Appointment Copilot — Responsibility Boundaries

Responsibility Boundaries

A scope edge for first contact and calendar handoff

This page defines where Appointment Copilot’s responsibility ends and where your organization’s responsibility remains.

It is written to support internal review and operational clarity.

Boundary Summary

Appointment Copilot handles first contact. It acknowledges inbound inquiries, captures information within configured fields, routes appropriately, and documents the interaction.

The clean handoff ends at calendar confirmation. After calendar confirmation, internal handling begins.

Configuration authority: boundaries, routing rules, and scheduling behavior are configured in collaboration with your team during implementation.

What AC Handles / What You Retain

These lists describe scope, not outcomes.

AC Handles

  • First-contact acknowledgment across configured channels
  • Information capture within configured fields
  • Professional, bounded conversation posture
  • Routing to the correct internal destination
  • Documentation of what was captured and communicated
  • Calendar confirmation when enabled

You Retain

  • All professional judgment and decisions
  • Eligibility, suitability, and next-step determination
  • Advice, commitments, and representations
  • Client/patient/customer relationship management
  • Downstream follow-up and service delivery
  • Quality control and oversight of internal operations

Scope note: Appointment Copilot does not evaluate inquiries, decide outcomes, or assume responsibility for professional decisions. It is a first-contact handling layer with explicit termination at calendar confirmation (when scheduling is enabled).

Calendar as the Containment Boundary

Scheduling is treated as a boundary event. If scheduling is enabled for a workflow, the system can confirm a calendar event as the terminal state for first contact.

After that point, responsibility transitions to your internal team. Appointment Copilot does not continue downstream interaction unless explicitly configured for additional first-contact handling scenarios.

Oversight and Review

Interactions are documented to support internal review. This allows your team to verify what information was captured, what routing occurred, and what the system communicated.

Your organization determines how documentation is reviewed, retained, and incorporated into internal processes.