Spiceworks
Spiceworks keeps writing about the security debt AI is exposing, not about its own product.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Gorgias and Xurrent — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Gorgias compares AI productivity in support teams with the Magnificent 7.
Gorgias's feed is its blog. The newest post compares revenue per support agent at ecommerce brands, up 27% in two years, with revenue per employee at the Magnificent 7, up 40%. Before that came an October 5 batch of guides and a public benchmark of 12 AI agents across 200+ live stores. The last product entries are June's AI Agent Actions and May's MCP server.
Xurrent's November update pushes its Sera agents into the inbox and CMDB reviews.
Xurrent ITSM publishes a monthly update page that grows week by week. The first November revision keeps major incidents on the request group, lets CMDB lifecycle reviews open requests automatically, brings Closure Agent sign-off drafts and reopen suggestions into the Inbox, adds one-line summaries to AI agent notes and syncs team involvement data through the Universal Data Connector.
Gorgias's feed is its blog. The newest post compares revenue per support agent at ecommerce brands, up 27% in two years, with revenue per employee at the Magnificent 7, up 40%. Before that came an October 5 batch of guides and a public benchmark of 12 AI agents across 200+ live stores. The last product entries are June's AI Agent Actions and May's MCP server.
Gorgias is building a data-led case for AI in support rather than shipping visible releases through this feed. Product news has been absent since June.
The entries do not show the next release; more benchmark and productivity research is the visible pattern.
Xurrent ITSM publishes a monthly update page that grows week by week. The first November revision keeps major incidents on the request group, lets CMDB lifecycle reviews open requests automatically, brings Closure Agent sign-off drafts and reopen suggestions into the Inbox, adds one-line summaries to AI agent notes and syncs team involvement data through the Universal Data Connector.
Since September's launch of six Sera agents, each month has moved agent output closer to where analysts already work, first through governance controls and reports, now through the Inbox and request records. The integration layer keeps growing in parallel.
Expect later November revisions to add more agent actions surfaced in the Inbox and further iPaaS connectors.
Other Support products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Gorgias or Xurrent.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
Both compete on the same themes — ai-agents — within Support. Xurrent is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Xurrent is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 2.5), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Support products to evaluate alongside.
Top Gorgias alternatives in Support are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Gorgias alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/gorgias for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top Xurrent alternatives in Support are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Xurrent alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/xurrent for the full list with editorial commentary on each.