AI Contact Center for Government & Public Sector
Serve more citizens, reduce costs, and support your accessibility and auditability obligations.
Government contact centres must serve every citizen — regardless of age, digital literacy, language, or disability — while operating within shrinking budgets and ever-increasing transparency requirements. Lobbi gives public sector organisations an AI-first contact center that handles high-volume routine enquiries at scale, routes complex cases to the right officer, and keeps a record of every interaction.
Customer Service Challenges in Government & Public Sector
Public sector contact centres operate under constraints that private sector organisations rarely face — universal service obligations, strict data governance, accessibility mandates, and political scrutiny of every service failure.
Universal service with shrinking budgets
Councils, agencies, and government departments must serve every citizen enquiry regardless of complexity, yet face perpetual headcount and budget constraints. The average cost per contact in the public sector is 4–6x higher than private sector equivalents, making efficiency improvement a fiscal imperative.
Accuracy and policy compliance
A council officer giving incorrect benefit eligibility advice or a misquoted planning policy can expose an organisation to legal challenge, FOI requests, and reputational damage. Consistency and accuracy of information delivered to citizens carries a weight that does not exist in most commercial contexts.
Digital exclusion and accessibility
A significant proportion of government service users are elderly, have disabilities, or lack digital access — populations that rely heavily on telephone contact. Automated systems that replace phone access with chatbot-only service channels actively discriminate against these groups in violation of equality legislation.
Auditability and FOI exposure
Government interactions are subject to Freedom of Information requests, subject access requests, and parliamentary scrutiny. Legacy contact centre platforms often lack the structured logging required to respond to these efficiently — creating administrative burden and legal risk.
How Lobbi Transforms Government & Public Sector Service Delivery
Lobbi fits the specific constraints of public sector use — voice-first access, multi-language support, scope rules that keep the AI on approved topics, and a record of every conversation.
Voice-first inclusive access
Lobbi's voice AI uses the same knowledge, tools, and rules as webchat — over the telephone, at any hour, in 30+ languages. Citizens who are elderly, disabled, or digitally excluded get the same answers by phone, which supports your equality obligations.
Policy-grounded AI responses
The AI answers from a knowledge base you build from approved publications, policy documents, and official guidance. Scope rules keep it on approved topics with a configurable off-topic response, and the Knowledge Playground lets you check policy answers against a draft version before going live.
Interaction records and audit log
Every conversation is stored on a ticket with timestamps. Voice calls can be recorded and transcribed with speaker separation, so citizen and officer turns are individually identifiable. An audit log keeps logins and every configuration change for 365 days, and GDPR tools export a contact's data for subject access requests. Access to the platform is protected by single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, two-factor authentication, and IP whitelisting.
Multi-language citizen service
The AI detects the citizen's language on every message and answers in it — 50+ languages on text channels, 30+ on voice — without specialist staff or manual routing. Survey texts can be set per language, supporting your obligations to serve communities with limited English proficiency.
Appointment scheduling integration
Citizens can book, reschedule, and cancel appointments with housing officers, planning officers, social workers, and other departments through voice or chat — through an integration with your booking system's API, with the citizen confirming before the booking is made.
Multi-department triage and routing
Citizens rarely know which department handles their query. Lobbi determines the relevant department from the conversation, transfers to the right queue, and gives the receiving officer an AI summary. For phone menus, IVR Analytics shows which options callers choose and where invalid inputs occur across your departments.
Common Government & Public Sector Use Cases
How local councils, central government agencies, and public bodies use Lobbi to improve citizen service delivery.
Council tax and benefits enquiries
Citizens asking about council tax bands, reduction eligibility, payment plans, and benefit application status get answers from your policy documents and — through an integration with your revenues system, after verification questions — from their own account, without speaking to an officer for routine queries.
Planning application status
Planning departments receive large volumes of status enquiries from applicants and neighbours. Through an integration with your planning system's API, Lobbi looks up the application status and decision timeline — reducing officer call handling time.
Waste and recycling service queries
Collection day changes, bin replacement requests, bulky waste bookings, and recycling guidance are among the highest-volume contacts for local government. Lobbi answers these from your knowledge base and takes requests with guided flows, leaving call centre staff for complex service failures and safeguarding referrals.
Appointment booking for public services
Citizens booking appointments for passport applications, driving licence renewals, housing needs assessments, or social work interviews are guided through availability and get a confirmed appointment through an integration with your scheduling system's API. They can check their appointment by phone, WhatsApp, or chat at any time.
Complaint intake and tracking
Citizens logging complaints about service failures go through a guided flow that captures all relevant details and explains your response timescales. The complaint becomes a ticket routed to the right team, and SLA timers with escalation policies help you meet statutory complaint handling timescales.
Social housing and repairs
Housing association and local authority tenants report repairs, query housing transfer applications, and request tenancy information. Lobbi asks about the repair — tenants can send a photo on webchat or WhatsApp — and books contractor visits through an integration with your scheduling system. Emergency repairs and safeguarding concerns are transferred to an officer, with priority rules raising the ticket priority.
Frequently Asked Questions
What procurement officers, digital leaders, and service directors ask before deploying Lobbi in the public sector.
How does Lobbi support accessibility and inclusion in public services?
The webchat widget supports keyboard navigation, screen-reader announcements and reduced-motion preferences. Voice AI serves citizens who cannot or prefer not to use digital channels, and the AI answers in the citizen's own language — 50+ languages on text channels and 30+ on voice. Talk to us about the specific accessibility requirements of your deployment.
How does Lobbi protect citizen data?
Lobbi is hosted in the EU, with data isolation between tenants, encrypted credentials and daily encrypted backups. Access is role-based (Admin, Supervisor, Agent), with single sign-on via Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace, two-factor authentication that can be enforced for the whole organisation, and IP whitelisting at organisation, entity, user and API-key level. An audit log records logins and every configuration change with before and after values for 365 days. Talk to us about the specific compliance requirements of your deployment.
Can Lobbi handle citizens who speak languages other than the national language?
Yes. On chat, WhatsApp, SMS and email the AI detects the citizen's language on every message and answers in it, in 50+ languages; voice AI supports 30+ languages, with one language per call — without manual routing or specialist staff. Survey questions can be set per language as well. This is particularly valuable for local government areas with significant immigrant or refugee populations, where access to public services in the correct language is a legal obligation in many jurisdictions.
How is Lobbi's AI kept within authorised scope for government service delivery?
Scope rules keep the bot on approved topics with a configurable off-topic response, and prompt-injection and jailbreak detection guards against attempts to steer it elsewhere. The AI answers from the knowledge base you build from approved publications and policy documents, and quick routes give fixed, predictable answers to the questions that must never vary. In the Knowledge Playground you can test policy questions against a draft version and see which passages are retrieved before going live. Each channel can carry an AI disclosure message.
Is there an audit trail of all citizen interactions for compliance purposes?
Yes. Every conversation is stored on a ticket with timestamps, an activity log and an AI summary, and voice calls can be recorded and transcribed with speaker separation. An audit log records logins and every configuration change with before and after values for 365 days. For data subject requests, GDPR tools export or erase a contact's data, and contacts can be anonymised automatically after a configurable period of inactivity. Call recordings are kept for a configurable retention period and then deleted automatically.
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Serve more citizens at lower cost — with a platform that supports the accessibility, data protection, and auditability requirements of the public sector.