Hand-off
New lead, noted and ready for a person. Sent on WhatsApp.
An AI assistant replies on WhatsApp as your agency, asks the questions your team would, and hands the lead to a named person on one sheet. This is what they receive.
Sample sheet. Agency, buyer and sales exec are invented. The format is the real one.
New lead, noted and ready for a person. Sent on WhatsApp.
Sample sheet. Agency, buyer and sales exec are invented. The format is the real one.
They land after 20:00 and at weekends, when the office is shut and nobody rings. By Monday the buyer has spoken to someone else. The reply lag is the one thing you can actually change.
of leads were never contacted at all. That is from one agency's sample of 2,071 portal leads.
of those leads said they wanted to buy within 0 to 3 months.
Median listing enquired about.
Days later, buyers still reply to a casual re-open. Cold is not dead.
A WhatsApp message within seconds of the portal email landing, as your agency, from your number. SMS if they're not on WhatsApp.
The usual questions, from what you've told it. If it wasn't told, it says so and writes it down for your team.
When they're next over, budget, holiday home or move, cash or mortgage, who's coming. One question per message, last.
The sheet goes to a named person at your office on WhatsApp. From there it's your person talking, not the assistant.
| Line | What filled it, from the Appendix A thread |
|---|---|
| 04 Trip | “When are you next over?” Sue: flying out the 14th, Torrevieja until the 21st. |
| 06 Purpose | “Is this for holidays or a full move?” Sue: holidays for now, maybe permanent when we retire. |
| 07 Finance | Volunteered, so it didn't ask. Sue: cash, we sold in the UK last month. |
| 08 Must-haves | “Anything that's a must, pool, parking, walk to a supermarket?” Sue: communal pool, parking, walk to bars, no high-rise. |
| 10 Couldn't answer | “Do you have floor plans?” Another agency's advert. It said so, and flagged it for Dan rather than guess. |
| 11 First move | Written for your sales exec. 3 or 4 similar townhouses, viewings in the trip week. |
Buyers can smell a bot. The things it won't say are half of why they keep talking.
Won't“Pick an option: Viewings, Brochure, Call back”
One question per message, asked the way a person at your office would ask it.
Won't“Reply STOP to opt out”
No STOP line on WhatsApp. It says Just say if you'd rather I didn't message.
Won't“Still available, and it's ten minutes to the beach”
Never states availability, fees, distances or prices it wasn't given. It notes the question for your team.
Won't“On that budget you'd do better inland”
Never talks about the buyer's money. It records the budget. It doesn't judge it.
Won't“While you're here, can we also help with...”
Never pitches anything else. It's there for the property, and that's all.
Won't“Dan will reply within the hour”
Never promises when your team will reply. Your people keep their own diary.
Won't, for a town you don't cover“Lovely, we'll find you something there”
It says That's outside our patch, I'm afraid.
and leaves it there.
From a test run, trimmed. Agency, buyer and sales exec renamed. Every rule the assistant follows is still in it.
Hi Sue, Sol y Sal Homes here, estate agents on the Costa Blanca. We were passed your A Place in the Sun enquiries around Villamartin, I'm the AI assistant for the team. When are you next over? Just say if you'd rather I didn't message.
Hello! WhatsApp is easiest for us. We're flying out on the 14th of October and staying in Torrevieja until the 21st. We're after a 2-bed townhouse, there's one listed around £199k that caught my eye. Do you have floor plans?
That one's another agency's advert I'm afraid, so I can't send plans for it. It was showing €229,000, roughly £197k.
I'll let Dan know about your 14th to 21st October trip, he'll put a few similar ones together. Is this for holidays or a full move?
Holidays for now, maybe permanent when we retire. Cash, we sold in the UK last month.
Lovely, that keeps it simple. Anything that's a must, pool, parking, walk to a supermarket?
Communal pool is fine, parking yes, and walkable to a couple of bars. No high-rise.
Noted for Dan. Would you rather he messages here or rings?
Fifteen minutes, with the people who build it.
It sends as your agency: your WhatsApp business name, your own number. Buyers never see the name .
You are the controller. We are the processor. The leads, the threads and the sheets belong to your agency.
Once, in a clause that runs into a question, so it reads naturally. Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires disclosure from 2 August 2026. It's there from message one.
If a buyer wants a human, the thread goes to your team. Every time, no arguing.
We won't sign the agency down the road for the same stretch of coast. No lead is ever shared between agencies.
A pilot is running with one agency on the Costa Blanca. A Place in the Sun leads today; Rightmove Overseas, Kyero and Idealista next.
A straight conversation with the people who build it. No slides, no pricing sheet yet, because pricing isn't settled and we won't make one up.
For agency owners and sales managers on the Costa Blanca, Costa del Sol, Murcia and Mallorca.