Orvera AI Named a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026

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Orvera AI, which runs AI agents for customer experience teams, has been named a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026. The report, published on October 26, 2026, places 29 conversational AI and AI agent providers on two dimensions: market impact, and vision and capability.

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Everest Group starts with how Orvera works with its customers. "A managed service model that combines AI-agent technology with contact center operating expertise is a major differentiator," the report says. Orvera's team builds, deploys, integrates, monitors and optimizes AI workflows on the systems a customer already runs. The customer's own team doesn't have to design or run any of it.

Then it turns to the people on a customer's floor. Orvera's Agent Assist runs as a desktop app, a browser extension or an SDK. It listens to the live conversation and hands the human agent knowledge, next-best actions and a summary, with no direct API integration into the CCaaS platform underneath. The report goes on to cover Orvera's AI agents on voice, chat, email and digital channels, its AI Quality Management and Voice of Customer, and real-time translation for customers who switch language partway through.

Everest Group also spoke with buyers as part of the assessment. "Buyers highlight Orvera AI's responsiveness, flexibility and willingness to customize, understanding of AI agents and automation workflows, and implementation support as core strengths," the report says.

"Enterprises scaling conversational AI need solutions that fit within their existing contact center operations and technology stacks. Orvera AI's platform supports omnichannel agents that take action in enterprise systems, automating workflows across voice and digital channels and preserving context during human handoffs. Its flexible orchestration and standalone agent assist capability also help enterprises deploy across diverse contact center environments with fewer integration dependencies," said Anubhav Das, Practice Director at Everest Group. "This platform flexibility contributed to Orvera AI's position as a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026."

"Our customers already run contact centers on systems they've spent years getting right, and they want AI agents working inside those systems," said Ali Merchant, Founder and CEO of Orvera AI. "So we build, deploy and run our agents on the stack they already have, and Agent Assist sits beside a human agent on the desktop they already use. It means a lot to our team that Everest Group's analysts picked up on that, and that the buyers they spoke with named our responsiveness and our implementation support. That's the work our people do every day, and we're going to keep building on it."

A complimentary copy of the report extract, with Everest Group's key findings and its profile of Orvera AI, is available at https://orvera.ai/whitepapers-and-reports/everest-group-peak-matrix-conversational-ai-ai-agents-cxm-2026.

Earlier in 2026, Orvera AI was placed on three CMP Research Prisms: Core Performing for Automated QA/QM, Core Performing for Voicebot/Conversational IVR, and Up & Coming for Chatbot/Virtual Agent. In November 2026, Orvera AI was named Highly Commended for CX Transformation of the Year at the CX Awards 2026.

About Orvera AI

Orvera AI runs AI agents for customer experience teams. Orvera's AI agents resolve customer conversations across voice, chat and digital channels, inbound and outbound, in 80+ languages. On the same platform, Agent Assist guides human agents live, AI Quality Management scores 100% of conversations, human and AI, and Voice of Customer shows why customers get in touch. Orvera builds, deploys and runs the platform on the customer's existing stack through 500+ integrations, and full deployment, end to end, takes 3 to 6 weeks. Orvera AI is headquartered in San Francisco and is SOC 2 Type II certified, HIPAA compliant and GDPR compliant. For more information, visit orvera.ai.

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Orvera AI was named a Major Contender in Everest Group's Conversational AI and AI Agents in Customer Experience Management (CXM) Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2026.

LONDON (AP) — British children’s author and comedian David Walliams used his fame to groom girls and young women for sex, two British news outlets reported on Tuesday.

ITV News and the Guardian newspaper said their joint investigation featured interviews with multiple women who gave first-hand accounts of Walliams' conduct. One woman alleged he sexually assaulted her at his house when she was 15, while others accused him of grooming them when they were teens.

Walliams, 55, denied the allegations. He had sought a court injunction to bar ITV News and the Guardian from identifying him in their reporting. His lawyers claimed that publication of sexual misconduct allegations would lead him to take his own life.

A judge rejected his injunction request last week, but protected his identity until late Monday.

“I am not a sexual predator,” Walliams said, according to ITV. “I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”

“Whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did,” he added.

Walliams’ lawyer, Sara Mansoori, earlier told the High Court that he had made a suicide attempt when he received letters from ITN and Guardian News and Media seeking his response to the allegations. He later made another attempt, she said, and he was recently admitted to the hospital for psychiatric care.

The case has drawn widespread attention in Britain because it highlighted questions over public figures’ right to privacy and what media can report on the basis of public interest.

Gavin Millar, representing the media companies, has said that the allegations were gathered after “a wide-ranging and rigorous investigation” and that there was a strong public interest in publishing them.

He told the court that the investigation involved speaking to more than 100 people, including 30 sources with first-hand accounts of his conduct.

“The defendants allege that, over a period of years, the claimant used his status and influence as a well-known public figure to establish contact with young women, some considerably younger than him, and that he engaged or sought to engage in seriously inappropriate conduct,” according to a summary of the court judgment.

Some of the alleged conduct could amount to criminal offenses if proven, it said.

Walliams was dropped last year by publisher HarperCollins after allegations were made of inappropriate behavior. Few details were published at the time, but the Guardian reported Tuesday that there were concerns about his behavior for years, including an allegation that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a junior female employee.

Walliams is best known for comedy sketches on “Little Britain," a hugely popular British TV show in the 2000s, but he's also a celebrated children's book author with some 40 published titles that sold more than 60 million copies worldwide, according to his website. Several of them, including “Gangsta Granny,” have been adapted into BBC comedy dramas and stage productions.

Walliams left his role as a judge on “Britain’s Got Talent” in 2022 after apologizing for making “disrespectful comments” about auditioning contestants.

In dismissing the injunction bid, Justice Matthew Nicklin said such a legal measure would mean “an exceptionally serious interference” with the rights of the media companies.

He noted that Walliams had a “serious and longstanding psychiatric vulnerability” which must be taken seriously, and said a decision allowing the allegations to be published will substantially increase his risk of suicide. However, he added that the evidence did not “establish that suicide is inevitable.”

FILE - The Royal Courts of Justice are seen in London, Oct. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

FILE - David Walliams poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "The Choral " during the London film festival in London, on Oct. 12, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)