Sitemap

Member-only story

AI voice agents are useless without this

2 min readJul 15, 2025

--

The rise of context engineering

Press enter or click to view image in full size
Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash

AI voice agents without context are useless

They drop calls, misbook appointments, provide the wrong information, and frustrate your leads

And it’s not because they’re “bad agents”

It’s because they have no context

The difference isn’t better scripts — it’s better context

This is one of the hottest topics in AI right now — Context engineering

Shopify’s CEO Tobi Lutke, recently described it perfectly: “Context engineering as the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solved by the LLM”

Most agent failures are not model failures anymore; they are context failures

And context isn’t just a prompt

It’s everything the model should know before it opens its mouth

👍🏽 What zip code is the caller in

👍🏽 What franchisee/location is available

👍🏽 Access to calendar availability

👍🏽 The last quote sent

👍🏽 Your brand’s exact way of speaking

👍🏽 Whether this is a new lead or a warm follow-up etc.

--

--

David Owasi
David Owasi

Written by David Owasi

I imagine and create | AI and lead generation nerd