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Meta takes its Business Agent global at Conversations in London
Meta has launched its Business Agent globally, announced at its Conversations conference in London and witnessed live by Lars Maat. The AI agent handles customer conversations across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, fielding inquiries, recommending products from a catalogue, scheduling appointments, qualifying leads, and completing transactions, with a handoff mechanism that escalates to a human once a conversation reaches an owner-defined point.
What changed
Meta says more than one million businesses were already using earlier agent versions, with over one billion business-customer conversations a day across the three surfaces.
The agent integrates with Ads Manager and WhatsApp Business channels and supports rich in-thread experiences, letting users book appointments and buy products without leaving the chat. It is now available at no cost, with paid tiers and an enterprise platform (including Shopify and Zendesk integrations) coming in the coming months. The move is squarely aimed at conversational commerce, a space Google and OpenAI are also racing into.
Why it matters for advertisers
For you, this means any business running click-to-message or WhatsApp campaigns can now layer an AI agent onto the conversation, changing the economics of message-based acquisition. Worth scoping a basic agent against your existing messaging flows and auditing the catalogue and content it will draw answers from before it speaks to customers.
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Meta takes its Business Agent global at Conversations in London
Meta has launched its Business Agent globally, announced at its Conversations conference in London and witnessed live by Lars Maat. The AI agent handles customer conversations across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, fielding inquiries, recommending products from a catalogue, scheduling appointments, qualifying leads, and completing transactions, with a handoff mechanism that escalates to a human once a conversation reaches an owner-defined point. Meta says more than one million businesses were already using earlier agent versions, with over one billion business-customer conversations a day across the three surfaces.
The agent integrates with Ads Manager and WhatsApp Business channels and supports rich in-thread experiences, letting users book appointments and buy products without leaving the chat. It is now available at no cost, with paid tiers and an enterprise platform (including Shopify and Zendesk integrations) coming in the coming months. The move is squarely aimed at conversational commerce, a space Google and OpenAI are also racing into.
For you, this means any business running click-to-message or WhatsApp campaigns can now layer an AI agent onto the conversation, changing the economics of message-based acquisition. Worth scoping a basic agent against your existing messaging flows and auditing the catalogue and content it will draw answers from before it speaks to customers.
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