What is the Hoop Platform Assistant and how does it benefit my business?
The Platform Assistant is your AI business companion, integrated directly across the Hoop customer platform. It is designed to understand your specific customers, deals, and internal processes, working alongside your teams to boost productivity.
It acts as a smart assistant that helps sales, marketing, and service stay efficient without needing to switch applications. This companion is available wherever you work, whether on desktop or mobile, delivering relevant suggestions and answers in context.
How does the Platform Assistant understand my specific business data?
The assistant is grounded in your CRM and content context within Hoop. This means it is aware of records, properties, and associations specific to your customers. This record awareness allows suggestions and generated content to match each customer’s reality.
It learns from your existing assets and style guidance inside your workspace, ensuring that any generated copy is on-brand and consistent. Key benefits include:
- Instant meeting preparation with highlights pulled from records.
- Seamless handoffs by capturing outcomes and relaying context to human teams.
- Guided actions recommending next steps like creating tasks or logging notes.
What are the key generative AI capabilities of the Platform Assistant?
The Platform Assistant excels at automating content creation and summarizing information to save your teams time. It can draft various types of communication and content based on your brief and company guidelines, making repetitive work faster.
It also provides quick edits to adapt tone, such as rewrite, shorten, expand, and clarify, ensuring flexibility while maintaining brand voice. The key capabilities designed to increase productivity are:
- Drafting emails, pages, and posts quickly and accurately.
- Summarizing notes, support tickets, and calls for faster follow-up.
- Generating on-brand copy while anchoring content to approved style guides.
Where across the Hoop platform can teams utilize the AI assistance?
Teams can access the Platform Assistant across various daily workflows within the Hoop customer platform. Since it is embedded and connected to your CRM and content tools, it provides help in context, reducing manual effort and keeping teams aligned.
This means your sales, marketing, and service teams can use it directly within their tools. It delivers help right where you work, enabling better productivity across all functions. Teams use it in daily work across these areas:
- Email and page builders for content generation.
- Customer records and reporting dashboards for summaries and insights.
- Mobile and desktop environments for in-context support.
What controls and safety features are in place for the AI assistant?
Hoop ensures accountable AI use through robust administrative controls and visibility features. Admin controls allow management of who can generate content, publish, or take actions based on AI suggestions, maintaining compliance and oversight.
The system prioritizes human control. Clear indicators show when AI is involved, and all outputs are editable, so teams can review and refine suggestions as needed. The platform includes several controls to ensure responsible use:
- Guardrails, approval workflows, and audit visibility.
- Admin permissions for generating, publishing, and action-taking.
- Clear indicators and editability so humans remain in charge of final outputs.
Which Hoop pricing plans include access to the Platform Assistant feature?
The Platform Assistant is an advanced AI feature available across multiple Hoop pricing tiers to ensure broad accessibility. Access begins with the Core plan and scales up through the Pro and Enterprise plans.
Customers on Core, Pro, or Enterprise plans can utilize the power of this AI companion. While the core functionality is available, specific usage limits, advanced administrative controls, or expanded capabilities may be reserved for the Pro and Enterprise tiers, aligning feature access with the complexity and scale of larger organizations using the Hoop platform.