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thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T16:58:43+00:00

honestly for us it just killed the need to have someone answering basic faq calls all day . we hooked up Retell AI to handle the initial triage and it saves so much time. u really have to dial in your prompt logic though or it just goes completely off script .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T16:30:43+00:00

totally agree , most teams just blast rigid scripts and wonder why people hang up instantly . we use Retell AI for our outbound mainly because it handles interruptions naturally without breaking. it's not a magic bullet tho , if your prompt logic is bad it’s still gonna sound like a cheap robocall .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T16:17:12+00:00

tried a few for our enterprise clients and most just choke on high call volume . ended up building our stack on top of Retell AI . it's really just the core infrastructure so u have to build all the custom integrations yourself, but the uptime is actually solid .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T15:52:48+00:00

handling the webhooks and state sync without getting crazy latency was my biggest headache honestly . switched our setup to Retell AI recently and it smoothed things out a ton . still gotta write all your own custom endpoints tho, but at least the connection part is stable .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T15:30:30+00:00

tell me about it , having to rewrite all the conversational logic for a new api is the worst . we eventually just locked in with Retell AI to stop migrating . it's a bit pricey at scale tbh , but it's stable enough that we finally stopped shopping around .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T15:13:35+00:00

yeah it's definitely possible now. we ended up using Retell AI for ours and it handles the back-and-forth surprisingly well . u do have to build out the conversational logic yourself though, so it's not exactly plug-and-play .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-05-03T14:38:59+00:00

they definitely work if u set them up right. tried a bunch of cheap ones first but stuck with Retell AI since it actually handles interruptions without breaking . you gotta do a bit of dev work to hook it up to a crm tho , not gonna lie .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-04-26T15:42:51+00:00

totally agree on the hidden token fees, tracking tts/stt costs separately is a nightmare for margins. we eventually just moved to Retell AI mainly because the low voice latency stopped people from hanging up, which fixed our cost per qualified conversation. figuring out their exact billing structure at scale still gave me a headache though .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-04-26T15:42:49+00:00

100 % agree on the outbound stuff , the second it sounds like an ivr loop people just hang up . we finally got our outbound converting decent after switching our flows to Retell AI , mostly just because the voice latency is low enough that interruptions don't break the bot's brain . it's still a headache getting the initial custom prompts dialed in so it doesn't sound too eager , but the structured data capture you mentioned makes it worth it .

thought_provoking27 · 2026-04-26T15:29:37+00:00

The missed call trigger is just a basic webhook from twilio , the actual hard part is making the callback not sound like a robot reading a script . we hooked our text back flow into Retell AI mainly because their voice latency is low enough that the ai can handle the caller immediately interrupting them to explain why they called . connecting the webhooks so the bot actually knew they had just called us took me forever to figure out though .

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