AI-Powered Voice Assistant

No Queue.
No Hold Music.

Tulip answers the routine calls the moment they arrive - and hands the rest to one of our people at exactly the right time.

Every contact centre has the same problem on its worst day. Volume arrives in a spike - an outage, a recall, a campaign that lands harder than anyone expected - and there is no way to staff for it in the hours you actually have. Customers wait, and the calls that genuinely need a person wait alongside the ones that don't.

Tulip takes the calls that don't need a person, instantly and at any volume - so the ones that do reach an agent faster than they would have on a quiet day.

0s

Hold time, at any call volume

24/7

Always on, without staffing for it

Days

To deploy - not months

What You Get with Tulip

A voice assistant built for the calls that repeat - configured around your business, your knowledge base and your escalation rules.

Instant Answers

Tulip picks up on the first ring - no hold music, no queue, no callback promise. Customers get what they rang for at the speed they expect, at three in the morning as readily as at three in the afternoon.

Capacity That Appears On Demand

A spike doesn't need a roster change. Tulip scales to whatever arrives, so an outage or a recall stops being a staffing emergency and starts being an ordinary day handled well.

It Knows When to Step Aside

Tulip reads urgency and sentiment, and transfers to a human agent at the moment the conversation needs one - with full context, so nobody has to start their story again.

Cost That Doesn't Track Volume

Routine work absorbed by Tulip is overhead you no longer carry, and agent time returned to the conversations where experience and empathy actually change the outcome.

The Calls Tulip Takes Off Your Queue

Tulip is configured to your business rather than dropped in generically. These are the patterns it takes on most often.

Outage & Disruption Updates

The same question asked thousands of times in an hour - what's happening, and when will it be fixed - answered accurately and identically every time.

Fault & Service Requests

Logged straight into your systems with the details captured properly, so the job is raised without an agent transcribing it afterwards.

Routine Enquiries

Hours, balances, account questions, process explanations - the high-frequency, low-complexity calls that fill a queue and hold up everything behind them.

After-Hours Coverage

The calls that used to reach voicemail. Customers get a real answer at 2am, and your team arrives to work already logged rather than a backlog to return.

Proven on the Worst Day of the Year

During Cyclone Tam in Auckland, widespread power outages created record-breaking call volumes for utility companies. Rather than collapsing under the pressure, Telnet's Tulip platform rose to the challenge.

The system provided real-time outage updates, logged fault reports, and escalated issues when necessary - all with zero hold time for customers.

33%

Of all inbound calls handled by Tulip

6x

Full-time agent equivalents deployed instantly

0s

Hold time for customers during the crisis

24/7

Always-on availability without staffing costs

How Tulip Runs

01

Tailored Configuration

We build Tulip around your business - your knowledge base, your customer journey, and the rules for when a call should go to a person.

02

Live in Days

Rapid deployment means you are handling AI-assisted calls within days, not months - and adjusting it stays just as quick.

03

Seamless Human Handoff

Complex calls transfer to skilled Telnet agents with full context, ensuring no customer has to repeat themselves.

Tulip isn't software you licence and staff. It's capacity we run for you, charged transactionally on handle-time minutes - so cost tracks the volume it actually handled rather than seats you had to commit to in advance.

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