<p>🎙️ In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Torrey Leonard, CEO of Thoughtly, to unpack the real business use case for voice AI agents: follow up with every lead, qualify fast, and hand the best conversations to humans.</p><br><p>If your funnel generates thousands of leads, the bottleneck is not “lack of interest.” It’s speed, timing, and the grind of dialing. Torrey explains how Thoughtly’s AI phone agents call inbound leads, answer initial questions, build rapport, and then transfer the call to a licensed human closer. Humans stay in the loop for the big life decisions. The AI handles the repetitive first steps that burn out teams.</p><br><p><br></p><p><strong>You will also learn:</strong></p><p>✅ Why voice beats typing as the fastest interface for human communication</p><p>✅ Why customer service voice AI is harder than sales and lead qualification</p><p>✅ How onboarding works with CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot</p><p>✅ Why A/B testing matters before ramping to 100% lead volume</p><p>✅ Why the “moat” is orchestration, workflows, and guardrails, not just a great voice model</p><p>✅ What agentic AI and omni-channel “next best action” looks like next</p><br><p><br></p><br><p>📧💌📧</p><p>Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don’t forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: <a href="https://beginnersguide.nl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>beginnersguide.nl⁠⁠⁠⁠</strong></a></p><p>📧💌📧</p><br><p><br></p><br><p>About Dietmar Fischer: Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at <a href="https://argoberlin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>argoberlin.com</strong></a></p><br><p><br></p><br><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00 From Minecraft to voice first AI and the origin of Thoughtly</p><p>02:44 What Thoughtly does AI calls that qualify and transfer to humans</p><p>07:45 Trust, disclosure, and why customer service voice AI is so hard</p><p>12:50 Scaling across verticals dialects and the model orchestration stack</p><p>18:12 Onboarding CRM integrations and A/B testing to 100% volume</p><p>28:21 The next wave autonomous agents OpenClaw and a sane take on AI risk</p><br><p><br></p><br><p><strong>Quotes from the Episode</strong></p><ul><li>“After 90 seconds we’ve got a great rapport built. Boom, transferred over to a licensed agent.”</li><li>“The voice isn’t the unique selling proposition. It’s the orchestration of the whole stuff.”</li><li>“Nobody needs to worry about the Terminator scenario, unless we humans build Terminator.”</li></ul><p><br></p><br><p><strong>Where to find the Guest</strong></p><p>🌐 Thoughtly: <a href="https://thoughtly.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>thoughtly.com</strong></a></p><p>🔗 Torrey Leonard on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/torrey-leonard/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>linkedin.com/in/torrey-leonard/</strong></a></p><br><p><br></p><br><p><em>Music credit: “Modern Situations” by Unicorn Heads</em></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>