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Concierge preview
Concierge preview · August 2026

Fuse, Plugs, and a concierge that scales everywhere your customers are.

A working picture of what Lorikeet-powered support looks like inside Fuse: in the app, on the web, on voice, and reaching out before the bill lands.

Prepared for
Evan Moynihan
Date
August 2026
From
Alex Holder & Robbie Tilleard
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Summary
Executive summary

What Lorikeet brings to Fuse

1

Same seat inside Intercom, richer concierge underneath

Plugs stays as the brand. The team keeps its inbox. What changes is the agent behind it: authored in natural language by ops, guardrailed by default, and covered by simulation.

2

The frontier layer, out of the box

Voice, simulations, guardrails, and proactive outbound. The four things Fuse is looking at building next, shipped from day one, without adding engineering headcount.

3

From containment to product

Plugs is already at 70–80% containment. The value is what's above that: proactive reach-out on bill day, meter-read voice calls, onboarding recovery. Support that becomes part of the Fuse product.

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Discovery
What we heard

The shape of the problem, from Evan

Fuse today

Plugs is doing well. It's the ceiling that's the problem.

  • 70–80% containment on switching and billing. Meters run lower.
  • 70k inbound / month, with a bill-day spike of 5–6k in a single day.
  • Support team of 30–50, scaling to 70–80 on bill days.
  • Built on Google ADK / Gemini. Quality is hands-on: someone flags a bad reply, an engineer fixes it in code.

What Evan wants to see next

Frontier features. Without hiring the engineers to build them.

  • Voice. On the roadmap. Not yet in the app.
  • Proactive outbound. Signal-based reach-out. None today.
  • Simulations, guardrails, quality scoring. None today.
  • Long-running goal-based tickets. Change of address, complaints, backend malfunctions.
  • Decision timeline: two weeks to a direction, one month to move.
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Concierge · surfaces
Where the concierge shows up

One concierge, three surfaces

01

In the Fuse app · Plugs tab

Same entry point customers use today, contextual to the account (tariff, meter, EV, solar). Runs the switching and refund tools directly. Hands off to a human cleanly, with a full internal note.

02

On fuseenergy.com · widget & proactive nudge

Handles switching questions on the marketing site. Qualifies leads before signup. Answers "what's my next bill" for signed-in customers. Same concierge, different context.

03

Outbound · voice, email, in-app push

Bill-day preview. Meter-read reminders by voice for repeat non-responders. Onboarding recovery. Complaint follow-up. Triggered from Fuse's system of record, driven by Lorikeet.

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In the app
Example · in the Fuse app

Bill lands £34 higher. Plugs handles it before support does.

Home tab, morning of bill day
Plugs opens with context. No lookup step, no "let me pull up your account".
9:41100%
fuse.
Plugs Your August bill is £34 higher than July. Cold snap last week. Want me to walk you through it?
Next bill
£128.40
Forecast updated 4 mins ago
Tariff
Fuse Variable
Beats the price cap by 8%
Home
Usage
Plugs
Account
Customer taps in. Outcome in four turns.
Tool call runs mid-conversation. Guardrail checks the split against payment policy before the confirmation renders.
9:42100%
Plugsby Fuse
Plugs
Morning Sarah. Your bill came in at £128.40, up from £94.20. Two drivers: cold snap 12–17 Aug added ~£22, and EV charging jumped ~40% (four extra sessions). Want the split-payment option?
Sarah
Yeah, split it into two.
Plugs
£64.20 on 3 Sep, £64.20 on 17 Sep. No fee. Confirm?
Sarah
Confirm
Done. Confirmation on its way.
Home
Usage
Plugs
Account
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On the web
Example · fuseenergy.com

Prospect lands from Google Ads. Plugs qualifies and quotes before they leave.

fuseenergy.com
Get a quote
Easy savings, easier support, 24hrs a day.
Switch and save up to £200. Beat the UK price cap. Skip the nonsense, sign up in under 3 mins.
Get a quote
See tariffs
Bill day is Wed for you Want me to break it down before it lands? I can flag anything unusual.
From Plugs · signed in as Sarah
Chat with Plugs online
Plugs
Hi. Ready to see what you'd save with Fuse? I just need your postcode.
You
E2 8AA
Plugs
Nice. Based on average usage in E2, Fuse Variable would save you about £184/year vs the current cap. Want a proper quote?
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Proactive outbound
Proactive outbound · three plays

Reach out before the ticket is filed

01

Bill-day preview

24 hours before bill day, Plugs reaches customers flagged by the context engine: unusual usage, first bill on a new tariff, big EV month. Explains the number before it lands.

Triggerbill_forecast_delta > 15%
ChannelIn-app push, email fallback
ReducesThe 5–6k bill-day peak
02

Meter-read reminders

The meters queue has higher escalation because a missed input compounds into a wrong bill. Plugs reaches out on schedule, walks the customer through submission, retries if it fails. Voice for repeat non-responders.

Triggerno_reading_for > 45d
ChannelPush, email, voice
Amber analogSame pattern we run today
03

Onboarding recovery

"Sign up in under 3 mins" leaks people. Plugs reaches abandoned signups with the specific step they got stuck on, answers the question, recovers the conversion.

Triggerabandoned_signup > 24h
ChannelEmail first, in-app on return
OwnerFuse growth team
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Voice
Voice · outbound meter read

The call the customer never had to make

Plugs · outbound01:12
LIVE
00:00
Plugs
Hi Michael, this is Plugs from Fuse. Just calling to help you submit your meter reading for August. Is now a good time?
00:06
Michael
Uh, yeah, sure. What do I need to do?
00:11
Plugs
Head to your electricity meter. Look for the display with a row of numbers. Read them out when you're ready.
00:24
Michael
Okay, I'm here. It says 42817.
00:26
tool
submit_meter_reading(mpxn=***, value=42817)
00:29
Plugs
Got it, 42817. In line with your usage this month, so your bill will land around £96. Confirmation is on its way.
00:41
Michael
Perfect, thanks.
00:43
Plugs
Cheers, Michael. Have a good one.
#tkt_87a2f · outbound · voice
CLOSED
Concierge
Plugs · Meter Reads
Customer
Michael Redwood · Fuse Variable
Trigger
no_reading_for > 45d
Outcome
reading_submitted (42817)
Duration
00:47
Tools called
submit_meter_reading, notify_customer
Guardrails
3 passed, 0 held
TQS
0.94 · in-range for voice

Streaming ASR tuned for tariff and meter vocabulary. Barge-in for interruptions. Voicemail hits a deterministic subworkflow instead of the LLM freestyling. A guardrail suppresses filler so the call sounds like an agent, not a bot narrating.

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Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes

The frontier layer, out of the box

01

Simulations

Every workflow change runs against a bank of representative tickets before it ships. Regression coverage that Fuse would otherwise build in Vertex from scratch.

What it prevents: the "why did it say that" moment being caught by a customer instead of by a test.
02

Guardrails & message checks

Pre-processing catches vulnerable customers, sensitive intents, PII. Post-processing catches unauthorised promises (refunds, discounts, policy statements) before the customer sees them.

Fuse today: reactive. A team member flags a bad message, an engineer fixes it. Guardrails are the preventative version.
03

Ops-owned NLW authoring

Workflows are natural-language documents in the web app, not code. Support and ops edit them directly. Engineers only get involved when new tools need building.

Why it matters: Pluggz sits with your engineers today. Headcount, slow iteration. Lorikeet moves ownership to the team closest to the customer.
04

Long-running goals

Tickets that take five days (complaints, backend malfunctions, change of address) get a goal-oriented concierge. It holds the goal, re-engages after silence, closes only when the goal is met.

Frontier area: few vendors do this well. Lorikeet is pursuing it as a core capability.
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Volumes
Volumes

The shape Lorikeet has to absorb

Monthly inbound
70k
Last month across switching, billing, and meters.
Bill week peak
25k
First week of August. The concentrated push.
Bill day peak
5–6k
Single-day spike. Where headcount doubles.
Plugs containment
70–80%
Switching & billing. Meters queue lower.
Support team
30–50
Scaling to 70–80 heads on bill days.
Channels today
2
In-app + email. Voice on the roadmap.
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Pilot shape
Pilot shape · September

Four weeks to a build-vs-buy decision, backed by evidence

Week 1
Sandbox up
  • Fuse sandbox stood up
  • Help centre & SOPs imported
  • Kickoff on scope & success criteria
  • DPA & CSA in parallel
Week 2
Build
  • Workflows authored for three flows
  • Fuse backend + national DBs wired
  • Guardrails configured
  • First internal simulation runs
Week 3
Simulate
  • 30–50 anonymised historical tickets replayed
  • Daily quality review with Fuse ops
  • Adjustments shipped same-day
  • Voice + outbound demoed live
Week 4
Decide
  • Ticket-level audit against rubric
  • Written build-vs-buy comparison
  • LT review with COO / CTO / CEO
  • Go / no-go on live pilot
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Team & governance
Team & governance

Small, senior team on both sides

Lorikeet

Robbie Tilleard
GM Europe · executive sponsor
Alex Holder
Growth · pilot lead
Forward Deployed Engineer
Named at kickoff · workflow build & integration
Forward Deployed PM
Named at kickoff · quality & simulation coverage
Lorikeet FDE and FDPM embedded in a shared Slack channel with the Fuse team for the pilot duration. Fixes shipped within 24 hours.

Fuse

Evan Moynihan
DRI · pilot lead, drives build-vs-buy analysis
Engineering point of contact
Named at kickoff · API access, backend tools
CX / ops reviewer
Named at kickoff · daily quality review
Leadership sponsors
COO, CTO, CEO · final sign-off
Fuse owns the trigger data and the ticket queue. Lorikeet owns the concierge behaviour and the quality bar.
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Next steps
Next steps

What happens next

1

Wednesday demo

Voice + proactive outbound, live from a Lorikeet sandbox. Amber energy customer story alongside. Same day: commercial framing sent to Evan.

2

Fuse volume & ticket sample

Anonymised sample of ~200 tickets across switching, billing, and meters. Volume breakdown by inbox. Sent from Evan same week.

3

DPA + CSA in parallel

NDA already in place. DPA and Cloud Services agreement kicked off with legal on both sides so they don't gate the sandbox build.

4

Pilot kickoff · first week of September

Half-day session to confirm scope, success criteria, and DRIs. Sandbox build begins Week 1. Decision by end of Week 4.

5

Leadership review · end of September

Ticket-level audit and build-vs-buy write-up delivered to COO, CTO, CEO. Written decision to proceed to production, extend, or stop.

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Close
Close

Ready to move as fast as Fuse is ready to decide.

If the decision needs to land inside a month, we can be in a sandbox by Week 1 and in front of your leadership team by Week 4. The only thing waiting on Fuse is the tickets and the sign-off.

Growth · pilot lead
Alex Holder
alex.holder@lorikeetcx.ai
GM Europe · sponsor
Robbie Tilleard
robbie@lorikeetcx.ai
www.lorikeetcx.ai · concierge preview · Aug 2026