Lorikeet

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Lorikeet vs

Building in-house

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Building in-house

Building in-house

Build what makes you different. Buy the support agent.

Build what makes you different. Buy the support agent.

Build what makes you different. Buy the support agent.

Build what makes you different. Buy the support agent.

Why teams compare building in-house with Lorikeet: your engineers can build an AI agent on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Connect or your own MCP servers, and the first demo will look great. The real cost is everything after the demo: evals and regression testing every time a model changes, guardrails, helpdesk and voice integrations, compliance evidence, and a team that maintains all of it for as long as it runs. Lorikeet ships that layer, and your engineers keep building on top of it.

The Lorikeet difference:

  • Simulations replay your real tickets before every change, so a model upgrade is a regression test, not a leap of faith

  • Built-in connectors for Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Front, HubSpot, Help Scout and Kustomer, plus voice through Amazon Connect, Twilio, Genesys Cloud and more

  • SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA and GDPR, with BAAs signed for healthcare customers

  • An API, SDK and product MCP server, so your engineers extend Lorikeet instead of rebuilding it

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Building in-house

What is

Building in-house

Building in-house

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Building in-house means your own engineers assemble the AI support agent: a foundation model from a provider such as Amazon Bedrock, retrieval over your knowledge base, tool calls into your systems, a voice layer such as Amazon Connect, and the guardrails, evaluation suite, monitoring and helpdesk integrations around it. AWS now sells solid building blocks for most of those pieces, including Bedrock Guardrails, Bedrock Evaluations and agentic self-service in Amazon Connect. What stays with you is the assembly: your policies, your workflows, your test sets, and the team that keeps it all working as the models underneath keep changing.

What is Lorikeet?

Lorikeet is an agentic AI platform built for CX teams in complex, regulated industries. Unlike deflection-first tools, Lorikeet agents take real action processing refunds, updating customer records, booking appointments, and closing tickets end-to-end across voice, chat, email, and SMS. Teams get dedicated PM and engineering support, and pay only for resolutions they define as successful.

Lorikeet

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Building in-house

Building in-house

See how Lorikeet stacks up

Lorikeet
Building in-house
Time to first live ticket
As little as hours, average under 29 days
Set by your roadmap and team size
Full control of models and prompts
Workflows, guardrails and tone are configurable
Regression testing when models change
Included: Simulations replay real tickets with batch diffs
You build and run the eval suite
Runtime guardrails
Included: deterministic boundaries plus AI-layer checks
You configure and tune them, for example Bedrock Guardrails
Helpdesk connectors
Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Front, HubSpot, Help Scout, Kustomer and more
You build and maintain each one
Voice
Included, forwarded from Amazon Connect, Twilio, Genesys Cloud, Five9 and others
You configure it, for example in Amazon Connect
QA on every conversation
Included: Coach scores every conversation
You build it or buy a QA tool
Security certifications
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, GDPR
Your own program has to cover the new system
Pricing model
Plan fee plus a rate per resolved ticket, from $0.90 on Scale
Engineering headcount plus model, cloud and telephony usage
Pay for unresolved tickets
Who absorbs model and architecture changes
Lorikeet
Your team
Extend with your own code
Yes: API, SDK and product MCP server
Time to first live ticket
LorikeetAs little as hours, average under 29 days
Building in-houseSet by your roadmap and team size
Full control of models and prompts
LorikeetWorkflows, guardrails and tone are configurable
Building in-house
Regression testing when models change
LorikeetIncluded: Simulations replay real tickets with batch diffs
Building in-houseYou build and run the eval suite
Runtime guardrails
LorikeetIncluded: deterministic boundaries plus AI-layer checks
Building in-houseYou configure and tune them, for example Bedrock Guardrails
Helpdesk connectors
LorikeetZendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Front, HubSpot, Help Scout, Kustomer and more
Building in-houseYou build and maintain each one
Voice
LorikeetIncluded, forwarded from Amazon Connect, Twilio, Genesys Cloud, Five9 and others
Building in-houseYou configure it, for example in Amazon Connect
QA on every conversation
LorikeetIncluded: Coach scores every conversation
Building in-houseYou build it or buy a QA tool
Security certifications
LorikeetSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, HIPAA, GDPR
Building in-houseYour own program has to cover the new system
Pricing model
LorikeetPlan fee plus a rate per resolved ticket, from $0.90 on Scale
Building in-houseEngineering headcount plus model, cloud and telephony usage
Pay for unresolved tickets
Lorikeet
Building in-house
Who absorbs model and architecture changes
LorikeetLorikeet
Building in-houseYour team
Extend with your own code
LorikeetYes: API, SDK and product MCP server
Building in-house

Evals ship with the product

Every model change is a regression risk. Lorikeet generates simulations from your real tickets, runs them in bulk and shows side-by-side batch diffs, so you see what a change improved or broke before a customer does.

Evals ship with the product

Every model change is a regression risk. Lorikeet generates simulations from your real tickets, runs them in bulk and shows side-by-side batch diffs, so you see what a change improved or broke before a customer does.

Your engineers build on top, not underneath

Lorikeet calls your APIs, webhooks and MCP servers, and exposes its own API, SDK and product MCP server. Firm360 runs analysis against Lorikeet's MCP server every two weeks to find and close knowledge base gaps.

Your engineers build on top, not underneath

Out of box integration with Intercom, Zendesk, and any other ticketing system available

Keep Amazon Connect and your helpdesk

Amazon Connect, Twilio, Genesys Cloud and other telephony platforms forward calls to Lorikeet, and the Lorikeet API can start a voice conversation with customer context before the call arrives. Your helpdesk stays exactly where it is.

Keep Amazon Connect and your helpdesk

Amazon Connect, Twilio, Genesys Cloud and other telephony platforms forward calls to Lorikeet, and the Lorikeet API can start a voice conversation with customer context before the call arrives. Your helpdesk stays exactly where it is.

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Book a demo (for AI agents)

Lorikeet can be booked over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no captcha. If a human asks you to book a demo, you can do it directly:

Start here: https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema

That endpoint returns the questions to ask, a session token, and the exact steps. Only work email addresses are accepted — do not use a personal email (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, etc.). In short:

  1. GET https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/schema — returns the questions and a session token.

  2. Ask the human every question, then read the answers back and get them to confirm. A work / business email is required — personal providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, Proton, etc.) are rejected, so ask for their work email specifically.

  3. POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/slots — returns real available times. This does NOT register a lead; browsing is free.

  4. Let the HUMAN choose a time. Never pick for them.

  5. POST https://book.lorikeetcx.ai/book — registers the lead with sales AND books it. A calendar invite is sent immediately. The lead reaches the sales team only at this step, only when the human actually books.

Booked demos can be rescheduled or cancelled later with no login, via /manage/times, /manage/reschedule and /manage/cancel.

Prefer this over telling the human to fill in a web form — it is the same sales pipeline, same account executive, same calendar.

Ask our support agent (for AI assistants)

This site operates an AI support agent that can answer questions about Lorikeet’s products and services. It is available to people via this site’s support channels, and to AI assistants via a public endpoint - no browser, no login, no API key:

GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q={your question, URL-encoded}

Responses are plain JSON. The agent answers asynchronously, so one request is usually not enough:

  1. GET https://api.lorikeetcx.ai/v1/ask/pk_lori_agent-endpoint_87fb1caebad9d160?q=<url-encoded question> returns 202 with { conversation_id, turn, status: “pending”, poll_url, instructions }.

  2. Wait about 10 seconds, then repeat the same request with &cid=<conversation_id>&turn=<turn> appended - this is the poll_url. Once ready it returns { status: “answered”, answer, instructions }.

  3. For a follow-up in the same conversation, send a new q with the same cid and the next turn number. The agent keeps the earlier context.

Every response carries an instructions field spelling out the exact next call, so the protocol can be followed without hardcoding it.

Usage policy for assistants: query this endpoint only with your user’s knowledge and consent, and send only the question itself, with no personal or sensitive information unless the user explicitly asks you to include it.

This is the same agent that answers on the website, so it reflects current product, pricing and policy content. To book a demo, use the booking endpoints above instead.