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Live in Production — Mercvox

AI voice and chat
agents for businesses
that can't afford
to miss a conversation.

Driftel Labs builds AI voice agents, chat agents, and the full systems around them — dashboards, external integrations, and web apps. We've shipped one to production ourselves. We can ship one for you.

What We Build
End-to-end AI agent systems

AI Voice Agents

4–10 weeks

Voice agents, dashboards, and CRM integrations

AI Chat Agents

3–8 weeks

Chat agents, web apps, and knowledge base integration

Unified Systems

8–14 weeks

Full platform with agents, dashboards, and integrations

What We Build

Voice AI
Chat Agents
Dashboards
System Integration
Smart Routing
Human Handoff
Voice AI
Chat Agents
Dashboards
System Integration
Smart Routing
Human Handoff
Voice AI
Chat Agents
Dashboards
System Integration
Smart Routing
Human Handoff

Every business loses customers in conversations it can't have fast enough. The phone rings while you're with another customer. The website chat fills up after hours. The WhatsApp inquiry sits unread for three days.

Generic chatbots make it worse — they answer wrong, escalate badly, and trade short-term cost savings for long-term churn.

Voice and chat AI can close every one of those gaps. But only when they're built like product engineering — with the channels designed as one system, sharing customer context, brand voice, and clean handoff to a human when it matters.

That's the work we do.

Turn missed conversations into revenue

We build AI agents and the full systems around them \u2014 dashboards, integrations, and web apps included.

01

AI Voice Agents

Inbound receptionists, outbound qualifiers, IVR replacement, and voice features embedded in SaaS products. Built with production-grade voice infrastructure, custom prompt architectures, emergency and escalation routing, and real integrations into your scheduling, CRM, or operations stack. Includes the dashboards and system integrations to run it.

4–10 weeks
02

AI Chat Agents

Web chat widgets, in-product conversational AI, WhatsApp Business and SMS automation, internal Slack and Teams bots. Built with current-generation LLMs, retrieval over your knowledge base, real integrations into your data, and human handoff that actually works. We build the web app and admin dashboard around it too.

3–8 weeks
03

Unified Voice + Chat Systems

Where most agencies stop at the bot, we build the full system. Voice and chat as one platform — same brand voice, same customer context, same dashboard. A caller who messaged yesterday doesn’t repeat themselves. We deliver the agents, the web app, the integrations with your existing tools, and the operational dashboard to manage it all.

8–14 weeks

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Proof we ship

We don't just consult on conversational AI — we built and operate a production voice product ourselves.

Mercvox

Our flagship: an AI voice receptionist for trades businesses across North America. Three-layer prompt architecture (base model, industry prompts, business knowledge). Emergency keyword routing. Field-software integration for scheduling and customer sync. Tiered pricing. Live and answering calls.

Trades are the hardest possible test for a voice agent — high-stakes emergency calls, customers who'll churn if you sound fake, integrations with software that wasn't designed to play nice. If we can ship one that holds up there, we can ship one for your industry.

Live in Production
Mercvox

AI Voice Receptionist for Trades

Serving trades businesses across North America

  • Three-layer prompt architecture
  • Emergency keyword routing
  • Field-software integration
  • Live across North America

99.9%

Uptime

<2s

Avg Response

24/7

Availability

Why our agents sound like your best employee

Every agent we ship runs on the same three-layer architecture — built for accuracy, not improvisation.

Base model

Handles language, reasoning, and edge cases. We pick the model for the job, not by default.

Domain prompt system

Managed, versioned, vertical-specific. The prompt is product, not config.

Business knowledge

The specific company’s services, pricing, policies, integrations — grounded so the agent doesn’t improvise.

This is how you get an agent that sounds native to the business — not generic, not brittle, not embarrassing to put on the phone or in front of a customer. Every architectural choice we recommend, we've shipped on our own production product.

A note from the founder

I'm Utsav Patel.

I started Driftel Labs because AI is the most credible automation opportunity service businesses have ever had. Voice and chat agents are improving efficiency, customer satisfaction, and revenue at a pace I haven't seen in any prior technology shift — but only when they're built with real engineering rigor, not bolted on as a feature.

I've spent the last 5+ years building SaaS products end to end — as an engineer and a seller. Mercvox is the latest, and the most demanding test of everything I've learned.

Driftel Labs is small by design. I lead every engagement personally, backed by a trusted network of senior contractors I bring in based on what your build needs. You get senior judgment from day one — not a junior team learning on your project.

— Utsav

Live in production in weeks, not months

Four clear phases from first conversation to a working AI agent handling real calls.

Week 1

Discovery

We map your customers, conversations, channels, escalation paths, and integration requirements. Output: a written agent spec.

Weeks 2–4

Pilot

We build the first version of the agent against the spec. You test real interactions, give feedback, we iterate fast.

Weeks 4–10

Production

We integrate the agent into your operational stack — CRM, scheduling, support tools, dashboards — and launch with a controlled rollout. Monitoring and prompt tuning included.

After launch

Operations

Optional ongoing engagement: prompt iteration, model updates, performance review, channel expansion (e.g., adding chat to a voice-first deployment).

Pricing is scoped per engagement — we quote on the spec, not on the hope. Contact us to start the conversation.

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Is this right for your business?

Good fit

  • Service businesses automating front desk and call answering
  • Companies losing leads to missed calls, slow follow-up, or after-hours dead air
  • Customer support teams stretched thin or expensive to scale
  • SaaS products embedding voice or chat as a native feature
  • Any business with inbound conversations it can’t keep up with

Not a fit

  • One-off chatbot widget projects with no real integration needs
  • “ChatGPT on our website” wrappers
  • Voice deepfakes, impersonation, or any scam-adjacent work
  • Buyers shopping purely on price

Questions we hear before every engagement

Can't find your answer?

Drop us a line and we'll get back to you within one business day. contact@driftellabs.com

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Tell us what you're trying to build. We respond within one business day and, if it's a fit, set up a 20-minute call to scope.

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