Two executives shake hands over a signed agreement, a briefcase of cash on the table.

Pipes from a messaging machine full of envelopes and phone notifications are plugged into a bigger machine run by small agent helpers who pick which envelope goes to which customer.

The deal waits in a queue at a regulator's window and a shareholders' meeting, an hourglass beside it.

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Morning Brief · October 31st 2026

Salesforce agrees to buy Braze for $5.66 billion to feed its marketing agents

Salesforce signed a definitive agreement on October 27th to buy Braze, the customer-messaging platform, for about $5.66 billion in enterprise value, $47.50 a share in cash. Salesforce pitches it as agent plumbing: Braze's real-time messaging and decisioning tools would plug into Agentforce, Data 360 and Marketing Cloud so agents can pick the offer, channel and timing for each customer. Closing is expected in Salesforce's fiscal 2028, subject to Braze shareholders and regulators.

It is Salesforce's third AI-tied purchase this month, after Loops and the military logistics firm Rune. It is buying while investors sell software stocks on the fear that agents replace the seat-based apps Salesforce sells. SourcesA

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This story ran in the Morning Brief of October 31st 2026.

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