1. Make the 20-second handoff fit your existing phone practice
Bosseo’s public product description says calls go to your front desk first. If nobody answers within 20 seconds, the AI picks up. That makes the central implementation decision a routing decision, not a population-based assumption about how many people will call. A Plumstead-serving firm should review its current unanswered-call rule across office hours, lunch periods, evenings, weekends, holidays, and busy periods. Decide whether the same fallback should apply to every practice area or whether some callers need a different path. Your review should also cover what the caller hears before the handoff and how the firm identifies an urgent inquiry.
Recommended approach
Bring your current phone tree, office hours, forwarding rules, voicemail language, and escalation rules to the consultation. Ask Bosseo to show how the first-ring team handoff and 20-second fallback would map to those rules. Treat any change as a decision to test against your firm’s real calls, not as a conclusion drawn from Plumstead’s population.
