ANET Troubleshooting & Escalation Guide

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CATEGORY 1: SYSTEM FOUNDATIONS

1.1 – ANET Overview & Operating Model

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Misunderstanding of the non-emergency scope

  • Incorrect expectations about automation replacing dispatch

  • Staff confusion about conversational vs menu behavior

  • Misinterpretation of safety bias

These are training or policy alignment issues.

Elevate to Support If

  • The system behaves outside the documented safety model

  • Intent routing appears to bypass safety unexpectedly

  • Guardrails fail to activate when clearly required


1.2 – Safety Model & Escalation Logic

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single safety escalation

  • Policy disagreement about over-transfer

  • Staff concerns about conservative behavior

  • Misinterpretation of the safety transfer reason

Elevate to Support If

  • Repeated safety escalations without trigger language

  • Escalation fails to trigger when obvious risk language is present

  • Sudden spike in safety transfers without configuration changes

  • Safety override appears inconsistent across similar calls


CATEGORY 2: CONFIGURATION & CONTROL

2.1 – Intents & Scenario Design

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Intent misclassification

  • Overlapping intents

  • Conditional logic errors

  • Questions asked out of order

  • Unnecessary transfers due to action selection

Review:

  • Intent mapping

  • Example utterances

  • Action configuration

Elevate to Support If

  • Intent classification fails across multiple clearly similar calls

  • Confidence scoring appears broken

  • System ignores configured intent rules

  • Changes do not persist after saving configuration


2.2 – Actions & Outcome Configuration

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Incorrect transfer number

  • Missing fallback configuration

  • Misaligned default action

  • Unexpected transfer during business hours

Validate:

  • Action settings

  • Time-based routing

  • Fallback logic

Elevate to Support If

  • Transfers route correctly in config but fail live

  • Calls terminate unexpectedly without configured action

  • Guardrails override properly configured action without visible trigger


2.3 – Time-Based Routing & Feature Controls

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Incorrect business hour routing

  • Holiday misrouting

  • Feature flag accidentally enabled/disabled

  • Unexpected automation after-hours

Validate:

  • Schedule boundaries

  • Time zone settings

  • Feature flag states

Elevate to Support If

  • Routing ignores correct schedule settings

  • Time blocks behave inconsistently

  • Feature flag changes do not apply

  • Multiple time-triggered failures across intents


CATEGORY 3: VOICE & LANGUAGE PROCESSING

3.1 – Speech Processing & Conversational Stack

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Minor transcription errors

  • Occasional barge-in interruption

  • Single LLM delay

  • Thinking indicator confusion

Review:

  • Transcript

  • Timeline

  • Retry events

Elevate to Support If

  • Repeated agent_failure transfers

  • Widespread STT mishearing across many calls

  • Multiple LLM timeouts in short window

  • Barge-in instability across calls

  • Provider outages suspected


3.2 – Language Handling & Switching

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single incorrect language detection

  • Caller confusion during switch

  • Occasional unsupported language transfer

Review:

  • Language detection thresholds

  • Switch cap settings

  • Transcript language consistency

Elevate to Support If

  • Oscillation between languages repeatedly

  • Auto-detection misfires across multiple calls

  • Stack partially switches (STT changes but TTS does not)

  • Language change tool fails to execute


CATEGORY 4: CALL ROUTING & TRANSFERS

4.1 – Transfer Types & Routing Logic

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single unexpected transfer

  • Time-based routing confusion

  • Intent-based transfer misunderstood

  • Jurisdiction rule misapplied

Validate:

  • Intent action

  • Transfer number

  • Time logic

  • Location verification

Elevate to Support If

  • Repeated unknown transfer reasons

  • Agent_failure spike

  • Safety escalation spike without clear trigger

  • Transfers routing to wrong number despite correct config

  • Transfer loops not caused by telephony misconfiguration


4.2 – Call Lifecycle & Duration Controls

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single duration-cap transfer

  • One-time timeout

  • Minor retry event

Review:

  • Timeline

  • Duration thresholds

  • Retry limits

Elevate to Support If

  • Frequent duration-cap transfers

  • Retry loops

  • Early timeouts across multiple calls

  • Calls ending abruptly without clear lifecycle event


CATEGORY 5: TELEPHONY & DEPLOYMENT

5.1 – Telephony Architecture & Call Forwarding

Troubleshoot Internally (Admin + IT)

  • Forwarding rule incorrect

  • Return line misconfigured

  • Caller ID mismatch

  • Looping caused by PBX routing

  • Adjacent PSAP number incorrect

Validate:

  • Carrier forwarding

  • Dedicated return line

  • No forwarding on return line

  • End-to-end test calls

Elevate to Support If

  • Clean telephony configuration but transfer fails

  • Calls disappear mid-transfer

  • No call reaches ANET despite correct forwarding

  • Repeated fallback transfers without telephony explanation

Telephony must be validated internally before escalation.


CATEGORY 6: INTEGRATIONS

6.1 – CAD Integration & CFS Workflows

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Missing required field

  • Incorrect field mapping

  • Misaligned incident category

  • Draft fallback expected but misunderstood

Validate:

  • Field mapping

  • Required field list

  • Workflow mode (Automated vs Suggested)

  • CAD availability

Elevate to Support If

  • Repeated failed submissions with correct fields

  • CAD submission succeeds but data corrupted

  • Status in Triage does not match CAD record

  • Integration works intermittently

  • API authentication errors

Provide:

  • Call IDs

  • Timestamps

  • Error messages

  • CAD record examples


6.2 – Future Integrations

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Field mismatch

  • Authentication credential expired

  • Feature flag misalignment

Elevate to Support If

  • Integration returns structured errors repeatedly

  • Data loss suspected

  • External system rejects properly formatted payload

  • Unexpected duplicate submissions


CATEGORY 7: MONITORING & OVERSIGHT

7.1 – Dashboard & Triage

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single anomaly

  • One unusual transfer

  • One low score

  • Status misunderstood

Use:

  • Transcript review

  • Timeline review

  • Score correlation

Elevate to Support If

  • Repeated anomalies of same type

  • Dashboard status inconsistent with Triage

  • Timeline missing expected events

  • Data not populating


7.2 – Analytics

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Minor daily fluctuation

  • One-day spike

  • Seasonal volume shift

Compare:

  • Weekly trends

  • Prior periods

Elevate to Support If

  • Analytics data missing

  • Metrics inconsistent with Triage data

  • Large unexplained trend change without config changes

  • Data aggregation delays persist


7.3 – Scoring, Tags & Observability

Troubleshoot Internally

  • Single low score

  • Individual mis-tag

  • Slight score fluctuation

Review:

  • Transcript

  • Transfer reason

  • Intent clarity

Elevate to Support If

  • Score category appears broken across many calls

  • Tags applied incorrectly across patterns

  • Scoring logic not aligning with transcript

  • No scoring generated


Escalation Rule of Thumb

Escalate to Support when:

  • The issue is repeated

  • The issue crosses multiple calls

  • The issue contradicts documented configuration

  • The issue cannot be explained by telephony or configuration

  • The issue suggests provider instability

  • Data integrity may be affected

Do not escalate:

  • Isolated calls

  • Policy disagreements

  • Training issues

  • Expected safety behavior