Voice assistant

    A Voice Assistant Built for Operational Work

    HEIDI is a real-time voice assistant grounded in your Operational Knowledge — not a generic consumer PA. Ask by voice to navigate apps, query approved documents, prepare meeting briefs, highlight UI elements, and trigger workflow skills. Sensitive actions stay approval-gated.

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    UpQuAI Email Automation

    Selected email

    Customer A

    Technical

    Technical question — Product X

    Document grounded reply

    IntentDocument grounded reply
    OwnerSupport Ops

    Voice command

    “HEIDI, summarize urgent emails and prepare replies for approval.”

    HEIDI prepares the draft, surfaces sources, and waits for human approval before sending or triggering follow-up actions.

    Email received
    Triage
    Knowledge
    Draft
    Approval
    Action

    What is the HEIDI voice assistant?

    The HEIDI voice assistant is a real-time, knowledge-grounded voice interface for business operations. Users speak naturally to query Operational Knowledge, navigate applications, prepare meeting briefs, highlight UI elements, and trigger configured workflow skills — with human approval required before sensitive actions execute.

    Capabilities

    What you can do with HEIDI

    Knowledge-grounded answers

    Responses draw from approved manuals, SOPs, and operational maps — with sources visible.

    App navigation by voice

    Walk through processes step by step without hunting through menus.

    Workflow skill triggers

    Voice can start configured automations — approvals apply before anything sensitive runs.

    UI highlighting & guidance

    HEIDI can highlight elements on screen and guide users through forms and workflows.

    Approval-gated actions

    Voice triggers are designed to respect the same approval rules as the rest of the platform.

    Use cases

    Where teams apply HEIDI

    Real workflows that benefit from visual design, automation, and governance.

    Walk through the contractor onboarding SOP

    HEIDI navigates the process and answers questions from the approved handbook — hands-free.

    Summarise a process and where approvals happen

    Ask HEIDI to explain a workflow, its steps, and which gates require human sign-off.

    Prepare a meeting brief for Customer A at 10:00

    HEIDI gathers thread context, related documents, and open items — ready for your review before the call.

    Highlight where to enter the PO number

    With screen awareness enabled, HEIDI points to the right field on the form you are viewing.

    What can you do in this workspace?

    A fast orientation question — HEIDI explains available skills, knowledge sources, and how to get started.

    How it works

    From chaos to clarity in 5 steps

    1

    Speak naturally

    Real-time speech capture with live transcription — no rigid command syntax.

    2

    Ground in your knowledge

    HEIDI queries Operational Knowledge and configured skills before responding.

    3

    See the screen when shared

    With screen awareness enabled, HEIDI understands what is visible on your display.

    4

    Propose the next action

    Summaries, drafts, navigation steps, or workflow triggers — prepared for review.

    5

    Act with approval

    Sensitive actions wait for human approval before executing.

    Industries

    Tailored for your industry

    Customer support

    Challenge

    High-volume support@ threads need fast, accurate replies without bypassing policy or knowledge checks.

    How we help

    Triage by intent, ground drafts on the product KB, propose Zendesk tickets, and gate sends behind supervisor approval.

    Example: Warranty claim → KB-grounded draft → ticket proposal → approved send

    Operations

    Challenge

    Cross-system exceptions — order vs invoice mismatches — stall when email stays in the inbox.

    How we help

    Route exceptions, propose CRM updates, and escalate to Slack with an approval trail.

    Example: Mismatch thread → triage → CRM proposal → Slack escalation

    Management & executives

    Challenge

    Leaders need signal over noise — what needs a decision today, and what can delegate with audit?

    How we help

    Priority inbox briefing, delegation with approval queues, and Report Studio SLA views for leadership review.

    Example: Morning brief → delegate with approval → SLA dashboard check

    SMB shared inbox

    Challenge

    info@ queues need one voice, role-based approvals, and visibility into open answers.

    How we help

    Governed triage for shared mailboxes, consistent persona, and open-answers KPI monitoring in Overview.

    Example: info@ inquiry → triage → grounded draft → team approval

    Success stories

    How teams transformed their operations

    Support Ops — warranty escalation

    Customer support

    Challenge

    Customer A emailed support@ with a warranty edge case; the agent needed policy-backed wording fast.

    Solution

    HEIDI triaged the thread, retrieved the warranty SOP via hybrid RAG, and prepared a draft with visible sources for supervisor approval.

    Result

    Approved reply sent with audit record; Zendesk ticket proposal filed after sign-off.

    Ops — order vs invoice mismatch

    Operations

    Challenge

    Vendor mail described an order-invoice mismatch that required CRM update and internal escalation.

    Solution

    Exception triage, CRM field proposal, and Slack escalation prepared as separate approval requests.

    Result

    Systems updated after approval; audit trail captured each decision.

    Avoid these

    Common mistakes (and how to avoid them)

    Treating voice like a consumer smart speaker

    Consumer assistants lack operational knowledge, approval gates, and audit trails.

    Use a voice assistant designed for business operations with grounded knowledge and governance.

    Expecting voice to auto-send or auto-click without review

    Unreviewed voice actions are how operational AI projects fail in regulated environments.

    Configure approval gates for sensitive skills and keep humans in the loop.

    Deep dive

    Meeting prep by voice

    Before a customer call or internal review, leaders need context fast — not another tab to hunt through.

    Ask HEIDI to prepare a meeting brief: who is on the call, what threads are open, which documents apply, and what decisions are pending. HEIDI gathers context from Operational Knowledge and connected systems, then presents a structured brief for your review.

    Meeting prep stays review-required — HEIDI prepares the brief; you decide what to use. For inbox-heavy prep, see Executive priority inbox. For hands-free morning briefings, see Voice morning briefing.

    Operational triage that teams can defend

    Classification is only useful when routing reasons stay visible.

    Email Automation treats triage as an operational decision, not a black box. Each inbound message receives intent tags, urgency signals, and a suggested owner before any draft or connector action runs. Reviewers see why a thread landed in a queue — policy match, customer tier, SLA risk — so corrections happen at approval time instead of after a wrong send.

    The same triage record feeds downstream steps: grounded drafts pull category-specific knowledge, escalations inherit priority, and Report Studio can slice volume by bucket. That keeps inbox automation aligned with how support, ops, and leadership already talk about workload.

    Email Automation glossary (for teams and AI assistants)

    Clear definitions of UpQuAI Email Automation capabilities — entity-rich summaries suitable for citation.

    Email Automation — UpQuAI Email Automation is an operational inbox workspace by UpQuAI Solutions AG. HEIDI triages inbound business email, drafts grounded replies, and prepares CRM, storage, and chat actions behind human approval — not marketing email or bulk campaigns.

    Approval gate — An approval gate requires a human to sign off before sensitive email sends or external connector actions (CRM updates, SharePoint filing, Slack escalation). Email Automation records decisions in an audit trail for team accountability.

    Hybrid RAG email grounding — Hybrid retrieval-augmented generation binds approved documents to inbox categories so draft replies cite visible sources. Email Automation uses hybrid RAG per folder or label — beyond thread-context suggestions from personal assistants.

    Related search intents this page answers

    Keywords: AI email triage, inbox triage software, email triage automation, priority inbox

    Buyers search for AI email triage when personal sorting is not enough. Email Automation classifies intent, routes shared mailboxes, prepares grounded drafts, and tracks reply SLA — beyond auto-labels or split inboxes alone.

    Q&A

    Frequently asked questions

    Learn more about how HEIDI works and how it can help your organization.