Deployment walkthrough

Deploying a Vapi voice agent for a landscaping company

Seasonal demand swings, quotes that need a property visit, and crews in the field who can't pick up. The agent has to know what it can't promise.

01

The vague brief

TODO: full write-up — the landscaping owner's opening ask and the pricing ambiguity behind it

02

Scoping

TODO: full write-up — how the landscaping engagement was scoped: services, quoting rules, seasonality

03

What broke

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

04

Hardening

TODO: full write-up — prompt and workflow changes that fixed the landscaping failures

05

The eval check

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

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