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EPISODE · Mar 18, 2026 · 12 MIN

CRM-Agnostic AI For Customer Calls

from What's Up with Tech? · host Evan Kirstel

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] calls cost more than you think, especially when leads come in after hours or demand spikes without warning. From the Enterprise Connect show floor, we sit down with https://www.girikon.com and their product and innovation leaders to unpack how AI-first customer engagement is changing the way contact centers and sales teams respond in real time.We talk through Girikon’s path from a decade of CRM onboarding and consulting into Girikon AI, including Girik Connect, a unified customer engagement platform that brings telephony, two-way messaging, and chat under one roof. The big promise is practical: stay CRM-agnostic so teams can keep Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics, or ServiceNow as the system of record while still connecting every conversation across channels. We explore what it looks like to deploy AI voice agents, AI message agents, and AI chat agents as the first touchpoint, so inbound callers get help fast and sales gets qualified opportunities instead of a messy backlog.Then we get specific about enterprise realities: legacy integrations, multiple platforms, and the need to map conversation history back into the CRM with actionable insights. Think call takeaways, meeting notes, next steps, lead scoring signals, and case trends that reveal the true root cause behind hundreds of support tickets. We also dig into rollout timelines, native integrations, and open APIs, plus the hard parts of making LLMs work on real calls with noise, accents, multilingual speakers, and the risk of hallucinations.If you care about AI customer experience, contact center automation, CRM integration, and faster speed-to-lead, this one is for you. Subscribe, share with your team, and leave a review with the AI use case you want to automate next.Support the showMore at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

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