How it works
2 min read
By Gonçalo Neto
A customer is in front of you when the phone rings. You can stop, or let it ring. Either way, someone does not get the answer they wanted, and you may never know who it was.
Clara Mind is an AI employee: software that answers your phone and WhatsApp when your team can’t. She picks up at lunch, at 7 pm or in the middle of another conversation, in Portuguese or English. Your team stays the face of the business.
The usual way to hand that work to someone else is a message service. Usually you get a note, later, and the rest of the conversation is gone: what they asked, and how they asked it. That is the difference worth looking at.
What you can see afterwards
| A message service | Clara |
|---|---|
| A note, when someone took one | Calls transcribed and recorded (Starter plan) |
| A name and a number | A memory of every customer, across the phone and WhatsApp |
| A request to call back | Logged, or booked in your real calendar |
| Nothing to look at until you call back | A live log of her conversations |
Figure 1.A message service hands you a note, while Clara hands you the whole conversation and what came of it.
What does she do while you work?
She is trained on your business: your services, prices, hours, the questions people ask and your booking rules. When someone gets in touch, she answers, then logs the request or books it in your real calendar.
She keeps a memory of every customer, across the phone and WhatsApp, so the next time they call or write she knows who they are.
That record is yours, not ours. It can be exported, and if you leave, it is returned to you in a usable file or deleted, as you choose.
What do you see when you look?
A live log of her conversations. On the Starter plan, calls are transcribed and recorded, so you can read or hear what was said, not a summary of it. Bookings sit in your real calendar.
See an answer you would have given differently? Any rule she follows can be changed.
What do you decide?
What she does when someone gets in touch is set out as steps, each one a switch you control. Appointment reminders 24 hours before, on WhatsApp, are one of them, so they only go out if you want them to.
Who decides what
She answers, you decide
- Someone gets in touch
On the phone or on WhatsApp.
- She answersClara
Trained on your business.
- She logs or booksClara
In your real calendar.
- You see it
In the live log.
- You decide
What she is allowed to do.
Figure 2.She does the answering and the booking, and you see each conversation and decide what she is allowed to do next.
She does not run your advertising; she works with the people who already get in touch. You stay with your customer, and you can still see what she said and did.
Hear her answer. Call +351 308 806 081, in Portuguese or in English.
Clara Mind is made by Quadrant Sunshine, in Lisbon. She answers on the phone and on WhatsApp, in Portuguese or English.
Sources
What Clara does and what you control: https://www.clara-mind.ai/
Who owns the customer record: our data terms for clients, as of 26 September 2026
