Use case

AI Call Center

An AI call center that answers calls in under two seconds, runs your tools live, and escalates with full context. No per-seat fees, no migration.

Concurrent calls
500+
Pick-up latency
<2s
Languages
100+
Avg. resolution rate
77%

01 — Overview

How does an AI call center work alongside my existing one?

Open is not a contact-center replacement. It is a SIP-based AI voice layer that joins behind your existing platform — Five9, Genesys, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, Amazon Connect, RingCX, or in-house — as a routing destination. Calls you opt-in flow to AI; everything else runs the way it does today.

Modern call centers are typically a stack: carrier (PSTN), CCaaS or PBX (Five9, Genesys, NICE, Talkdesk, Amazon Connect, RingCX, etc.), and a layer of agents on workstations. The hard part of adding AI to that stack is not building the AI itself — it's making the AI a first-class routing destination without rebuilding the whole switchboard.

Open solves that by joining at the SIP layer. On a per-queue, per-skill, or per-IVR-branch basis, you point the routing destination at Open's SIP endpoint instead of a queue of human agents. The AI picks up, runs the conversation, calls your tools, and either resolves the call or warm-transfers it back to a human queue via SIP REFER. Your existing analytics, recording, and supervisor tooling continue to work — Open is invisible from your CCaaS dashboard except for the call legs you've routed to it.

What changes for your agents: a much smaller share of conversations reach them — only the ones the AI couldn't or shouldn't resolve. The ones that do reach them arrive pre-qualified, with a live transcript and detected intent already in the screen-pop. Average handle time on escalated calls drops because the AI has done the discovery before the human picks up.

What changes for your customers: the line is always open. There is no "all our agents are currently assisting other callers" — every call is answered on the first ring, 24/7, in the caller's language. For routine calls (status checks, password resets, appointment changes, payment captures, refunds within policy), the customer hangs up satisfied without ever queuing for a human.

Pricing is per resolved conversation, not per seat. That matters because an AI call center scales differently from a human one — you don't expand your seat count to handle a holiday spike, you just let Open absorb the load. Carrier minutes continue to be billed by your CCaaS or carrier with no markup from Open.

What stays in your CCaaS / PBX

  • Your CCaaS platform

    Five9, Genesys, NICE CXone, Talkdesk, Amazon Connect, RingCX — your platform stays as-is.

  • Queues, skills, IVR, recording

    Existing routing logic and recording rules continue. Open is one external destination on the branch you opt in.

  • Supervisor tooling and reporting

    WFM, QM, CSAT surveys, and reporting in your CCaaS keep firing for the legs your agents handle.

  • Carrier minutes

    Whoever bills minutes today continues to. Open never marks them up.

What's new with Open

  • A SIP destination on your queues

    On the queues, skills, or IVR branches you choose, Open's SIP URI becomes the routing target.

  • AI handles the conversation

    The AI greets, listens, runs your tools, and replies in natural speech — instead of queueing to a human.

  • Escalations carry context

    Warm SIP REFER back to a queue with the live transcript and detected intent attached as call attributes.

  • Pricing model

    Per resolved conversation, not per seat. Spinning up an AI on a tenth queue costs the same baseline as the first.

02 — Why it works

What makes Open the right use case answer

  • No-migration deployment

    Joins behind your existing CCaaS / PBX as a SIP destination. The rest of your contact center keeps running unchanged.

  • Scales past human staffing limits

    500+ concurrent calls per agent configuration. Holiday spikes and product launches stop being a staffing problem.

  • Resolves the routine, escalates the rest

    Status checks, scheduling, payments, refunds-in-policy resolved live. Anything ambiguous or sensitive routes to a human.

  • Full reporting on both sides

    Your CCaaS reporting on the human-handled legs. Open reasoning traces, transcripts, and outcome tags on the AI-handled legs.

03 — How it runs

What actually happens on a call

  1. 1

    Caller hits your existing number

    Routing in your CCaaS / PBX kicks in as it does today.

  2. 2

    Selected queue / skill routes to Open

    On the branches you opted in (e.g. tier-1 support overflow, after-hours, specific intents), the leg is sent to Open over SIP.

  3. 3

    AI answers and pulls context

    CRM lookup by ANI, conversation history, account status — all before the AI says hello.

  4. 4

    AI runs the call and acts

    It books, qualifies, answers, sends links, processes refunds, creates tickets — using the tools you connected.

  5. 5

    Escalates with context

    If escalation is the right call, SIP REFER hands the leg back into a CCaaS queue with the AI's transcript and intent attached.

  6. 6

    Reporting closes the loop

    Recording on both sides, reasoning trace in Open, CSAT and outcome tags exported back to your CCaaS reporting.

04 — Security

Encrypted, audited, refundable

SIP over TLS for signaling, SRTP for media. Every call logged with full reasoning traces. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR-aligned, HIPAA- and PCI-ready. Backed by the Open $2M Refund Guarantee.

05 — FAQ

AI Call Center questions, answered