Custom Workflows Built Around How Your Business Actually Handles Calls.

How your AI agent greets callers, what it asks, how it routes different call types, when it escalates, how it follows up, and how it behaves after hours, all of it is configured around your specific workflows. Not a generic script. Not a template. Your rules, followed consistently on every call.

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Why Generic Call Handling Does Not Work for Real Operations

Most answering services and basic AI receptionists run on scripts that were not built for your business. That creates problems that compound every call.

The same script treats every caller the same

Generic scripts don’t distinguish between a new lead, an existing client, or an urgent issue. Every call gets the same flow, even when the situation calls for a different response.

No intake means no structure

A generic answering service can take a message, but it usually misses the details your team actually needs. That leaves you with information that’s incomplete, unorganized, and hard to act on.

Escalation happens randomly or not at all

Without clear escalation rules, calls either get passed off too often or not when they should. That creates either unnecessary handoffs or urgent calls that never reach a person.

After-hours callers get the same great experience.

A generic script doesn’t adjust for time, urgency, or your after-hours policy. So callers after hours hear the same flow as everyone else instead of the right next step.

What Gets Configured in AI Answering

Every part of the call workflow from the first word the AI says to the rules that govern outbound follow-up is configured around your business during onboarding and adjustable from your dashboard at any time.

Inbound Call Configuration

  • Custom greeting - the first message callers hear
  • System prompt - how your AI is trained to handle calls for your business
  • Voice and tone - gender, age range, personality, tone shaping, naturalness settings
  • Routing rules - by call type, department, urgency, time of day, or caller
  • Escalation criteria - confidence threshold, keywords, VIP callers
  • Language settings - English and Spanish are currently supported, with additional languages planned
  • Business hours - per-day schedule with different handling in-hours vs. after-hours

Outbound Call Configuration

  • Custom script per outbound call type - missed follow-up, incomplete intake, reminders, reactivation
  • Call attempt settings - number of attempts and spacing between each attempt
  • Calling windows - days and hours outbound calls are permitted
  • Voice and tone - configurable separately from inbound if needed
  • Outbound enablement - turn outbound calling on or off from your dashboard.

Intake Configuration

  • Custom intake questions per caller type or case type
  • Structured data fields configured for your practice area or service type
  • Guided conversational flow, not a robotic form

How Inbound Call Configuration Works

Inbound call configuration is managed from the Call Configuration panel in your dashboard, under the Inbound Calls tab. Six confirmed configuration areas govern everything that happens when a call comes in.

AI Call Config: Greeting and System Prompt

Set the first message callers hear and the full instructions your AI follows on every call. This is where you define your intake requirements, escalation rules, terminology, and call objectives.

Voice and Tone

Choose the AI’s voice profile, including gender, age range, and personality. Then adjust tone, pace, warmth, formality, and filler words so it sounds more natural.

Routing and Numbers

Route calls by caller type, urgency, time of day, or any rule you set. You can assign primary, secondary, after-hours, and emergency numbers from the dashboard.

Escalation Criteria

Set the exact triggers that move a call from AI to a human agent, including confidence level, keywords, VIP callers, call type, and failed attempts. You can also control call recording and transcript settings here.

Language Settings

Choose which languages your AI supports. English and Spanish share the same call flow and intake process, so no separate workflow is needed.

Business Hours

Set open and close times for each day of the week. The AI uses those hours to apply different handling rules during business hours and after-hours.

How Outbound Call Configuration Works

Outbound call configuration is managed from the Call Configuration panel, under the Outbound Calls tab. Four confirmed configuration areas govern when, how, and how many times your AI agent makes outbound calls.

Custom Script Per Outbound Call Type
Every outbound call type has its own script: missed call follow-up, incomplete intake callback, appointment reminder, and reactivation outreach. Each call type is configured separately so the message matches the context.
Call Attempt Settings
Set how many times your AI agent attempts to reach a contact for each outbound call type, and how much time passes between each attempt. After your defined maximum, the AI stops.
Calling Windows
Define the days and hours your AI agent is allowed to place outbound calls. Outbound calls only go out during the windows you set. Outside those windows, the system waits.
Voice and Tone
The voice profile for outbound calls is configurable independently from inbound. If your outbound calls should sound different from your inbound agent, different personality, different tone, that is a separate configuration.
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Different Callers, Different Handling. Configured for Your Business.

Every call handled by AI Answering appears in the call log the moment it ends. Your team can search and filter the entire call history to find exactly what they need without scrolling through a chronological list.

Law Firms

Law firms can configure intake around case type, urgency, and caller status, then route new leads and existing clients differently. Urgent keywords trigger escalation, and after-hours calls follow separate routing rules.

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Healthcare Practices

Healthcare practices can collect patient type, appointment reason, and insurance details while enabling booking for the AI agent. Urgent concerns escalate immediately, while non-urgent after-hours calls are routed to the right message or on-call number.

Healthcare app interface showing AI answering an incoming patient call and booking a May 21 appointment.

Home Services

Home services companies can tailor intake around service type, location, and urgency, with emergency calls routed straight to the on-call dispatcher. Non-emergency requests follow standard booking, while outbound follow-ups run on scheduled attempt windows.

Healthcare app interface showing AI answering an incoming patient call and booking a May 21 appointment.

Configured Once. Followed Consistently on Every Call.

The most important operational benefit of configured workflows is consistency. A configured AI call center keeps greetings, intake, routing, and escalation consistent across every call, regardless of time or who is covering the phones.

Consistent intake
across every call

Every caller with the same case type or service need goes through the same structured intake flow.

Consistent escalation
based on your rules

Escalation happens when your defined conditions are met. Not when someone decides to transfer. Not when the call gets too long.

Consistent after
hours handling

After-hours calls are handled according to your configured rules every night, every weekend, every public holiday.

Your Configuration Governs Everything That Happens on Every Call

Custom Workflows is not a settings page in isolation. What you configure determines how every other feature in the platform behaves.

Greeting and System Prompt → Inbound Call Handling
Your greeting and system prompt define how every inbound call is handled, update either one and the change takes effect immediately.
Diagram showing inbound call handled by AI with customizable greeting and system prompt updates applied immediately.
Intake Configuration → Intake Processing
The intake questions you configure determine exactly what information gets collected, with separate flows for different case types, patient types, or service requests.
Diagram showing intake configuration, AI call collection, flow separation for cases, and organized intake processing.
Routing Rules → How Calls Reach the Right Person
The routing rules you configure determine whether a call completes with AI, routes to a team member, books an appointment, or triggers an escalation.
Diagram showing call routing via AI agent using rules to complete call, route to team, book appointment, or escalate.
Escalation Criteria → When Calls Go to a Human Agent
Your configured confidence threshold, keyword triggers, and VIP caller rules determine exactly when AI hands off to a trained human agent.
Flowchart showing AI call handling with escalation criteria to human agent based on confidence, keywords, or VIP rules.
Outbound Configuration → Outbound Follow-Up Behavior
The scripts, attempt settings, and calling windows you configure determine when follow-up calls go out, what they say, and how many times the AI tries to reach a contact.
Business Hours → After-Hours Handling
Your business hours schedule determines which handling rules apply at every hour, with in-hours and after-hours calls routed correctly without manual switching.
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Trusted by Businesses That Needed a Call Center Built Around Their Workflows

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"We were losing leads every week because no one had time to call back incomplete intakes. Now the follow-up happens automatically and by the time we see the lead, intake is already done."

Managing Partner,
Personal Injury Law Firm
City, State

"Appointment no-shows dropped noticeably once reminders started going out consistently. The AI handles the calls and our front desk handles patients. That separation alone changed how the day runs."

Practice Administrator,
Multi-Location Medical Practice
City, State

"Our agents are in the field all day and buyer calls were going to voicemail constantly. Now every missed call gets a follow-up automatically and leads are still warm by the time an agent connects with them."

Broker,
Residential Real Estate Team
City, State

See How AI Answering Is Configured Around Your Call Workflows.

In a live demo, we walk through how your greeting, intake flow, routing rules, escalation criteria, and business hours are configured for your specific business, and what that looks like on a real call.

All Your Questions, Answered

FAQs About Answering AI

Is AI Answering really configured for my business, or is it a template with my name on it?
What parts of the call workflow can I configure?
Do I configure this myself or does your team set it up?
Can different caller types be handled differently?
Can I see which calls resulted in appointments?
What happens if I need to change a configuration setting after going live?
Can the AI handle different call types with different scripts?
Is custom workflow configuration available on every plan?
What languages can be configured?
Is there a free trial?