AI agents, chat and automation · For businesses evaluating 3CTel
What can the AI chat agent do on my website and by text?
The AI chat agent sits on your website and on your business text number. It answers questions from the knowledge you have approved, asks qualifying questions, books meetings into a connected calendar, collects intake details such as name, contact number and reason for enquiry, and hands the conversation to a person when your rules say so. It works in English and French, and every conversation produces a transcript you can review.
A typical conversation
A visitor opens the chat window or texts your business number. The agent greets them in your business name and asks how it can help. The visitor writes in their own words. The agent answers from your approved knowledge, such as services, hours, locations, what to bring and how to get started. If the visitor wants to talk to someone or book a time, the agent collects the details it needs and either books the meeting or creates a hand-off.
If the question is outside what you have approved, the agent says so and offers a callback, a meeting or a transfer to a person. It does not guess.
What it can be set up to do
- Answer common questions from a knowledge base you maintain, with the option to link to a page for more detail.
- Qualify a visitor with a short set of questions you define: what they need, where they are, how soon, and how they prefer to be contacted.
- Book a meeting or appointment into a connected calendar and send a confirmation by email or text.
- Collect intake details for a new client, patient or file and pass them to your team or, once connected, to your CRM.
- Hand off to a person by opening a live chat with a staff member, scheduling a callback or transferring to a phone queue.
- Switch between English and French based on the language the visitor writes in.
Where the conversations go
Every chat and text conversation is stored with a transcript and a short summary. Your team can read them in the admin portal, receive them by email, or, once a connection is scoped and confirmed, have them written to your CRM or helpdesk as notes or tickets. Who can see transcripts follows the roles on your account.
A 3CTel specialist configures the agent with you, and you test it on a staging page and a temporary text number before it goes live. The knowledge and the rules can be changed at any time.
Related questions.
Does the chat agent replace live chat with my staff?
It can handle the first part of every conversation and pass the rest to a person. Many businesses let the agent answer and qualify, then route to a staff member during business hours and to a callback or booking after hours.
Can it answer by text message as well as on the website?
Yes. The same agent, knowledge and rules can be applied to your business text number, so a customer who texts gets the same answers and booking options as a visitor on the site.
Will visitors know they are chatting with an AI?
Yes. The agent introduces itself as an automated assistant and says so if asked. A visitor can ask for a person at any point in the conversation.
How does the agent learn my business?
You give it approved content: pages from your site, documents, answers to common questions and rules about what to do for each request type. It answers from that content only, and you update it whenever something changes.
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