Overview
Khoros is an enterprise customer engagement platform that unifies community interactions and social media management. The platform centers on two primary AI-native products: Aurora AI for enterprise community management and Iris AI for social channel operations.
Aurora AI acts as a community hub featuring forums, knowledge bases, ideation, and automated peer-to-peer support. Iris AI combines social listening, content publishing, automated moderation, and digital customer care across social networks into a single system of record.
A shared intelligence layer ingests community posts, social mentions, and support threads to surface operational trends and customer sentiment. Khoros targets large enterprise organizations requiring unified governance, multi-channel customer routing, and brand moderation at scale.
Key features
- Aurora AI community platform: Hosts forums, knowledge bases, and ideas with AI-powered Answer Assist that cites grounded community sources.
- Iris AI social management: Combines social publishing, listening, and digital care across networks into a single workflow.
- Social listening: Monitors brand mentions and customer conversations across billions of online sources in 187 languages.
- Automated moderation and routing: Directs inbound customer inquiries, moderates content based on policy, and suggests contextual responses.
- Rules-based agentic automation: Uses deterministic rules and orchestrators without LLM dependence to maintain full audit logs for community actions.
- Analytics and insight dashboards: Surfaces real-time trends, unanswered questions, productivity metrics, and customer sentiment across channels.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Combines customer support care, social publishing, and branded communities into one shared intelligence platform.
- Provides citations and clear audit logs for AI moderation decisions and automated answer recommendations.
- Offers enterprise-grade governance controls including role-based permissions, SSO, and GDPR readiness.
Cons
- Designed strictly for large enterprise operations, making it complex for small teams.
- Public pricing is not published on the website and requires contacting sales.
Best for
- Enterprise brands
- Customer support teams
- Social media managers


