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Alhena

Founded 2022 · 33 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

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Alhena AI offers an AI agent assistant for customer support teams that summarizes incoming inquiries, detects customer sentiment, retrieves answers from a company's knowledge base, and drafts responses in each agent's style for review. It supports over 90 languages and integrates with ticketing, CRM, and content systems.

Also known as Alhena AI

Founders & leadership

Alhena was founded in 2022 by Nagendra Kumar.

NKNagendra Kumar
Nagendra KumarinCo-founder & CTONagendra Kumar holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, and has management experience in the internet industry with technical expertise across multiple programming languages and platforms including Java, Android, iOS, and React.

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Alhena AI provides an agentic AI platform for e-commerce brands covering the customer lifecycle from pre-purchase discovery through post-purchase support. The platform is organized into five areas: AI Visibility (answer-engine and generative-engine optimization, including SKU-level tracking of which products appear in AI assistant answers, rendering analysis, a citation-ready FAQ engine, and publisher-targeting citation strategy, with monitoring across five or more engines including ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity); an AI Shopping Assistant for conversational product discovery, bundle and add-on suggestions, on-site nudges when a shopper stalls, and embedded product-page FAQs; Voice AI and Concierge for omnichannel customer support; Revenue Analytics; and AI social commerce and review management across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.

On the support side, the company states the platform can auto-resolve up to 80% of incoming customer queries, operate 24/7, take actions such as cancelling orders, booking appointments and processing returns, escalate to human agents with full context, run over phone and SIP lines via voice AI, serve customers in more than 90 languages, and provide real-time agent-assist suggestions with CRM context. Analytics features include purchase-level revenue attribution, cross-channel ROI, AI-versus-human comparison, return and refund analytics, sentiment tracking and knowledge-gap alerts where the AI flags what it does not know.

Alhena describes its responses as grounded in verified live store data to avoid fabricated answers, and states it holds certifications against security and compliance standards used in enterprise procurement. The company advertises more than 200 out-of-the-box integrations with systems including Shopify, Zendesk, Gorgias, Salesforce, Klaviyo and Intercom, and publishes guidance on agentic commerce readiness covering AEO/GEO and product-feed validation.

Business model

Alhena sells a software platform to e-commerce brands, positioned as a set of AI agents spanning discovery, conversion, support, analytics and social engagement. It is offered as a connected platform rather than point tools, with out-of-the-box integrations into existing commerce, helpdesk, CRM and marketing systems so that deployment does not require custom development. Prospective customers are directed to book a demo rather than self-serve signup.

Software sold to e-commerce brands; pricing terms are not disclosed publicly.

Traction

The company publishes customer-reported outcomes: Victoria Beckham increased average order value 20% using AI-powered clienteling; Tatcha attributed an 11.4% revenue contribution and 38% AOV uplift to the platform; Manawa reported 43% lower workload, response time cut from 40 minutes to 1, CSAT rising from about 80% to 85-86%, and 80% of inquiries resolved by AI; Crocus reported 86% deflection, CSAT rising from under 80% to 84%, and a 3.7% ticket reopen rate; Puffy reported 63% of consumer inquiries resolved at 90% CSAT; and Dryrobe reported 13.7% of revenue influenced, 11.5% higher AOV on influenced orders and a 36% cut in sizing returns.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Alhena competes in AI customer experience and conversational commerce software for online retailers, combining support automation with newer answer-engine/generative-engine optimization and agentic commerce capabilities. It cites named consumer and luxury brands as references, including Victoria Beckham, Tatcha, Puffy, Crocus, Dryrobe and Manawa.

Alhena positions itself on four claims: a fully agentic platform whose agents take actions such as processing returns, updating orders and triggering workflows without human intermediation rather than only replying; breadth of pre-built integration coverage (200+ systems) to avoid re-platforming work; enterprise security and compliance certifications intended to shorten procurement reviews; and responses grounded exclusively in verified live store data, marketed as hallucination-free.

Technology

Agentic AI assistants grounded in a merchant's live store data and knowledge sources to constrain responses, with action-taking workflows (order cancellation, returns processing, appointment booking), smart escalation to human agents with context handoff, voice AI capable of running over phone and SIP lines, multilingual handling of 90+ languages, sentiment analysis, knowledge-gap detection, revenue attribution, and monitoring of product visibility inside AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

Go-to-market

Direct sales led by demo requests on the company website, supported by published customer case studies (including Victoria Beckham, Tatcha, Manawa, Crocus, Puffy and Dryrobe) and educational content such as an agentic commerce readiness checklist covering AEO/GEO and the Agentic Commerce Protocol. Distribution is aided by integrations with widely used commerce and support platforms.

E-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands, including luxury fashion and beauty retailers, and their customer support, e-commerce and client care teams.

Geography

The company markets multilingual support in more than 90 languages and cites customers in consumer and luxury retail and experience booking, indicating an international customer base; specific office locations are not stated.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI search engines monitoredJan 20255 engines
HeadcountAug 202633
IntegrationsJan 2025200 integrations
Languages supportedJan 202590 languages

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Research sources · 1

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Frequently asked questions

What does Alhena do?
Alhena AI runs an agentic AI platform for e-commerce discovery, shopping assistance, customer support and revenue analytics.
Who founded Alhena?
Alhena was founded by Nagendra Kumar in 2022.
Who are Alhena's investors?
Alhena's investors include 6th Man Ventures, Slow Ventures.