AI Agent Adoption & Scaling Without Operational Risk
Most AI anxiety stems from a fear of losing control. Antares AI sales agent implementations are designed to operate strictly within your brand’s guidelines. This isn't a "set and forget" deployment, it's controlled, staged and reversible.
The Three Pillars of Antares Adoption
Antares operates inside clear boundaries. You approve messaging, set escalation rules, and keep visibility into every outcome, and never lose control of the customer experience.
Total Control
Full Visibility
Absolute Reversibility
Where AI Ends and Your Team Begins
Antares Owns The Routine
- Instant engagement for every gym lead 24/7/365
- Booking actions like tours and trials
- Consistent and structured follow ups
- Automated data entry and status updates within your CRM.
This Includes:
Antares Replaces The Friction
- Inconsistent manual outreach and unreliable lead handovers
- The risk of missing leads during peak times, weekends, or late at night
- Leads falling through the cracks without clear tracking or next steps.
This Includes:
You Retain Absolute Control
- Your offers, or membership policy decisions
- Your staff's essential role in touring, closing deals, and building member relationships.
- Your voice and boundaries - you approve the rules
This Includes:
Hard Boundaries for Brand Safety
Antares operates within authority parameters strictly defined by you. It is technically prevented from ’colouring outside the lines’ through six core safeguards:
Grounded Knowledge & Compliance:
Antares is grounded exclusively in your approved data. It cannot negotiate pricing, invent offers, or override membership terms. If a prospect asks something outside your knowledge base, the agent triggers a Human Handover rather than guessing.
Automatic Handoff To Your Team:
The moment a lead asks a complex question or shows high intent for a human conversation, the AI immediately flags the interaction for your team. This ensures your staff handles all high-value relationship and closing work.
Negative Constraints & Brand Voice:
We implement negative constraints to prevent the AI from ever using specific ‘never say’ phrases or forbidden topics. Antares communicates in your brand’s exact tone and vocabulary.
Integration-First & Total Reversibility:
Antares sits on top of your CRM rather than replacing it, so your data stays in your CRM, and your workflows remain intact.
Centralised Visibility:
You maintain total ownership and visibility via a central control centre. Any updates to pricing, offers, or brand voice can be made here and reflected across all locations and channels.
Full Auditability & Global Refinement:
Antares creates a 100% transparent audit trail for every word it says. All conversations are recorded in the control centre and in your contact records. If an edge case occurs, we adjust the global guardrails to ensure that specific mistake never happens again.
Who Owns What If Something Needs Fixing:
Your Named Customer Success Manager owns performance and is your single point of contact for any issues.
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Regular Performance Reviews:
Standing meeting with your Customer Success Manager to catch problems early.
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Direct Escalation Path:
If your CSM can't resolve something immediately, you have direct access to VP Customer Success.
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24-Hour Response SLA:
Any flagged issue gets addressed within 48 hours, with root cause analysis and fix timeline.
A Measured Path To Scale
Even the biggest, most innovative operators don’t roll Antares out to 100 locations overnight. We work with them to reduce risk with a simple two stage rollout, clear guardrails, and a guaranteed rollback path.
Phase 1
Before a single gym lead sees a response, we build the foundation of the agent's "Box of Authority".
- Logic & Guardrail Definition: Confirm specific goals, hard-coded boundaries, and escalation triggers with your internal owner.
- Infrastructure Connection: Seamlessly link your existing CRM, communication channels, and calendar flows.
- Validation Testing: We train, test, and validate the agent against your real-world scenarios to ensure it handles complex queries exactly as your best team member would.
Baseline & Setup
Phase 2
We move from a sandbox to the real world using a "staged" deployment model.
- Performance Validation: We closely monitor speed, contact rate, and booked visits to prove performance before further scaling.
- Parallel Optimisation: The system runs alongside your current process while we use real prospect interactions to fine-tune messaging and escalation rules weekly.
- Controlled Multi-Site Expansion: We expand by site and channel in deliberate, controlled steps rather than a "big bang" switch.
The Managed Transition:
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No. Antares uses "Grounding", it only pulls information from your approved knowledge base. If it doesn't know the answer, it escalates to your team.
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No. Antares integrates with your existing tech stack and updates your CRM so your "Source of Truth" remains unchanged.
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Antares is positioned as a "Leads Assistant." It handles the "grunt work" of 2 AM follow-ups and lead chasing, allowing your staff to focus on high-value tours and closings.
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Antares is technically prohibited from "guessing" or making up pricing or other information. If a query falls outside its approved knowledge base, it triggers an immediate Human Handover, flagging the conversation for your team to step in.
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We don't use rigid decision trees. Antares uses natural language to communicate in your brand voice (e.g., "energetic and supportive" or "professional and direct"). During the Validation Phase, we fine-tune the "personality" until it’s indistinguishable from a high-performing team member.
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Yes. We are enterprise-ready and compliant with standard data protection regulations (GDPR/CCPA). We do not use your proprietary lead data to train "public" AI models; your data stays within your silo.
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Like any team member, perfection isn't the baseline, performance against the status quo is. However, unlike a human, Antares has an Audit Trail for every single word it says. If an edge case occurs, we can adjust the global guardrails instantly, ensuring that specific mistake never happens again across any of your locations.
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Minimal. We handle the heavy lifting of the integration. Your team only needs to provide API access to your CRM/Calendar and approve the initial knowledge base. Most setups require less than 5 hours of total "human time" from your internal staff.
Secure Integration With The Systems You Trust
Antares connects natively with your existing tech stack to ensure
your data stays secure and your lead flow remains uninterrupted.
Trusted By Leading Fitness Operators Worldwide