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Voice Agent Platform: questions to ask
The nine questions
- Does an AI do this, or does a rule? If the answer is “when X happens it sends Y”, you are buying automation, and it should not cost AI prices.
- Does it send, or does it draft? Ask for the sentence on their page that says it acts on its own.
- Does it do it on its own on this plan, or on the one above? The setting that lets it act without you is often a tier up from the entry price.
- What does it do with the hard cases? Ask what it holds back for you, and what happens to what it cannot resolve.
- What is the cap, and what happens past it? Work out the bill at the volume you actually do, not at the included allowance.
- What is the unit? Per month, per user, per location, per minute, per credit or per resolved ticket.
- Who does the setup, and is it in the price?
- What happens to the changes it made when I stop paying? Some tools make changes that stay only while you subscribe.
- Who carries the legal side? For calling and texting customers, ask who handles consent and opt-outs.
What to check for this job
- Most of these are building blocks. Only a couple are sold as a monthly plan with minutes included; several are made for developers, and without one you may need to hire someone to set it up.
- The per-minute rate on the page usually covers part of the cost. A working setup lands at roughly $0.13 to $0.30 a minute.
- Cheap tiers limit how many calls it takes at once, as few as 4, so it can drop calls at a busy hour. Ask the limit on your plan.
- At least one vendor keeps billing after the call passes to a person.
- In reviews, slow support and the agent answering slowly lead the complaints.
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