£2 Million Raised for Voice AI: How Andy Studio Plans to Slash Operational Costs by 70%

In 2024, 686 US companies filed for bankruptcy, the highest number since 2010. While others see failure, transformation opportunities are emerging. Behind most of these failures lies a familiar culprit: unsustainable operational costs, particularly in customer service and support functions.

Enter Voice AI, the technology that's quietly revolutionising how businesses handle customer interactions. Unlike traditional solutions that merely digitise existing processes, Voice AI fundamentally reimagines the economics of service delivery. It eliminates entire cost categories while improving customer experience, creating a new operational model where AI handles repetitive interactions at scale.

Consider Domino's Pizza, which JP Morgan refers to as "a technology company disguised as a pizza company." Today, 80% of its phone orders in North America are handled by its Voice AI assistant. When they first launched voice ordering, 50% of customers demanded to speak to a human. Now, through advanced natural language processing, customer acceptance has reached nearly 100%. Store employees focus entirely on food preparation while AI handles ordering 24/7 without breaks or training costs.

£2 Million Raised: Andy Studio's Voice AI Revolution in Action

Andy Studio, a product studio that builds AI-powered solutions across various industries, is leading a bold transformation project for a European service company that has raised $2 million to reinvent its operations using Voice AI.

The $2 million investment is being deployed strategically across three phases: infrastructure development, AI customisation, and scaled deployment. Early results from the pilot program are exceeding expectations—the system is already resolving 80% of customer requests autonomously, even on complex issues. Customer satisfaction scores have increased by 10% while average handling time has dropped by 30%. And this is just the beginning: the LLMs continuously learn from each interaction, ensuring consistent improvement as they process more calls.

Curious to hear it live? Watch their Voice AI book a restaurant table with zero human intervention.

What about the remaining calls? Here's where it gets even more interesting. By integrating real-time AI translation, Andy Studio has enabled its client to centralise all human operations in a single location while serving customers in any language worldwide. This means instead of maintaining costly multilingual teams across different countries, they now have one optimised hub handling edge cases globally, further slashing costs and simplifying management.

The Expected Result: 70% Operational Cost Reduction

The numbers don't lie. A human phone agent in Europe typically costs £30 per hour, or £0.50 per minute. Even when outsourcing to low-cost regions—such as Africa, India, or Asia—rates rarely drop below £10 per hour, or approximately £0.16 per minute. And that assumes full productivity.

In reality, it's much lower.

According to Truelist, call centre agents spend on average just 31.8 minutes per hour speaking with customers. That means a £10/hour agent is effectively costing £0.31 per minute of real call time, which is over three times more than a Voice AI agent.

By contrast, Voice AI is billed only for active usage. With Bland AI, for example, a one-minute call costs approximately $0.09. There's no idle time, no breaks, no hidden costs. You only pay for results.

For cost-sensitive industries, the switch isn't a nice-to-have. It's a matter of survival.

The Andy Studio Integration Methodology: From Concept to Scale

What is the difference between a Voice AI experiment and a scalable solution? Architecture. Most companies fail because they choose the wrong models or stack components from day one, then hit a wall when trying to scale.

1. Strategic Technology Stack Selection

Andy Studio conducts deep operational analysis to determine the optimal architecture. Is it an all-in-one platform? Composable stack? Custom LLM training? Their selection matrix evaluates critical factors: latency requirements, voice authenticity scores, multilingual capabilities, integration complexity, and total cost of ownership.

2. Real-World Performance Validation

The team deploys hundreds of live test calls to measure what matters: autonomous resolution rates, human detection scores, and conversation naturalness. This battle-testing in production conditions ensures the solution performs under real-world pressure, not just in demos.

3. Seamless Business Process Integration

Andy Studio embeds Voice AI deep into existing workflows, including CRM synchronisation, webhook orchestration for automated post-call actions, and scenario mapping across all touchpoints (customer retention, booking systems, and support tickets). Every integration point is optimised for maximum automation and minimal friction.

Conclusion – Voice AI: A Disruption & An Opportunity

This isn't just a technological transformation. It's a complete redefinition of the rules.

Today, entire sectors are dominated by mature companies... but crippled by their operational costs. They haven't made the transition to AI. They continue to use dozens, even hundreds, of agents to handle repetitive processes manually. Result: their margins erode, their business model weakens, and they become vulnerable.

This is a historic opportunity.

• For startups: it's time to attack existing markets—but poorly optimised ones. With a full-AI architecture, it's now possible to create more profitable, agile, and scalable challengers, capable of competing with established leaders... and overtaking them.
• For acquirers: it's the opportunity to buy underperforming companies, automate their entire operational infrastructure, and transform a loss-making business into a cash machine—simply by rebuilding the cost structure with Voice AI.

At Andy Studio, the team collaborates with entrepreneurs, builders, and acquirers to facilitate this transition, making it possible, fast, and operational. Their mission is to create viable and profitable alternatives to what no longer exists.

Want to know more about Andy Studio? Contact their team here.

Voice AI is ready. The market is behind. Now is the time to act.