Email triage for vocational training providers
A training provider’s contact inbox receives everything unsorted: applicants, current learners, OPCOs demanding a document, complaints, auditors. The agent sorts, answers the recurring and routes the rest — a document requested by a funder never sits ten days unanswered.
In your day-to-day
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Detecting funders’ document requests (attendance sheets, certificates, invoices) and replying with the document attached.
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Routing applications to the right adviser, with the target course and likely funding already extracted.
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Priority flagging of learner complaints — a sensitive point for Qualiopi — with an immediate acknowledgement.
A typical scenario
A contact inbox receiving 120 messages a day mixing applicants, current learners, funders, freelance trainers and cold outreach — sorted until now by whoever “opens the inbox”, which varies by the day.
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At 9 AM everyone finds their queue: applications with the right programme adviser, funders’ document requests already answered, cold outreach archived.
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A freelance trainer’s invoice is recognised, matched to the session concerned and pushed to accounting with the delivered hours alongside.
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An applicant whose file has been missing a document for ten days is chased automatically — enrolments no longer die of neglect.
What changes
The contact inbox becomes a reliable entry point: nothing gets lost in it, and the definition of “urgent” no longer depends on who is on duty.
Order of magnitude
Working assumptions
- →around 2,400 messages per month
- →40 seconds of manual reading and routing per message
Close to 27 hours of sorting erased per month — more than three days of administrative work handed back to the team.
Indicative estimate built on average sector assumptions — it gets recalibrated on your actual volumes during scoping.
What eats your days
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Every session generates its paperwork — invitations, attendance sheets, completion certificates — and one missing document is enough to block an OPCO payment.
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Funding arrives late: OPCO subrogation, CPF balances via the Caisse des Dépôts, companies waiting for the certificate — and chasing always comes after teaching.
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The BPF report and the Qualiopi surveillance audit are prepared in a rush, reconstructing evidence that should have been filed all year.
How it works
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Measure before sorting
We start by measuring the real flow: who writes, about what, what actually needs action. Sorting rules are built on that data — not on impressions.
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Sort, extract, route
The agent classifies each message, extracts the useful data (references, amounts, deadlines) into your tools, and routes to the right person. Urgent items are flagged within minutes.
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Answer the recurring
Acknowledgements, document requests, standard questions: the agent replies on its own within the approved fence. The rest lands pre-qualified in your team’s queue.
Typical results
95%
of messages classified and routed with no human involved
4 min
between an urgent message arriving and being flagged
0
client requests lost in the pile
Orders of magnitude observed in production; your diagnostic sets your own baseline and targets.
Frequently asked questions
Complaints matter for Qualiopi — does the agent log them?+
Yes: every detected complaint is acknowledged, timestamped and recorded in your complaint register — exactly what the auditor asks to see. Substantive handling stays with your team.
Can it answer document requests on its own?+
Yes for standard documents — attendance certificate, completion certificate, agreement, invoice — retrieved from your tools and sent in the right format. A missing or inconsistent document is flagged rather than sent blindly.
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