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askporter Housing — Resident Engagement

Instant answers for residents. Exceptions for your team.

Routine queries flood your contact centre. askporter resolves them across every channel, in every language, so your team focuses on the cases that need them.

The contact centre paradox

Your team is fielding the queries that least need them.

Your contact centre starts every morning behind. Pet questions sit in the same queue as damp reports. Password resets sit alongside vulnerable residents in genuine distress. After 5pm, calls are covered but most issues aren't resolved until the next working day. By then, the issue has either resolved itself or escalated. Awaab's Law has shortened the response clock; Phase 2 is widening the obligations again. Every minute spent on a query that should have been self-served is a minute not spent on the cases that decide your TSM score and your compliance position.

"We know that in that repair and maintenance journey, the most important part of it is good diagnosis. So we want to work with askporter to get that first experience for the customer right. We want a diagnosis approach that is easy for the customer, that's intuitive for the customer, and the results in a first-time fix. And that's what we did."

Karen Heaney

Karen Heaney
Director of Investment & Compliance, Legal and General Affordable Homes

Measurable from the start

Four outcomes your team will feel in the first quarter.

Building occupants and facilities staff communicating through the askporter outbound messaging assistant, showing an automated gas safety check reminder sent to Sarah with contractor details and appointment confirmation.

Reduce inbound call volume

Residents resolve queries themselves before they ever reach an agent. Self-help and instant answers handle the routine; your team sees only the cases that need them.

24/7 across every channel

Increase first-contact resolution

The right questions asked, the right photos requested, the right answer delivered — in a single conversation. Residents leave with a result, not a callback promise.

97% auto-diagnostic accuracy at L&G

Eliminate the language barrier

Residents in your most diverse buildings get the same quality of service as the rest of your portfolio. Conversations happen in their preferred language — not behind a translation plug-in.

Any language, any channel

Reduce follow up contacts

Residents don't ring to check on progress when they already know where things stand. Every update lives in a single timeline, keeping the whole issue in one place rather than scattered across different notes and phone calls.

One thread per case

Who it serves

Built around the four people in the conversation.

Residents

They reach out once, in their preferred channel and language, and get an immediate answer — at 11pm on a Sunday or 9am on a Monday. No app. No portal. No login.

Customer receiving automated confirmation message on their phone after reporting an issue

Contact Centre & Customer Service Teams

Stop fielding password resets and pet-policy questions. Pick up the cases that genuinely need a human — with the conversation history, the diagnosis and any photos already captured.

Illustration of a contact centre agent at a desk, surrounded by scenes of residents messaging, sending photos and receiving notifications across channels

Housing Officers & Repairs Coordinators

Tasks reach you with the right asset context, the right detail and the right priority — first time. Less back-and-forth, fewer chase-ups, fewer wasted visits.

Illustration of a tenant reporting a boiler fault via chat, with the job automatically raised, prioritised and assigned to a contractor with an ETA

Director of Customer Services

Service quality and cost-per-interaction both move in the right direction. Compliance evidence sits in the audit trail by default. TSM listens-and-acts metrics have a credible improvement story behind them.

Illustration of a director reviewing rising TSM score and falling service-call volume charts on a dashboard

Resident Engagement

Improved Communications

How residents interact with askporter. It handles every inbound conversation a resident starts — across WhatsApp, SMS, email and web, in any language, at any time. Pet questions get answered. Damp patches get triaged. Boiler faults get diagnosed before a callout is booked. And when a case genuinely needs a human, the handover carries the full conversation, the diagnosis and any supporting images — so the agent picks up where askporter left off, not from a blank page.

Illustration of a resident asking the askporter assistant how to read their gas meter and submitting the reading through chat

24/7 Resident Support

(Coming soon)

AI-powered conversations across WhatsApp, SMS, email and web, in any language, for any query. Always on, never queuing.

Multilingual conversations

(Coming soon)

Residents converse in their preferred language; askporter understands and responds in the same language. Built for diverse communities.

Tenancy & Property Guidance

(Coming soon)

Instant answers to policy questions, tenancy terms, appliance manuals and FAQs — without a call to the office.

Image & video recognition

(Coming soon)

Residents send photos or short clips; askporter uses them to support diagnosis and capture the right information at the point of report.

Maintenance Triage & Self-Help (including Mould & Damp)

(Coming soon)

Guided issue diagnosis with asset-specific self-help to resolve issues before escalation. Structured mould and damp reporting with compliance audit trail and vulnerability-aware prioritisation.

Escalation with full context

(Coming soon)

When a case needs a human, the handover carries the full conversation, the diagnosis and any supporting images — so agents pick up where askporter left off.

A typical task journey

What happens between the resident's first message and your team's first action.

 

Resident reaches out

On WhatsApp, SMS, email or web — in their preferred language, at any time of day or night.
 
 

askporter responds in seconds

The conversation begins immediately. No queue. No opening hours. No callback ticket.
 
 

Question understood, context gathered

askporter asks asset or property questions, requests photos where they help, and identifies the issue and best course of action.
 
 

Self-resolved or task raised

Routine queries are answered in conversation. Maintenance issues are diagnosed and structured into a system-ready task — or escalated to a human agent with the full context attached.
 
 

Conversation logged for audit

Every interaction is time-stamped and stored — ready for TSM reporting, compliance review, or Awaab's Law evidence.

Continues into Smart Repairs for the workflow journey from task raised to job complete.

Real-world resident engagement scenarios

Three moments where Resident Engagement does its work.

Reduce inbound call volume

A boiler fails at 11pm.

A resident's boiler stops working late at night. They message askporter on WhatsApp. Within minutes, they have been guided through a safe reset using their specific boiler model — no call to the out-of-hours line, no emergency callout booked. Your contact centre arrives on Monday to a queue that is shorter, not longer.

Eliminate the language barrier

A damp report comes in, in Polish.

A resident messages in Polish about a patch of damp behind a wardrobe. askporter responds in Polish, asks structured questions about the room conditions, requests a photo and produces a vulnerability-flagged damp report — ready for the housing team to action. The resident is heard in their own language; the audit trail captures the moment in your system.

Increase first-contact resolution

A pet-policy question on a Sunday morning.

A new resident wants to know whether they can keep a cat. They WhatsApp askporter. They get the policy answer instantly, with the pet-permission form linked and the relevant clause cited from their tenancy agreement. The contact centre never sees the query. The resident gets a result in under a minute.

Multi-channel resident communication

What makes Resident Engagement different.

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Every channel, one engine.

WhatsApp, SMS, email and web — all running the same conversation logic, the same memory, the same triage. Residents pick the channel that suits them; your team sees one continuous record per resident, not four disconnected inboxes.

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Native to the language they speak.

Residents converse in Polish, Bengali, Arabic, Romanian, Urdu — and askporter responds in the same language, with the same conversational quality as in English. This is not a translation plug-in layered on an English bot; it is the conversation itself.

Two individuals communicating via digital devices, one on a smartphone and one on a laptop.

A conversation that diagnoses.

askporter does not collect free text and forward it on. It asks asset-specific questions, requests photos when they would change the answer, and produces a structured, system-ready record with the right detail captured at the point of report.

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Escalation without restart.

When a case needs a human, the agent picks up with the full conversation, the diagnosis and the supporting images already in front of them. Residents do not repeat themselves. Agents do not start cold.

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Ready to give your contact centre its time back?

A 30-minute demo will show you the full conversation flow, the multilingual response, the handover to your team, and how every interaction is captured for audit. We will walk through the integration into the HMS you already use — no rip-and-replace, no roadmap meeting required.