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Answer every lead in 60 seconds: AI agents on WhatsApp.
Speed-to-lead research has said the same thing for years: the first business to reply usually wins, and the odds of reaching a lead fall sharply after the first few minutes. Yet most businesses still answer new enquiries hours later — after lunch, after the meeting, after the weekend.
What a good agent does
It replies in seconds, on the channel the customer chose — usually WhatsApp. It answers the common questions (price ranges, availability, delivery, timings) only from information you've approved. It asks two or three qualifying questions. Then it books a call or passes the conversation to a person, with a summary, the moment a human is needed.
What it must never do
- Make things up. It should only answer from your approved knowledge and say “let me get a colleague” for anything else.
- Pretend to be human. Customers are fine talking to an assistant; they're not fine being misled.
- Trap people. “Talk to a person” should always work, instantly.
Where to start
Pick the ten questions your team answers most, write the ideal answer to each, and decide what makes a lead worth a call. That document is 80% of a good agent. The technology is the easy part.