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AUTOMATION AND AI
Escalation to human
Escalation, in WhatsApp automation, is the moment a bot stops answering and passes the conversation to a person, triggered by a rule: the customer asks for a human, a sensitive keyword appears (refund, complaint, medical, legal), the customer repeats a question, the AI's confidence is low, or the knowledge base has nothing relevant. A good escalation assigns the right team and tells the customer what happens next.
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Why it matters
Escalation is the safety valve that makes automation acceptable to customers and safe for the business. A bot without it traps people; one that escalates too eagerly wastes the automation. The rules should reflect the business: a clinic escalates on any symptom word, a shop on "where is my order" after a failed lookup.
In VGraple CRM
Escalation works three ways depending on the channel: Instagram and Messenger automation runs a detector for safety words, frustration and repeated questions; the website widget's AI escalates through an explicit tool call in agentic mode; on WhatsApp the flow author places a human handoff node where escalation belongs. Escalated conversations are assigned, tagged and pushed to the team's phones. The escalation guide explains each path.
Related terms
Human takeover, AI agent, Conversation assignment, Fallback message.