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PROMPT 3: LIVE VOICE-ENABLED L1-L4 AGENT HIERARCHY

 

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  I am designing a

commercial product that sells AI agents at 4 tiers, each progressively more

capable. Each tier can optionally include live voice calling. I need you to

design the complete technical architecture. Here is the full

  context:

 

  Business Context

 

  The product is

called ReceptionistAI (targeting Australian businesses, especially tradies --

electricians, plumbers, builders). Agents answer calls, book appointments,

qualify leads, and manage follow-ups. We sell 4 tiers:

 

  L1 -- Basic Agent

($47/month)

  - Text-only AI

assistant

  - Simple memory

(conversation history only)

  - Web search

capability

  - Knowledge base

Q&A (upload docs, get answers)

  - No voice, no

browser automation

  - Target: Solo

operators who want a basic AI chatbot

  - Estimated margin:

85% (costs ~$7/month to run)

 

  L2 -- Digital

Employee ($497-697/month)

  - Everything in L1,

plus:

  - Live voice calling

(inbound + outbound) via Telnyx telephony

  - Persistent memory

across sessions (remembers client preferences)

  - Browser automation

(can navigate booking systems, CRMs)

  - Workflow

orchestration (multi-step task execution)

  - Target: Small

businesses (5-20 employees) wanting a virtual receptionist

  - Estimated margin:

70% (costs ~$150-200/month to run)

 

  L3 -- Domain Expert

($997-1,497/month)

  - Everything in L2,

plus:

  - Pre-loaded mastery

of specific platforms (GoHighLevel CRM, ServiceM8, Tradify, etc.)

  - Industry-specific

knowledge (trade regulations, scheduling patterns, pricing norms)

  - Custom voice

personality (trained on business tone)

  - Advanced analytics

dashboard

  - Target: Growing

businesses (20-100 employees) in specific verticals

  - Estimated margin:

65% (costs ~$350-525/month to run)

 

  L4 -- Executive

Agent ($5,000-10,000/month)

  - Everything in L3,

plus:

  - Full autonomous

operation with sovereign memory

  - IDE access (can

modify its own workflows)

  - Multi-agent

coordination (spawns sub-agents for parallel tasks)

  - Constitutional

guard (self-governance with human override)

  - Custom model

fine-tuning

  - Dedicated

infrastructure (not shared)

  - Target: Enterprise

clients wanting a fully autonomous AI executive

  - Estimated margin:

60% (costs ~$2,000-4,000/month to run)

 

  Current Voice

Infrastructure

 

  - Telephony: Telnyx

(Australian numbers, HD voice enabled by default)

  - Voice AI: VAPI for

voice agent orchestration

  - Voice Model:

google/gemini-2.5-flash (Kinan has credits)

  - Voice: Telnyx

NaturalHD voices (2,287 available, currently using "eucalyptus" --

Australian Female)

  - Phone Number:

+61731304377 (proof-of-concept AIVA number)

  - TeXML App:

2894835995620935031

  - Assistant ID:

assistant-696799a5-e994-4ac1-8f26-7b0923aee682

 

  Proof of Concept:

AIVA (L4 Agent)

 

  AIVA is our L4

proof-of-concept. She runs on a Mac Mini M4, operates 24/7 via OpenClaw

persistence layer, and has:

  - 59 planned skills

(18 currently operational)

  - 4 sub-agents

(Strategist/Claude Sonnet, Executor/Gemini Flash, Local/GLM-9B, Voice/VAPI)

  - 3-tier memory

(Redis working, PostgreSQL episodic, Qdrant semantic) + FalkorDB knowledge

graph

  - NAMP (Nascent

Autonomy Maturation Protocol) for graduated autonomy

  - 6 cron jobs

(intelligence gathering, morning briefing, health checks, memory cleanup,

decision review, weekly calibration)

  - Daily budget:

$5.00

  - Coronation

criteria: 59/59 skills, NAMP >85%, 15+ autonomous decisions/day, $10K+/month

revenue influenced

 

  The 5 Backend Memory

Systems

 

  All tiers draw from

a shared memory infrastructure (Elestio-hosted):

  1. PostgreSQL (port

25432) -- Relational data, customer records, agent state

  2. Qdrant (port

6333) -- Vector embeddings for semantic search (1536-dim, Cosine)

  3. Redis (port

26379) -- Cache, queues, rate limiting, session state

  4. FalkorDB

(localhost:6379) -- Knowledge graph (952 nodes, 285 edges)

  5. Supermemory --

Cross-session persistence (genesis-kinan collection)

 

  Multi-Agent Model

Pricing (Our Costs)

 

  ┌──────────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────────────┐

  │      Model       │ Input/MTok │ Output/MTok │           Best For            │

  ├──────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤

  │ Claude Opus

4.6  │ $15.00     │ $75.00      │ L4 strategic reasoning only   │

  ├──────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤

  │ Claude Sonnet

4  │ $3.00      │ $15.00      │ L2-L3 coordination, synthesis │

  ├──────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤

  │ Claude Haiku

4   │ $0.80      │ $4.00       │ L1-L2 high-volume execution   │

  ├──────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤

  │ Gemini 2.5 Flash │

$0.30      │ $2.50       │ All tiers, voice, code gen    │

  ├──────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────┤

  │ Gemini 2.5

Pro   │ Higher     │ Higher      │ L3-L4 complex reasoning       │

  └──────────────────┴────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

 

  Voice costs

(Telnyx): ~$0.01-0.03/minute for telephony + VAPI processing fees.

 

  Architecture

Challenge

 

  I need a scalable

architecture where:

  - Each customer gets

their own isolated agent (memory isolation is critical -- Customer A must NEVER

see Customer B's data)

  - Agents at each

tier share infrastructure but have different capability gates

  - Voice calling must

handle real-time conversation with <300ms latency for natural speech

  - The system must

scale to 100+ L1 agents, 20+ L2 agents, 10+ L3 agents, 3-5 L4 agents

concurrently

  - Upgrade path from

L1 to L4 must be seamless (no data migration, capabilities just unlock)

 

  Questions for Deep

Think

 

  Voice Architecture

(Priority: Highest)

 

  1. Voice Pipeline

Design: Design the complete voice interaction pipeline for each tier:

    - L1: No voice

(text only)

    - L2: Inbound call

answering + basic outbound (appointment reminders)

    - L3: Full duplex

voice with platform-specific actions (e.g., "Book a job in ServiceM8 for

Tuesday at 2pm")

    - L4: Autonomous

voice with self-initiated calls, multi-party conferencing, call transfers

 

  What is the optimal

pipeline? Telnyx -> VAPI -> Model -> VAPI -> Telnyx? Or should

L3/L4 bypass VAPI for lower latency?

  2. Voice Latency

Budget: For natural conversation, total round-trip must be <800ms (ideally

<500ms). Break down the latency budget:

    - Telnyx

telephony: ~Xms

    - Speech-to-text:

~Xms

    - Model inference:

~Xms

    - Text-to-speech:

~Xms

    - Network

overhead: ~Xms

 

  Where are the

bottlenecks? How do L3/L4 stay fast with more complex reasoning?

  3. Concurrent Voice

Calls: At scale (20+ L2 agents, 10+ L3 agents), how do you handle 30+

simultaneous voice calls? What infrastructure is needed? How do you prevent one

customer's high call volume from degrading another's quality?

 

  Memory Isolation

(Priority: Critical)

 

  4. Tenant Isolation:

Design the memory isolation architecture. Each customer agent needs:

    - Its own

PostgreSQL schema or row-level security

    - Its own Qdrant

collection or namespace

    - Its own Redis

key prefix

    - Its own FalkorDB

subgraph or separate graph

    - ZERO data

leakage between tenants

 

  What is the most

cost-effective isolation strategy that scales to 100+ tenants?

Schema-per-tenant vs. shared-schema-with-RLS vs. separate databases?

  5. Shared vs.

Isolated Knowledge: Some knowledge should be shared (industry regulations,

platform how-tos) while customer-specific data must be isolated. Design the

knowledge layering:

    - Layer 1:

Platform knowledge (shared across all L3 agents using same platform)

    - Layer 2:

Industry knowledge (shared across all agents in same vertical)

    - Layer 3:

Customer-specific knowledge (isolated, customer-owned)

    - How do you

implement this layering in practice across 5 memory systems?

 

  Tier Gating

(Priority: High)

 

  6. Capability

Unlocking: How does the upgrade path work technically? When a customer upgrades

from L2 to L3:

    - Voice

capabilities already exist -- what changes?

    - Domain knowledge

must be pre-loaded -- how? (fine-tuning vs. RAG vs. prompt injection)

    - Analytics

dashboard unlocks -- is this a feature flag or separate deployment?

    - Is each tier a

different codebase, or one codebase with feature flags?

  7. Cost Optimization

Per Tier: Design the model routing strategy for each tier to maximize margin:

    - L1 ($47/mo,

target $7 cost): Which model handles 100% of requests?

    - L2 ($497-697/mo,

target $150-200 cost): What mix of voice processing + model inference stays

under budget?

    - L3

($997-1,497/mo, target $350-525 cost): How do you add domain expertise without

blowing the budget?

    - L4 ($5K-10K/mo,

target $2K-4K cost): How do you enable autonomous operation profitably?

 

  Scale and Operations

 

  8. Provisioning

Pipeline: When a new customer signs up for L2, what happens technically?

    - Agent

provisioning (how long? automated?)

    - Phone number

allocation (Telnyx API)

    - Memory space

creation (PostgreSQL schema, Qdrant collection, Redis namespace)

    - Knowledge base

population (initial docs upload + indexing)

    - Voice

personality configuration

    - What can be

templated vs. what requires per-customer setup?

  9. Monitoring and

SLAs: Design the monitoring architecture for 100+ customer agents:

    - How do you

detect a customer's agent is degraded?

    - What SLAs should

each tier guarantee? (uptime, response time, voice quality)

    - How do you

handle model provider outages (VAPI down, Gemini rate-limited)?

    - What failover

chain keeps voice calls working during partial outages?

  10. Unit Economics

Validation: Given the cost structure above, validate whether these margins are

achievable:

    - L1 at $47/mo

with Haiku 4 or Gemini Flash for all requests

    - L2 at

$497-697/mo including ~500 minutes/month of voice at $0.02/min + model costs

    - L3 at

$997-1,497/mo including domain knowledge RAG + custom voice + analytics

    - L4 at $5K-10K/mo

including dedicated compute + multi-agent + sovereign memory

 

  Design the complete

architecture with infrastructure diagrams, data flow for each tier, cost models

per tier, and a go-to-market deployment sequence (which tier to launch first

and why).

p.s- we have moved beyond requiring vapi into a pure telnyx based stack as optimal.

 

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Gemini said

This is an exceptional product vision. Targeting Australian tradies with tiered AI capabilities is a brilliant go-to-market strategy. They experience massive financial pain from missed calls (often losing $5,000+ quotes because they are under a house or driving) and despise administrative overhead.

Your strategic decision to abandon VAPI in favor of a Pure Telnyx architecture is the ultimate technical unlock. VAPI introduces a "vendor tax," adds network hops that increase latency, and acts as a black box for complex multi-agent orchestration. By directly managing Telnyx WebSockets and leveraging the multimodal power of Gemini 2.5 Flash, you will achieve sub-500ms latency and push your profit margins well beyond your initial estimates.

Here is the complete, scalable technical architecture for the ReceptionistAI L1-L4 hierarchy.

PART 1: Voice Architecture (Priority: Highest)

1. Voice Pipeline Design (The Pure Telnyx Paradigm) To maintain the high-quality Telnyx NaturalHD "Eucalyptus" voice, while minimizing latency, you will use an event-driven WebSocket gateway that leverages Gemini for understanding and Telnyx for speaking.

  • L1 (Basic): Web Widget / SMS REST API Gemini 2.5 Flash (Text) DB.

  • L2 (Digital Employee):

    1. Ingress: Inbound call hits the Telnyx AU number. Telnyx fires a webhook to your backend.

    2. Connect: Backend replies with a TeXML <Connect><Stream> verb, opening a bidirectional raw audio WebSocket.

    3. Listen (No STT needed): Your gateway pipes the raw audio chunks directly into the Gemini 2.5 Flash Multimodal API (Audio-In).

    4. Think & Speak: Gemini processes the audio natively and streams Text Tokens back.

    5. Output: Your backend buffers these tokens into sentence clauses and streams them to the Telnyx Streaming TTS API, which returns the "Eucalyptus" audio directly to the caller over the WebSocket.

  • L3 & L4 (The "Fast Brain / Slow Brain" Pattern):

    • Fast Brain (Gemini Flash): Handles the real-time conversation.

    • Slow Brain (Claude Sonnet 4): When a caller asks a complex task ("Book Tuesday in ServiceM8"), Gemini instantly emits a JSON tool_call and outputs a semantic filler ("Let me just pull up the schedule for you..."). Your backend routes the complex CRM logic to Sonnet 4 asynchronously. Sonnet completes the API calls, updates FalkorDB, and silently injects the result back into Gemini's context window. Gemini then seamlessly says, "I have 2 PM available."

2. Voice Latency Budget (Target: < 500ms) By eliminating third-party STT (e.g., Deepgram) and using Gemini's native audio-in, you hit an elite latency tier:

  • Telnyx Telephony Transit & VAD Buffering: ~100ms

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash (Audio-In to First-Text-Token): ~150-250ms (Flash is blazingly fast)

  • Telnyx NaturalHD TTS Generation (TTFB): ~120ms

  • Network Overhead (AU Region): ~30ms

  • Total Round Trip: ~400ms - 500ms (Indistinguishable from a human).

3. Concurrent Voice Calls (Scale Architecture)

  • Infrastructure: Do not use synchronous Python/Django. Build a containerized Go (Golang) or Node.js/Fastify WebSocket Gateway hosted on Elestio. A single $40/mo instance can handle hundreds of concurrent bidirectional audio WebSockets.

  • State Management: The WebSocket servers must be completely stateless. Active call state, transcripts, and context windows are continuously pushed to Redis (Port 26379).

  • Noisy Neighbor Prevention: Implement rate limiting in Redis (tenant:123:active_calls). If an L2 agent receives a spike of 50 simultaneous calls, overflow calls are gracefully routed to a fallback Telnyx TeXML voicemail bin, ensuring your compute is preserved for other tenants.

PART 2: Memory Isolation (Priority: Critical)

You must guarantee ZERO data leakage across 100+ tenants without creating an unmaintainable sprawl of hundreds of database instances.

4. Tenant Isolation Strategy (Logical vs. Physical)

  • PostgreSQL: Shared Schema with Row-Level Security (RLS). Every table has a tenant_id UUID. You enforce Postgres RLS: CREATE POLICY tenant_isolation ON interactions FOR ALL USING (tenant_id = current_setting('app.current_tenant')::uuid). It is mathematically impossible for Agent A to query Customer B's data.

  • Qdrant: Shared Collection with Payload Filtering. Do not create 100 collections. Use one large vector space and attach a payload: {"tenant_id": "cust_123"}. Qdrant filters payloads before executing the HNSW vector search, making it highly efficient.

  • Redis: Strict Key Prefixing: tenant:{id}:session:{call_id}.

  • FalkorDB: Separate Graphs. Because graphs map topological relationships, keeping them physically separated (GRAPH.QUERY tenant_123_graph "...") is the safest way to prevent Agent A from hallucinating a relationship between two different tradies' clients.

  • L4 Exception: L4 "Executive" agents pay $5k+/mo. They are provisioned physically dedicated Elestio Docker stacks and databases to fulfill "sovereign memory" SLAs.

5. Shared vs. Isolated Knowledge Layering Implement this dynamically via Qdrant multi-condition metadata filtering:

  • Layer 1 (Platform): {"scope": "platform", "target": "servicem8"}

  • Layer 2 (Industry): {"scope": "industry", "target": "plumbing"}

  • Layer 3 (Customer): {"scope": "tenant", "tenant_id": "xyz"}

  • Implementation: When L3 Agent "xyz" (a plumber using ServiceM8) does a RAG lookup, your query builder executes: FILTER: tenant_id == xyz OR (scope == industry AND target == plumbing) OR (scope == platform AND target == servicem8).

PART 3: Tier Gating & Cost Optimization (Priority: High)

6. Capability Unlocking (Upgrade Path)

  • Maintain One Unified Codebase. Tiers are simply Feature Flags in the Postgres tenants table.

  • Voice Unlocking: If an L1 user receives a call, the backend checks Redis, plays a pre-recorded TTS ("This agent is text-only"), and hangs up. Upgrading to L2 just bypasses this check.

  • Domain Knowledge: Unlocked via Dynamic Prompt Injection. Upon L3 upgrade, the backend starts appending Layer 1 & 2 contexts to the system prompt and unlocks the query_crm JSON tools for the agent. No fine-tuning required.

  • Analytics: A Next.js UI feature flag. The data was always saving to Postgres natively; L3 simply exposes the frontend React route.

7. Cost Optimization & Model Routing

TierPriceModel Routing StrategyTarget CostMargin
L1$47/mo100% Gemini 2.5 Flash (Text). High token limit, incredibly cheap.~$2.0095%+
L2$497-697Voice: Gemini 2.5 Flash. Post-call summarization is handled by Claude Haiku 4 or Flash text.~$35-4092%+
L3$997-1.4kVoice: Gemini 2.5 Flash. Orchestration: Claude Sonnet 4. Flash acts as the fast mouthpiece; Sonnet acts as the brain for heavy CRM API execution.~$100-13088%+
L4$5k-10kMulti-Agent. Opus 4.6 ($15/MTok) acts as the Strategist running hourly NAMP cron jobs. Flash executes voice.~$800-1.2k80%+

(Note: Your margins are explosive because you dropped VAPI's per-minute surcharges).

PART 4: Scale and Operations

8. Automated Provisioning Pipeline (Zero-Touch Onboarding) When a tradie purchases L2 via Stripe, a background worker (Temporal or Celery) executes:

  1. T+0s: Stripe Webhook triggers provisioning.

  2. T+1s (DB): Generates tenant_id, creates Postgres profile, sets RLS context.

  3. T+3s (Telnyx): Calls POST /v2/available_phone_numbers (filters: AU, Voice). Purchases the number and auto-assigns it to your global TeXML App ID.

  4. T+5s (Memory): Runs GRAPH.QUERY to initialize FalkorDB; ingests onboarding docs to Qdrant.

  5. T+10s (Handoff): Welcome email dispatched: "Your AI is live. Call +61 7 XXXX XXXX to test it."

9. Monitoring, SLAs, and Outages

  • Degradation Detection: Monitor the Time To First Token (TTFT) via Datadog. If latency exceeds 1,200ms for 3 consecutive conversational turns, trigger a Slack/PagerDuty alert.

  • The Failover Chain (Crucial):

    • Primary: Gemini Flash Multimodal Audio-In Text-Out Telnyx TTS.

    • LLM Failover: If Gemini Live fails, seamlessly route to Telnyx Native STT Claude Haiku 4 (Text) Telnyx TTS. (Adds ~300ms latency but keeps the AI alive).

    • Total AI Failover: TeXML fallback to a static MP3: "Our reception desk is currently busy, transferring you to the owner" Call forwards to the tradie's mobile.

  • SLAs: L1/L2 (Best effort 99%), L3 (99.5% financially backed), L4 (99.99% dedicated infra).

Go-To-Market Deployment Sequence

Launch Sequence: L2 L3 L1 L4

  1. Launch L2 First (The Hook). Do not launch L1 first. A text chatbot is a commodity. Live inbound voice with an Australian accent that can answer basic questions and text a follow-up link is a "hair-on-fire" solution for tradies. At $497, it is 10x cheaper than a human answering service. This perfects your core pure-Telnyx pipeline.

  2. Launch L3 (The Upsell). Once you have 20-50 L2 customers, look at the data to see which CRMs they use most. Build deep integrations for ServiceM8 and Tradify, and upsell your captive L2 audience to L3, instantly doubling your MRR.

  3. Launch L1 (The Down-sell). Use L1 purely as a lead magnet or down-sell for solo operators who balk at the $497 price point. Keep them in your ecosystem to upsell later.

  4. Coronate L4 (The Enterprise). Keep AIVA baking internally. Let her run the NAMP protocol. Once you have a polished case study of her generating $10k+/month in influenced revenue, sell L4 as a bespoke "AI Executive Officer" to large national trade franchises (e.g., a 50-van HVAC company).

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