XBert

About the startup

XBert is an AI employee from Nextiva that helps businesses automate customer conversations across phone, SMS, live chat, and digital messaging channels. XBert can answer questions, qualify leads, schedule appointments, complete routine service tasks, update business systems, and transfer complex conversations to human employees. As an AI receptionist and AI customer service platform, XBert is designed for businesses that want 24/7 customer communication without adding equivalent staffing capacity. XBert uses company knowledge, policies, workflows, customer context, and connected business systems to understand customer intent and take action. KEY FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES -- AI RECEPTIONIST - Answers inbound business calls, identifies caller intent, responds to common questions, captures customer information, and routes calls to the appropriate employee or department. -- 24/7 CUSTOMER SERVICE AUTOMATION - Handles customer conversations during business hours, after hours, weekends, and holidays while managing multiple conversations at the same time. -- OMNICHANNEL CUSTOMER COMMUNICATION - Supports voice, SMS, live chat, and digital messaging interactions across multiple customer communication channels. -- APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING - Connects with calendar and scheduling systems to check availability, book appointments, reschedule appointments, and send confirmations and reminders. -- LEAD CAPTURE - Collects lead information, asks qualification questions, identifies customer needs, books next steps, and routes qualified opportunities to sales teams. -- CUSTOMER SUPPORT AUTOMATION - Answers FAQs, resolves routine service requests, provides business information, collects required details, and completes predefined customer workflows. -- HUMAN HANDOFF - Transfers conversations to human employees when a request requires human assistance and passes relevant customer and conversation context with the transfer. -- BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE - Uses company FAQs, policies, procedures, service information, and other business knowledge to provide responses that reflect the organization’s operations. -- CUSTOMER CONTEXT - Maintains customer conversation history, preferences, prior issues, and completed actions so future interactions can start with relevant context. -- CRM AND BUSINESS INTEGRATIONS - Connects with systems such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Calendly, QuickBooks, Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Shopify. -- CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPTS AND SUMMARIES - Provides transcripts, summaries, interaction records, appointment data, and performance information for customer conversations and AI activity. -- AI GUARDRAILS AND CONTROLS - Lets businesses define allowed topics, workflows, actions, escalation rules, voice, tone, and response behavior. -- SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE - Includes encryption, account-level data separation, action logging, and support for compliance requirements such as HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2. -- CUSTOM AI CONFIGURATION - Lets businesses configure XBert with a custom name, voice, greeting, knowledge base, workflows, integrations, routing rules, and escalation logic. BUSINESS BENEFITS XBert helps businesses improve response times, reduce service workload, expand customer coverage, and increase operational capacity. It can reduce repetitive calls and administrative tasks while giving customers immediate access to answers and service. XBert can also help businesses capture more revenue opportunities. It can answer calls that might otherwise go to voicemail, qualify inbound leads, schedule appointments, and trigger follow-up actions. This helps sales and service teams respond to customer demand without relying on manual processes for every interaction. CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE OUTCOMES XBert improves customer experience through faster answers, consistent information, 24/7 availability, and fewer unnecessary transfers. When a human employee takes over, the employee can receive the conversation history and customer context needed to continue the interaction. NEXTIVA PLATFORM CONNECTION XBert is part of Nextiva’s customer experience platform. Nextiva combines AI-powered customer communication, voice, messaging, customer service, and business communication tools in one platform. As an autonomous AI agent, XBert extends that platform by managing customer conversations and completing business tasks. BUSINESS OUTCOMES The primary outcome of XBert is greater customer service and sales capacity without a proportional increase in headcount. Businesses can use XBert to automate routine customer interactions, improve lead response, increase appointment capture, reduce missed calls, extend service availability, and free employees to focus on conversations that require human judgment.