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Best Practices for the Agent Configuration Feature

Guidance on how to use the Knowledge Base and Agent Rules to fine-tune your AI agent's content, tone, and behavior.

Written by Evette

This guide is designed to help you fine-tune your AI agent so it communicates more closely with your business. While the AI already has a built-in context layer, the Knowledge Base and Agent Rules allow you to further align it with your specific preferences, voice, and goals.

1. How to Think About It

  • Knowledge Base = what your agent knows

  • Agent Rules = how your agent behaves

The Knowledge Base provides context and content, while Agent Rules shape how that content is delivered.

2. Knowledge Base (The Brain)

This is where you provide the materials your agent uses when communicating on your behalf.

What it impacts:

  • LinkedIn outreach (Outbound Agent)

  • Email follow-ups (Inbound Agent)

  • Chatbot + Web Pixel responses

  • Tone, phrasing, and positioning

Tip: If your agent may need to give customers a phone number, office address, or other contact detail, make sure that information is included in the document you upload here. The agent can only share contact details that are actually in its Knowledge Base

How to add content:

  1. Go to Knowledge Base

  2. Click Upload Files

  3. Upload your file

  4. Select which agent(s) it applies to

  5. Click Upload

What to include:

  • Product / service documents

  • Messaging examples (LinkedIn, email, scripts)

  • FAQs and objections

  • Brand voice guidelines

  • Competitor context

  • Internal positioning

  • What you don’t offer

Pro tip: Include what you DON’T offer. This prevents hallucinations and improves qualification accuracy.

3. Agent Rules (Behavior + Guardrails)

This is where you guide how the agent shows up in conversations.

What it controls:

  • Tone (casual, professional, conversational)

  • Selling style (soft vs direct)

  • Language preferences

  • Behaviors to follow or avoid

What to define:

Tone

Example: “Conversational, thoughtful, not overly sales-driven”

Selling approach

Example: “Focus on providing value and building relationships rather than pushing for a sale”

Do / Don’t guidelines

Avoid buzzwords, remove robotic phrasing, and eliminate unwanted habits like overused punctuation.

Preferred terminology

Define words to use consistently and terms to avoid.

Be specific in your guidance, use this section to correct recurring AI habits, and define selling behavior here rather than relying on your documents to control it.

3A. Changing Your Agent's Persona Name

Your agent has a display name it uses to introduce itself in conversations (for example, an agent might currently introduce itself using your own name, when you'd rather it use a persona like "Brandi, your Brand Buddy").

This currently isn't self-serve — persona name changes need to go through Support so we can make sure the name is updated consistently across every conversation channel the agent uses.

  1. Open a chat with support (or email) and include:

    • The account/company this applies to

    • The current name the agent introduces itself as

    • The new persona name you'd like it to use

  2. We'll confirm once it's updated.

This can also cover what shows in the agent's signature.

If you'd rather the agent not use your personal name or cell number when it signs off with leads, let us know what to use instead — for example, a team name plus a shared office number. Include this with your persona name request; we'll set up both together.

Example: One client had their agent sign off as "Brandi, your Brand Buddy" with the office number, instead of their own name and personal cell.

4. How They Work Together

The Knowledge Base provides context, while Agent Rules shape how that context is expressed.

If something feels off:

  • Content issue → update the Knowledge Base

  • Tone or behavior issue → adjust Agent Rules

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