Every call summarized, and nothing promised gets forgotten
A lighter build than a custom app: every recorded call becomes a summary and dated follow-ups in a tracker the broker already used.
What changed
The situation
A broker spends the day on the phone, and every call ends in small promises: send the pay stubs, check the rate, call back Thursday.
What I built
Calls record themselves
On the business line, with an announcement so everyone knows.
Private details are removed
Redaction happens before any AI reads the transcript.
Every call becomes a short summary
Plus the tasks it created: who owes what, by when.
It all lands in one tracker
A spreadsheet he can sort and share, kept in step with his loan system.
Why a pipeline and not an app
Not every problem needs custom software. This one needed the calls captured and the follow-ups written down, in a tool the broker already used. When the business outgrew the spreadsheet, the same ideas grew into Fundrail.
What was handed over
A working workflow, the architecture diagram, a written solution document, the tracker workbook, the extraction schema and the workflow file, so any competent person could run or change it.
How it fits together
Six steps in a row, run by one workflow tool, ending in a spreadsheet.
Colors group the steps by kind: capture, workflow, AI and storage. Grey is outside the pipeline. Swipe the diagram sideways.
Step by step
- A call on the business line is recorded, and the workflow is told a new recording exists.
- The workflow sends the audio for transcription.
- Private details (account and ID numbers and the like) are redacted before the text goes anywhere else.
- Claude reads the redacted transcript and fills a fixed form (summary, tasks with owners and dates, key loan details), and the result lands in the tracker.
- The tracker stays in step with the loan system.
- Follow-up tasks sit where the broker works, ready for the callback.
Technical details
For your IT person: components, trade-offs and security. Open any section.
Components
| Layer | Service | What it does here |
|---|---|---|
| Capture | Twilio | Records calls on the business number with a spoken announcement, then notifies the workflow. |
| Orchestration | n8n | Runs each step in order and keeps a log of every run. |
| Speech | AssemblyAI | Transcription with built-in redaction of personal information. |
| AI | Claude API | Structured extraction against a written schema, so every call produces the same fields. |
| Tracker | Google Sheets | One row per call, linked to the client, with open tasks and due dates. Synced with the loan system. |
Design decisions and trade-offs
Losing track of what was said on calls?
A pipeline like this is quoted at a fixed price. Book a free 30-minute fit call and I’ll tell you what it would take with your phone system.
