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Outage-Communication AI Agent

Assemble outage notices from confirmed incident evidence, track the notification clocks that run from discovery, and hold each notice for the duty officer, who decides what is released and when.

Typical delivery
4–6 weeks
Deployment
Your stack
Duty officer
Clock-tracked
After launch
Agent Care

What this agent does

Assembles the notice, not the decision to send

In

  1. 01

    Ingest incident records, alarm evidence and impact data from supported assurance, ticketing or incident sources.

  2. 02

    Normalise element names, timestamps and time zones, and carry each fact forward with the system it came from.

Reason

  1. 03

    Assemble the notice for one audience at a time — customer, enterprise account, public safety or regulator.

  2. 04

    Apply the notification rules configured for that audience and that jurisdiction.

  3. 05

    Bind each stated fact to confirmed incident evidence, and mark what is still unverified.

Decide

  1. 06

    Track the clocks that run from discovery, and surface which deadline falls next.

  2. 07

    Route the notice to the duty officer, who decides whether it is released.

Out

  1. 08

    Retain the evidence, the notice, the officer's edits and what went to whom.

  2. 09

    Execute write actions only inside the approval boundaries agreed during implementation.

Product statement

The agent assembles notices, one audience at a time; the duty officer decides what is released, and the carrier stays the party the regulator holds to the duty.

Example workflow

One incident, discovery to release

  1. 1Incident confirmedAssurance alarm, NOC incident ticket, field report or planned-work record
  2. 2Evidence assembledStart time with time zone, services and area affected, each with the system it came from
  3. 3Notice assembledAudience, content fields and confidence
  4. 4Controls appliedEvidence checks, audience and jurisdiction rules, duty-by-duty clock checks and confidence threshold

No human action required

Stages 1 to 4 run unaided, and nothing is sent at any of them — the agent is assembling, and the duty officer's lane opens at the confidence gate.

5DecisionBranches at the confidence threshold
High confidence

Goes to the duty officer to approve.

Low confidence

Adds an incident-lead read first.

Duty-officer approval

The notice is held with its evidence, its unverified marks and the confidence.

Approve · Edit · Escalate to incident lead

Approved — released to send

  1. 6Notification systems updatedOnly where write access and approval policy allow it
  2. 7Outcome evaluatedTime to notice, edit distance, clock margin and corrections issued after the fact

Edits

Every officer edit is counted, and so is every notice corrected after it went out.

What should not run autonomously

Human approval stays in control

Outside the boundary — human approval required

8 items

  • Releasing a notice to customers or the market.
    • Declaring an all-clear or a final assessment.
    • Filing or attesting anything to a regulator.
    • Granting, promising or calculating an SLA credit.

  • Automation boundary

    Agent acts unaided

    • ✓Assemble a notice for one audience from confirmed evidence.
    • ✓Carry each stated fact forward with the system it came from.
    • ✓Track each clock from discovery and surface the next deadline.
    • ✓Hold the notice for the duty officer, and log what went.

    Any send happens inside the boundaries agreed at implementation, never ahead of the officer's release.

    • Sending a PSAP or 988 facility notification.
    • Deciding whether a reporting threshold is met.
    • Treating one activation as covering another duty.
  • Changes to notification, jurisdiction or approval rules.

Example output

One outage notice, annotated

Everything the agent assembles is attached to the incident it was drawn from.

Notice output · single incident

Illustrative example
Incident
Regional voice fault
Drafted line
Voice calls are failing for subscribers in two metropolitan areas
Start time
02:45 UTC
Source of record
Assurance incident record
Confidence
88%
Audience
Enterprise account contacts

As received

Taken from the incident record and the assurance evidence — nothing on this side is written by the agent.

Evidence used

  • Assurance alarm record
  • Incident ticket
  • Element inventory

Why this wording

Restored is a network state, not a customer state and a person still decides.

What the score decides

Below the configured threshold the notice picks up an incident-lead read before it.

Action

ApproveEditEscalate to incident lead

Value

Where AI adds value

The same four claims, placed at the point in the workflow where each one applies.

Where the value lands

Value 01 – 04

Each confirmed incident

From the incident record

03Assembly

Draft from the record

Draw on the incident evidence, the configured notification rules and the credit entitlements the contract states.

01Approved path

Say what is known, on the clock

Routine notices and audience variants arrive already assembled, and stay separate.

02Human review

Point the officer at the exposure

Unverified marks, contract deadlines and low-confidence drafts are flagged, so the officer's read starts where the exposure sits.

04

Build an evidence trail

The notice, the evidence behind it and the duty officer who released it stay on the incident.

Integrations

Typical integrations

Five system groups connect to the same agent. Which of them are in scope is decided in discovery.

  • Assurance and alarms

    • IBM Netcool
    • Nokia NSP
    • Ericsson OSS
    • Splunk

  • Incident management

    • ServiceNow
    • Jira Service Management
    • PagerDuty
    • xMatters

  • Customer notification

    • Twilio
    • Everbridge
    • Statuspage
    • Service Cloud

Agent

Outage communication

  • Reads the incident
  • Assembles the notice
  • Holds for release

  • Workflow and approval

    • Email
    • duty paging
    • Audit and evidence stores

  • Observability & evaluation

    • OpenTelemetry
    • Langfuse
    • Supported monitoring/evaluation sources

Integration availability depends on the client's existing systems and API access.

Agent controls

Six layers between the model and the send

Each control encloses the last. Whatever slips past all of them is named below.

L6 · Outermost — last line of defence

Inward → L1 · closest to the model

L6Rollback / safe modeCut the agent back to assembly-only when evaluation or production signals degrade.Roll back
L5Version monitoringTrack model, prompt, notification-rule and jurisdiction-configuration changes.Track
L4TraceabilityRecord the evidence, the notice, the edits, the release time and the recipients.Record
L3Duty-officer releaseHold notices for the named officer with the next deadline showing; it governs the send, not whether approved text is right.Gate
L2Policy guardrailsTest drafts against configured audience, jurisdiction and confidentiality rules; a failure returns the draft.Restrict
L1Confidence thresholdsRoute low-confidence notices to an incident-lead read before the officer sees them.Require review
Model coreNotice assembled — audience, content fields, unverified marks and confidence
L1 – L2
Test whether a notice may stand
L3
Puts the send in an officer's hands
L4 – L5
Keep the notice and the evidence behind it
L6
Cuts back to acknowledged-only when signals degrade

How Nestack evaluates it

Evaluate the notification workflow — not only the finished notice.

Coverage runs the whole depth of the workflow, and every layer is cut by slice.

Surface — the notice the customer sees

  1. E1Final-output evaluationDid every stated fact in the notice match its evidence?
  2. E2Step-level evaluationDid the agent use the right incident, audience rules and jurisdiction configuration?
  3. E3Tool evaluationDid it read the correct incident and write to the correct channel?
  4. E4Confidence calibrationDo low-confidence notices actually attract more officer edits?
  5. E5Slice evaluationHow does performance change across specific incident classes?
  6. E6Business outcomeHow many notices needed an officer edit or a correction after release?

Floor — what the regulator sees on the record

Failure modes

Where each failure originates in the agent

Seven ways a notice goes wrong, set at its own stage.

Agent lifecycle

Direction of processing →

  1. 01 · Retrieval

    1 mode

    • HQ-03

      Stale impact picture

      Scope or start time read from a superseded incident update.

    Stage gathers

    Incident record, alarm evidence, impact data and audience rules

  2. 02 · Reasoning

    2 modes

    • HQ-04

      Unsupported cause stated

      A hypothesis about cause is written as an established fact.

    • HQ-06

      Confidentiality crossover

      Content from a confidential filing is drawn into a customer notice.

    Stage proposes

    Audience, content fields and confidence

  3. 03 · Tool / write

    2 modes

    • HQ-02

      Late or suppressed notice

      Batching or triage consumes a window that runs from discovery.

    • HQ-05

      Wrong jurisdiction rule

      One regime's timing is applied to an incident under another.

    Stage writes

    Only where write access and approval policy allow it

  4. 04 · Output

    1 mode

    • HQ-01

      Premature all-clear

      Recovery is declared while customer service is still failing.

    Stage returns

    The notice the officer releases and the customer reads

  5. 05 · Change / Version

    1 mode

    • HQ-07

      Silent rule regression

      A model or rule change loosens what a notice may state.

    Stage tracks

    Model, prompt, notification rules and jurisdiction config

  • Sev-1 · a required notification goes late
  • Sev-2 · a wrong statement reaches an audience
  • Sev-3 · evidence degrades, notice routes to review
See the complete Telecom failure-mode catalogue

Affected slices

Overall health can hide one exposed class

Base rates differ by incident class, so an aggregate correction rate is only a weighted average of cohorts that do not behave alike. Nestack reports the officer-correction rate by slice, not only in total.

Slice performance — reported separately, not only in aggregate

Illustrative example
SliceFailure rateLiftLift vs. thresholdStatus
Multi-jurisdiction incidents8.6%3.6×Review
Enterprise account notices6.0%2.5×Review
Planned-maintenance events4.1%1.7×Watch
Single-market voice incidents2.2%0.9×Normal

Bar: officer-correction-rate lift vs. single-market baseline · scale 0–4.0× · tick marks the 2.0× review threshold

2 of 4 slices over threshold

Evidence-linked improvement

The loop closes on a test, not a report

The cycle does not end in a post-mortem. It ends in a case the next release has to clear, and that suite is what the next notice out is measured against.

Improvement cycle · five stages

Switchback — the path turns at Improve and returns at Learn

  1. 01

    Detect

    Officer-correction rate rises in an incident class.

  2. 02

    Diagnose

    The duty officer who picked it up walks back through the notices and the evidence behind them until one cause holds.

  3. 03

    Improve

    Each change carries a version and the notices that forced it.

  4. 04

    Verify

    Release waits on the affected cases going green again.

  5. 05

    Learn

    The case is kept for good, and the notification playbook is rewritten.

  6. Learn → Detect

    The return edge. The next detection runs against a suite that is one case longer.

Typical build scope

Twelve workstreams across six weeks

The build scope read against the delivery timeline. Week structure follows the six-week plan — discovery, sources, notification workflow, evaluation, integration, then production validation and handover.

Workstream

Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6

  1. 01Incident communication workflow discovery and boundary definition.Week 1
  2. 02Assurance and incident source assessment.Week 1, Week 2
  3. 03Jurisdiction, audience and notification-rule mapping.Week 1, Week 2
  4. 04Incident ingestion and normalisation.Week 2
  5. 05Notice assembly and evidence binding.Week 2, Week 3
  6. 06Confidence scoring and clock routing.Week 3
  7. 07Duty-officer approval workflow.Week 3, Week 4
  8. 08Notification-channel integration.Week 5
  9. 09Clock and all-clear cases.Week 4, Week 5
  10. 10Guardrails and release controls.Week 4
  11. 11Notice-trail instrumentation.Week 5, Week 6
  12. 12Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover.Week 6

12 workstreams · 6 weeks · bar shows the weeks a workstream is active — several run in parallel

Final scope and sequence confirmed in discovery

Engagement tiers

What each tier includes

Rows are the capabilities named in each tier's scope. Higher tiers include everything below them.

Capability✓ in scope · — not at this tierPilotOne network, one marketProductionProduction incident systemsAdvancedMultiple markets / jurisdictions
Introduced at Pilot
Assembly from your incident record✓✓✓
Duty-officer approval✓✓✓
Notice-accuracy baseline✓✓✓
Introduced at Production
Reporting by incident class—✓✓
Approval workflow in your systems—✓✓
Approved channel write-back—✓✓
Incident-system integration—✓✓
Introduced at Advanced
Multi-jurisdiction notification rules——✓
Multi-stage incident approvals——✓
High incident volume——✓
Multi-jurisdiction notice controls——✓
Build priceFrom $5,000From $8,000Custom quote
Final build price
Confirmed after discovery based on integrations, workflow complexity, transaction volume, approval controls and deployment requirements.
Separate from build
Build pricing is separate from recurring Agent Care, which covers managed monitoring, evaluations, incidents and verified improvements after launch.

What we need from you

What you bring, and what we build with it

Each input maps to a piece of build scope and a week in the delivery timeline.

  1. 01Your incident classes and notification triggers

    Incident ingestion and evidence mapping

    Week 1

  2. 02Representative notices from past incidents

    Assembly baseline, wording extraction and evidence binding

    Week 2

  3. 03Your approved notice templates and standing wording

    Jurisdiction, audience and notification-rule mapping

    Week 1

  4. 04Access to relevant APIs, feeds or exports

    Assurance and incident-source assessment, then integration setup

    Week 2

  5. 05Notices you would not want sent

    All-clear cases and failure-mode testing

    Week 4

  6. 06What a notice may never declare on its own

    Confidence scoring, clock routing, guardrails and release controls

    Week 3

  7. 07Named duty officers to review notices

    Duty-officer approval workflow, then pilot and production validation

    Weeks 5–6

Nothing else is required

Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover are ours.

Delivery timeline

Four phases across six weeks

The bands sit on the weeks the work occupies, which is why the fifth carries two kinds at once.

Phase

W1

W2

W3

W4

W5

W6

  1. DiscoveryW1
  2. BuildW2 – W3
  3. EvaluateW4 – W5
  4. Pilot & LaunchW5 – W6

Week focus

W1Incident communication discovery, rule mapping and the automation boundary

W2Assurance and incident integration, and the assembly baseline

W3Notification workflow, clock logic and release controls

W4Evaluation suite, all-clear checks and failure-mode testing

W5Channel integration, pilot incidents and targeted corrections

W6One incident cycle communicated under the duty officer, then handover

Reading the band
Each bar covers only the weeks its work is named in. The fifth-week overlap is real work, not padding.
At the end of W6
The cycle closes the validation and Agent Care takes over monitoring.
Duration
Six-week plan shown · typical delivery 4–6 weeks depending on scope confirmed in discovery.

Next step · Telecom AI agent

Build an outage-communication agent around your incident process.

Show us your incident record and who holds the duty phone. Which clock would you struggle to evidence today? We'll map the workflow, set the boundary and name what stays with the officer.

Typical delivery
4–6 weeks
Deployment
Your incident stack
Duty officer
Clock-tracked
After launch
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