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Before you buy
What to establish, count and decide before any of this is worth paying for, including the cases where it is not.
- 11 min readA voice bot for business: which calls to give it and which to keepA voice bot pays back on certain calls, not across a whole business: calls that repeat, whose answer is already written down, and that end in a clear outcome. A breakdown by call type across three examples (pest control, a dental clinic, a property agency), what to prepare before launch and what to count afterwards.
- 10 min readA Robot for Calls: Three Different Things Sold Under One NameThree different products are sold as a robot for calls: a voice broadcast that plays a recording, a scripted bot that listens for keywords, and an AI agent that understands people in their own words. What each one does on outbound and inbound calls, where each breaks, how the price is built and how to choose without overpaying.
- 9 min readAn AI Phone Agent on a Real Line: What It Does and How to Test OneAn AI phone agent answers calls, books, qualifies and hands over, then writes the call into your systems. What it does on a real line, what it costs per minute and per implementation, the five checks that separate a working one from a demo, and who should not buy one yet.
- 11 min readWhat a Voice Agent Costs: Cloud, Your Perimeter, or Your Own HardwareThe price of a voice agent adds up differently in each of three delivery options: per minute in the cloud, a plain server plus minutes when the data stays with you, and GPU servers when nothing may leave. The budget for each, why cheap hardware falls short, and why you rent before you buy.
- 3 min readAn Assistant, or a Night ShiftThe comparison people actually make is not assistant versus chatbot. It is assistant versus paying a person to sit up. Both work; they fail at different things, and the difference is worth knowing before you choose.
- 3 min readWhat the Assistant Needs Before You Switch It OnAn assistant is only as good as what it can see. Here is the honest list of what has to exist first, and what happens for each item you skip.