EXAMPLE IMPLEMENTATION · SERVICE BUSINESS · ILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW

AI Assistant for Service Business Intake

An illustrative intake workflow for a service business. One agreed production workflow, typically delivered in about 30 days once scope and access are confirmed. It qualifies inbound requests, collects missing information, and routes a record for review.

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  • Website and email intake in one flow
  • Structured qualification questions
  • Document collection and reminders
  • Calendar scheduling with human review
  • CRM or spreadsheet handoff
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The Problem

What breaks today — and why teams look for a production workflow, not another chatbot demo.

Example implementation

Service businesses — agencies, consultancies, trades, clinics, and professional firms — lose deals and delay projects because intake is inconsistent. Leads arrive by email, web form, phone, and referral with incomplete information. Staff spend hours chasing missing details, re-typing notes into CRMs, and deciding who should handle each request.

Manual Process Today

How teams typically handle this workflow before automation — high friction, low traceability.

  • Owner or coordinator reads every inbound email and form submission manually
  • Back-and-forth emails to collect scope, budget, timeline, and required documents
  • Calendar links sent ad hoc; double-bookings and no-shows when follow-up is slow
  • Notes copied into CRM, spreadsheet, or project tool — often incomplete or outdated
  • No single view of what was promised, who approved it, or what happens next

Tyon Implementation

What a Production Implementation includes in this illustration — one workflow connected to the tools and approval rules in the scope.

  • A branded intake assistant on your website and via email forwarding
  • Conversation flow that asks qualification questions based on service type
  • Document upload requests with reminders until required files are received
  • Calendar integration to propose times — booking confirmed only after rules pass
  • Structured record created in CRM or project tool with full conversation history
  • Escalation to a human owner when confidence is low or value exceeds thresholds

Tools Connected

Typical integrations for this example — adapted to your stack during discovery.

  • Website chat widget or embedded intake form
  • Email inbox (Google Workspace / Microsoft 365)
  • CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho) or Airtable / Notion
  • Calendar (Google Calendar / Outlook)
  • Document storage (Google Drive, SharePoint, Dropbox)
  • Slack or Teams for internal notifications

Integration approach

Tyon connects via APIs where available, email and calendar where teams already work, and browser automation only when legacy tools have no API. You keep control of credentials, data boundaries, and which systems the agent can write to.

Human Approval Points

Automation proposes — humans approve. Every production Tyon workflow defines where people stay in control.

  • High-value leads flagged for manager review before a discovery call is booked
  • Custom quote requests held until a human confirms scope and pricing band
  • Document packages reviewed before a project is marked ready to start
  • Calendar bookings above a duration or service tier require owner confirmation
  • Any CRM update that changes deal stage or owner requires approval

30-Day Delivery Plan

Illustrative delivery after scope and access are confirmed. Discovery and the written scope come before these weeks. This is not a promised schedule.

Week 1 — Build

Configure the assistant from the agreed qualification rules, connect the approved knowledge, and wire document collection and CRM fields.

Week 2 — Integrate

Connect calendar, email, and notifications, and implement the approval points and logs named in the scope.

Week 3 — Test

Run the agreed scenarios, including missing fields and a step that must wait for approval.

Week 4 — Hand over

Pilot with the agreed team, train reviewers on the queue, and hand over documentation.

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Illustrative workflows and proposed success measures

Proposed success measures for this illustration. Define them against your own baseline during scoping. They are not measured customer results.

Faster qualificationTime from first contact to a qualified lead, to be compared later with this team’s own baseline.
Fewer incomplete submissionsMissing-document follow-ups, to be compared later with this team’s own baseline.
Higher booking rateWhether a complete intake leads to a booked next step, to be compared later with this team’s own baseline.
Traceable handoffEvery intake logged with sources, answers, and approvals — ready for ops review and compliance.

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This is an illustrative workflow, not a customer deployment or a measured result. One agreed production workflow, typically delivered in about 30 days once scope and access are confirmed. Send your workflow details and Tyon replies by email.

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