<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Ombox Blog: Product Launches]]></title><description><![CDATA[All the ombox product launches]]></description><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/s/product-launches</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R7jJ!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52da9c8a-ad39-4746-b99e-1d9daddd4953_1080x1080.png</url><title>The Ombox Blog: Product Launches</title><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/s/product-launches</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:10:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.ombox.ai/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Vrash at Ombox]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[vrashatombox@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[vrashatombox@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[vrashatombox@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[vrashatombox@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Ombox Campaigns: Convert on-demand]]></title><description><![CDATA[Everything Convert does for one lead, run across your whole database at once.]]></description><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-campaigns-convert-on-demand</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-campaigns-convert-on-demand</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:55:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f03bc709-3d08-4202-8dc2-df7a2f261ba3_2960x1788.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;307d2679-9386-48d2-8010-c002e717046f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><span>A campaign you never run is indistinguishable from a database you don&#8217;t have.</span></p><p>Every dealership knows the calls worth making. MOT reminders. Service due. The aged stock that needs a nudge before it needs a discount. The event nobody&#8217;s heard about yet. Nobody argues these are a waste of time, they just never happen, because &#8220;make 800 calls&#8221; means a person on a phone for a week, and that person is already doing something else. So the list sits there quietly not being called, or it goes to an agency: a monthly retainer, office hours only, reading a script they didn&#8217;t write to a list they didn&#8217;t screen, billed by the hour whether anyone picks up or not. What comes back is a spreadsheet of dispositions typed up by whoever was on the phone, which you have no way to check. When the campaign underperforms you can&#8217;t tell whether the list was wrong, <span>the offer was wrong, or the calls just weren&#8217;t really made.</span></p><p>Campaigns is the on-demand AI outbound call layer: point it at a list, and every call comes back screened, recorded, transcribed <span>and tagged.</span></p><p><strong><span>Key features</span></strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>It&#8217;s the same agent that answers your phone.</strong> Campaigns isn&#8217;t a dialler bolted on the side. It runs on the same assistant as Capture and Convert: every campaign we&#8217;ve run in production uses it, so it already knows your stock, your opening hours, your finance options and what this customer has spoken to you about before. A customer who rang you last month isn&#8217;t a cold stranger on the outbound call, and they don&#8217;t get told something that contradicts what they were told on the inbound one. However you can also customise this to be a different agent with it&#8217;s own memory. </p></li><li><p><strong>Every number screened before anything dials.</strong> Contacts are checked against TPS and flagged <code>safe</code> or <code>blocked</code> before the campaign starts, and blocked numbers are excluded from the callable list rather than dialled and apologised for. Compliance is a precondition, not a report you read afterwards.</p></li><li><p><strong>A real conversation, not a recorded message.</strong> The agent handles the actual reply, the customer asking what it&#8217;s about, whether it&#8217;s urgent, whether Tuesday works instead: and books, takes a callback request, or steps back. A voicemail drop that nobody returns isn&#8217;t outreach.</p></li><li><p><strong>Recorded, transcribed and summarised: every call, automatically.</strong> Not a disposition code someone typed at the end of a shift. The recording, the full transcript, and a written summary land against the customer record, so &#8220;what did we actually say to this person&#8221; is a question with an answer.</p></li><li><p><strong>Tagged outcomes that mean something.</strong> Booked, interested, callback requested, not interested, voicemail.Applied per call and rolled up per campaign alongside contacts called, completed, no answer and busy. You can see the difference between a list that didn&#8217;t connect and a list that connected and said no.</p></li><li><p><strong>It runs on your schedule, not its own.</strong> Working hours, quiet hours, retry behaviour and voicemail handling are all set before launch. It doesn&#8217;t ring anyone at 8pm because a queue happened to reach them.</p></li><li><p><strong>You pay for conversations, not attempts.</strong> Tiered by volume. Connected calls bill at full rate, voicemail at half, and unanswered calls are free. No retainer, and no invoice for the calls that never reached <span>anyone. </span></p></li></ul><h2>Interested?  Book a 30 min demo </h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book a demo&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1"><span>Book a demo</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ombox Convert ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Agentic Autonomous Lead follow-up that talks about the actual car, not "just checking in"]]></description><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-convert</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-convert</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:48:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dc3e2772-660b-42cc-8e3a-b1ffcdc7df61_2940x1630.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;e4cdb6ec-0f76-4b69-babd-12d70869f3af&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>A captured lead that never gets a real follow-up and goes cold is just a delayed missed call. Most dealership follow-up either doesn&#8217;t happen at all, or happens as a generic &#8220;still interested?&#8221; text that reads like a template because it is one. Or worse end up paying massive amounts of &#8216;platform fees&#8217; for sending generic emails/messages every few days to customers. Customers ignore it and the team can&#8217;t tell whether a slow month is a demand problem or a follow-up problem, because nothing gets measured.</p><p><strong>Convert is the agentic follow-up layer that always talks about a specific vehicle, and now reports on what actually happened.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ombox.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Ombox Blog! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h2><strong>Key features</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Follow-up that&#8217;s always vehicle-specific.</strong> Every message Convert sends is anchored to a real vehicle of interest: new stock that matches what a lead asked about, a price drop on a car they looked at, an unusually well-specced match, or a deal on aging stock. No lead gets a generic &#8220;just checking in&#8221; text.</p></li><li><p><strong>A conversational ladder after a link click.</strong> If a lead clicks a vehicle link and doesn&#8217;t reply, Convert doesn&#8217;t resend the link it works through interest, budget, timing, and finance about that specific car, the way a good salesperson would follow up in person.</p></li><li><p><strong>Careful re-engagement for quiet leads</strong>, offering only genuinely new or repriced stock (never a random inventory dump), and asking at most one preference question if we don&#8217;t already know what they&#8217;re after, never a survey.</p></li><li><p><strong>Respects the exit.</strong> A positive reply, a callback request, an opt-out, or &#8220;not in the market right now&#8221; stops the chase immediately.</p></li><li><p><strong>A Reports tab you can actually download from.</strong> Filter by time period (7/30/90 days) and channel, see leads messaged, reply rate, &#8220;interested&#8221; responses, and opt-out rate against the prior period, and a breakdown by trigger type (new stock, price drop, nurture, etc.), then export it to CSV with one click.</p></li></ul><p></p><h2>Interested?  Book a 30 min demo </h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book a demo&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;button-wrapper&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary button-wrapper" href="https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1"><span>Book a demo</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ombox.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Ombox Blog! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ombox Capture]]></title><description><![CDATA[AI agents that answers every call, text, and WhatsApp your dealership gets]]></description><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-capture</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ombox.ai/p/ombox-capture</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:44:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fca8c3a7-53d3-41f6-b960-9f2f647063a0_1073x609.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;cc9d61af-6185-44e3-8eb0-3f7965a0e187&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p>Most dealership groups still run their front line the way they did in 2005: a switchboard, a handful of BDC staff, and a lot of demand that quietly disappears outside office hours. Calls roll to voicemail. WhatsApp messages sit unread overnight. A customer texts about a car at 9pm and hears back, if they hear back, the next afternoon, by which point they&#8217;ve called someone else.</p><p><strong>Capture is our answer to that: AI voice and messaging agents that pick up every inbound conversation: phone, WhatsApp, SMS, email, and web chat.  24/7, and hand the human team a qualified, summarized lead instead of a missed call.</strong></p><h2><strong>Key features</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Real phone conversations, not IVR trees.</strong> The AI agent answers the call,  understands open-ended questions, looks up live inventory mid-call (&#8221;we&#8217;ve got five 2024 Fiestas in stock, three of them in red&#8221;), catches and corrects things like an invalid appointment date, and reads back a phone number to confirm it before hanging up. <strong>Set it up within a turnaround time of a few hours!</strong></p></li><li><p><strong>Named personas per role</strong>, not one generic bot voice. We can have Maisie handle sales enquiries, Jenny handles service, Albert handles parts: each with a distinct voice and greeting, so the experience matches what a customer would expect from that department.</p></li><li><p><strong>Automatic cross-channel handoff.</strong> A call ends with a WhatsApp follow-up sent automatically. No one on the team has to remember to text the customer the details they just discussed.</p></li><li><p><strong>Structured call summaries</strong>, not just a recording. Every call produces a summary with customer interest, budget range, and if one was booked: the appointment time, location, and which salesperson was notified.</p></li><li><p><strong>After-hours and overflow coverage</strong> across WhatsApp, SMS, email, and web, so the parts of the day when dealerships historically lose the most demand are now covered by default instead of by exception.</p></li><li><p><strong>Admin control without engineering</strong>, via the Capture settings page: dealership staff can create and edit assistants, manage which knowledge base each one draws from, preview voices, and set per-assistant email notifications: no ticket to us required.</p></li><li><p><strong>Vehicle-search-by-text</strong>, as an add-on: assistants can text a customer a link to matching stock instead of trying to describe five cars over voice or SMS.</p></li><li><p><strong>AI-initiated outbound calling</strong> (experimental, opt-in): staff can queue a callback with instructions for the AI to place, with a human approving each call before it goes out. Off by default.</p></li></ul><h2>Interested?  Book a 30 min demo </h2><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Book a demo&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://calendly.com/vrash-ombox/vrash-1-1"><span>Book a demo</span></a></p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ombox.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Ombox Blog! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Road: Conversations That Clarify]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the most uncomfortable customer conversations often sharpen your positioning]]></description><link>https://blog.ombox.ai/p/on-the-road-conversations-that-clarify</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.ombox.ai/p/on-the-road-conversations-that-clarify</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Founders at Ombox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:57:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sjlE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffdf426c7-0893-4750-b89f-bfb88cb0872b_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><blockquote><p>&#8220;When customers are unhappy and complain, that&#8217;s when you have a great opportunity to learn.&#8221; - Bezos</p></blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve been quiet recently.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ombox.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Ombox Blog! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Mostly because we&#8217;ve been heads down building.<br>On the road. Meeting customers. Between full-time roles.</p><p>Early stage building doesn&#8217;t happen behind a dashboard.<br>It happens in real conversations.</p><p>Some energising.<br>Some direct.<br>Some uncomfortable.</p><p>In one meeting recently, after walking through what we&#8217;re building, a customer said:</p><p>&#8220;You could just hire someone to do that.&#8221;</p><p>In another, the response to the same capability was:</p><p>&#8220;This is exactly what we&#8217;ve been missing.&#8221;</p><p>Same product.<br>Same demo.<br>Very different reactions.</p><p>That contrast can feel unsettling. But it&#8217;s incredibly valuable</p><h2>Listening Without Reacting</h2><p>When you care deeply about what you&#8217;re building, objections can feel personal.</p><p>You want to clarify.<br>You want to reframe.<br>You want to win the room.</p><p>But over time, something becomes clear:</p><p>The real skill isn&#8217;t overcoming objections.</p><p>It&#8217;s listening closely enough to understand what they reveal.</p><p>Behind &#8220;you could just hire someone&#8221; wasn&#8217;t dismissal.</p><p>It was a lens.</p><p>Cost containment.<br>Headcount framing.<br>Risk control.</p><p>That&#8217;s valuable information.</p><p>Not because it means change everything.<br>But because it tells you how that operator evaluates the world.</p><p>In other rooms, the lens is different.</p><p>Revenue capture.<br>Missed demand.<br>Leverage.</p><p>The product hasn&#8217;t changed.</p><p>The mental model has.</p><h2>Every Meeting Has Nuggets</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>Blunt feedback is often doing work for you.</p><p>It forces precision.<br>It exposes how value is actually measured.<br>It reveals whether you&#8217;re mispositioned or simply misaligned.</p><p>Not every objection needs to be fought.</p><p>Not every reaction needs to be filtered into the roadmap.</p><p>But almost every conversation contains a nugget.</p><p>If you&#8217;re disciplined enough to hear it.</p><h2>Builders Listen Differently</h2><p>There&#8217;s a subtle difference between building and selling.</p><p>Selling tries to neutralise resistance.</p><p>Building tries to understand what the resistance signals.</p><p>When you&#8217;re on the road enough, you start to see patterns:</p><p>Validation feels good but teaches little.<br>Friction feels uncomfortable but sharpens clarity.<br>Not every strong opinion deserves equal weight.</p><p>The goal isn&#8217;t universal approval.</p><p>It&#8217;s alignment.</p><p>And alignment comes from listening without ego.</p><p>The road trips.<br>The mixed reactions.<br>The direct conversations.</p><p>They&#8217;re not setbacks.</p><p>They&#8217;re filters.</p><p>If you listen closely enough, even blunt feedback becomes leverage.</p><p>And clarity compounds.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://blog.ombox.ai/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading The Ombox Blog! 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