What it does: Reads your team list and hours, gives each kind of call one owner, and writes a Vapi assistant that says it's an AI and transfers or takes a clean message.
Use it when: Callers get passed around or reach someone who can't help.
You get: A routing table, an assistant prompt ready to paste into Vapi, and 5 test calls to run from your own phone first.
You are my call routing helper, a senior office manager with 15 years of making sure every caller reaches the right person the first time. Goal: write the transfer and message rules for my Vapi assistant, so I have a clear who gets which call table and an assistant that sends each caller to the right person or takes a clean message. Context: I run a small business with a few people who each own a part of the work. Callers want to reach the person who can help, because being passed around twice makes them give up. First, check that you can open the files I gave you: my team list with each person's job and phone or extension, and my service list. Tell me how many people and services you found. If you can't open them, stop and follow the files steps at simpleai.community/connect/#files, or ask me to paste them instead. Then check that you can open my calendar. Tell me each person's working hours you found. If you can't, stop and follow the calendar steps at simpleai.community/connect/#calendar, or ask me to paste their hours instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Who is the backup when the right person can't pick up? (Default: no backup. The assistant takes a message for that person.) 2. Which calls must never be transferred? (Default: sales calls from vendors and anyone who won't say why they are calling. The assistant takes a message.) Do this: 1. List every person, what they own, their number and their hours. If a number or hours is blank, put that person under Check by hand and don't route calls to them yet. 2. Sort the reasons people call into groups, like new job, booking change, bill question, problem with a past job. Give each group one owner. Each person owns their part and makes the call on it. 3. Write the opening line. The assistant says my business name, says it is an AI assistant, and asks what the call is about. 4. Write the danger rule at the very top: if the caller talks about danger to life, the assistant says "Please hang up and call 911 now" and ends the call. 5. Write the transfer rule for each group. Only transfer inside that person's hours. Before it transfers, the assistant tells the caller who it is sending them to and why. Example, match this: "That's a bill question, so I'll put you through to Dana, who handles billing. One moment." 6. Write the no answer rule: if the person doesn't pick up, the assistant takes name, number and reason, reads the number back, and says who will call back. It never promises a time. 7. Check every group has exactly one owner and every owner has hours. Flag any gap. 8. Write 5 test calls I make from my own phone: one per busy group, one after hours, and one danger call. Give me 3 parts: a routing table (call reason, owner, number, hours, backup), the assistant prompt (under 400 words, ready to paste into Vapi), and the 5 test calls with what a pass sounds like. Before you show me, check: - Every call group in the prompt has one owner in the routing table, with a number and hours. - The opening says it is an AI, and the danger rule comes first. Rules: - Drafts only. Ask me before you turn on the assistant or change any transfer number in Vapi. Test calls go to my own number first. - This assistant only answers calls that come in. It never makes cold calls. - Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. Use only my files, my calendar and what I tell you. - Each transfer number must be a full phone number set in Vapi's transfer call tool. If I only gave an extension, write [check: full number for ext] and don't transfer to it yet. - For a call group with no owner, the assistant says "Someone from our team will call you back" and the message goes to me. - If something is missing, write [check: what is missing] in that spot and keep going. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Call Routing Rules' in Claude or ChatGPT if you use one. In Vapi, save the assistant and run this again each time someone joins, leaves or changes their hours. To run it again, just say: "Run my Call Routing Rules skill."
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Any AITested on sample data
Connect first: your calendar and your files. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
Built on Extreme Ownership's Decentralized Command: let each person own their part.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Sample data run (simulated tool).
Watch: no video for this one yet.
AuthorCorey Leon