AI voicebots that handle the calls your team keeps repeating.
Your support team is fielding the same calls every day: qualification questions, booking requests, after-hours inquiries that go straight to voicemail. RaftLabs is an AI-first tech studio that builds AI voicebots end to end. One team takes your voice agent from idea to launch on Twilio, ElevenLabs, and Agora, connected to your CRM and IVR for 24/7 conversation handling. A working v1 goes live in 6 to 8 weeks, then grows call by call.
One team takes your voice AI agent from idea to launch. No agency handoffs.
Capture leads from calls that would otherwise hit voicemail, 24/7, without adding headcount.
Automate up to 50% of inbound inquiries: routing, FAQs, booking, and triage.
Free your team from repeat calls so they focus on conversations that actually need a human.
Recent outcomes
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Support staff answering the same calls on repeat, every day?
After-hours calls hitting voicemail while leads go cold?
Short answer
RaftLabs builds custom AI voicebots for businesses across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and the UAE. Voice agents answer inbound calls, qualify leads, and book appointments 24/7. A basic voicebot starts from $10,000, with a working v1 live in 6 to 8 weeks that grows as call volume rises.
Key takeaways
A basic AI voicebot starts from $10,000, with a working v1 live in 6 to 8 weeks.
Voice agents handle inbound calls, qualify leads, and book appointments 24/7 without adding headcount.
Automate up to 50% of inbound inquiries: routing, FAQs, booking, and triage.
Built on Twilio, ElevenLabs, and Agora with CRM and IVR integration.
HIPAA-compliant voice workflows are supported for healthcare clients.
RaftLabs has shipped production software since 2015 for businesses across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and the UAE.
The call that comes in after everyone has gone home.
A prospect calls at 9pm with a booking question. It hits voicemail. By morning they have booked somewhere else. Meanwhile, all day, your support team answers the same qualification questions, the same FAQs, the same booking requests, on repeat.
An AI voicebot picks up every one of those calls. It qualifies the lead, answers the routine question, books the appointment, 24/7, without adding headcount. Repeat questions stop reaching a person. After-hours prospects stop going cold.
One voice agent handles the line, wired into your CRM and IVR, so a human only steps in when the conversation actually needs one.
Gartner projected that conversational AI would cut contact center agent labor costs by $80 billion (Gartner, 2022 forecast). For businesses fielding high volumes of repetitive inbound calls, AI voicebots are the most direct lever to capture that saving without adding headcount.
RaftLabs is an AI-first tech studio that has shipped production software since 2015 for businesses across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and the UAE. One team takes your voice agent from idea to launch on Twilio, ElevenLabs, and Agora, connected to your CRM and IVR, with a working v1 in 6 to 8 weeks that grows as call volume rises. Voice agents handle inbound calls, qualify leads, and book appointments 24/7, automating up to 50% of inbound inquiries: routing, FAQs, booking, and triage.
This pays off when repetitive calls are already the problem.
Everything on the left should already be true for your business. Even one thing on the right, and a voicebot is not the right spend yet.
A fit
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High volumes of repetitive inbound calls: qualification, FAQs, booking, or triage.
02
After-hours or overflow calls hitting voicemail while leads go cold.
03
An existing CRM, IVR, or booking system for a voice agent to plug into.
Not a fit
Call volume is low, or every conversation is unique rather than repetitive.
No CRM, IVR, or booking system for the voicebot to connect to.
No budget for a build in the $10,000+ range.
What we build
AI voicebot development services we offer
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Custom AI voicebot development
We build voicebots end to end: conversation flow design, NLP training, and production deployment. Each bot is trained on real customer data so conversations feel natural and automations match how your users actually speak.
02
AI voicebot integration
We connect your voicebot into your existing tools: CRM, ERP, telephony platforms, and APIs. From Salesforce and HubSpot to website embedding and IoT devices, unified from day one, without overhauling your stack.
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AI voicebot fine-tuning
We use real-world interaction data to improve your bot's accuracy, intent recognition, and conversation flow. Whether refining edge cases or retraining NLP models with fresh data, your voicebot gets better with every call.
We deploy a single voicebot across phone, web, mobile, and chat, integrated with WhatsApp, Messenger, smart devices, and social platforms, with centralized analytics and management. One build, every channel.
A voicebot is not a chatbot with a voice bolted on
That is the mistake we see most often. A text chatbot can take a full second to think, and nobody minds. On a phone call, a full second of silence reads as a dropped line. Voice adds a hard real-time constraint that text never had, and it is the constraint that decides whether the call feels human or broken.
The number to design against is turn-taking. Across ten languages, the average gap between one speaker finishing and the next replying is about 200 milliseconds (Stivers et al., PNAS, 2009). A voice agent that misses that budget either talks over the caller or leaves dead air. So we hold the entire loop, from the caller's last word to the agent's first sound, to a strict latency budget on every single turn.
The natural gap between turns in human conversation. Miss it and the call feels broken.
~200 ms
Stivers et al., PNAS, 2009
Projected cut in contact center agent labor costs from conversational AI.
$80B
Gartner, 2022 forecast
Agent interactions projected to be automated by 2026, up from about 1.6% in 2022.
1 in 10
Gartner, 2022 forecast
1. Streaming ASR
Speech to text as the caller speaks, not after they stop. We stream partial transcripts so the agent can start forming a response mid-sentence, and we detect barge-in so a caller can interrupt the bot and be heard immediately.
2. NLU and intent
The transcript is resolved to an intent and its entities: what the caller wants, the account or order number, the date. Low-confidence turns are routed to a clarifying question or a human, never a guess.
3. Dialogue and tool calls
The agent looks up the CRM record, checks availability, or writes the booking through your APIs. Answers are grounded in retrieved data, not free-form generation, so the bot quotes your systems instead of inventing.
4. Streaming TTS
Text to voice streamed back in chunks on ElevenLabs, so the first syllable plays while the rest is still being synthesized. This is where most of the latency budget is won or lost.
Around that loop sit the parts that decide whether a voicebot survives real traffic. Telephony is the first: we connect the agent to your phone numbers and IVR over Twilio and SIP, so it lives on the same lines your callers already use, with call transfer, DTMF menus, and voicemail fallback intact. Guardrails are the second: the agent answers from your retrieved data and stays inside a defined scope, it never improvises medical, legal, or billing advice, and low-confidence turns escalate rather than hallucinate. Escalation is the third: when a call needs a person, the agent hands off with the transcript, the caller's intent, and the account ID attached, so no one repeats themselves to a human who starts from zero.
We have built this loop in production. PSi runs live group-audio decision sessions with hundreds of concurrent speakers. Perceptional runs AI phone interviews on Twilio and ElevenLabs. Call Eva, our own voice agent, answers inbound hospitality calls end to end. The proof below is voice and conversational work, not a generic app portfolio.
See the scope before you commit.
Tell us your call volume and what your team keeps repeating. We'll scope the voicebot and give you a cost.
How it works
Our AI voicebot development process
A step-by-step approach that keeps you in control from the first idea to launch. Move faster, cut risks, and build a voicebot that fits your users, systems, and business goals.
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Weeks 1-2
Discovery & Requirements Gathering
We begin with a product discovery service, or a discovery call, to understand your business goals, target audience, and the problems you want to solve. Together, we define your voicebot's purpose and map your existing systems, integrations, and supported languages.
Our team maps end-to-end user flows and designs voicebot scenarios based on your business needs. We create wireframes or prototypes to visualize how users will interact across different conversation paths before any code is written.
Deliverables: UX wireframes, conversation flow diagrams, use case documentation.
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Week 3
Tech Stack Selection & Architecture
We select the right AI platforms for NLP, speech recognition, and text-to-speech based on your requirements and budget. Our team defines a production-ready backend architecture, secure APIs, and the databases your voicebot needs to function reliably.
We build training data from your existing FAQs, chat transcripts, or simulated conversations. Our developers integrate NLP engines, test real-world scenarios, and fine-tune the bot's understanding across a wide range of user inputs.
Deliverables: trained AI/NLP models, working voicebot prototype, speech recognition and NLP accuracy report.
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Weeks 4-7
Agile Development & Iteration
We build the voicebot in iterative cycles - core features first, then expanding. Each sprint ends with a review meeting where you give feedback on what has been built before we move to the next phase.
Deliverables: voicebot v1 with real call-handling capability.
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Weeks 6-8
Testing & Quality Assurance
We run full testing across devices and platforms: functional, usability, performance, and accuracy. User acceptance testing (UAT) is done with you so the bot meets your standards before it goes live.
Deliverables: test cases and reports, updated flows and improvements based on feedback.
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Weeks 7-8
Deployment & Launch
We deploy the voicebot to your chosen platforms and connect it with your business systems. Our team provides training and documentation to help your staff manage and monitor the bot from day one.
After launch, we monitor usage, collect analytics, and gather user feedback to identify areas for improvement. We implement updates and add features as your needs evolve, keeping your voicebot effective long-term.
One or two core features: call routing, FAQs, booking, or triage, connected to your CRM or IVR, with a working v1 live in 6 to 8 weeks.
Where it grows
The price rises with bot type, feature depth, and the number of integrations. Add intents, languages, and channels as call volume justifies them. We scope every project before pricing it.
What it costs
Scoped first. Then priced.
A voicebot built on Twilio, ElevenLabs, and Agora, connected to your CRM and IVR, scoped to your call volume.
Starts at $10,000
A basic voicebot with 1-2 core features starts here. A working v1 in 6 to 8 weeks, with more intents and channels layered in as call volume grows.
Every repeat call the bot handles is one your team does not. Automate up to 50% of inbound inquiries, routing, FAQs, booking, and triage, without adding headcount.
Timeline
A working voicebot v1 ships in 6 to 8 weeks, connected to your CRM and IVR, then grows call by call.
Confidentiality
We sign an NDA before any technical discussion, covering your conversation flows, customer data, and integration details.
Timelines vary depending on features and complexity. For most businesses, we launch a working v1 in 6-8 weeks, then expand it call by call. Talk to our team to get a clear timeline tailored to your goals.
The cost depends on the bot type, features, and integrations. A basic voicebot with 1-2 core features typically starts from $10,000. Schedule a free consultation or check our pricing page for details.
The key benefits of voicebots are:
24/7 availability
Lower operational costs
Automation of repetitive tasks
Faster, personalized customer service
Improved team efficiency and satisfaction
Voicebots help your business scale without adding pressure on your team.
Yes. Voicebots are a great fit for small businesses. They reduce staffing needs, automate support, and keep your business responsive 24/7, even with a lean team.
Voicebots are used across many sectors, including:
Healthcare
Finance & Banking
Education
Logistics
Marketing & Sales
Customer Support
If your business handles repetitive conversations, scheduling, or service requests, a voicebot can help.
For standard customer service operations where Tier-1 queries (order status, account inquiries, subscription changes, password resets) dominate, voice AI agents typically handle 50 to 70 percent of inbound volume end-to-end without human involvement. Calls that do need a human get a structured triage first, account ID, issue category, sentiment signal, so the transfer arrives with context instead of the caller repeating themselves.
Yes. We sign NDAs before any technical discussion. Every engagement includes a confidentiality agreement covering your business logic, conversation flows, customer data, and integration details. We have signed NDAs with clients across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and the UAE before scoping a single line of code.
Work with us
Tell us what you need. We'll tell you what it would take.
We scope AI Voicebot Development Company in 30 minutes. You walk away with a clear cost, timeline, and approach. No commitment required.
Scope and cost agreed before work starts. No surprises. No obligation.
Working prototype within 3 weeks of kickoff.
Pay by milestone. You see progress before each invoice.
60-day post-launch warranty. Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and deployment support. No retainer.