AI debt collection agent

Recover more debt. Chase less.

A compliant AI agent that recovers arrears across voice, SMS, and email. Automated multi-touch workflows, smart contact timing, payment on the call, and a full audit trail. It collects more without the call centre.

Voice · SMS · EmailGDPR · EU-hostedEU AI Act compliantFCA CONC aware
Digital-first recovery
+12–30%

more payments when customers are contacted digitally, rising toward 30% in late-stage arrears, with 15%+ lower cost.

Source: McKinsey, digital-first collections

13.1%

of US credit-card balances are 90+ days delinquent, a 15-year high.

NY Fed, May 2026

$18.8T

in US household debt, with delinquencies rising across cards and auto loans.

NY Fed, May 2026

78%

of collection agencies say their calls are being blocked. Phone-only is breaking.

ACA International, 2024

Multi-channel by default

One agent. Three channels. One workflow.

Not three disconnected tools. The agent reaches each debtor on the channel they actually respond to, and switches automatically when one goes quiet.

Voice

AI calls the debtor with a natural, compliant conversation. Discloses it's AI, captures intent, takes payment or books a callback.

SMS

Branded text with a secure pay link. Lands when a call goes unanswered, or as the first soft touch for early-stage arrears.

Email

Personalised reminder with the balance, the link, and the deadline. The channel many debtors quietly prefer to act on.

Advanced multi-touch workflows

The cadence that recovers, built once, run forever.

Fresh debt is 70–90% collectible. By a year past due it falls toward 20–30%. Speed and consistency are everything, and no collector forgets a follow-up when the workflow runs it.

Day 0

Soft reminder

Email + SMS the moment a payment fails or an invoice goes past due. Friendly, no pressure, one tap to pay.

Email · SMS
Day 3

First AI call

If unpaid, Emma calls at the time this debtor is most likely to answer. Discloses she's AI, offers to take payment or set a plan.

Voice
Day 7

Multi-touch follow-up

Missed the call? Voicemail drop, then SMS with the pay link, then an email. The right channel fires at the right time.

Voice · SMS · Email
Day 14

Escalate or settle

Still open? Offer a payment plan, or hand off to a human collector with the full call history and a complete audit trail.

Human handoff

Recovery-curve figures: commercial collection trade data, 2024. Every cadence is fully configurable per portfolio.

What a recovery call sounds like

Firm, fair, and never aggressive.

Emma · AI
Hi, is that Daniel? This is Emma calling on behalf of Northgate Finance. I'm an AI assistant. Is now an okay time for a quick word about your account?
Customer
Uh, yeah. I know it's overdue, money's been tight.
AI
Completely understand, thanks for being honest. The balance is £240. I can take it today, or set up a plan that works for you. Which would be easier?
Customer
A plan would help. Maybe £60 a month?
AI
That works, four payments of £60. I'll text you a secure link to confirm the first one now. No pressure, and you can adjust the dates if something changes.
Payment plan created · secure link sent
Customer
Okay, that's fair. Thanks.
AI
Thank you, Daniel. Confirmation's on its way by email too. Take care.
Logged · client notified · audit trail saved
£240 recovered as a plan · relationship intact

Everything a modern recovery team needs.

Advanced workflows

Build the exact cadence each portfolio needs: delays, conditions, channel order, retries, payment-plan branches, and human-handoff rules. No code.

Client notifications

Keep your creditor clients in the loop automatically: real-time updates when a debtor pays, promises to pay, disputes, or needs escalation.

Multi-channel orchestration

Voice, SMS, and email in one workflow, not three disconnected tools. The agent picks the channel the debtor actually responds to.

Multi-touch follow-up

Automatic retries on the optimal schedule. No collector forgets to follow up, and no debtor falls through the cracks.

Smart contact timing

Calls land when this debtor is most likely to pick up, inside permitted hours for their timezone. Right-party contact, not random dialling.

Pay on the call

Secure payment link sent mid-conversation, or card update taken inline. The debtor acts from their phone while intent is high.

Full audit trail

Every call recorded and scored, every touch logged. Built for FCA Consumer Duty, Reg F, and GDPR record-keeping out of the box.

40+ languages

Recover across markets in the debtor's native language, with the right register and permitted-hours rules per country.

Client notifications

Your clients see progress. You don't lift a finger.

If you collect on behalf of creditor clients, keeping them informed is half the job. Callsy does it automatically: a real-time notification the moment something happens on an account, plus dashboards and exportable reporting.

  • Debtor paid in full or part
  • Promise to pay logged
  • Payment plan agreed
  • Dispute or complaint raised
  • Vulnerable customer flagged for human review
  • Account escalated or settled
Live · client feed
Daniel R. agreed a payment plan
£60 × 4 · just now
Invoice 4471 paid in full
£2,140 · 2m ago
Promise to pay · Friday
Sara K. · 6m ago
Vulnerable flag · routed to human
1 account · 11m ago
Compliant by design

Built for the rules, not retrofitted.

EU-native, so UK and EU compliance is the starting point, not an afterthought bolted onto a US product. Every call discloses it's AI, every touch is logged, every opt-out is instant.

EU AI Act Article 50

Every call opens by disclosing it's AI. Built in, can't be turned off.

GDPR · EU-hosted

Debtor data processed in the EU under a DPA. No training on your data.

FCA Consumer Duty / CONC

Forbearance-first, vulnerable-customer routing, fair and clear communication.

US Reg F (FDCPA)

Frequency limits, disclosures, and opt-outs respected across every channel.

Built for whoever's owed money.

Collection agencies modernising off the diallerLenders, BNPL and fintech with rising arrearsB2B finance teams chasing overdue invoicesUtilities, telecom and subscription businessesHealthcare billing and patient ARAuto finance and asset-backed lenders

Questions AR teams ask.

Anything missing? hello@callsy.ai.

Is AI debt collection legal in the UK and EU?

Yes, with the right setup. You need a lawful basis to contact the debtor, you must disclose it's an AI (EU AI Act Article 50, from August 2026), and you must respect opt-outs and permitted hours. Callsy builds all three in by default. For FCA-regulated firms, calls are designed around CONC forbearance rules and produce a full audit trail.

Does it replace our human collectors?

It handles the high-volume, repetitive early and mid-stage outreach that burns out human teams: the reminders, the first calls, the follow-ups, the pay-link sends. Your collectors focus on complex cases, disputes, and negotiated settlements, walking in with the full call history. Most clients run a hybrid.

Why multi-channel instead of just calling?

Phone-only collection is breaking: ACA International reports 78% of agencies see their calls blocked and 62% report falling right-party contact. McKinsey found customers contacted digitally make about 12% more payments, rising toward 30% in late-stage delinquency, while cutting collection costs by 15% or more. Voice plus SMS plus email recovers what a dialler alone misses.

How does the agent decide when to call?

Each workflow sets the cadence, and the agent times outbound calls for when a given debtor is most likely to answer, inside permitted hours for their timezone. Missed calls trigger an automatic, channel-aware follow-up: voicemail, then SMS with a pay link, then email.

How do our creditor clients stay informed?

Client notifications fire automatically: real-time updates when a debtor pays, promises to pay, disputes, or needs escalation, plus dashboards and exportable reporting. Your clients see progress without you assembling status emails by hand.

Is this aggressive collections?

No. It's digital-first, respectful recovery: clear, compliant, forbearance-aware, and debtor-controlled timing. The goal is to recover the money and keep the relationship intact, which is exactly why a non-adversarial, consistent process tends to outperform old-school chasing.

Put an AI agent on every overdue account.

Book a 15-minute demo. We'll show you a live recovery call, the workflow builder, and the client-notification feed.

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Multi-channel · compliant · live in days · EU-hosted