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Automation Anywhere buys Boost.ai to add customer-facing voice AI to its back-office automation

Automation Anywhere has agreed to buy conversational voice AI firm Boost.ai, which has handled more than 150 million automated conversations. The purchase from Nordic Capital takes the automation vendor into regulated-industry customer work in Europe, where Boost.ai's base is concentrated.

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What happened

  • Boost.ai's platform runs in more than 36 languages and is built to meet Europe's GDPR data-protection rules and the US health-privacy law HIPAA.
  • The company maintains more than 650 deployments and about 600 live AI agents built on its conversational platform.
  • The purchase follows Automation Anywhere's late-2025 acquisition of agentic AI firm Aisera, which it folded into its automation platform.
  • Boost.ai's named customers include Nordea Bank, DNB Bank, Credit Union of Colorado and Trading 212.

Why it matters

  • capability A customer's spoken request can reach the back-office system that completes it, instead of stopping at a human agent or a web form.
  • decision A team that bought its CX chatbot from one vendor and its process automation from another now has a single supplier pitching both ends of the chain.
  • constraint Automation Anywhere did not disclose what it is paying for Boost.ai, so buyers and rivals cannot yet gauge the deal's scale.

A customer calls their bank to dispute a charge. The voice bot on the line can answer questions, but the moment something has to change in a back-office record, it hands the caller to a person or a web form. Closing that gap is what Automation Anywhere, an enterprise automation firm, says it is buying with Boost.ai. [4][5]

Its stated goal is an "autonomous enterprise" that runs up to 80 percent of its work autonomously or with AI help. [6] Boost.ai supplies the conversation; Automation Anywhere already sells the process automation that runs behind it. [1] "Every enterprise runs on three kinds of work: serving customers, supporting employees, and running the business. Most run in isolation," chief executive Mihir Shukla said. [2] The claim is that a spoken request can run from the caller through to the system that completes it. [1]

Automation Anywhere said combining the two companies' platforms would give it the most complete offering on the market for autonomous office work. [3] That offering is not finished. The Boost.ai and Automation Anywhere systems still have to be integrated into one. [1]

Many of Boost.ai's customers run in financial services, telecommunications and insurance. [7] "Boost.ai's deep expertise in regulated industries has proven that conversational and voice AI can operate at enterprise scale with the reliability, compliance, and governance that regulated industries require," Boost.ai CEO Jerry Haywood said. [9] For a compliance-heavy buyer, the appeal is a voice layer that already carries the governance those sectors demand.

The market both companies are chasing is still early. Astute Analytica put the AI voice agent market at $3 billion in 2025 and projected $45.1 billion by 2035, [11] roughly a fifteenfold rise over the decade. [16] Customer support led that market in late 2025. [12]

For a team buying CX and automation tools, the test is whether it needs the voice front end and the back-office execution from one vendor now, or is buying a bundle and betting the two halves meet on schedule. If the processes behind the conversation already run on Automation Anywhere, one vendor removes a handoff the buyer used to manage. If they do not, the buyer is the one who has to make the two halves work together.

What to watch

  • Whether Automation Anywhere discloses the price or a closing date for the Boost.ai deal.
  • How the Boost.ai voice layer and the Aisera-based agentic platform ship together: one console or two.
  • Whether regulated European customers such as Nordea and DNB stay on under new ownership.

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  1. [1]

    Boost.ai's technology will let AI take requests from customers or employees and guide them through the middle and back office.

    ReportedSupported2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source
  2. [2]

    Every enterprise runs on three kinds of work: serving customers, supporting employees, and running the business. Most run in isolation.

    ReportedSupportedSource: Automation Anywhere Chief Executive Mihir Shukla, said2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source
  3. [3]

    Automation Anywhere said combining the two companies' platforms would give it the most complete offering on the market for autonomous work across office work.

    ReportedSupported2 sources— create a free account to open themView cited source

Sources

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  1. siliconangle.com

    1 article · October 8, 2026

    Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI

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