Evidence boundary
A workflow profile, not a results claim
This profile is for an anonymous IT services customer in Chennai, India. It documents a suitable operating workflow and the safeguards around it. No measured customer outcome is claimed, and no customer name, private conversation or commercial result is published.
The operating problem this design addresses
IT services teams receive enquiries while specialists are delivering client work, after hours or before the right person is available. A useful front desk should prevent a routine enquiry from depending on somebody remembering to return to the chat.
The design creates one path from first message to a recorded next action. It does not assume that every lead should be automated or that the AI should answer technical scoping and custom commercial questions on its own.
Designed workflow
From WhatsApp enquiry to one clear owner and next step
1. Receive and understand the enquiry
The official WhatsApp Cloud API receives the message. The AI Front Desk answers only from owner-approved services, availability and operating information.
2. Qualify for the next decision
The workflow asks only for details the team needs, such as service, urgency, budget range and preferred next step, then keeps those answers with the conversation.
3. Book the discovery call
When a call is appropriate, the agent checks the connected calendar, offers real available times and creates the confirmed booking after the prospect chooses.
4. Follow up within the rules
Inside the 24-hour service window, the conversation may continue naturally. Later business-initiated follow-up requires consent and an approved template, and STOP always wins.
5. Bring in the right person
Technical scoping, custom pricing, sensitive questions and anything outside approved knowledge move to a human with the relevant context intact.
Safeguards built into the workflow
One business scope
Answers stay inside owner-approved services, policies and operating information.
Consent and window rules
Follow-up respects consent, opt-out and the WhatsApp service-window boundary.
Human handoff
The team owns complex, sensitive, frustrated or custom requests.
Apply the workflow to your business
Start with your approved knowledge, the minimum qualification questions, one real next action and a clear takeover rule. Add compliant follow-up only after consent and ownership are defined.
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