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SOLUTION · VOICE SALES AGENT IN BUILD

Voice Sales Agent

The long tail of small orders, quotes and renewals, handled by a voice agent that talks to people. So your people can work the deals that pay.

I've built one voice agent and it's live, on a product of my own. This page describes the voice sales agent I would build for you, not something you can buy today. The figures below are cited so you can check them.

THE PROBLEM

The small stuff isn't small once you add it up.

No single one of these is hard. A repeat order. A renewal. A price check. A call that needs picking up. Each takes twenty minutes and none can be skipped, because every one is a customer waiting. Put hundreds through one desk and they become the job, while the deals worth real money get whatever is left of the day.

WHAT THE TAIL ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE
  • Renewals that lapse because nobody got to them in time
  • Repeat orders re-keyed by hand, every time
  • Small quotes that take a day to come back
  • Calls that ring out because nobody is free to pick up
  • Price and stock questions answered from three systems
  • Chasing that quietly stops after the second attempt
  • Accounts too small to be anyone's job, so they drift

These are existing customers with money in their hand. It's the easiest revenue in the business to keep and the easiest to lose quietly.

THE ALTERNATIVE YOU'RE ALREADY WEIGHING UP

Hire someone to sit on it.

Which is a perfectly reasonable answer, usually the first one considered. It's worth being honest about what it involves, because a desk hire is a slower and less certain fix than it looks on the day you decide to make it.

28%
of a seller's week goes on actually selling. The rest is admin, chasing and re-keying.
3 to 9
months for a new sales hire to reach full productivity. Nearer three for a process role.
~35%
annual turnover in sales roles, against roughly 13% across all industries. US-weighted.

And a person can only be at one desk, on working days, until they leave.

WHY SOFTWARE HASN'T FIXED THIS

Everything on the market stops just before the work.

There's no shortage of tools pointed at this. They organise it, they remind you about it, they report on it. What none of them do is the quoting, the chasing, the booking, the call itself.

Quoting and renewal software

Creates the record and fires the alert. Your rep still quotes it, chases it, closes it, books it.

Voice AI and IVR

Answers a call and routes it, or reads out a script. It doesn't know the account, the stock or the price.

Agencies and consultants

Sell you hours or seats. The work still lands back on your desk at the end of the month.

A script isn't a conversation. It's the same work read out loud.

THE SAME THREE LAYERS

The desk work is prepared. The judgement stays yours.

Same structure as everything else I build. What changes here is where the line sits: routine, high-volume work, including the call, is prepared in full, then waits for a person who can approve it in seconds rather than assemble it in twenty minutes.

LAYER 3
HUMAN CONTROL
Your call.
You. Approving the quote, pricing the exception, keeping the customer.
  • APPROVAL
  • PRICING
  • THE CUSTOMER
DRAFTS ON STANDBY ↑ YOUR GO ↓
LAYER 2
INTELLIGENT OPERATIONS
The watching.
The desk work and the call. Quotes built, orders prepared, renewals never missed.
  • READS
  • PRICES
  • DRAFTS
  • CALLS
  • CHASES
  • FLAGS
SIGNALS ↑ APPROVED ACTIONS ↓
LAYER 1
RELIABLE SYSTEMS
The plumbing.
Your CRM, your ERP, your mailbox, your phone line. Unchanged, still the system of record.
  • CRM
  • ERP
  • MAILBOX
  • TELEPHONY

Two sequences from the desk.

Same shape as everything else: what happened, what got prepared, where you come in, what followed.

A renewal that would have lapsed

Most renewals lapse because the date passes and nobody gets to them. The customer doesn't chase you, the revenue simply stops.

01 · SIGNAL
A contract is coming up for renewal, or a customer is due a repeat order.
02 · DRAFT
The account is read, the numbers pulled, the quote built at the right price on the right terms, the call prepared.
03 · YOUR GO
You look it over and approve it. Seconds, not half an hour.
04 · DONE
The call is made, talked through, logged, with the chase already diarised if nobody answers.

A call that would have waited

The order that sits in an inbox, or a voicemail that sits unheard, until someone has a spare twenty minutes. Answered the same day, it is worth having. Answered next week, it may already be somewhere else.

01 · SIGNAL
A small order or a routine request comes in by phone or email.
02 · DRAFT
Read and understood. Stock and pricing checked. The response and the order prepared against the right account.
03 · YOUR GO
You approve it, or you pull it out because something about it isn't right.
04 · DONE
The customer is called and it is confirmed, order in the system, nobody had to stop what they were doing.
WHY THE GATE STAYS

Nothing is sent, booked or said on its own.

The obvious question about anything like this is why not let it run unattended. The honest answer is that the businesses that tried it are the cautionary tale, not the case study.

A quote sent at the wrong price, a call made on the wrong terms, or an order booked against the wrong account, costs you a credit note, an apology and a customer wondering who's minding the shop. Approving takes seconds. Unpicking that sort of mistake can take weeks.

So the gate isn't a limitation I plan to remove once you trust it. Approving a prepared quote is quick. Preparing it and making the call is what took the twenty minutes. That's the part I take off you.

WHERE THIS HONESTLY STANDS

In build and saying so.

If this is close to a problem you have, the useful thing is to say so now, while it's still being shaped. Founding clients get the build bent towards how they actually work.

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