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AI receptionist and help desk intake for IT companies
An AI receptionist for an IT services company answers support and sales calls when technicians are busy or off shift, asks who is calling and what is wrong, separates a down server from a password reset and sends a clear ticket. It follows your escalation rules, wakes the on-call person only when needed and never asks for passwords.
Talk through your IT company with the person who builds it
A free 30-minute call. You leave knowing which part of your IT services company to hand to AI first, what we would build, and roughly how long it takes.
Not every call is an emergency
A whole office offline is an emergency. A single printer not working is not. Give the receptionist a short list of what counts as urgent for each client, and who to alert for each.
This protects your on-call person’s sleep and gets real emergencies answered fast.
Identity before action
Social engineering is a real risk in IT. The receptionist should check that the caller is on the client’s approved contact list before opening a ticket for sensitive requests, and it should never collect passwords or codes by phone.
A ticket that is already complete
Name, company, number, device, what they see and when it started. The technician starts from a good ticket rather than a voicemail that says “call me.”
Picture this
Examples of what it can look like. Illustrations, not clients.
At 7:30 AM a clinic reports that nobody can reach the patient system. The call is classed as urgent and goes to the on-call technician with the clinic’s name and what they said.
A staff member calls to reset a password. The assistant checks the approved contact list and creates a ticket for the standard reset process.
A prospect asks whether you support Mac computers. The call is logged as a sales inquiry for the next business day.
The rules that apply, in their own words
“unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.”
“other than a call made for emergency purposes or made with the prior express consent of the called party”
Sources
- 47 U.S.C. § 227 (TCPA): Consent rules for automated calls, prerecorded voices and texts.
- 15 U.S.C. § 45 (FTC Act, Section 5): The federal ban on unfair or deceptive business practices, ads included.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework: The U.S. standards body’s framework for using AI responsibly.
Talk through your IT company with the person who builds it
A free 30-minute call. You leave knowing which part of your IT services company to hand to AI first, what we would build, and roughly how long it takes.
Questions
Can it reset passwords?
We recommend it does not do this on its own. It can start the approved process and let a technician or a secure system finish it.
What if the caller is angry?
It should stay calm, collect the facts and escalate quickly to a person.
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