Deployment walkthrough

Deploying a Vapi voice agent for an HVAC company

No-heat calls at 2 a.m., emergency triage versus routine maintenance, and a dispatch board the agent has to respect. Urgency detection is the whole job.

01

The vague brief

TODO: full write-up — the HVAC owner's opening ask and the emergency-handling gap in it

02

Scoping

TODO: full write-up — how the HVAC engagement was scoped: triage tiers, dispatch integration, hours

03

What broke

TODO: full write-up — the failure modes real HVAC calls exposed in the first week

04

Hardening

TODO: full write-up — triage, escalation, and prompt changes that fixed the HVAC failures

05

The eval check

TODO: full write-up — the eval suite that gates changes to the HVAC agent before deploy

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