Knowledgebase · Section 07
Voice Agents
Build and run AI voice agents that answer, book, and help your callers.
Chapters· 10 · ~ 96 min
- 01Voice agents: overview and getting startedWhat a voice agent is, how to create one, and how the agent list, Call view and Settings view are laid out.
- Step 1: What should it do?
- Step 2: Pick a starting point
- Step 3: Tell it about your business
- The setup walkthrough
- The Call view
- The Settings view
→ - 02Persona, voice and instructionsSet your agent's greeting, name, personality, voice, language, Standard or Advanced level, instructions and guardrails.
- Allowing general knowledge
→ - 03The playbook and transfersPlaybook rows, the built-in rows, transfers, Anyone in the directory, Notify a system and text confirmations.
- Answers
- Message
- Appointment
- Transfer
- Notify a system
- Say & end
- + 2 more
→ - 04Collecting details from the callerHow message and appointment rows collect details: questions, checks, read-backs, One of a list and Only when rules.
- Putting details in order
- How the agent asks for it
- Validate as
- Confirm by
- Accepted options
- If they're unclear, follow up with
→ - 05Business hours and escalationsSet when a voice agent handles calls normally, what it does after hours, and which urgent words make it act straight away.
- Always answer
- Weekly schedule
- Service flag
- What happens after hours
→ - 06Agent knowledgeWrite down what your business knows in libraries of articles and files, then choose which libraries each voice agent answers from.
- Write an article
- Upload a file
- What the statuses mean
- Change or remove an item
→ - 07CalendarsConnect a Google or Microsoft calendar so a voice agent can book, look up, cancel or move appointments during a call.
- Keep a connection healthy
- Advanced booking rules
→ - 08CampaignsHave an outbound voice agent call a contact list for you, with a call window, retries, an opt-out check and a review before launch.
- 1. Which agent runs this campaign?
- 2. Who to call
- 3. When and how
→ - 09Testing and publishingSave draft, Publish and Update live, the pre-publish checks, test calls, version history and taking an agent off a number.
- Example conversation
- Ready to go live?
- The general-knowledge check
- What publishing does to your phone numbers
- What can stop a publish
- Testing an answering agent
- + 2 more
→ - 10Limits and troubleshootingEvery size limit and fixed range for voice agents, knowledge, calendars and campaigns, plus fixes for common problems.
- Finding your way around
- Publishing
- Knowledge
- Calendars
- Campaigns
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