AI Sales Agent

🤖 How to Build a Sales AI Agent in raia v2

raia v2 makes it easy to build a powerful Sales AI Agent trained on your company’s unique products, services, and sales processes. Whether you're qualifying leads, sending follow-ups, or automating outreach, your AI Agent can engage prospects across SMS, Email, and API, and even connect to your CRM through tools like n8n.

This guide will walk you through how to build and deploy a high-performing Sales Agent step-by-step.


🧱 Step 1: Define the Agent Role and Purpose

Go to Launch Pad and click Create Agent. Choose Sales Assistant as the role or create a new custom role.

Your Sales Agent should be trained to:

  • Ask qualifying questions

  • Provide high-level product or service info

  • Collect contact and intent data

  • Guide leads to the next step (demo, booking, purchase)

  • Update CRM or notify sales team when a lead is ready


🧠 Step 2: Write Effective Instructions

Your Instructions are the most important part of your Sales Agent. Here’s what to include:

Sample Instructions (Edit to match your company):


📚 Step 3: Add Company-Specific Knowledge

Upload or connect:

  • Product one-pagers

  • Feature comparisons

  • FAQs

  • Customer use cases

  • Demo booking links

  • Intro email templates

Use Markdown or JSON format for clean, AI-friendly training data.


🛠️ Step 4: Add Skills for Multi-Channel Outreach

Your Sales Agent can communicate across multiple channels. In the Skills tab, set up the ones you want to use:

✅ SMS Skill

  • Assign a phone number via Twilio (automated in raia)

  • Customize the default welcome message

  • Add fallback messaging for “STOP” or opt-outs

  • Enable outgoing campaigns or 1-to-1 conversations

✅ Email Skill

  • Use your domain or default @raiabot.com

  • Set a default subject and greeting

  • Provide email signature

  • Customize autoresponders or follow-ups

✅ API Skill

  • Enable outgoing HTTP requests (webhooks) to send lead data

  • Receive incoming requests for lead updates or inquiries

  • Format JSON payloads for structured responses

Each channel supports incoming and outgoing conversations, and all threads are stored in raia with full history.


🔗 Step 5: Integrate with CRM or Sales Workflow (Optional)

If you want your Sales Agent to:

  • Pull in new leads from your CRM

  • Push qualified leads back into your pipeline

  • Log notes or conversation summaries into CRM

You can use raia’s API and Webhook system with a workflow tool like n8n.

🔄 How It Works:

  1. Webhook Setup

    • In raia, configure a webhook on OnThreadEnd or OnMessageEnd

    • Send lead data, score, or summary to your CRM or webhook listener

  2. n8n Integration

    • Use n8n as your no-code automation tool

    • Receive the webhook in n8n and connect it to:

      • HubSpot

      • Salesforce

      • Pipedrive

      • Airtable

      • Google Sheets

    • You can also use it to:

      • Update lead status

      • Trigger alerts to your sales team

      • Assign tasks to reps

  3. CRM Data Sync (optional)

    • Use n8n’s API nodes to send lead updates back into raia

    • Example: A CRM form gets filled → n8n triggers a new thread with the AI Agent

Learn more at: https://n8n.ioarrow-up-right


🧪 Step 6: Test in Copilot

Use raia Copilot to simulate a live lead interaction:

  • Run through qualifying scenarios

  • Confirm the AI asks the right questions

  • Rate answers and refine the Instructions

  • Test escalation, hand-off, or webhook response behavior


📈 Step 7: Launch and Monitor

Once your Agent is ready:

  • Add it to a Campaign to start outbound messaging

  • Embed it on your site with Live Chat

  • Send demo links or forms from SMS and Email

  • Track thread scores, user info, and engagement


🧩 Summary

Step
What You Do

1. Role & Purpose

Define what your Sales Agent should do

2. Instructions

Guide tone, questions, and restrictions

3. Upload Content

Train on sales sheets, FAQs, etc.

4. Setup Skills

Enable SMS, Email, API

5. Integrate CRM

Use Webhooks + n8n for full sync

6. Test

Simulate scenarios in Copilot

7. Launch

Deploy to real users and campaigns


Ready to qualify leads 24/7? Let your Sales Agent do the talking—while your team focuses on closing.

Need help setting up your Sales AI Agent? Our team is happy to guide you through it. Just reach out.

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