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Build a Pharmacy Refill Voice Agent (NCPDP, DEA, 60-Second Refill)
Build a voice AI for prescription refills that respects DEA Schedule II, handles NCPDP refill-too-soon rejections, and routes the right calls to humans.
How to Build a Real Estate Showing Voice Agent (MLS, Lockboxes, TCPA)
Build a real estate voice agent that pulls live MLS data, parses showing instructions, books tours, and sends lockbox codes at the right time.
How to Build a Tier-1 Chat Agent That Resolves (Not Just Deflects)
Bots claim 40% deflection; re-contact data says half is fake. Build the architecture that cuts tickets: auth-gated KB, calibrated confidence, escalation with context.
How to Build an AI Voicemail Agent That Gets a Callback (AMD, TCPA)
Eighty percent of B2B calls hit voicemail. Most AI dialers get blocked. Here's the AMD plus synthesis plus inbound callback pipeline, with TCPA baked in.
When Your Customer's Browser Agent Resolves the Ticket Before Yours Picks Up
Browser Use, Operator, Mariner, Computer Use. Here's what happens to CX volumes when the customer's browser agent resolves the ticket before yours picks up.
Your CX Agent Doesn't Care Who Won SWE-Bench. Here's Who Actually Wins.
SWE-bench crowns a coding king. Customer experience agents answer to a different benchmark, tau-bench, and the rankings flip. The head-to-head that actually predicts production reliability.
Multi-Agent Systems Don't Fail at Reasoning. They Fail at Handoff.
Multi-agent systems don't fail at reasoning. They fail at handoff. Command objects, memory transfer, and the 8-10 handoff cliff, plus the telemetry that catches drift.
Everyone Benchmarks Opus. Your Chatbot Runs on Haiku.
Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 Mini, Gemini Flash at the $1/MTok tier that powers CX. Tool-call accuracy, first-token latency, structured-output reliability, blended cost math.
Your Agent Should Use Three Models, Not One
Production CX agents route tasks by difficulty, not brand loyalty. The planner/router/summarizer pattern, a concrete rubric, support-deflection cost math, and the failure modes nobody warns you about.
Reasoning Tokens Are Showing Up on the Bill
GPT-5 and Claude thinking tokens bill as output and stay invisible. A 200-token reply can hide 8,000 billable ones. How to measure, cap, and budget.
When to Use a Supervisor, When to Let Agents Swarm
Supervisor burns 20-40% more tokens per run. Swarm hits a quality cliff past 8-10 handoffs. Start supervisor, graduate to swarm when latency bites.
Stop Using SWE-Bench to Pick Your CX Model
SWE-Bench scores 85% or 23% depending on the harness, and neither measures customer experience. Why tau-bench, tau2-bench, and pass^k matter for CX agents.
Learn Agentic AI
Weekly. Patterns for shipping agents that work. MCP, scorecards, regression tests, prompts, model comparisons.
