brief · no budget
Half your inbound is tyre-kickers
The enquiry says "we need a website" and nothing else. Finding out whether there is a budget behind it currently costs a strategist an hour and a meeting, and most of the time the answer is no.
Industries · Digital Agencies
AI intake agent for digital and creative agencies.
Half your inbound briefs are tyre-kickers, and finding that out currently costs a strategist an hour. Attorus qualifies scope, budget and timeline before a human ever opens the thread.
Australian-built and managed from Adelaide. Openly AI, and happy to prove it works before you commit.
Attorus Agent 4:10 pm We need a new website, maybe some ads too. What do you charge?
Depends on scope, so I won't throw a number at you. What does the business do, and is there a site now?
Commercial plumbing. There's a site but it's about eight years old.
Understood. What budget band are you working to, and when would you want it live?
Answering across
01 / The problem
reply time · 2 days
Prospects shortlist whoever replies the same day
Your best people are billing, so the inbox waits. By the time the considered reply goes out, the prospect has already had two calls with agencies that answered on the day.
white-label load
Enquiry volume scales faster than your account team
If you resell services, every new client multiplies inbound. The account team is the bottleneck, and hiring ahead of the revenue is how agencies get into trouble.
02 / How it works
Answer, qualify, book, follow up.
01
Replies from your inbox, in your thread
Email, website chat, LinkedIn-driven enquiries and phone, all answered in minutes from the mailbox you already use. The prospect sees your address, not a bot platform.
Your mailboxSame threadMinutes not days
02
Runs your qualifying set
What the business does, what exists now, budget band, timeline, and who signs. Your questions, your wording, openly as an AI assistant.
Budget bandTimelineDecision maker
03
Scores against your rules
You define what qualified means. The agent scores each enquiry against that and only the ones that pass go any further.
Your thresholdService fitScored
04
Books the good ones, parks the rest politely
Qualified prospects go straight into the director's calendar. Everyone else gets a courteous reply and a resources link, so no one leaves with a bad taste.
Live calendarPolite declineResources link
03 / A worked scenario
A vague brief, qualified before a strategist opens it.
An email arrives asking for "a new website, maybe some ads". The agent replies from your mailbox in the same thread and runs your qualifying set: what the business does, what exists now, the budget band, the timeline, and who signs off. It comes back as commercial plumbing, an eight-year-old site, a mid-band budget and a live-by-June deadline, with the owner making the call.
Scored against your rules, passed, and booked into the director's calendar with the full thread attached. An enquiry below your threshold would have received a courteous reply and a resources link instead, without anyone spending an hour to find that out.
04 / What it does
Built for the way your week actually runs.
01
Qualification before a strategist opens the thread
Budget and timeline surface in the first exchange, not in the first meeting.
02
Same-day replies without pulling anyone off billable work
The inbox answers in minutes while your team stays on client delivery.
03
Your questions, your tone, your approval
You sign off the exact qualifying script before it goes anywhere near a prospect.
04
Meetings that are worth having
Only enquiries that pass your threshold reach the calendar, so the director's week fills with real opportunities.
05
Polite handling for the ones that do not fit
A courteous reply and a useful link beats silence, and it keeps your reputation intact in a small market.
06
Inbound volume that scales without headcount
White-label and reseller growth stops being an account-team hiring problem.
05 / Channels and integrations
The channels that matter here, plugged into what you run.
Channel fit
EmailLive chatPhoneLinkedIn-driven
Agency inbound is an email trade. Email carries the briefs and the referrals, live chat catches the prospects comparing agencies on your site, and phone handles the ones who want a human before they will send a brief at all. All of it lands as one thread per prospect.
Integration strip
GmailOutlook 365GoHighLevelGoogle Calendar
Connected during onboarding and done for you. Running something that is not listed here, bring it to the consultation and we will tell you straight whether it plugs in.
06 / FAQ
Fair questions, straight answers.
Will it embarrass us in front of prospects?
It runs your qualifying questions in your tone, openly as an AI assistant. You approve the exact script before it goes live, and it never claims to be one of your strategists.
Can we white-label it for our own clients?
That is a partnership conversation we are happy to have. Book a consultation and ask.
What does "qualified" mean?
Whatever you define. Budget threshold, service fit, timeline. The agent scores against your rules and only books meetings that pass.
Does it work in our inbox or a new one?
Yours. Replies come from your mailbox, in the existing thread, so the prospect never sees a handover.
What about enquiries that do not fit?
They get a courteous reply and a resources link rather than silence. In a small market, how you turn people away matters.
How long does it take to go live?
A standard deployment moves through training and tone calibration, then integration and tested trial conversations against your historical threads, then a final review. The timeline for your setup is confirmed in the written quote.
Is it really AI? Will prospects know?
Yes, it is AI, and we sell it as exactly that. Asked directly, it says so and offers to bring in your team.
Cost is the question everybody asks first: how much does this actually cost? The rest are on the FAQ.
Start
Stop paying strategist hours to find out there is no budget.
Every unqualified brief costs you an hour of the most expensive person in the building, and every slow reply hands the shortlist to someone else. Book a 30-minute call and see it run your own qualifying questions on your own inbox.
The same qualification problem, outside the agency world. See the AI receptionist