Runko Works

Case study

Two AI assistants in production for a digital agency

A first-contact assistant and a subsidy pre-check that tell the agency which leads are worth a call, before anyone at the agency spends time on them.

Client
Digital agency in Germany
Role
Architect and engineer, on my own platform
Period
2026 – now
Area
AI
Stack
Assistant platform · Claude API · web widget · Instagram · voice messages

Why it mattered

An agency’s time is its product. Every enquiry that turns out to be a poor fit costs a call, and good enquiries that wait too long go elsewhere. The agency wanted its site to do the first conversation: understand the visitor, tell them something useful straight away and send the right people to a call.

How it works

Both assistants run on my assistant platform, each with its own playbook.

  • First-contact assistant. Talks to visitors on the site and on Instagram, including voice messages: gives quick, practical first insights, finds out what the visitor needs and qualifies them as a lead.
  • Subsidy pre-check. On the landing pages for a regional state programme that funds digitalisation, it checks in a few questions whether a company is likely to qualify, names the factors that would rule it out, and leads promising cases to a free 30-minute consultation.
  • Consent before contact. Contact details are recorded only after the visitor has explicitly agreed, and the assistant says what the data will be used for.
  • Honest outcomes. When a case is unlikely to qualify, the assistant says so instead of booking a call nobody needs.