Let AI draft the reply. Keep a person on send.
The fastest way to answer every lead well is not to automate the conversation away. It is to make the first draft free and keep the judgement human.
· Inbox · 3 min read
There are two common ways teams try to answer leads faster. One is an autoresponder that sends the same message to everyone. The other is a fully automatic AI that replies on its own. The first is fast and empty. The second can be good, until the day it confidently says something nobody at your company would say.
Where the time actually goes
Writing a good first reply takes ten or fifteen minutes: read the message, check who they are, work out what they need, find a time, write it in your company’s voice. Pressing send takes a second. The slow part is the draft, not the decision.
So hand over the draft and keep the decision. That one change removes most of the delay without giving up control of what goes out in your name.
What a good draft looks like
- It answers the question in the lead’s own message, not a generic one.
- It offers a specific time.
- It asks one question that makes the next conversation better.
- It sounds like your team, because it was written from your past replies and your brand.
When to write it yourself
Some replies should come from a person from the first word: a complaint, a large customer, a delicate negotiation, someone you already know well. The point of a draft is that you can ignore it.
How Levric does it
In the Levric inbox, Chief reads each thread and writes a suggested reply under the lead’s message. You can use it, ask for a different one, or discard it. If you would rather answer yourself, you type in the same thread and it goes from your own email, in the same conversation.
Every draft and every reply stays in the thread, so anyone on the team can see what was said, by whom, and when.
See it in the app: the Inbox tour