
September 2023 Releases
Every contact center has a handful of agents who just get it. They deliver higher CSAT scores, resolve issues faster, and convert more leads. They don't just follow scripts—they come prepared, anticipate needs, take ownership, and actually get things done—all while making it feel effortless.
Historically, this level of performance has depended on human intuition and experience, so replicating it at scale has been impossible. Even the most advanced IVRs and rule-based bots could only handle narrow tasks. They couldn’t reason about a customer’s situation, interpret context across systems, or take multi-step actions the way a top human agent can.
Generative Voice AI changes that. Modern LLMs can understand spoken intent with nuance, interpret intent, maintain context, pull information from multiple systems, personalize responses, and take action in real time. With the right tooling, AI agents can understand where a customer is, what’s happened so far, and what needs to happen next.
To truly match elite human performance, AI agents need five core capabilities: spatial awareness, temporal awareness, sensory perception, proactive information retrieval, and real action-taking. With these capabilities, they stop behaving like simple conversational interfaces and start operating like fully empowered operators.
In this article, we’ll break down each capability, and how Regal enables it through technical integrations and deployable Custom Actions.
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How Elite Agents Do It
Top human agents instinctively understand location-based context — whether a customer is in a serviceable area, whether certain products are available in their region, or how local rules and constraints might affect what they can offer. This spatial intuition helps them qualify faster, avoid dead ends, and personalize recommendations.
How Voice AI Does It Better
AI can process spatial data at a depth and scale humans simply can’t. A well-equipped voice agent can:
Because these checks happen in milliseconds, the AI enters the call already aware of what’s possible, and what’s not.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Regal makes spatial reasoning plug-and-play by connecting the AI agent to geocoding APIs, territory files, and regional inventory or service systems via Custom Actions. These actions can trigger automatically at call start so the agent enters the conversation already prepared.
For example, an outbound solar sales agent can automatically:
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All of this happens before the prospect picks up, enabling the AI to open the call with accurate, personalized context from the second it starts talking.
How Elite Agents Do It
The best agents have impeccable timing. They remember time zones, honor promised follow-ups, reference past interactions naturally, and know how to schedule around holidays, downtime, and customer preferences. This temporal intuition helps them reach customers at the right moment and coordinate complex logistics without friction.
How Voice AI Does It Better
AI can track timing with perfect reliability across thousands of customers simultaneously. A well-equipped voice agent can:
These temporal checks happen instantly, ensuring the AI always engages at the right moment with the right context.
What This Looks Like in Practice
With Regal, temporal reasoning becomes a built-in capability. The AI automatically detects the customer’s timezone, references past commitments, and uses Regal’s native gather_date action to collect availability in a structured format. From there, it can either create callback tasks directly inside Regal or work with external scheduling platforms—like Cal.com, Google Calendar, Outlook, or internal dispatch tools—through Custom Actions.
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For example, when rescheduling a technician appointment, the AI can automatically:
All of this happens instantly, enabling the AI to propose accurate options and complete the scheduling workflow without the customer repeating a single detail.
How Elite Agents Do It
Your best agents never enter a conversation blind. Before they even say hello, they’ve already scanned the customer’s profile, checked recent interactions, reviewed open tickets or orders, and recalled past preferences. That preparation lets them personalize the conversation, anticipate issues, and shortcut decision-making.
How Voice AI Does It Better
AI can absorb and analyze context at a scale no human can. A well-equipped voice agent can:
Instead of juggling multiple screens, AI processes everything at once, and adapts its next step accordingly.
How This Works in Practice
With Regal, sensory perception becomes a real-time reasoning layer. Through Custom Actions, the AI can fetch CRM data (like customer tier, recent interactions, open issues, product ownership, or lifecycle stage) and immediately use that information to personalize both what it says and how it decides what to do next.
At the same time, Regal’s Knowledge Base gives the agent instant access to domain-specific guidance, FAQs, product rules, troubleshooting flows, compliance language, and more — all retrieved and applied dynamically. The AI uses this information to choose the right answer, follow the correct policy, and navigate complex logic without relying on static scripts.
For example, when a customer says, “I have a question about my order,” the AI can automatically:
The agent can then respond conversationally with something like:
“Hi Jennifer, I see you’re asking about your laptop order. It’s running a day behind due to weather, but since you’re a VIP customer, I’ve upgraded it to overnight shipping at no cost. It will still arrive tomorrow.”

This all happens in real time — not through scripting, but through dynamic reasoning powered by CRM data, knowledge base context, and on-the-fly logic adaptation.
How Elite Agents Do It
Great agents don’t just rely on what’s already in front of them—they go find what’s missing. They search product catalogs, check stock levels, review policy documents, and dig through internal tools so they have answers ready the moment the customer asks. This proactive lookup is what lets them solve problems quickly and confidently.
How Voice AI Does It Better
AI can retrieve information across your systems faster and more comprehensively than any human. A well-equipped voice agent can:
And it can do all of this the moment the customer asks a question—or even before.
How This Works in Practice
Through Custom Actions, the AI can tap into product databases, warehouse systems, pricing engines, and policy APIs to answer questions with perfect clarity and accuracy. Unlike sensory perception (#3), which focuses on interpreting the customer’s context, information retrieval focuses on gathering the external information required to answer operational questions.
For example, when a customer says, “Do you have this appliance in blue?” the AI can instantly:
Then respond naturally and precisely:
“Yes — the blue model is in stock and qualifies for free expedited shipping. I can get it to you by Friday. Would you like me to place the order?”

This isn’t memorized scripting; it’s real-time data retrieval across your operational systems.
How Elite Agents Do It
Elite agents don’t stop at understanding the issue or finding the right information—they take ownership. They schedule the appointment, process the refund, send the confirmation, and update the account during the call. When the customer hangs up, everything is already handled. Their value isn’t just knowledge; it’s execution.
How Voice AI Does It Better
AI excels at fast, precise, multi-step execution. A well-equipped voice agent can:
And because AI doesn’t fatigue or multitask poorly, it can execute flawlessly every single time.
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How This Works in Practice
Through Custom Actions, the AI can write back to your operational systems—CRMs, billing platforms, order management tools, workforce systems, marketing automation platforms, and more. Rather than handing tasks off, the AI completes the work end-to-end, turning conversations into finished actions.
For example, during a billing inquiry, the AI could:
All in real time, while still carrying on a natural, human-like voice conversation.
The result: customers hang up with everything already resolved—and your team never touches the case.
The capabilities that once distinguished your top agents—understanding where a customer is, what’s happening right now, what information matters, and what action to take—can now be delivered consistently on every interaction. With generative Voice AI, it’s finally possible to combine human-level intuition with machine-level speed, reliability, and scale. The result is a voice agent that doesn’t just respond, but prepares, reasons, and executes from the moment the call begins.
Regal’s Custom Actions give AI voice agents direct access to your systems, data, and workflows so they can personalize conversations, retrieve accurate information, and complete tasks end-to-end without human handoffs.
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