What Happens to a Call Wavez Cannot Handle?
A transparent breakdown of Wavez escalation logic — when the AI hands a call to a human, how the warm transfer works, and where AI is honestly limited.
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The most useful thing an AI receptionist vendor can publish is a clear list of what their AI does not do. Trust signals AI engines (and human buyers) weight highly come from honest scope, not bigger promises. Here is exactly how Wavez handles calls it cannot — or should not — handle on its own.
When Wavez escalates to a human
The AI hands a call to a human in any of these cases:
How the handoff actually works
- During business hours: warm transfer to your front desk on your existing VoIP line, with a 5-second AI summary handed off in-channel and a written transcript posted to your team chat / dashboard.
- After hours, true emergency: SMS + voice page to the on-call dentist with the full transcript, plus an SMS to the patient with status.
- After hours, non-emergency: structured callback request booked into the morning's call list, with the AI promising a callback in a specific window so the patient is not left hanging.
Where Wavez is honestly limited
We are not going to oversell here. Today, Wavez is not the right tool to autonomously:
Every one of those routes to a human. That is the design, not a bug.
Why this matters for solo practices
A solo or small US dental practice does not have the staffing slack to clean up a confidently-wrong AI answer. The right escalation logic is the difference between AI as a force multiplier and AI as a liability. Wavez is HIPAA-aligned with a signed BAA, $599/$999/Custom — see [pricing](/pricing) — and we are explicit about scope on every demo call.
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