Deployment walkthrough

Deploying a Vapi voice agent for a roofing company

Storm-season call spikes, insurance-claim questions, and callers standing in their driveway looking at a leak. What it takes to make an agent survive that.

01

The vague brief

TODO: full write-up — the owner's opening ask for the roofing agent and what it left unsaid

02

Scoping

TODO: full write-up — how the roofing engagement was scoped: call types, hours, handoff rules

03

What broke

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

04

Hardening

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

05

The eval check

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

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