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Pre-Sales · Charter Transportation / Mobility
How OurBus qualifies charter requests by phone so specialists spend time on pricing, not intake.
Inbound charter leads are qualified end-to-end — route, riders, addresses, return timing, and occasion — then handed to a specialist with a clean summary.
OurBus
Customer
Charter Transportation / Mobility
- Charter lead qualification
- Trip detail capture
- Address clarification
Verified metrics
Performance numbers only when confirmed.
We do not invent KPIs for customer stories. Empty slots stay ready for approved deployment figures.
Qualification completion
Awaiting verified figure
Specialist handoff readiness
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Intake time saved
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Address clarification loops
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Performance metrics shown only when verified for a deployment.
About the customer
OurBus
OurBus serves group travel and charter demand where incomplete trip details slow specialists and delay quotes.
Inbound charter requests often arrive with partial information: a city pair and approximate riders, but missing addresses, return timing, or occasion.
VoxxAgent runs the pre-sales qualification conversation so charter specialists receive a confirmed trip summary ready for pricing and vehicle options.
The challenge
What was breaking in the operating process.
Before structured voice qualification, charter specialists spent early call time gathering basics, clarifying ambiguous addresses, and confirming round-trip details. Incomplete intake meant slower quotes and repeated follow-ups.
- Specialists spent early call time on basic trip intake
- Ambiguous pickup and drop-off details required repeated clarification
- Round-trip timing and occasion were easy to miss before pricing
- Incomplete lead summaries slowed quote turnaround
Before VoxxAgent
The workflow teams were stuck inside.
A visual of the pre-automation path: manual, uneven, and hard to scale.
Charter request arrives
Specialist picks up cold
Manual detail gathering
Missing addresses / return time
Delayed pricing follow-up
What we deployed
The voice agent and operating workflow.
When a charter request comes in, Grace (the OurBus pre-sales agent) confirms the traveler, validates known trip details such as Washington to Boston with an early pickup and rider count, collects precise addresses, determines whether the trip is round-trip, captures return timing and occasion, then summarizes everything before handing off to a charter specialist for pricing and bus options.
VoxxAgent deployed a pre-sales voice agent that:
- Confirms caller identity and charter intent
- Verifies route, date, pickup window, and rider count
- Captures exact pickup and drop-off locations
- Clarifies one-way versus round-trip and return timing
- Reads back the full trip summary before specialist handoff
Architecture / flow
Customer → VoxxAgent → systems → action → analytics.
The operating path for this deployment, not a generic capability diagram.
Charter request
Confirm caller
Verify route & riders
Capture addresses
Return timing & occasion
Full-trip readback
Specialist pricing handoff
The call experience
Listen to how the conversation actually runs.
Audio and transcript from a real VoxxAgent sample tied to this customer workflow.
Call experience
Real audio sample
Real OurBus charter pre-sales sample from the VoxxAgent voice showcase.
VoxxAgent
Hi, this is Grace calling from Our Bus. This call may be recorded for quality and training. Am I speaking with Mann?
Customer
Yeah.
VoxxAgent
Yeah, I received your request for a charter bus, and I just need to go over a few quick details. Is now a good time?
Customer
Sure.
VoxxAgent
I see you're looking to travel from Washington to Boston on 6th August, with pickup around 6 AM for about 10 riders. Did I get that right?
Customer
Yeah. Correct.
VoxxAgent
Got it. What's the exact pickup location for the bus?
Customer
The exact location will be 74th Avenue or 53.
VoxxAgent
All right, I have 74th Avenue, or 53. Can you repeat that?
Customer
Yeah. It's 74th Avenue. That's it.
VoxxAgent
Okay. And what's the exact drop-off location?
Customer
Boston — it's Lincoln Street.
VoxxAgent
Sure. And just to confirm, this is a one-way trip?
Customer
No. It's not.
VoxxAgent
Got it. Since it's a round trip, what time would you like the return to start?
Customer
After two days, and the return trip will start at 12 PM.
VoxxAgent
Okay, return starts at 12 PM after two days. And what's the occasion for the trip?
Customer
Yeah. We are going for a wedding.
VoxxAgent
Just to confirm — pickup from 74th Avenue, heading to Lincoln Street in Boston, leaving around 6 AM on 6th August, for about 10 passengers, and returning two days later at 12 PM for a wedding. Does that all sound right?
Customer
Yeah.
VoxxAgent
Perfect. I'll pass this straight over to one of our charter specialists, who'll follow up with pricing and bus options. We'll be in touch shortly. Have a great day.
Implementation
How the program was stood up.
Setup, routing, handoffs, testing, and deployment discipline, not a one-click chatbot install.
- 01
Map inbound charter lead fields already known from the web request form.
- 02
Script verification of route, date, pickup window, and rider count before asking for missing details.
- 03
Add clarification loops for ambiguous addresses instead of guessing.
- 04
Branch one-way versus round-trip before collecting return timing and occasion.
- 05
Require a full-trip readback before specialist handoff.
- 06
Define handoff payload so pricing teams receive addresses, timing, riders, and occasion in one place.
Results
What changed in the operation.
OurBus can qualify charter leads through a structured voice conversation and hand specialists a confirmed trip summary. Verified numeric KPIs are not published here; metric slots remain available for approved deployment figures.
- Complete trip details captured before pricing begins
- Fewer clarification loops for specialists
- Consistent lead summaries for charter follow-up
- Faster path from inbound request to quote-ready handoff
Before / after
A structured operating comparison.
Before
- Specialists gather route, addresses, and return timing from scratch
- Ambiguous pickup details stall the quote process
- Occasion and round-trip context arrive late or incomplete
After
- Pre-sales agent confirms known details and fills gaps in one call
- Addresses and return timing are clarified before handoff
- Specialists receive a read-back-confirmed trip summary for pricing
What's next
Where the program goes from here.
Tighten calendar-date confirmation for return legs, deepen address capture for street numbers, and connect handoff payloads into charter CRM or quoting tools.
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