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Benefits & ROI · 5 min read

The real economics: AI calling costs less than a 3-person desk by 5×.

A fully-loaded calling desk in Tier-2 India costs ₹1.5-1.8 lakh a month. AI does the same volume for under ₹50,000.

A junior tele-caller in Hubballi or Coimbatore costs around ₹25,000 base salary plus ₹15,000 in incentives. Three of them, plus a manager, plus tools and AC and HR overhead, lands at ₹1.5-1.8 lakh of fully-loaded monthly cost.

An AI agent dialling 5,000 calls a month at ₹10/min — about 8 minutes per call average — burns through ₹50,000 of platform cost. Same dialing volume, same conversion (in our pilots, often higher), at 28-33 % of the cost.

The capacity ceiling, removed

The bigger savings isn’t per-call — it’s the ability to handle a 3× spike in inbound enquiries during a campaign launch without scrambling to hire. Hiring takes 3 weeks. AI scales in 2 minutes.

Most SMBs we work with see payback inside the first 45 days. The setup fee covers itself in a single month of saved labour cost.

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