Retrieva Labs

Voice AI Agents

Voice AI agents and conversational AI

We build voice agents that answer calls and voice notes, understand intent, look up orders or records, and reply in a natural voice, then hand off to your team when a person is needed. Latency, cost and safety are engineered for real conversations.

What you can expect

  • Round-the-clock coverage without adding headcount
  • Instant answers to routine calls
  • Clean hand-off to people with full context

(01) The problem

Why teams come to us for Voice AI Agents.

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Missed calls, lost revenue

After-hours and peak-time calls go unanswered and customers move on.

Phone menus customers hate

Press-one menus frustrate callers and can't handle real questions.

Latency kills conversation

Every hop (transcription, reasoning, speech) adds delay that makes bots feel robotic.

Risky edge cases

Sensitive or emotional conversations need careful guardrails and escalation.

(02) Use cases

What we build with Voice AI Agents.

  • 01

    Inbound support lines

    Answer FAQs, check order status and escalate to a live agent when a request is out of scope.

  • 02

    WhatsApp voice assistants

    Receive voice notes, transcribe with Whisper and reply with synthesized speech, as we built for a 24/7 recovery-support SaaS.

  • 03

    Appointment booking and reminders

    Book, reschedule and confirm appointments by phone or WhatsApp.

  • 04

    Lead qualification calls

    Qualify inbound callers and sync their answers to your CRM.

  • 05

    Multilingual hotlines

    Serve callers in their own language with consistent answers.

  • 06

    Call summaries and QA

    Transcribe and summarize calls for quality review and coaching.

Deliverables

Everything you need to run it in production.

  • Telephony and WhatsApp integration (Twilio, WhatsApp Business API)
  • Speech-to-text and text-to-speech pipeline
  • Conversation design, prompts and guardrails
  • Knowledge-base grounding and live system lookups
  • Escalation and live-agent hand-off
  • Latency, cost and quality monitoring
  • Automated test suites for conversation flows

Our approach

How we deliver reliable results.

  1. 1

    Design the conversation

    Intents, tone, escalation rules and the things the agent must never do.

  2. 2

    Engineer the latency budget

    Streaming, time to first token and caching tuned so replies feel natural.

  3. 3

    Ground every answer

    Responses come from your knowledge base and live systems, not improvisation.

  4. 4

    Test what you can't eyeball

    Automated suites cover dialogue, sessions, webhooks and security separately from the audio.

Technology

Tools we use for Voice AI Agents.

Model-agnostic and cloud-agnostic: we pick the right components for your data, budget and compliance requirements.

  • OpenAI Whisper
  • Twilio
  • WhatsApp Business API
  • ElevenLabs
  • Deepgram
  • OpenAI Realtime API
  • Vapi
  • Retell AI
  • LiveKit
  • Claude
  • Node.js
  • Python

Industries we serve

Engagement models

Flexible ways to work, one standard of delivery.

Start small with a discovery sprint or an audit, or go straight to a production build. Most projects start from $5,000, scoped after a free strategy call.

1–2 weeks · fixed scope

AI Strategy & Discovery Sprint

Teams validating an AI opportunity before committing a budget.

  • Use-case and ROI workshop
  • Data and systems audit
  • Architecture blueprint
  • Risk and compliance review
  • Build plan with estimates
Most requested

4–12 weeks · milestone-based

Production Build

A defined RAG platform, AI agent, automation or AI product, delivered end to end.

  • Architecture and full build
  • Evaluation suite and QA
  • Security and compliance controls
  • Deployment and monitoring
  • Documentation and handover

Monthly retainer

Dedicated AI Engineering

Product and platform teams with an ongoing AI roadmap and no time to hire.

  • Senior AI engineering capacity
  • Weekly planning and demos
  • Continuous evaluation and monitoring
  • Model and cost optimization
  • Scale up with vetted specialists

1–3 weeks · fixed scope

AI Audit & Evaluation

An existing LLM, RAG or agent system that underperforms or is changing hands.

  • Architecture and code review
  • Answer-quality evaluation
  • Security, PII and compliance review
  • Cost and latency analysis
  • Prioritized remediation report

Not sure which model fits? A free 30-minute call is enough to decide.

Book a free strategy call

Voice AI Agents FAQ

Common questions about Voice AI Agents.

Can't find your answer? Ask us on a free strategy call or send a short brief.

How natural do voice agents sound?

Modern speech synthesis is close to human. We tune the voice, pacing and latency so conversations feel natural rather than scripted.

Can a voice agent hand calls to a person?

Yes. Escalation rules route out-of-scope or sensitive calls to your team with a transcript and summary.

Which phone systems do you support?

Twilio telephony, WhatsApp Business, SIP trunks and voice platforms such as Vapi, Retell and LiveKit.

What does a voice agent cost to run?

It depends on call volume and model choice. Prompt caching and the right models keep costs low; on one production product, caching cut input-token costs by about 90%.

Can it speak multiple languages?

Yes. Transcription and synthesis support many languages, and the agent can reply in the caller's language.

How do you keep sensitive conversations safe?

Guardrails, risk detection, strict escalation rules and logging, the same safeguards we built into mental-health and recovery-support products.

Taking on new projects

Let’sbuild.

Have an AI project in mind? Let’s make it real.

Book a free 30-minute strategy call with our founder. You’ll leave with a clear view of the right architecture, timeline and next step, whether or not we work together.

  • Reply within 24 hours
  • NDA before you share anything confidential
  • You own the code, prompts and documentation
  • Hours overlap with US, UK, EU and Gulf teams
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