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The Handoff: Designing the Moment AI Gives Up

Designing AI human handoff: when to trigger it, what context to pass your team by email or webhook, and how to avoid the dead end that kills trust.

· 6 min
Product

Voice or Typed: What You Learn When Your Transcripts Know the Difference

Tagging conversations as voice or text changes what your analytics tell you. How spoken and typed sessions differ in intent, length, and what they need.

· 6 min
Product

Show Your Sources: Why AI Answers Need a Citation Badge

Answer citations show visitors which document an AI answer came from. How grounding, citation badges, and honest abstention reduce hallucination anxiety.

· 6 min
Product

Forms Inside the Conversation: Collecting Data Without Sending People Away

In-chat forms collect structured data mid-conversation. When to show one, how to design the fields, and why timing beats a separate contact page.

· 6 min
Product

Honest Status: Telling People What Your Voice AI Is Actually Doing

Fake typing indicators erode trust. Here is why a voice AI should show its real state — listening, processing, thinking, speaking — and how we built it.

· 6 min
Product

Goal-Driven AI Calls: When the Assistant Actually Runs the Conversation

hiroi's new active-mode calls give your AI a job to do on the phone — fill a schema, confirm details, hang up when the goal is done. No scripts, no brittle flows, just outcomes.

· 6 min
Product

hiroi in Microsoft Teams: Your Assistant, Where You Already Work

Chat with your hiroi assistant inside Teams. Search your calendar, RSVP to meetings, find files across OneDrive and SharePoint, and draft email — without leaving the window.

· 6 min
Product

One Login, Every Tool: Unified Microsoft and Google Integrations

Connect Microsoft or Google once and your hiroi agent gets calendar, email, and files in a single step. No more per-service OAuth dances, no more mismatched accounts.

· 4 min
Product

Introducing Phone Agents: AI That Calls Your Customers

Extend your AI agent beyond chat — run outbound campaigns, answer inbound calls, and manage contacts, all from the same agent and knowledge base.

· 6 min
Product

From Chat to Phone Call: How AI Escalation Actually Works

When chat isn't enough, hiroi's AI can place a real phone call on behalf of your visitor — navigating IVR menus, briefing agents, and bridging the conversation seamlessly.

· 5 min
Product

Sign In Your Way: Apple, Microsoft, and Magic Link Login

hiroi now supports Apple Sign In, Microsoft OAuth, magic link email, plus Google, GitHub, and passkeys — giving your team the flexibility to log in however they prefer.

· 4 min