The Callix Journal

Notes on the calls
nobody listens to.

Field notes on call intelligence, front-desk conversion, and coaching teams that live on the phone, written for the people who actually run the floor.

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Call intelligenceCallix

Call tracking counts calls, not customers

Call tracking tells you which campaign made the phone ring. It can't tell you if the call was worth paying for, and that gap moves budget the wrong way.

26 Oct 20264 min read
Call intelligenceCallix

Lead quality is decided on the phone, not in the form

When sales says the leads are bad, lead quality usually gets judged from form fields and source. For phone leads, the call itself settles the argument.

26 Oct 20265 min read
OperationsCallix

Your first contact resolution rate is a survey artefact

Your first contact resolution rate comes from a fifth of your customers and is reported as if it came from all of them. The call data already knows better.

30 Sept 20265 min read
OperationsCallix

Repeat calls are a routing problem

Repeat calls cluster by topic, not by agent. So coaching the people who handle those topics will not move the number, and your own data shows why.

30 Sept 20265 min read
AI & productCallix

Speech to text accuracy: the demo that lies to you

Vendor speech to text accuracy numbers are measured on clean audio and neutral accents. Your calls are neither. Here is how to test properly.

28 Sept 20265 min read
Clinics & healthcareCallix

The math on missed clinic calls is worse than you think

Missed clinic calls are not lost calls. They are lost patients, lost treatment plans, and the ad spend that produced them. Here is how to size the leak.

23 Sept 20264 min read
OperationsCallix

The call recording compliance checklist to settle first

Ten call recording compliance questions to answer before you switch anything on: the ones that stall deployments in month two if you skip them.

21 Sept 20264 min read
CoachingCallix

How to build a call scorecard your team won't game

Most call scorecard designs measure whether a rep followed a script. The good ones measure whether the customer actually got what they needed.

21 Sept 20264 min read
CoachingCallix

Sales call conversion is decided in the conversation

Your CRM records what a deal did, not what was said. That gap is where most of your lost sales call conversion is hiding, and it is measurable.

21 Sept 20265 min read
Common questions

Questions we get asked.

The Callix product and engineering team. These are field notes from building call intelligence and from watching what teams actually find in their calls, not SEO filler commissioned by the yard.

When we have something worth saying, which works out at roughly one piece a month. We would rather publish six things worth reading than sixty that are not.

If you are new to the category, start with what call intelligence actually is. If you already record calls and want a concrete number, the piece on the math of missed clinic calls gives you an estimate you can do on an envelope.

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