# Zoho Connect: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/
Covers: May 2026 to August 2026
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Zoho Connect: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/zoho-connect/, updated 2026-11-11

> Zoho Connect is on the AI internal communications software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated August 2026.

Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: "Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce." Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants. Source: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/).

## Facts

- Site: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/)
- Category: Intranets and employee experience platforms
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-zoho-connect)

Zoho Connect is Zoho's intranet and employee experience platform: "Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce." Teams post announcements, run town halls, polls and surveys, target content to audiences and recognize colleagues. Zia, its AI assistant, drafts and rephrases posts, summarizes posts and town hall threads, reads sentiment in comments, and answers natural-language searches. An MCP integration links outside AI assistants. Source: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/).

- Category: Intranets and employee experience platforms
- Price: plans listed; prices not shown, contact sales
- AI capabilities: AI search and answers, Assistant, MCP or agent API, Sentiment and feedback and AI writing
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Zoho says more than 6,000 organizations and more than 1 million users use Zoho Connect.)

Sources: [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/ai-powered-employee-experience.html), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html), [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/connect/pricing.html) and [zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/contactus.html).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Admins choose the AI provider behind Zia Writing Assistance

Launch, August 2026. Zoho Connect now lets administrators choose their preferred AI provider for Zia Writing Assistance. Users then get grammar correction, rephrasing, tone adjustment, title generation and content refinement from the service their organization selected.

Source: [Zoho Connect what's new](https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html). From [the AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-zoho-connect).

### Zoho Connect adds a Model Context Protocol integration for AI assistants

Launch, May 2026. Zoho Connect added an integration with the Model Context Protocol. Supported AI assistants can connect to a Connect network, get information, manage content and automate everyday workflows in natural language, within the permissions granted to them.

Source: [Zoho Connect what's new](https://www.zoho.com/connect/whats-new.html). From [the AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-zoho-connect).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology