1. Start with Marion’s actual call path, not a population assumption
The Census records Marion city as a municipality in McDowell County and estimates its population at 7,579 for 2020–2024. That does not establish how many people call your firm, where callers are located, which practice areas they need or when they contact you. It does establish a useful boundary for the conversation: decide which calls you want to handle for Marion and McDowell County, then examine your own phone records and intake experience. Bosseo’s AI Answering page describes a team-first route in which calls ring your people first and the AI steps in when nobody answers within 20 seconds. That makes the first product question operational: which unanswered calls should receive the safety-net response?
Recommended approach
Review a representative period of your phone records and separate unanswered calls by new inquiry, current client, wrong number and other disposition. Then define whether the AI should cover after-hours calls, weekends, holidays, lunch periods, overflow or every unanswered call. Keep Marion and McDowell County as geographic context rather than treating the Census population as a forecast.
