A chatbot follows the paths you draw. An AI agent reads what the customer actually wrote, looks up your marketing agency's own information, and takes the next step — books, updates, follows up. This is what that looks like for marketing agencies, and how to keep it honest.
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| Question | Agent answers? | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Do you do SEO for clinics? | Yes | Service pages and industries served |
| What does a social media retainer include? | Yes | Service sheets |
| Can I see work for a restaurant? | Yes | Approved case studies |
| When is my report due? | Yes | Client record |
| Can you guarantee first page on Google? | No — explains why and offers a call | Your policy on promises |
| Can you lower the retainer this month? | No — account lead | The account lead |
Start with what customers ask. Prospects ask about services, pricing and past work; clients ask for reports, approvals and campaign status. An agent answers all of that from your own information. Then give it the work marketing agencies repeat every day:
The agent runs these on WhatsApp in the customer's language, day and night, and writes what it did back to the contact record so staff see the full history.
An AI agent is only as accurate as what you give it. On Reputoo it answers from your knowledge base — pages crawled from your website, documents and price lists you upload, and policies you write down — rather than from general knowledge. Two rules keep it right:
It also needs to see the records your marketing agency already keeps — what to connect: A CRM for leads and a project tool for client work; conversations should land on the right client record.
"We run three restaurants in Pune, want more weekday orders, tried boosting posts, budget is modest" — the agent turns that into a brief with the business, the goal, what was tried and the budget range, suggests the services that fit, and books a call. The strategist opens the call with ideas instead of a questionnaire.
These are the moments customers remember, and they are worth a human:
The agent can open each of these conversations and collect the details; a person should close anything involving a complaint, an exception to policy, or money that has not been agreed. Handover goes to the shared inbox with the full conversation attached.
The same agent that answers on WhatsApp can answer your marketing agency's phone line as Vajra, Reputoo's voice agent, so a customer who calls gets the same answers as one who messages. It speaks 36 languages and switches to the caller's.
Clients ask for invoice copies, report dates, calendar links and who is covering while their account manager is away. The agent answers from the client's record and the process documents, and passes anything about strategy or performance to the account lead.
Prospects ask how long SEO takes or whether ads will work for them. The agent explains the process and what influences results in general terms, and is instructed never to promise rankings, leads or returns.
An agency often serves competitors in the same industry. The agent never mentions one client's plans, results or details to another, and shares only case studies approved for public use.
When a new client asks how to give access, the agent sends the right guide for each platform and warns against sharing passwords or codes in chat. If a client sends a password anyway, it advises them to change it and passes the conversation to the account manager.
The agent resends invoices and payment links and confirms receipts. It never asks for card numbers, PINs or OTPs, and billing disputes go to the account lead.
The agent replies in the prospect's language, which helps agencies serving local businesses across regions.
Custom quotes, scope changes, complaints, renewals and cancellations go to the account lead with the conversation summarised. The agent tells the client when to expect a reply.
A month of lead conversations shows which services and industries are asking, what budgets look like and where prospects hesitate — useful for packaging services and writing your website.
Business owners research agencies at night. The agent qualifies them, shares case studies and books a discovery call for the next day, so the lead is not cold by morning.
Load service sheets, approved case studies, process and billing documents, and onboarding guides. Connect the calendars of the people who take discovery calls. Read conversations daily for the first week and correct anything it answered poorly.
Tell the agent how your agency sounds — direct, friendly, consultative — and keep it consistent with your website and proposals. Prospects notice when the chat feels like a different company from the pitch.
After a proposal is sent, prospects ask what a line item means or when work would start. The agent answers from the proposal and your process documents, and passes any request to change price or scope to the person who wrote it. It never revises a proposal on its own.
An agency has strategists, account managers, designers and developers. The agent recognises existing clients and routes them to their account manager, sends new leads to whoever handles new business for that service, and passes technical website issues to the developer on duty, with a summary each time.
When a client asks to move a post or swap an image, the agent records the request against their calendar and tells them when the account manager will confirm. It does not change scheduled content itself.
Clients whose websites you maintain report problems — a broken form, a page not loading. The agent collects the page link, what happened and a screenshot, marks urgent issues for the developer on duty, and tells the client what happens next.
After booking the call, the agent asks for the prospect's website, social pages and any reports they want to share, and adds them to the brief. It sends the meeting link and a reminder an hour before, so the strategist starts prepared and the prospect turns up.
The agent does not quote custom prices, change scope, promise results, discuss one client with another, or offer discounts. When a question falls outside what it was given, it says so and passes the conversation to the right person with a summary.
Compare leads answered out of hours, discovery calls booked, and routine client questions answered without an account manager, before and after launch.
The agent asks every new lead how they heard about you and records the referring client so the team can thank them. Job applicants and freelancers are thanked, told where to send their portfolio, and kept out of the lead pipeline.
Clients sometimes ask what a term in their report means — reach, impressions, cost per lead. The agent explains the term in plain language from your glossary. Questions about why a number went up or down go to the account manager, who knows the context.
During pitches and launches, the agent keeps routine conversations moving and batches everything that needs a person into one summary for the end of the day.
When a prospect misses a discovery call, the agent sends a friendly message offering two new slots. It follows up once more if there is no reply, then leaves the lead for the team to decide on — it never keeps chasing.
Some clients run several brands or locations with you. The agent asks which brand a question is about and answers from that brand's record, so reports and calendars never get mixed up.
Some clients want every message to reach their account manager. The agent can recognise their numbers and step aside entirely, or answer only simple questions such as invoice copies and pass everything else on at once — whichever the client prefers.
After a discovery call, the agent can send the prospect the next steps the strategist recorded and a link to the proposal once it is ready, keeping momentum without anyone writing the same summary twice.
A chatbot follows menus and flows you define. An AI agent understands free-form messages, answers from your own knowledge base, and can take actions such as booking or updating a record. Most businesses run both: flows for fixed tasks, the agent for everything else.
Yes, which is why it should answer only from your knowledge base and hand over when it does not know. Review conversations in the first weeks and add missing answers to the knowledge base as you find them.
No. It explains the process in general terms and books a call with a strategist to discuss goals.
Only the ones clients approved for sharing, matched to the prospect's industry and service.
The agent advises them to change it, explains how to grant access properly, and alerts the account manager.
No. It answers questions from the proposal and passes changes to the person who wrote it.
Yes, from your glossary. Questions about why results changed go to the account manager.
Yes. Send the creative via WhatsApp with APPROVE/EDIT as reply options. Approval happens in hours vs the 3-4 day email cycle. Faster approvals = faster campaign launches = better results = happier clients.
Yes. New client onboarding sequence: contract signed → welcome message → brand assets checklist → first week timeline → kickoff call reminder. All automated, all via WhatsApp. New clients feel organised from Day 1.
Written by Riya · Reputoo. Riya writes Reputoo’s guides on the WhatsApp Business API, chatbots and voice AI for Indian businesses. Prices are checked against Meta’s published rate card (25 September 2026); competitor details come from each vendor’s own site.
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