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121 CRM

Optional feature · AI-assisted conversations and calls

Use AI where the boundaries, evidence and human handover are clear.

AI-assisted messaging, voice and CRM support may help with routine customer work when the capability is enabled, trained, tested and monitored. Availability, channels, usage costs and operating limits must be confirmed for the intended 121 account.

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Bounded AI assistance

Put the handover inside the operating sequence.

The workflow shows where approved assistance may act, where it must stop and how a person receives the context.

121

Northstar Joinery

See where AI is helping and where people need to step in

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OverviewAgentsConversationsKnowledgeControls

See where AI is helping and where people need to step in

Review activity, knowledge boundaries and human handovers in one working view.

Enquiry triage

Review

Fictional operational view · Web chat

Handled

18

Illustrative period

Handovers

4

Human review route

Knowledge state

Draft

Needs account check

Recent conversations

Bramble Studio

Thursday morning would work well.

Handover

Oakfield Homes

The gate code has changed.

In progress

Marlow Works

Drawings attached for review.

In progress
Illustrative 121 interfaceAll people, organisations, dates and activity are fictional. Any figures are illustrative. Controls demonstrate interaction patterns, not enabled account features.

How it helps

See how the feature supports the work.

Each part has a clear job. It becomes useful when it fits the way customers already move through the business and your team knows when to step in.

Capability 01

Conversation AI

Uses configured instructions, knowledge and actions to handle supported text-based customer conversations.

How it works
Uses configured instructions, permissions and eligible AI access to assist with or perform a bounded task.
Why use it
Can answer routine enquiries and collect context before a person needs to step in.
Plan for
Model behaviour, fair-use limits, access and charges can change; AI output requires risk-appropriate review.
Your team owns
A person must approve scope, monitor exceptions and take over ambiguous or sensitive work.
Capability 02

Voice AI

Runs configured voice agents for supported inbound or outbound call journeys using a connected phone system.

How it works
Uses configured instructions, permissions and eligible AI access to assist with or perform a bounded task.
Why use it
Can handle defined call tasks while routing ambiguity or sensitive situations to people.
Plan for
Model behaviour, fair-use limits, access and charges can change; AI output requires risk-appropriate review.
Your team owns
A person must approve scope, monitor exceptions and take over ambiguous or sensitive work.
Capability 03

Conversation AI booking

Lets a configured conversation agent offer eligible calendar slots and create an appointment through supported channels.

How it works
Uses configured instructions, permissions and eligible AI access to assist with or perform a bounded task.
Why use it
Moves a suitable enquiry from question to booking without a separate diary exchange.
Plan for
Model behaviour, fair-use limits, access and charges can change; AI output requires risk-appropriate review.
Your team owns
A person must approve scope, monitor exceptions and take over ambiguous or sensitive work.
Capability 04

Workflow agent actions

Invokes an eligible production agent from a workflow when access and permissions have been configured.

How it works
Uses configured instructions, permissions and eligible AI access to assist with or perform a bounded task.
Why use it
Adds a governed AI step inside a broader deterministic customer process.
Plan for
Model behaviour, fair-use limits, access and charges can change; AI output requires risk-appropriate review.
Your team owns
A person must approve scope, monitor exceptions and take over ambiguous or sensitive work.
Capability 05

Skills Platform

Provides shared, permissioned capabilities used by Voice AI, Conversation AI, Agent Studio and Managed Agents.

How it works
Uses configured instructions, permissions and eligible AI access to assist with or perform a bounded task.
Why use it
Centralises what an agent is allowed to read or do instead of hiding powers inside prompts.
Plan for
Model behaviour, fair-use limits, access and charges can change; AI output requires risk-appropriate review.
Your team owns
A person must approve scope, monitor exceptions and take over ambiguous or sensitive work.

Choose the operating mode

Start with the decision the system may support — not the label “AI agent”.

The same interface can represent very different levels of authority. Name the task, channel, allowed action and point of human control before enabling anything.

Draft assistance

Prepare a suggested reply, summary or next-action prompt for a person to check, edit or reject.

Bounded routine handling

Where verified and approved, handle a narrow enquiry using controlled information, message limits and explicit stop conditions.

Not assumed enabled

Voice or outbound activity

Treat calls, recording, disclosure, identity, consent and outbound contact as a separate use case requiring specific evidence and approval.

Control the conversation

Guardrails need a reliable route to a human.

A safe workflow is defined as much by what it refuses or escalates as by what it can answer.

Approved knowledge

Use reviewed business information with owners, effective dates and a process for correcting outdated or contradictory material.

Human escalation

Stop and transfer

Escalate uncertainty, complaints, vulnerable customers, sensitive requests, pricing disputes and any topic outside the approved task.

Conversation limits

Set operating hours, message or call limits, quiet rules, retry behaviour and a visible failure path before live use.

Conversation and takeover

Keep the customer, transcript and human owner together.

A handover is useful only when the person can see what happened and continue without making the customer restart.

121 CRM · Communication hub
Search conversations

Northstar Joinery

2m

Could Thursday work?

Bramble Studio

18m

Thanks, that is helpful.

Marlow Works

1h

New website enquiry

Northstar Joinery

Email · contact confirmed

Amina owns this
Could Thursday morning work for a short discovery call?
Yes — 11:30 works. I’ll send the appointment details.
Write a reply…
Illustrative exampleMessages and customer details are fictional. Connected channels and response rules depend on configuration.

Data and accountability

Keep the customer record useful without turning it into unrestricted training material.

CRM context can help a person or configured assistant understand the relationship, but access, retention and provider processing require explicit review.

Minimum context

Provide only the fields and conversation history needed for the approved purpose; exclude sensitive material that does not belong in the workflow.

Identity and disclosure

Decide how the customer knows they are interacting with automation and when identity must be checked before information is shared.

Trace and review

Retain appropriate inputs, outputs, actions, handovers and owner decisions so incidents and recurring failure patterns can be investigated.

Commercial and acceptance gate

Confirm availability, usage and evidence before relying on the workflow.

General provider capability does not establish what the 121 subscription includes or what 121 will configure and operate.

Configuration and cost check

Plan and channel

Confirm the exact AI capability, supported channel, account access, connection and any supplier approval.

Usage and support

Approve customer-facing rates, allowances, monitoring responsibility, support scope and change process before purchase or activation.

Representative testing

Test ordinary questions, ambiguity, misinformation, prompt attacks, opt-out, transfer, supplier failure and emergency language before acceptance.

Questions about this page

Useful answers, without the sales fog.

1. Is an AI agent included with every 121 CRM subscription?

The subscription does not list a bundled AI agent. Confirm the exact capability, plan, connection, usage rates and implementation scope for the intended account.

2. Can AI reply without a person approving every message?

Only a specifically approved and tested use case should operate that way. Draft-only, bounded automatic and human-only modes have different risks and must not be treated as interchangeable.

3. Can it answer calls or make outbound calls?

Voice capability is not claimed as enabled or included here. Inbound or outbound use requires separate confirmation of the account capability, number, script, disclosure, recording, consent, usage cost and human transfer.

4. What happens when it does not know the answer?

The workflow should say it cannot safely continue, preserve the context and route the conversation to a named person rather than inventing an answer.

5. Does 121 guarantee response speed, bookings or sales?

No. Availability and operating behaviour depend on the configured service chain, and no response, appointment, conversion or revenue outcome is guaranteed.

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