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Inbound call

After hours

The 9pm call that used to go to voicemail, handled or escalated.

Answered at
22:14, ring one
Triage
Severity checked first
Handed over
On-call engineer paged

One real call

Press play and read it as it ran.

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Resolved by Zimaao without a person on the line.

What it handles on its own

Resolved while the caller is still on the line.

  • Answers every out of hours call instead of sending it to voicemail
  • Takes a structured message: who, where, what, and a callback number
  • Books next-day slots against your live calendar while you are closed
  • Answers opening hours, location and policy questions from your own content
  • Writes a ticket with a timestamp and the call recording attached
  • Sends the morning queue to your team before the day starts

When it hands over

Straight to a person, with no second ask.

  • Anything matching your emergency definition, paged to the on-call rota immediately
  • Any mention of injury, fire, gas or flooding, with no triage attempted
  • A caller who asks for a person, even at 3am
  • A second call about an incident that is already open

The person who picks up receives the call summary, the caller details and everything already done on this call, before they speak.

01What you configure

Five settings decide how this call behaves.

Nothing here is a hidden model behaviour. These are the knobs you own, reviewed with you before the first live call and changeable afterwards without a rebuild.

Hours
When after hours begins per location, including holidays
Emergency rules
The exact conditions that justify paging a person
On-call rota
Who to page, in what order, and the fallback if nobody answers
Message format
The fields every overnight message must carry
Morning handover
Where the overnight queue is delivered, and when
02Going live

A week, in three moves.

This call type does not need a migration project. It needs your number pointed at us, your rules written down, and one week of reading the transcripts closely.

  1. Day 1

    Point the number, connect the system

    A forward or a SIP trunk, plus read access to the one system this call depends on. Nothing changes for your callers yet.

  2. Day 2 to 4

    Write the rules down

    Your allowed actions, your handoff triggers, your wording. We run the first calls against your real data with your team listening in.

  3. Day 5 onward

    Read the transcripts

    Every call is on the record. The handoff log tells you exactly which rule to loosen or tighten, and changes take effect on the next call.

On airLast two lines
00:00You

Can Zimaao take this call for us?

00:02Zimaao

Point your number at me, tell me what I am allowed to resolve, and I will take the next after hours call that comes in.