A Famulor AI agent is an autonomous voice assistant that answers calls, qualifies leads, books appointments, and handles support without a human on the line. The agent lives on the Famulor platform and this page configures and syncs one from inside Cockpit. Called "Advanced assistants" in the UI sidebar.
Overview
A Famulor agent record in Cockpit mirrors a real assistant on the Famulor platform. When you save, Cockpit calls the Famulor API to provision or update the assistant there, and the Sync status column shows whether your local config matches. You assign an agent to an extension, a call flow step, or a Famulor-provisioned number, and the AI then answers those calls.
Famulor agents are deeper than Smart Assistants. If you just want an AI on an extension following a prompt without much tuning, a Smart Assistant is the right starting point.
| Aspect | Famulor agents ("Advanced") | Smart assistants ("Basic") |
|---|---|---|
| Where the AI runs | Famulor's platform (external) | Voxbi's own infrastructure (internal) |
| Configuration depth | Deep - 6 tabs, fine-grained voice / model / tool settings | Lighter - 2-step wizard |
| Engine choices | Pipeline / Speech-to-speech / Dualplex | OpenAI Realtime (one option) |
| Best for | Sophisticated use cases needing voice tuning, multilingual switching, advanced tool chains | Quick setup, simple flows, single-language assistants |
What it does
A caller is answered immediately by the AI. The agent speaks an opening message, converses guided by the system prompt and any enabled tools, and either completes the call or transfers when the prompt rules trigger it. The experience is shaped by three things working together: the engine (how speech is processed), the voice (how it sounds), and the system prompt (what it does and says). These plus transfer rules are the fields that matter most.
A common deployment is a single all-in-one agent on the main inbound extension with a prompt covering every department. Split into a receptionist agent plus per-department specialist agents only when you have several departments needing different knowledge bases or prompts.
See also
- Smart assistants - the in-house alternative, simpler and built on Voxbi infrastructure.
- AI IVRs - the lightest AI option, built on the Smart Assistants infrastructure.
- Famulor call logs - the transcript + outcome record of each Famulor call.
- Extensions - the typical assignment target.
- Call flows - the AI Assistant (Famulor) step type.
- SIP carriers - the carrier configuration the agent's SIP trunk uses.
- Famulor platform (external) - where the AI actually runs.