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Testing the receptionist before a customer meets it

Before an AI receptionist goes live it should be tested against the specific business it represents, including the questions it must refuse. What the generated checks cover and why a not-run check is not a pass.

A prompt that compiles is not a receptionist that works. The tests that matter are specific to your business — your services, your hours, your area — and the sharpest of them expect the receptionist to say it does not know.

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The checks that are generated for you

Not a generic suite. They come from what Balaay learned about your business, so they name your services and your hours.

A fact your site states clearly — the receptionist must get it right.
A price you do not publish — it must say it does not know.
Work you do not offer — it must decline rather than improvise.
An address outside your service area — it must say so.
Every fact where two of your pages disagree — it must withhold.
An urgent call in your industry’s own words — it must escalate and stop booking.

A check that did not run is not a pass

This sounds obvious and is the commonest way a test suite lies. If a blocking check could not be executed, the verdict is not "passed with one skipped" — it is not passed. Treating absence as success is how a receptionist goes live on the strength of tests nobody ran.

What it does not certify

Passing pre-flight means the receptionist behaved correctly on the checks generated from what Balaay knows. It is not a guarantee about calls nobody anticipated, and it is not a substitute for ringing the number yourself.

Why the sharpest checks expect a refusal

It is easy to write tests a receptionist passes by being helpful. The ones that matter are the ones it passes by declining: a price you do not publish, a service you do not offer, an address outside your area, a fact two of your pages disagree about. A system that answers all four confidently has just demonstrated the failure mode that loses you a customer — the confident wrong answer — and it will have passed a suite built only from questions it can answer. Roughly half the generated checks expect the receptionist to admit it does not know.

What this page will not claim

Pre-flight tests what Balaay can generate from your Business Twin. A question that depends on something Balaay has never seen cannot be generated as a check.

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In summary

Testing the receptionist before a customer meets it — Before an AI receptionist goes live it should be tested against the specific business it represents, including the questions it must refuse. What the generated checks cover and why a not-run check is not a pass. Balaay is an AI receptionist for businesses that run on calls. It learns the business from its website, answers the phone, takes the next step, and shows what it did.

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