Balto

Real-time AI guidance for perfect customer conversations.

by Balto · Voice & Call Center

Executive Summary

Balto is a real-time AI guidance platform designed for contact center agents. It leverages artificial intelligence to analyze live conversations and provide agents with immediate, on-screen prompts, smart checklists, and coaching alerts. The platform is used by mid-market to enterprise organizations to improve sales, ensure compliance, and enhance customer satisfaction by augmenting human potential rather than replacing it, leading to more consistent and effective interactions.

Use Cases

  • Improving sales conversion rates by guiding agents on objection handling and closing techniques during live calls.
  • Ensuring 100% compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies across all customer interactions.
  • Reducing agent ramp time and improving new hire effectiveness through continuous real-time coaching.
  • Enhancing customer satisfaction (CSAT) by ensuring consistent, empathetic, and effective agent interactions.
  • Automating quality assurance (QA) processes and providing data-backed coaching insights for performance improvement.
  • Scaling best practices and successful conversational strategies across the entire contact center team.

Features

Visibility

  • Agent Performance Dashboards: Visualize trends in agent performance, checklist adherence, and customer sentiment to identify coaching needs.
  • AI-Generated Call Summaries: Provides instant post-call summaries detailing customer goals, objections, resolutions, and action items.
  • Automated QA Scorecards: Automatically scores 100% of calls against configurable quality assurance rules and compliance points.
  • Screen Recording: Records agent screens during calls to enhance QA, provide targeted coaching, and support dispute resolution.
  • Sentiment Graph: Displays customer sentiment changes throughout a call, allowing managers to pinpoint critical moments in recordings.

Intelligence

  • Real-time Guidance: Delivers live, on-screen prompts, smart checklists, and coaching alerts to agents as conversations unfold.
  • Dynamic Prompts: Offers agents multiple, context-aware suggestions for handling objections or navigating complex conversations.
  • Automated Notetaking: Generates call notes with a single click, significantly reducing after-call work for agents.
  • AI Call Scoring: Automatically evaluates and scores every call for quality, compliance, professionalism, and knowledge.
  • Playbook Designer: Enables managers to codify best practices and winning behaviors into Smart Checklists and Dynamic Prompts for team-wide deployment.

Support

  • Agent Chat: Facilitates immediate agent improvement through live coaching and communication from supervisors.
  • Asynchronous Coaching: Allows coaches to provide feedback and guidance directly within the agent app, streamlining the coaching process.
  • Gamification: Boosts agent engagement and satisfaction through challenges, leaderboards, and badges.
  • Agent Personalization: Offers agents the ability to customize their workspace with themes and accessibility options for a more delightful experience.

Technical Specifications

Architecture
Cloud-native SaaS
Deployment
Cloud/SaaS
Authentication
SSO, Email/Password
API Available
Yes
MCP Server
No

Infrastructure

  • AWS

AI/ML Stack

  • NLP
  • Machine Learning
  • Speech Analytics

Integrations

  • Five9
  • NICE
  • RingCentral
  • Avaya
  • Genesys

Security & Compliance

Certifications: SOC 2 Type II

Encryption: AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 in transit

Pricing

Model
Custom enterprise
Starting Price
Contact sales
Target Customer
Mid-market to Enterprise
Contract Type
Annual
Free Trial
No (credit card required)

About Balto

Balto is an AI software company that provides real-time guidance and automation for contact centers. Its platform supports human agents with instant, context-aware assistance during customer interactions, aiming to enhance service quality, sales performance, and operational efficiency.

Founded: 2017 · Headquarters: St. Louis, United States · Employees: 201-500 · Private