Rolling out AI answering without breaking service
Point everything at the AI on day one and you will scare the team. The businesses that get it right hand over in stages.
Colin
Founder, Atwood Systems
The fastest way to make your team hate an AI receptionist is to switch every call to it overnight. The ones that work hand over in stages, so the team hears it working before they are asked to trust it with the front line.
Stage one - shadow
The AI answers nothing. It transcribes your real calls and you read the summaries. This is where you find the four questions customers actually ask that were not in the brief, and you fix the knowledge base before it ever speaks to a customer.
Stage two - overflow
The AI picks up only what rings out after a few seconds. Volume is low, the stakes are low, and every conversation is reviewed the same day.
Stage three - out of hours
Evenings and weekends move across. This is usually the point where the numbers make the case on their own - enquiries that used to hit voicemail start arriving as booked appointments.
Stage four - full coverage
Only now does the AI take the front line, with human escalation on demand. By this point your team has heard it handle your calls for weeks.
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