Built different

Not a chatbot. An agent.

Cara was designed by collections industry experts — not a generic LLM bolted onto a script. She thinks in terms of payment waterfalls, extension policies, repo timing, NSF resolution, and compliance constraints. She knows when to push and when to listen.

Industry-trained

Domain expertise embedded throughout — not generic conversation patterns.

Full conversation memory

Every prior interaction, every commitment, every objection — Cara picks up exactly where she left off.

Compliant by design

Embedded regulatory knowledge — Reg F, UDAAP, state rules. Every interaction is logged, monitored, and auditable.

Knows when to hand off

When a conversation needs a human, Cara routes seamlessly to a live agent with full context attached.


Intent recognition

Cara understands what your customer is actually asking.

Every message gets classified across a rich set of collections-specific intents — so the response is always grounded in what the customer truly wants.

Promise to pay

Capture, structure, and confirm new commitments — including partial promises and split arrangements.

Broken promise

Recognize and recover from missed commitments with the right tone and the right next step.

Payment

Trigger pre-calculation, walk through payment waterfall, and complete the transaction in-conversation.

Extensions

Evaluate eligibility, educate when to use vs. preserve, and process compliantly.

Repo timing

Understand the stakes, communicate urgency, and steer to a recoverable outcome.

Q&A

Answer account questions, payment history, terms, fees — accurately and consistently.

Regulatory

Know what to disclose, what not to say, and when to deliver required language.

Customer info

Verify identity, capture updates, and pull the right context into every reply.

Live agent request

Recognize the moment a human is needed and hand off without a customer ever repeating themselves.


How it works

Inside Cara’s cognitive stack.

Channel

Voice · Chat · Text

Cara

Intent · Memory · Strategy

Cognitive Services

Knowledge · Identity · Compliance

Channel layer

Cara reaches customers where they already are — text, chat, or voice — and adapts tone and pacing to fit each medium.

Reasoning layer

Intent classification, conversation history retrieval, and negotiation strategy selection happen in milliseconds on every turn.

Knowledge layer

Customer info, regulatory rules, FAQs, and account state — all wired in. Cara cites real account facts, never guesses.

Coverage

Every stage of delinquency, one agent.

1 – 30 DPD

Early stage

Friendly nudges, payment confirmations, Smartlink delivery, simple Q&A. Goal: keep accounts current with minimal friction.

31 – 60 DPD

Mid stage

Personalized planning, partial promises, extension education, broken-promise recovery. Complexity ramps; Cara’s expertise shines.

61 – 90 DPD

Late stage

Structured workouts, repo timing, hardship plans, multi-step recovery. High-stakes conversations handled with consistency and compliance.

91 – 120 DPD

Pre–charge-off

Last-mile recovery before charge-off. Final-stage negotiation, settlement options, voluntary surrender, and clean live-agent handoff when needed.

See Cara on real cases

Bring us your hardest accounts. We’ll show you what Cara does with them.

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