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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 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.