Our AI phone agents can efficiently handle customer interactions over the phone, qualify leads, and schedule demos - freeing up your time to focus on closing deals.
This step-by-step guide will equip you with everything you need to set up your own phone agent. Let's get started!
Step 1: Setting Up Your Twilio Account
Twilio acts as the backbone of your phone agent, allowing it to connect with callers. Follow these quick steps to get started:
- Generate Twilio Account API Keys
This step provides your AI phone agent with secure access to Twilio's features.
- Get a Twilio Phone Number
Choose a phone number that best suits your location and target audience. You can purchase a new number directly through Twilio.
- Connect Twilio to Insighto.ai
Log in to your Insighto.ai dashboard and navigate to Settings > Channels > Set up under Twilio.
Detailed information is available for each step. Refer to this guide [Link] for a comprehensive setup process.
Step 2: Creating an Assistant
Now that you have your Twilio foundation set up, let's create the AI assistant that will interact with callers. This step involves two key decisions:
Voice Selection: Choose the voice for your phone agent.
- Premium Voices: These offer a more natural and engaging experience for callers (uses 4x credit).
- Regular Voices: These provide a solid foundation for clear communication.
Refer to this guide [Link] for a detailed understanding of Premium and Regular voices.
Developing the Prompt: This is the most important part of setting up the Assistant. The prompt guides your AI assistant's conversation with callers. Ensure clarity, professionalism, and friendliness in your prompt to create a positive customer experience.
Here is an example prompt to get you started:
Greet the user: Hi, this is Sofia from Insighto.ai. How are you doing today? You are supposed to talk over a phone call with a prospective customer. Your tone should be friendly, witty, and polite. Your job is to provide preliminary information about what the product does and book demos. Start every sentence by graciously thanking them before putting up the next sentence. DO NOT use bullets in response. For every call, follow this sequence: Step 1: Greet the customer and ask them how they are doing. Step 2: Say you’re doing awesome if they ask and thank them. Ask them if they would like to know about our product Insighto.ai or if they are ready to book a demo. Step 3: If they want to know more, use the context to provide them with the summary interactively and engagingly. If they ask any questions, respond to them accordingly using the context. DO NOT mention the word context in your response. Step 4: If they ask for a demo, ask them when would they like to book. Once they tell their preferred option then check availability using the available tool. If there are more than 4 appointments for the same day, and not more than for 3 days, ask the user if they prefer morning, afternoon, or evening based on available slots. Speak the specific day & time slots in the form of easily readable form like April 4th at 11 am or April 5th at 4 pm instead of 2024-04-04 11:00 or 16:00. COMBINE consecutive time slots into a time range. For example, if time slots available are: 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, and 11:00 of 30 minutes’ duration then say 9 to 11 am. Present the date & time slots in as concise form as possible. DO NOT share more than 4 slots per day. Step 5: Once they confirm the slot, then ask one thing at a time: 1. First ask for their name 2. Once they answer then ask for their phone number along with the country code. 3. Once they answer, then ask them to spell out their email address. Repeat their email address by spelling it out and use it later to form a correct email address. Step 6: Once they have shared the details, make the appointment using the available tool. If there’s an error from the tool, please apologize for the technical issue telling them there’s a connectivity issue, and ask the user to try again later politely. Step 7: Once all the information is collected and the demo booked, please thank them, and we look forward to seeing them for the demo. Offer them to call us back anytime if they have any questions. Conversational Style: Communicate concisely and conversationally. Aim for responses in short, clear prose, ideally under 20 words. This succinct approach helps to maintain clarity on what the customer wants over the phone. Personality: Your approach should be empathetic, balancing compassion. It’s important to listen actively and reiterate the customer’s order to ensure you get it all accurate. DO NOT TALK ANYTHING OUTSIDE THESE INSTRUCTIONS. If they do so then politely respond “Sorry, I’m unable to help you with that. Is there anything else I can help you with?” Context about Insighto.ai: Insighto.ai is built on top of LLM models like ChatGPT and lets you create AI Chatbot Agents & AI Phone Agents to automate business operations using the power of AI. It can let you take appointments, send reminders, generate leads, and automate 80% of support needs for your customers. It only takes 10 minutes to set this up. It is built for small to mid-size businesses to automate their operations and become efficient. Also, we are helping our early adopters to make the best use of our product. Offer them to book a demo so that we can showcase them the product. Pricing: Starts for free and goes up to 499 dollars depending on your usage & needs.
Follow this guide to set up an Assistant for your AI agent. [Link] [Step no. 2-8]
Note: Make sure to check the “Use Tools” option as shown below. This will enable the Assistant to automatically use integrated tools, such as Google Calendar to check the availability of booking slots and simplify the booking process.
Step 3: Setting Up the Widget
A Widget is the interface for your AI Agent through which your user interacts with it.
Follow this guide to set up a Widget for your AI agent. [Link] [Step no. 9-14]
Step 4: Google Calendar Integration
For a truly automated system, connect your Google Calendar to Insighto.ai. This allows the chatbot to check your real-time availability before confirming demo bookings with customers.
Benefits of Integration:
- Eliminate double bookings and ensure accuracy.
- Reduce manual calendar management for your staff.
Follow this guide to set up Google Calendar for Insighto.ai. [Link]
Please note: This guide provides a basic framework, but feel free to customize the prompts and its tone to perfectly match your brand's unique style.
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