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On March 26, 2026, Zendesk acquired Forethought. If you were comparing them as a standalone, your AI support is now Zendesk-tier procurement. Try Corebee, $99/mo on Pro, no Zendesk overhead.
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Row by row against Forethought
8 rows, scored from both sides.
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Check those rows against your own help centre
Corebee answers from the docs you already publish, with first answers in 5 minutes self-serve. Start free, no card, while you judge it.
The objection
“I’d just be swapping Forethought’s bot for yours.”
You will not. Corebee answers the repetitive questions from your own help docs — and the moment a customer asks for a person, or the answer falls below its own confidence threshold, the conversation goes to your team with the full context attached.
See it hand a conversation to a personAsk for a person at any point
The conversation hands over to your team with the whole thread attached.
The AI scores its own certainty
Every answer carries a confidence value. Below your threshold it escalates instead of guessing.
You set what it can and cannot say
Answers are grounded in your verified help docs and the rules you write for them.
It scores every answer, and it stops when the score drops.
The percentage on each reply is the model’s own confidence in what it just said. Under your threshold it does not guess — it hands the conversation to a person, with the thread intact.
Handoff threshold on this account: 60%
- CustomerWeb chat09:41
I ordered the wrong size and it already shipped. Can I swap it before it arrives?
- Corebee AI96% confidence09:41
Yes — a size swap can be started while the parcel is still in transit. I’ve opened the exchange form for order #10428 with the item pre-filled, and nothing is charged until the original is scanned back in.
- Corebee AI71% confidence09:42
Redirecting to a different address is usually possible while the parcel is at the local depot. Your standard-shipping policy covers that; for express it doesn’t state a cut-off, so I’m answering only the part I can source.
- Handed to your teamEscalated42% confidence09:43
This one asks for a refund outside the published return window, and I can’t find that decision written down anywhere.
Below the handoff threshold — passed to a person with the full thread, the order, and the sources checked.
Product interface. Sample conversation, not a customer account.
Common Forethought pain points
What teams tell us when they leave Forethought, and the one thing that changes on each.
No Longer Standalone (Since March 2026)
The Forethought you evaluated runs through Zendesk procurement now. Pricing, support, and roadmap all consolidated into Zendesk Suite.
With Corebee: Independent — Not Part of a Stack Bundle. Forethought is now a Zendesk feature. Corebee is purpose-built for SMB AI support without Zendesk's enterprise overhead.
Enterprise Pricing Migration
Forethought's $59K/yr standalone median becomes Zendesk Suite Enterprise — $99+/agent/month plus AI add-ons plus annual commitment.
With Corebee: Same AI Primitives at SMB Pricing. AI triage + action execution + audit logging, at $99/mo on Pro instead of $59K/yr plus an annual contract.
Long Procurement Cycle
Both Forethought and Zendesk require annual contracts and sales-led onboarding. 4-8 weeks from interest to first ticket handled.
With Corebee: No Procurement, No Annual Lock. Sign up in 5 minutes. Try for 14 days.
Corebee is $99/month flat. That is $401 a month you keep — $4,812 a year.
That $500 is your figure. The $99 is the only number we fill in.
Corebee pricing compared with Forethought
Pricing
$99/mo for Pro
Forethought bills $59K+/year; Corebee starts free, and Pro is one monthly price for every channel, every conversation and every seat. No per-resolution fee, no per-agent fee.
Shared inbox
The same conversation, filed
What your team opens afterwards — including the thread the customer asked to hand to a person, and who each one ended with.
Proof
What we will not claim
No customer count.
We do not publish how many companies use Corebee. We are early, and a number chosen to sound larger than it is would be the only thing you remembered.
No badge wall.
No award graphics, no review-site medals, no borrowed logos anywhere on this page.
Everything we will put a number on is on the right.
Switching from Forethought: common questions
How does Corebee compare to Forethought?
On March 26, 2026, Zendesk acquired Forethought. If you were comparing them as a standalone, your AI support is now Zendesk-tier procurement. Try Corebee, $99/mo on Pro, no Zendesk overhead.
How long does switching from Forethought take?
Corebee is answering in 5 minutes self-serve, against 4-8 weeks for Forethought. There is no flowchart to draw first: it answers from the help centre and docs you already publish, tells every customer it is an AI, and hands the conversation to your team the moment someone asks for a person.
What happens if my ticket volume triples next quarter?
Your invoice does not move. Corebee Pro is $99/month with no per-seat or per-resolution fees: unlimited AI resolutions. With Forethought: now Zendesk-tier pricing (post-acquisition).
What happens after I sign up?
You start on the Free plan, no card. Pro is $99/month whatever your volume, and you can try it free for 14 days. If you do start paying, there’s a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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