Utilities and co-operatives

The people you serve. The network you run.

Members call about an outage, a bill, or a connection. Your crews are already out on the system. Bavardio brings the account, the network, the work, and the billing into one place, so the answer a member gets matches what your operation already knows.

When the lights go out

The call centre should already know what the field knows.

An incident is one record. It can drive the message that goes out to affected members and it is the same context your team and Mia are working from when someone calls anyway.

  • Turn an affected site or device into the accounts and services behind it.
  • Notify affected members through the workflow configured for your operation.
  • Give a caller reporting a known incident the status, not a troubleshooting script.
  • Keep one status, so the next message and the next call read from the same place.

The operating day

One member, one account, one connected record.

Most of the work is not the outage. It is the ordinary day: the service request, the crew who takes it, the meter or connection it concerns, and the bill that follows. Those belong together.

Member service

Account details, service history, and recent conversations in the workspace where calls are handled.

Outage and network context

Connected equipment, affected sites, and the members each one serves.

Crews and work orders

Assignments, schedules, and the job details a crew needs before they arrive.

Service connections

New connections, disconnections, and transfers as a tracked workflow rather than a chain of emails.

Billing and payments

Recurring services, invoices, payment activity, and account balances.

Obligations and evidence

Track what is due, organise supporting records, and prepare the reporting work.

Power and broadband together

If you run both, your team should not run two operations.

A growing number of co-operatives deliver electricity and internet over the same territory, to the same members, with the same crews. Bavardio was built for the broadband side first, so both services can share one view of the member rather than one team guessing at the other's work.

An example workflow

A member calls about a loss of service.

One path through the day, to show where the context comes from and where it goes next.

  1. 01
    The member is already on screen

    The account, the service address, and recent history are there when the call connects.

  2. 02
    The system already knows

    If the outage is mapped, the caller hears its status instead of being asked to check a breaker.

  3. 03
    The work is coordinated

    A ticket or a crew assignment carries what has already been established, so nothing is re-gathered.

  4. 04
    Everyone stays informed

    Affected members can be notified through your configured workflow, and anyone who calls reaches a team working from that same incident.

Where to start

Pick the part of the day you want back.

You do not have to move everything at once. Most operations begin with the workload they can feel: the calls, or the field work, or the billing.

Call volume

What arrives by phone, and how much of it repeats.

Outage communication

How members find out, and how often they have to ask.

Crew coordination

What a crew knows before arriving, and what gets recorded after.

Billing questions

The account questions that reach a person, and why.

Common questions

Answers before the call.

Do we have to replace our existing systems?

No. The starting point is usually one workflow, with your current systems left in place. We will confirm which records and actions are supported for your setup before anything is planned.

Can Mia handle calls during an outage?

Mia can help with defined service questions and use the context available for a known incident, so a caller reporting something already being worked on hears about it rather than being walked through basic steps. Volume, routing, and escalation are agreed during setup.

How do you handle members who prefer to speak to a person?

Every workflow has a path to your team. Mia is there to shorten the routine calls and hand over the rest with the context already gathered.

Does this cover regulatory reporting?

The compliance module supports the workflow around obligations and evidence: tracking what is due, organising supporting records, and preparing the work. It does not generate or submit filings on your behalf.

We run both power and broadband. Does that work?

That is a common shape and a good fit. The same customer, network, field, and billing context can cover both services, so your team does not switch tools depending on which one the member is calling about.

Tell us about the service territory you run.

Bring a typical week: the calls, the outages, the crews, and the accounts behind them.