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Intake Guide

When a problem call comes in, Intake Guide opens right inside the FSM window the CSR already works in. The customer's equipment and access history is on the screen before the greeting finishes. A guided flow walks the CSR through five steps in order: the symptom in the homeowner's words, the likely component, the equipment details, the property access notes, and whether the equipment is safe to use. When the call ends, the completed work order writes back to the FSM. The CSR hangs up with a clean ticket already written.

Built for
the person it works for
Processes
one unit of work
Priced
42 rivets
per call
Returns
7 min
back to the CSR
7 min × $18/hr
$2.10
Returned Each Run

The promise

On every problem call, the equipment history and the gate code are already on the CSR's screen, and the work order writes itself as the conversation happens. The CSR finishes the call with a complete ticket. There is no callback for the gate code, no callback for the equipment model, and no callback after a conversation with the technician.

How it works

The path from input to value.

  1. 01

    The panel opens on a problem call

    When an inbound problem call comes in and the CSR opens the customer record, Intake Guide opens inside the FSM window. The customer's equipment and access history is already on the screen.

  2. 02

    The CSR marks the call a problem call

    The panel offers a problem-call mark alongside routine booking and other. On a problem call, the guided capture opens. Routine and other calls leave the guide closed.

  3. 03

    A guided five-step capture runs

    The flow walks through the symptom in the homeowner's words, the likely component, the equipment details, the property access notes, and the safe-to-use disposition, in order, with the prior values pre-filled where the record has them.

  4. 04

    The work order writes back at call close

    On save, the completed work order writes back to the FSM, the equipment and access records update, and the safe-to-use disposition lands on a tagged field dispatch can route on. A partial call saves whatever was captured.

The day before. The day after.

Same moments. Lived differently.

  • 8:00 AM

    Before

    The first call is a member with no cooling. The CSR opens four tabs chasing last summer's capacitor model and the gate code, and types the rest into the notes from memory.

    After

    The history and the gate code are already on the panel for the no-cool member. The CSR books the call and confirms the safe-to-use disposition for routing in one pass.

  • 9:30 AM

    Before

    Yesterday's voicemail booking never became a ticket. The repeat caller is frustrated, and the CSR books the whole thing from scratch.

    After

    The CSR owns the apology to the repeat caller and writes the ticket clean while they are still talking.

  • 12:30 PM

    Before

    At the noon spike a reschedule needs access notes the record does not have, so the CSR promises a callback to confirm the gate code.

    After

    The access notes are pre-filled, so the CSR holds the tricky reschedule and works proposal callbacks an hour earlier.

  • 3:30 PM

    Before

    At the dispatch sync the CSR walks over to the board because three tickets are missing equipment serials and have to be reconstructed.

    After

    The dispatch sync is a two-minute trade of notes. Every ticket carries its serials and a safe-to-use tag.

What it doesn’t do

The edges we drew on purpose.

A product that tries to do everything ends up doing nothing well. Here’s what we left out, and why we don’t feel bad about it.

  • ×Does not open on routine-booking calls; the panel opens only when the call is marked a problem call.
  • ×Does not contact the homeowner outbound; the safe-to-use disposition is captured for dispatch, not sent to the customer.
  • ×Does not keep a separate equipment inventory; it reads from and writes back to the customer record.
  • ×Does not dispatch technicians, optimize routes, or manage the job once it is in progress.