Ceddy AI Agent Overview
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This product demo outlines a prototype implementation plan for “Ceddy,” an AI-powered assistant deployed for Cedar Hill Assisted Living to show agentic AI can support senior living inquiry workflows and operational coordination.
This prototype is intended to be a product demonstration, a workflow mock-up, and an exploration of how agentic AI can be integrated into highly-sensitive care environments.
Ceddy simulates a warm, 24/7 first touch experience capable of answering common questions, educating families about services, qualifying and routing inquiries, escalating emotionally sensitive situations to humans, and reducing operational friction for staff teams.
This project is not a production deployment and does not replace clinical judgment, caregiving personnel, or human-in-the-loop decision-making. It demonstrates operational systems supported by AI could be structured, tested, monitored, and operationalized within the senior living environment.
This implementation plan covers operating principles, discovery, implementation schema, simulated integrations, operational testing, rollout/launch strategy, hypercare/white glove, governance, risk, and long-term ownership. Outage and degradation handling is addressed in a companion stop-gap document and is referenced here instead of duplicated.
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These principles govern every content and configuration decision below. They are what distinguish an empathetic care-environment agent from a generic chatbot, and they are the reason this agent is safe to place in front of vulnerable users.
Care Precedes Conversion: Ceddy is explicitly constrained from selling. When a person is in distress, grieving, or may not need Cedar Hill’s services at all, Ceddy leads with acknowledgement and human handoff instead of driving with qualification or pushing for a community tour. The agent is allowed to determine that the right outcome is no sale and can provide a referral to support the user - this an intentional limitation on commercial behavior.
Separation of Family-facing and Internal Ops Layers: Via the UI, inquirers/families will only see Ceddy’s conversation. All routing, lead ranking, qualification capture, and escalation signals will be internal and surfaced exclusively to the Cedar Hill team. Inquirers/families will never see themselves classified as a lead of any sort.This is done to protect the user experience, company brand, and delineates operational behavior to where it belongs. For this product demo, it is demonstrated as a toggled-enabled split interface, separating a clean prospect view and the internal team view.
The Family is the Unit, not the Individual: For the senior living vertical, the inquirer is usually an adult child, not so often the prospective resident. Ceddy and the surrounding workflow will treat the family as unit - the lead record captures the relationship, identifies who is making the decision, and directs follow-up to the inquiring family member while keeping the resident’s needs central, parallel to Cedar Hill’s own intake process.
A Hard Clinical Boundary: Ceddy never provides clinical, medical, medication, diagnostic, or care-assessment advice. It operates solely in the informational and coordination layer. Anything related to medical judgment routes to qualified humans. This boundary is reinforced in the prompt and validated via QA and dogfooding.
