
How Intelligent Message Buffering Works
Strategic patience creates smoother conversation flows
The Technical Architecture:
- Message Reception: Twilio webhook captures incoming customer messages
- Message Stacking: Redis stores messages in a customer-specific queue
- Strategic Pause: System waits 5 seconds (configurable) to detect message patterns
- Pattern Analysis: Checks if customer has sent additional messages during wait period
- Smart Processing: If no new messages arrived, processes entire message stack as one thought
- Comprehensive Response: AI agent generates a single coherent response to the complete context
Key Technical Components:
- Twilio for messaging interface (adaptable to WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.)
- Redis for fast, reliable message queueing
- n8n for workflow orchestration
- OpenAI for generating contextually aware responses