The State of Enterprise Conversational AI in 2026

What 30 enterprise leaders told us about scaling AI, governing it, and maintaining momentum.

Our latest report shows that enterprise conversational AI programs are scaling fast, but confidence in those programs isn’t keeping pace.

We heard directly from enterprise leaders about what they’re prioritizing this year as they forge ahead.Inside you'll find:
- Where conversational AI programs most commonly stall and why deployment is rarely the problem
- How teams across financial services, healthcare, retail, and government are approaching their conversational AI strategies differentlyWhich early-stage architecture, governance, and measurement decisions separate production-grade programs from the rest

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Build agents that don't just respond — they resolve

WHY DEVELOPERS CHOOSE RASA

Build agents that don't just

respond — they resolve

Rasa gives you the framework to build enterprise AI agents with full architectural control — not a black box you configure.

Strong Architecture

Patented dialogue manager orchestrates autonomous reasoning and guided workflows in one system. LLM fluency meets deterministic logic — no hallucinations in your business rules.

Open Framework

Full access to prompts, policies, and codebase. Swap your LLM, your infra, your integration layer. The framework adapts to your requirements — not the other way around.

Multi-Agent Orchestration

Coordinate agents across systems with shared state, clean handoffs, and unified memory. Scale from a single agent to a decentralized enterprise network without architectural rework.

Full Observability

Inspectable dialogue state. Event-based tracker. Every orchestrator decision is traceable — not buried in logs. Debug, test, and improve with confidence.

Enterprise Dev Tooling

Work with Cursor, Copilot, VS Code, GitHub, Jenkins, and OpenTelemetry alongside Rasa. Git versioning, CI/CD pipelines, and rollback support built-in.

Deployment Control

Your infrastructure, your LLM provider, air-gapped if required. On-prem is the default — not an add-on. Built for regulated environments from the start.

Three layers. One coherent system.

how it works

Three layers.

One coherent system.

Orchestrator

The coordination layer that decides what happens next. Manages context, routes to the right skill, and keeps journeys consistent across steps, systems, and channels. If an AI agent is the performer, orchestration is the stage manager.

Skills

Reusable capability units the agent invokes on demand. A skill has a purpose, inputs it needs, tools it can use, and boundaries it respects. Build once, reuse across agents — no copy-paste prompt sprawl.

Memory

The continuity layer that carries context over time. Decides what should be remembered, when it should be used, and when it must be ignored. Session memory for coherence. Long-term memory for relationships.

50M+

conversations/month in production

80+

enterprise deployments

18k+

GitHub stars

faster than DIY frameworks

Three layers. One coherent system.

HOW WE COMPARE

Stop rebuilding the

platform layer

DIY frameworks give you flexibility but consume engineering capacity building the foundation. Low-code tools are fast to configure but closed to customize. Rasa gives you both.

Capability

Rasa

DIY

Low-Code

Vendor Agents

On-prem / air-gapped deployment

—

LLM-agnostic (swap providers)

—

Multi-agent orchestration built-in

Build yourself

—

Vendor-controlled

Guided + autonomous skill mixing

Build yourself

Config only

Black box

Inspectable dialogue state

Build yourself

—

Open source foundation

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Time to production

4-8 weeks

6–18 months

2–6 weeks*

3–6 weeks

* Low-code tools are fast for simple use cases but hit walls at enterprise complexity.

What engineering teams say

"We evaluated six platforms. Rasa was the only one that let us deploy on-prem, swap LLM providers, and maintain full observability. Our security and compliance teams signed off in weeks, not months."

Marcus K.

Lead Architect · Allianz

"With LangChain we were spending 60% of our time building orchestration and memory systems from scratch. Rasa gave us that layer out of the box — we shipped to production in 8 weeks."

Sophie L.

Platform Engineering Lead · Deutsche Telekom

"The inspectable dialogue state changed how we debug. Every decision is traceable — we can reproduce issues, understand why the agent behaved a certain way, and fix it with confidence."

Thomas R.

CTO · European Insurance Group

AI that adapts to your business, not the other way around

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AI agents you actually own?

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