The part of building an AI receptionist nobody talks about

Most teams trying to build their own AI receptionist think the hard part is the AI. It's not. The AI is the easy part now. The hard part is everything around the AI. The part that doesn't show up in demos or tutorials. The part that takes six to eight months to figure out and breaks every time it goes near production. I've watched a few teams try to build this themselves. They all hit the same wall. 1000ms — Total latency budget per response 6-8 mo — Orchestration buildout before production 8 la