Voice AI

Meridian Finance — voice agent

A compliant inbound voice AI that resolves tier-1 calls without a queue.

Voice AI

Illustrative sample project — a representative composite, not a disclosed client engagement.

Client
Meridian Finance
Industry
Consumer financial services
Timeline
10 weeks
Services used
The challenge

Where it started.

Meridian's support line was underwater. Call volume spiked at predictable hours and callers waited on hold for answers that were almost always the same — balance checks, payment questions, basic account changes. In a regulated industry, every call also had to stay strictly on-script, which made staffing up both expensive and slow.

The approach

How we built it.

01

Mapped tier-one call types and the paths that legally required a human agent.

02

Built a compliance-aware inbound voice agent with natural, low-latency conversation.

03

Integrated the agent with telephony, CRM, and account systems so it could resolve, not just talk.

04

Designed escalation rules to hand complex or sensitive calls to agents with full context.

The solution

Where it landed.

The voice agent now answers immediately, handling routine balance, payment, and account calls end to end without a queue. Because it's wired into Meridian's systems, it resolves rather than deflects — and its compliance-aware scripting keeps every interaction inside policy. Anything outside its remit escalates cleanly to a human agent with the full call context, so customers never repeat themselves. The support team was freed from repetitive tier-one volume to focus on the calls that genuinely need judgment.

The results

Numbers, moved.

12s
Average handle time

Down from 90 seconds — routine calls resolve near-instantly.

68%
Calls auto-resolved

The agent handles the bulk of tier-one volume without an agent.

+27%
CSAT

No hold times and consistent answers lifted customer satisfaction.

0
Queue at peak

Immediate pickup eliminated the peak-hour hold queue.

"Our call queue vanished. The voice agent handles tier-one better than scripts ever did — and customers can't tell."
AK
Aisha Khan
Head of CX, Meridian Finance
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