Use case

AI phone switchboard
that routes to the right team

Your AI switchboard knows your departments and your business. It understands the request, qualifies it, routes it to the right team, on-call or sales, books the appointment and sends an SMS recap to the caller and to your staff.

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The challenges

Why a classic switchboard
loses calls

Touch-tone menus, transfer loops, voicemail: every step between the caller and the right person costs a customer or an emergency.

"Press 1, press 2": the caller hangs up

A voice menu cannot understand a request phrased in words. Callers press at random, get lost and give up.

Transfer loops between departments

Reception transfers to sales, who sends to support, who routes back to reception. The caller explains the problem three times.

Emergencies drowned in the flow

An on-call that never triggers, an emergency handled as a routine request: triage depends on whoever picks up.

After hours, everything hits voicemail

Evenings, weekends, call peaks: sales and emergencies arrive at the same time, and nobody answers.

Setup

Configure your AI switchboard
in 4 steps

Your departments, your routing rules, your calendars: the agent applies your organisation to every call.

1

Describe your departments and trades

Sales, support, accounting, on-call, technicians: each department with its scope, hours and lines. The knowledge base can be fed from a Google Sheet the agent reads live.

2

Define the routing rules

Which reason goes to which department, what counts as an emergency, what triggers the on-call, what deserves an appointment rather than a transfer.

3

Connect calendars, lines and tools

Booking links per department with duration and location, one calendar per person or round-robin assignment, transfer to your lines, summaries by email, export or webhook.

4

Activate call forwarding

On overflow, after hours or on all calls. Listen to the first calls, adjust your rules, widen the scope.

The solution

Understands, qualifies,
routes, confirms

A switchboard that listens to the request instead of asking for digits, and that knows your company.

Understands the request in natural language

The caller explains the need in their own words. The agent identifies the reason, the department and the urgency level.

Routes to the right department

Sales, support, accounting, technical: direct transfer to the right team or person, with the context already collected.

Triggers the on-call on your criteria

A confirmed emergency under your rules goes immediately to the on-call or designated contractor, day and night.

Qualifies sales requests

Project, need, budget, timing: the agent qualifies the lead and hands it to sales with a score, or books the appointment directly.

Books in the right calendar

Appointments per department with duration and location, one calendar per person or round-robin assignment, SMS confirmation.

Sends an SMS recap to both sides

The customer receives a recap of the request and appointment. Your team receives the call summary by SMS or email.

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