How to Route Calls Between AI Agents in HighLevel

4 min read

Category: HighLevel Automations

Published: June 2, 2026

You just built the ultimate AI receptionist for a high-ticket clinic. It is supposed to book appointments, answer complex pricing questions, handle customer support, and translate into Spanish.

But because you crammed all of those instructions into one single bot, its brain is completely overloaded. A prospect calls to ask about pricing, and the bot randomly starts trying to reschedule an appointment they do not even have. The bot gets confused, hallucinates an answer, and the frustrated prospect hangs up. You are burning massive amounts of AI tokens just to give your leads a terrible, clunky experience.

You do not need one giant, confused bot. You need a highly trained team of specialists. HighLevel just released Voice AI Agent Transfer. This feature lets your main AI receptionist hand off a live caller directly to a specialized AI expert—like a pricing bot or a booking bot—without ever dropping the call or switching phone numbers. Let’s build your digital department.

Part 1: Configure Your Root Agent

You need a front-desk agent to answer the phone and direct traffic. Ready to streamline this? Here is exactly how to do it in 60 seconds:

  1. Navigate to AI Agents, open Voice AI, and click your Agent List.
  2. Select the Voice AI agent that should answer the initial phone call. This is your “root agent.”
  3. Inside the builder, click + New Action and select Agent Transfer from the dropdown menu.

Part 2: Connect Your Specialists

Now you need to tell your front-desk bot exactly who to transfer the call to when a specific question is asked.

  1. Inside the Agent Transfer modal, click Connect Agent and select your destination Voice AI agent (e.g., your Pricing Specialist).
  2. Locate the When to transfer to this agent field. Enter a plain-language transfer condition like, “When the caller asks about pricing.”
  3. Decide on your handoff experience. Enable Speak During Execution if you want the bot to say something like, “Let me connect you to our pricing specialist.” If you leave this disabled, the transfer happens completely invisibly with a natural pause.
  4. Repeat this exact process to add up to three specialized destination agents.

Part 3: Lock Down Your Settings

Before you push this live, you need to ensure your operational guardrails are set.

  1. Click View Incoming Transfers if you ever need to audit which bots are routing calls into a specific specialist.
  2. Review your root agent’s Maximum Call Time, Working Hours, and AI Agent as a Backup settings. The root agent’s settings completely control the entire transfer chain. (The destination agent’s working hours are ignored during a transfer).
  3. Click the blue Save Changes button.

Part 4: Audit the Game Tape

You need to verify that your digital team is actually passing the baton correctly.

  1. Place a test call and then open your Call Logs.
  2. Check the Actions Triggered column. If the handoff was successful, it will explicitly display “Agent Transfer.”
  3. Click Summary on the call row. You will see a visual call-flow diagram showing the exact sequence of agents the caller interacted with.
  4. Open the Transcript. HighLevel automatically drops transfer markers into the text so you can see exactly what the prospect said to trigger the handoff, and how your specialist took over the conversation.

Stop overloading a single bot with too many jobs. Build a team of AI specialists and give every single caller a flawless, expert-level experience while drastically lowering your token usage.

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