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Contact centers that run as calmly as they look.

ACD routing, skills-based distribution, workforce management, omnichannel inbox, supervisor dashboards, QA, and reporting. Built on open-source cores we fully control, deployed on your infrastructure or ours. No per-seat pricing games.

  • Skills-based routing that actually matches callers to the right agent, not just the next free one
  • Omnichannel inbox for voice, SMS, chat, email, and WhatsApp in one agent view
  • Workforce management for forecasting, scheduling, and adherence, bundled not sold separately
  • Canadian data residency, PIPEDA-aligned recording and QA baked in
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The expensive contact center platforms are expensive for the wrong reasons.

Modern contact center software is one of the great SaaS pricing scandals. Fifteen percent of what you pay goes into capability. Eighty-five percent goes into per-seat licensing, usage-tiered call recording, "premium" workforce management modules, "AI" add-ons that are a thin wrapper over an open-source speech model, and an account-management layer whose job is to keep you from leaving. For most operations under 200 seats, this architecture is both overbuilt and overpriced.

We build on open-source cores (Asterisk or FreeSWITCH for the switch, FusionPBX or Vicidial or custom web for the agent layer, Elasticsearch for recording search, Prometheus and Grafana for the dashboards) and we fully control the stack. ACD, skills-based routing, workforce management, QA, recording, omnichannel, supervisor tooling. All of it included, all of it owned by you after deployment, running on your infrastructure or ours, with pricing structured around the actual operational cost rather than seat-count rent-extraction.

If you need a 10,000-seat global contact center with a thousand integrations, Genesys and NICE and Five9 do that well and we would honestly recommend them. For contact centers from 10 to 500 agents that want to operate professionally without paying global-enterprise prices, we are a different and better answer.

What's included

Eighteen capabilities, no premium tiers.

Three feature groups covering routing and distribution, workforce and quality, and supervisor and reporting. Everything in the base engagement, nothing locked behind an upgrade paywall.

Routing & distribution

ACD, skills-based routing, overflow and callback. The engine that gets each call to the right person without making the caller work for it.

Automatic call distribution (ACD)
Skills-based routing with weighting
Priority tiers and VIP bypass
Queue overflow and callback
Omnichannel voice SMS chat email
WhatsApp and Messenger integration

Workforce & quality

Forecasting, scheduling, adherence tracking, call recording, and QA scorecards. The operational-management layer that most platforms sell as separate modules.

Volume forecasting and WFM
Agent scheduling and shift bidding
Real-time adherence monitoring
Call recording and tagging
QA scorecards and calibration
Agent coaching and training workflow

Supervisor & reporting

Live dashboards, historical reporting, SLA tracking, and barge-in tools. What supervisors need to actually run the floor, not just watch it.

Real-time supervisor dashboards
Barge, whisper, and silent monitor
SLA and KPI tracking per queue
Historical reporting (90d default)
Custom report builder
Scheduled report delivery
Who it's for

Four scenarios where this architecture pays off.

Not every contact center should be built this way. These are the operations where owning the stack is better than renting it.

10 to 100 seats

Your contact center is big enough to matter, small enough to overpay

You have 15 to 80 agents, and your current platform charges $100 to $200 per seat per month, before per-minute recording, per-channel omnichannel, and the WFM module. The math on owning the stack and paying us to build and run it works out well below the licensed-SaaS cost somewhere around the 25-seat mark, and gets more compelling as you grow.

Regulated industry

You need recording and QA that passes a real audit

Financial services, healthcare, legal, government contractors. Your sector regulator expects systematic (not sampled) call review, defensible retention, and tamper-evident storage. Generic SaaS contact centers either do not do this at all or charge "enterprise compliance" prices for it. We build it in by default because the alternative is a disclosed audit finding later.

Omnichannel reality

Your customers reach you across voice, SMS, chat, and WhatsApp

Running separate systems for each channel creates handoff gaps where customers repeat themselves, context gets lost, and metrics do not add up. One agent view across all channels, with routing that treats a WhatsApp message as seriously as an inbound call, with per-channel SLA tracking that supervisors can actually act on.

Bilingual Canadian

You operate across English and French, in Canada

Bilingual routing based on caller language preference, French-first prompts for Quebec DIDs, bilingual QA scorecards, French-language agent coaching workflows, Canadian French transcription for QA review. For businesses operating in Quebec or federally regulated, this is the baseline, not an upgrade tier.

How we deliver

Four phases, operational from day one.

Contact centers that go live without a dry run fail loudly. We build in testing, pilot, and parallel-run as part of the standard phasing.

PHASE 01

Design

Weeks 1-2

Routing logic, skill groups, SLAs, QA scorecards, channel strategy, agent experience. Deliverable is a design document your supervisors sign off on before anything gets built.

PHASE 02

Build

Weeks 3-6

Platform deployed, routing rules configured, channels wired up, recording and QA in place, dashboards built, reports scheduled. Full end-to-end test on simulated traffic.

PHASE 03

Pilot

Weeks 7-8

Small team of real agents handling real calls on the new platform, in parallel with the old. Catches integration issues and workflow gaps while the old system is still there as a fallback.

PHASE 04

Cutover

Weeks 9-10

Full migration in waves by team or queue, with the old system kept warm for 30 days post-cutover. Daily check-ins during the first two weeks, then weekly, then monthly ongoing operations.

Common questions

What buyers ask before committing to a build.

Direct answers to the six questions we hear most often about contact-center engagements specifically.

How is this cheaper than Genesys, NICE, or Five9?
We do not charge per-seat licensing. The cost structure is one-time project fee for design and build, plus monthly platform fee that scales with concurrent channels and storage rather than headcount. For a 50-seat operation, the typical annual cost works out around 40 to 60 percent of what the big three charge for an equivalent feature set, with no "AI premium" or "WFM module" or "omnichannel upgrade" tiers. The savings compound with scale.
What happens if we outgrow your scale?
Honest answer: at 500+ seats or 10,000+ interactions per day, the big SaaS platforms start to win on the operational-management side (global routing, integrated workforce optimization at scale, deep CRM integrations). We will tell you if you are approaching that line. The architecture we deploy is standards-based, so migration to a larger platform later is a reasonable project, not a rip-and-replace. We have helped clients make that move when it was the right call.
Who owns the deployment after you build it?
You do. The platform runs on your infrastructure (or ours, if you prefer managed hosting), the code and configuration are documented and handed over, and the open-source components have no runtime license fees. If you want to take operations in-house after year one, that transition is part of the engagement model. We prefer to keep running it (continuity is better for everyone), but we structure the build so you are never locked in by the architecture.
Can we integrate with Salesforce, HubSpot, or our existing CRM?
Yes. Standard CRM integrations include screen-pop on inbound, click-to-dial from the CRM, call outcome write-back, transcript attachment, and ticket linking. The common CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics, Zoho, Pipedrive, Freshdesk, ServiceNow) have well-defined connector patterns. For custom or in-house CRMs, we build the integration against your API as part of Phase 02.
How does the omnichannel inbox actually work?
One agent view, one queue system, one reporting layer. Voice calls arrive the same way they always have (ringing in the softphone), but SMS, chat, WhatsApp, and email conversations show up in the same agent panel as queue items the agent can pick up or that get assigned based on skills. Each conversation keeps its own context (customer history, previous messages) so agents are not switching between tabs. Reporting is unified: AHT, FCR, CSAT, and queue times measured consistently across channels.
How is pricing structured?
One-time project fee for Phases 01 through 04, scaled by seat count, channels, and integration complexity. Monthly platform fee based on concurrent channels, recording storage, and whether you want managed hosting versus running on your own infrastructure. No per-seat licensing, no per-channel upcharges, no AI feature paywalls. Scoped in detail during Phase 01.
Start with your current numbers

Share your seat count and current platform cost.

Thirty minutes with a practitioner, not a sales rep. We will scope what the equivalent build would look like and show you honestly whether the economics work for your scale.