appi sees.

Sentiment, search, engagement, advocacy — read continuously, not surveyed quarterly. Patterns surface in plain language with the next move recommended, before the problem becomes a crisis.

Analytics &
Signal
iii
Appi acts.

Onboarding journeys, recognition, renewals, expert finding, follow-ups — handled end-to-end. Appi doesn't advise your team; it does the work, and your team supervises.

Agentic &
Lifecycle
iv
Appi remembers.

Every conversation. Every preference. Every signal across the whole community. The longer you run on Engage, the smarter Appi gets — and the smarter your community feels to the people inside it.

Memory &
Compounding
v
Appi runs admin.

Tagging, moderation, governance, content health — the unglamorous work that decides whether a community feels alive. Appi handles it underneath, so a small team runs a world-class platform.

Admin &
Operations
How it fits together

The platform you can touch. The intelligence you can't.

Engage is the platform thousands of organisations rely on. Appi is the intelligence that runs across it — for colleagues and customers, on the same mind.

Intelligence
Appi
One mind, one memory. Reads every member, decides the next best action, acts across colleague and customer communities on the same intelligence.
KnowsSeesActsRemembers
runs across
Platform
Engage Community Engagement Platform(CEP)
Branded spaces, communications, knowledge, lifecycle, feedback, integrations, security and governance — the proven ground that thousands of organisations build community on.
CommunicationsKnowledgeLifecycleFeedbackRecognition
Speed

Live in weeks. Smarter every month after.

AI moves faster than any roadmap. Appi ships continuously — and so do you. First wins inside 90 days. Full operational impact within a year. New capabilities landing long after.

Phase one
First 90 days
Live and measurable

Platform deployed, integrations connected, Appi running across your real content. Knows your policies, products, and people. The first measurable wins land before the quarter closes.

  • SSO, identity, and content integrations
  • Appi knows your real, permission-scoped content
  • Comms and search live, baselines set
  • First measurable drop in inbound queries
Phase two
By quarter two
Appi runs the platform

Lifecycle journeys handled by Appi. Sentiment monitoring active. Agentic actions running for both colleagues and customers. The numbers your board cares about start moving — and they keep moving.

  • Appi runs onboarding, renewals, recognition
  • Sentiment + analytics surfacing in real time
  • One intelligence active on both sides
  • First hard ROI numbers
Continuously
Forever compounding
No re-buying. Ever.

Appi gets smarter every month — both because the platform ships new capabilities, and because Appi remembers more about your community. The investment compounds; it doesn't depreciate.

  • Continuous capability releases
  • Model upgrades handled by us
  • Appi's memory deepens with use
  • Community gets sharper month on month
Pricing reflects the speed: a modest uplift on existing CEP spend in phase one — stepping up only as Appi's impact compounds across both communities.
Walk through your numbers
After twelve months

Both sides of the business, moving in the same direction.

One intelligence reading colleague engagement and customer outcomes — which is why they tend to lift together once Appi's in.

83%
Faster access to updates
Frontline teams find what they need instantly instead of searching across channels.
28%
Increase in training completion
Quick, accessible micro-learning supports product knowledge and seasonal readiness.
35%
Faster new starter ramp-up
Clear onboarding and communication help new starters feel confident sooner.
31%
Higher repeat purchase
Relevant updates and personalised offers encourage shoppers to return more often.
+12
NPS improvement
Clearer communication and easier support strengthen overall customer experience.
29%
Reduction in avoidable queries
Guided self-service, messaging, and personalised updates reduce inbound questions.
Enterprise trust

Built for the way enterprise actually runs.

You don't need to rip and replace. Engage connects to your HR, CRM, support, payroll, and learning systems — your data, documents, and workflows flow into one branded experience colleagues and customers return to.

ISO 27001ISO 9001GDPRSSO + SCIMAudit logs

One login for everything

Single sign-on for colleagues, plus secure scoped access for customers and partners.

Admin that saves time

Provision users, groups, and access rules automatically from your source systems.

Impact you can prove

Track reach, reads, actions, sentiment, and outcomes in reports leaders can use.

Content where people are

Policies, payslips, knowledge, documents, service updates — all in one place.

Common questions

What you'll want to know before the demo.

What's the difference between Appi and the AI features other vendors offer?
Other vendors offer agents — a search bot, a writing assistant, a chat widget, an analytics tool. Each one is locally smart but doesn't know what the others know. Appi is one intelligence with one memory across the whole platform. It uses what it learns from a colleague's question to inform a customer's experience, and what it sees in your sentiment data to shape your next campaign. The architectural difference is the difference between a federation and a mind.
We don't have a CEP today. Where do we start?
That's most customers. Engage replaces a fragmented stack — intranet, comms tools, customer portal, knowledge base, and the AI bolt-ons that have appeared on top. We migrate what's worth keeping, retire what isn't, and have you on the platform within weeks. Appi runs across it from day one. You don't need to be on a CEP to move to the AI CEP — that's the point.
How fast can we actually see this working?
The platform is live in weeks. Appi is reading your real content and answering colleague and customer questions inside 90 days, with the first measurable drop in inbound queries arriving in the same window. Lifecycle automation and broader agentic action follow shortly after. We don't ask you to commit to a long horizon — you'll see numbers move inside the first quarter.
What ROI should we expect?
The numbers most customers see in the first twelve months: 29% drop in avoidable inbound queries, 35% faster new-starter ramp-up, 31% lift in repeat purchase, and a +12 NPS shift. The biggest financial impact tends to come from team capacity recovered (HR, CS, comms) rather than headline customer metrics — though both move. We'll model your specific case on the demo call against your existing P&L lines.
How is it priced?
As a modest uplift on existing CEP spend in phase one — early intelligence is priced lightly because it has to prove value first. Pricing steps up as Appi's impact compounds across agentic and analytics work. We'll walk you through specifics for your size and shape on the demo. There's no multi-year lock-in to access Appi.
Do we need to use both colleague and customer communities?
No. You can run colleague and customer communities in one branded app with strict audience controls, or start with one and add the other later. Appi runs across both whenever you turn the second one on — and that's typically when the strongest compounding kicks in, because Appi's memory now spans both sides of the business.
What security and compliance standards do you meet?
ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, GDPR compliant, with full data encryption at rest and in transit. SSO, SCIM provisioning, role-based permissions, audit logs, and data residency options give IT and security teams complete visibility and control. Appi's memory is scoped to your tenant — your data isn't used to train models for anyone else.

Show us your numbers. We'll show you where they go.

Thirty minutes. We'll walk you through what the first 90 days look like for an organisation that looks like yours — and which numbers on your board pack will move first.

Book a demo

Community at scale used to be a contradiction. Not anymore.

Until Appi AI, every leader faced the same trade-off: scale, and accept that everyone gets the same broadcast — or stay personal, and stay small.

50

people you can know personally without help.

50,000

people Appi can know personally for you, every day — colleagues and customers alike.

Engage is the platform thousands rely on. Appi AI is the intelligence that runs through it.

Engage already gives thousands of organisations the place where colleague and customer communities live — branded spaces, content, conversations, lifecycle, integrations, security. Appi AI is the layer that runs across it: the intelligence that reads what every member needs and decides what should happen next.

The platform without Appi is already where thousands of organisations build community.
With Appi running through it, every interaction becomes personal — at the scale of an enterprise, with the intimacy of a small team.

From the five pillars

of engagement

🤝

Accessibility

🚀

Enablement

💭

Feedback

💬

Communication

🌟

Recognition

These principles shape every Engage community, ensuring every person feels heard, supported, and empowered to act.

The five pillars

of community intelligence

💬

Communications AI

🔍

Search & Knowledge AI

🤖

Agentic AI

⚙️

Admin AI

📊

Analytics AI

Appi AI is not one feature, it's five integrated AI systems working together across your community. Each pillar solves a distinct problem. Together, they transform how your colleagues and customers experience every interaction.

Understand audience behaviour in real time

See who is engaging, who is slowing down, and who is missing key actions, so teams can step in early.

Deliver content at the right moment

Messages, nudges, and updates land when people are most likely to respond, across in-app, push, SMS, and email.

Personalise every interaction

Appi adjusts content and recommendations based on role, location, shift pattern, lifecycle stage, and recent activity.

Give teams clear, usable insight

Spot patterns across sentiment, engagement, and completion so managers, HR, and customer teams can act with confidence.

Five outcomes a thriving community needs an intelligence to deliver.

Communications AI

Reach every person at the right moment.

Personalised messages, in the right language, on the right channel, at the moment each person will actually act on them — across thousands of members at once.

aGENTIC AI

Make journeys run themselves.

Onboarding, recognition, renewals, expert finding, follow-ups — handled end-to-end. Work that used to be chased now happens in the background.

Search & Knowledge AI

Turn every question into a trusted answer.

Plain-language answers in seconds — sourced from your real content, scoped to what each person is allowed to see. Self-service that actually serves.

Admin AI

Run a world-class community with a small team.

Tagging, moderation, governance, content health — the unglamorous work that decides whether a community feels alive or abandoned, automated underneath.

Analytics AI

Turn insight into action.

Sentiment, search, engagement, advocacy — read continuously, surfaced in plain language, with the next move recommended before the problem becomes visible.

The capabilities behind each outcome.

Five outcomes at the headline level. Underneath each one, the specific capabilities that make it real — same Appi, same five, working across colleague and customer communities together.

Communications AI

Reach every person at the right moment.

From AI-drafted articles to personalised delivery timing, Communications AI removes the bottleneck of manual production and ensures every message reaches the right audience in the right format.

AI-assisted translation

Every message in every language — colleagues and customers receive content in their language automatically, with no manual coordination.

AI content creation

AI drafts news articles in your brand voice and builds knowledge base content from uploaded source documents — FAQs, guides, and policies from PDFs.

Content summarisation & repurposing

One source document becomes a push notification, a summary card, and a full article — for colleagues, customers, or both.

Smart content delivery timing

AI learns when each person is most likely to engage and delivers content at the optimal moment — across push, in-app, SMS, and email.

Appi AI
Ask anything...
Search & Knowledge AI

Turn every question into a trusted answer.

Permission-scoped AI search means every colleague and customer gets accurate answers from content they're authorised to see — no hunting across systems, no wrong audience seeing the wrong content.

AI chat assistant

Conversational AI chat — ask questions in plain language and get sourced answers from your trusted content, with follow-ups and full chat history.

AI-powered search results

AI-generated answer at the top of search results — intelligence embedded in the search experience, not just a separate chat window.

Permission-scoped AI search

Only answers from what each audience is authorised to see. Colleague content stays separate from customer content — guaranteed.

Message & conversation search

'What did Sarah say about the budget?' — indexed, permission-scoped, and conversational. No competitor offers the agentic layer over messaging.

Appi AI
Ask anything...
Agentic AI

Make journeys run themselves.

Agentic AI completes tasks, automates workflows, and handles multi-step processes end-to-end. From onboarding journeys to shift swaps, colleague recognition to self-service requests — AI doesn't just advise, it does.

Per-agent knowledge scoping

Multiple named AI agents, each trained on different content — an HR agent knows HR, a customer support agent knows product docs. Clear, trusted boundaries.

Recognition & rewards

Colleagues recognise peers directly. AI prompts managers at key moments — anniversaries, milestones, completions — so nothing falls through the cracks.

People & peer finding

Ask in chat — 'Who knows about X?' — and an AI agent searches profiles, skills, and project history to find exactly the right person.

Lifecycle & onboarding automation

Onboarding → probation → anniversary → offboarding. Customer: signup → adoption → renewal → advocacy. AI-guided journeys, not just scheduled comms.

Appi AI
Intelligence always on…
Admin AI

Run a world-class community with a small team.

Admin AI removes the hidden cost of running a platform — the hours spent on tagging, governance, moderation, and configuration. It gives your platform team leverage: a small team maintains a world-class experience.

AI-powered community moderation

AI classifies content by risk, detects harmful language, and surfaces issues to moderators — extending existing moderation with intelligence, at scale.

Automatic metadata & content tagging

Auto-tags every piece of content — topics, audiences, categories, locations — making search and recommendations dramatically more effective from day one.

AI-powered content governance

Identifies stale content, broken links, and duplicates continuously. Your community always has fresh, accurate information — governance that runs itself.

AI design & configuration assistant

Admins describe what they need — 'Build me a homepage card for the new benefits portal' — AI creates it. A conversational platform expert, always available.

Appi AI
Ask anything...
Analytics AI

Turn insight into action.

Analytics AI moves beyond dashboards. It continuously monitors sentiment, surfaces what people can't find, generates plain-language reports for leadership, and proactively tells you what to do next — before problems become visible.

Sentiment analysis

Continuous pulse on how your community feels — colleague engagement and customer satisfaction tracked in real-time, not in an annual survey.

Conversational analytics

Ask: 'How did customers respond to the new pricing?' — insights in plain language, not static charts. Democratises analytics across your whole team.

Automated engagement reporting

Weekly and monthly AI-written reports — adoption, performance, trends — ready for leadership without manual compilation. Saves 4–6 hours per month.

Search analytics

What your community searches for, what they can't find, and where content gaps exist — a direct feedback loop into your content strategy.

Appi AI
Ask anything...

After twelve months in community, this is what changes.

Metrics from across both sides of the business — colleague engagement and customer outcomes moving in the same direction, because they're powered by the same intelligence.

83%

Faster access to updates

Store teams can find information instantly instead of searching across channels.

28%

Increase in training completion

Quick, accessible micro-learning supports product knowledge and seasonal readiness.

35%

Improvement in new starter ramp-up

Clear onboarding and communication help retail employees feel confident sooner.

31%

Higher repeat purchase rates

Relevant updates and personalised offers encourage shoppers to return more often.

+12

NPS improvement

Clearer communication and easier support strengthen overall customer experience.

29%

Reduction in avoidable queries

Guided self-service, messaging, and personalised updates reduce inbound questions.

Trusted by leading enterprise with their people, data, and communities.

Engage is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, combining enterprise-grade security with GDPR compliance and full data encryption. Single sign-on (SSO), SCIM provisioning, and role-based permissions protect every user and workflow, while audit logs and data residency options give IT complete visibility and control.

Trusted by enterprise with their people, data, and communities.

You do not need to rip and replace existing systems. Engage connects to your HR platform, CRM, support tools, payroll, and learning, so your data, documents, and workflows flow into one branded app and web experience that colleagues and customers will return to.

One login for everything

Single sign-on for colleagues, plus secure access for customers and partners.

Admin that saves time

Provision users, groups, and access rules automatically from your source systems.

Impact you can prove

Track reach, reads, actions, sentiment, and outcomes in reports leaders can use.

Content where people are

Policies, payslips, knowledge, documents, service updates, and resources in one place.

Frequently asked questions

Do we need to use both colleague and customer communities?

No. You can either opt to run colleague and customer communities in one branded app with strict audience controls, or start with one and add the other later.

How does Appi AI help people find information more quickly?

Appi AI lets people get answers through natural language chat. Colleagues can ask about policies, HR topics, documents, and internal updates. Customers can ask about products, help articles, services, and common support topics. Instead of digging through menus or sending messages back and forth, they type a question and get the right information in seconds.

Can Engage integrate with our existing workplace and customer systems?

Yes. Engage supports single sign-on, automated user setup, and integrations across the tools you already use. That can include HR, payroll, learning, and documents for colleagues, plus systems like CRM, customer support, ticketing, and knowledge bases for customers. People get one place to access what they need, without jumping between apps.

What can Appi AI support people with day-to-day?

Appi AI helps colleagues and customers navigate the app, find the right tools and content, and follow the right process. Colleagues can locate forms, understand internal steps, and find the right team or space. Customers can find the right help, understand next steps, and get routed to the right service or channel. Answers can be tailored based on who the person is and what they have access to.

Is Engage suitable for companies of our size?

Engage is highly scalable and has four packages to suit organisations of any size, from small businesses to large enterprises. Whether you have a local team or a global workforce, Engage can adapt to your needs and help you achieve your engagement goals.

What security and compliance standards does Engage meet?

Engage is built with enterprise-grade security, including ISO 27001 certification, GDPR compliance, and robust permissioning. Organisations can confidently unify systems and data while maintaining strong governance.