Elastic vs Forethought

Elastic — Infrastructure · Public · $10.2B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  Forethought — Application · Private · $115M raised · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldElasticForethought
Size$10.2B mkt cap$115M raised different basis
Employees4,019200 Forethought has 20× fewer
Founded20122017 5 yrs later
StatusPublicPrivate
CategoryInfrastructureApplication
Stack layerAgent platform, Application, Model API, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application
HeadquartersAmsterdam, NetherlandsSan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data analysisEvaluation and observabilityWorkflow automation

Not verified for Forethought · 6

Agent orchestrationModel hostingModel inferenceKnowledge retrievalThreat detection and responseVector search

Recorded for Elastic. Forethought’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Elastic · 2

Customer supportVoice agent

Recorded for Forethought. Elastic’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Elastic

Application

Elastic AI SOC EngineApplication

An AI security-operations layer that correlates alerts from a customer's existing security tools, prioritizes threats and guides response workflows without replacing their SIEM.

Elastic AIOpsApplication

GenAI- and ML-driven capability inside Elastic Observability that automatically detects, diagnoses and helps resolve operational issues, providing recommended actions for SREs.

Elastic LLM ObservabilityApplication

Monitoring capability inside Elastic Observability for generative-AI and agentic applications: performance, cost control, guardrail tracking and reliability for GenAI workloads.

Elastic SecurityApplication

Agentic security-operations platform unifying SIEM, XDR and native automation, with autonomous agents handling detection-to-response workflows and purpose-built AI skills for threat hunting, alert analysis and detection engineering; supports multiple LLMs including on-premises models.

Agent platform

Elastic Agent BuilderAgent platform

A builder for custom AI agents that answer questions and take actions over data indexed in Elasticsearch, using configurable tools, skills and prompts.

Elastic WorkflowsAgent platform

An automation engine that runs both scripted steps and AI agents which reason through investigations and execute response actions against data in Elasticsearch.

Forethought

Application

Forethought Agentic AI CopilotApplication

Guides human support agents in real time and drafts responses during live customer interactions.

Forethought DiscoverApplication

AI customer-analytics tool turning support data into action: trend identification, knowledge-gap detection, automated content-recommendation generation, and Autoflow optimization.

Forethought QA AgentApplication

Scores customer interactions and support-agent performance for quality assurance across AI and human conversations.

Forethought TriageApplication

Classifies, tags and prioritises incoming tickets before they reach a queue.

Agent platform

ForethoughtAgent platform

Resolves and routes customer support tickets using agents that read a company's help content and past cases.

No counterpart

Elastic sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Forethought yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Elastic AI AssistantPlatform

A conversational assistant embedded in Kibana that answers natural-language questions against a customer's own indexed data across Elastic's Observability, Security and Search solutions.

Model API

Elastic Inference ServiceModel API

Hosted inference endpoint that runs Elastic-managed LLMs, the ELSER sparse-embedding model and third-party embedding models for ingest, search and chat without provisioning ML nodes in a customer's own Elasticsearch deployment.

Forethought sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Elastic yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Forethought SolveAI agent

Answers customer support requests end to end across chat, email and voice without a human agent.

Forethought VoiceAI agent

Autonomous AI phone-support agent resolving customer calls end-to-end, with Autoflows and handoff to human agents when needed.