Local Lead Generation
By Sagar Shankaran, Founder of CallSphere
Vanilla, clove, and cacao exporters in Sambava, Antalaha, and the SAVA region lose international buyer enquiries to missed calls and time-zone gaps. CallSphere AI agents answer in French and English 24/7, qualify buyers, and book calls.
Key takeaways
Madagascar grows the majority of the world's natural vanilla, and the green heart of that trade is the SAVA region in the northeast: Sambava, Antalaha, Andapa, Vohemar. Alongside vanilla, the island exports cloves, cacao, pink peppercorns, and essential oils to buyers in Europe, North America, and Asia. For the exporters, cooperatives, and processing SMBs that sit between the farmers and the world market, business depends on a stream of enquiries from international buyers who found you at a trade fair, through a broker, or via a web search at odd hours their side of the planet.
Here is where the SAVA exporter loses money without noticing. A specialty-food importer in Hamburg emails and then calls to discuss a container of grade-A bourbon vanilla. It is mid-afternoon in Germany and late evening in Antalaha. The call rings out. The buyer, who is comparing three Malagasy suppliers, moves down the list. You never even knew the enquiry existed. In a trade where a single export order can be worth a fortune relative to the cost of answering a phone, the exporter who is reachable across time zones and languages wins the contract, and the one who is not simply loses it in silence.
Export orders are large and infrequent, which makes each missed enquiry acutely expensive. These illustrative figures in Malagasy ariary (MGA) show the stakes.
| Enquiry type | Potential order value (MGA) | Enquiry-to-deal rate | Value at risk per missed call (MGA) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Container of grade-A vanilla (EU buyer) | 220,000,000 | 15% | 33,000,000 |
| Clove bulk order (Asia buyer) | 90,000,000 | 20% | 18,000,000 |
| Cacao sample-to-contract (US roaster) | 45,000,000 | 25% | 11,250,000 |
| Essential-oil recurring supply | 60,000,000 | 22% | 13,200,000 |
| Repeat-buyer reorder | 120,000,000 | 40% | 48,000,000 |
You do not need to miss many of these before the annual loss is staggering.
Your customers are in European, American, and Asian working hours, which fall in your evenings and nights. A 24/7 agent answers a Hamburg or Chicago buyer in real time, captures the enquiry, qualifies it, and books a follow-up call for your team, instead of surrendering the lead to the clock.
CallSphere answers in fluent French and English and covers 57+ languages, switching automatically. A francophone broker and an English-speaking importer are both handled cleanly by one agent, without you keeping a multilingual export desk on standby.
The agent gathers volume, grade, destination, and timeline up front and scores the lead, so your team spends its time on the buyers who can actually place an order rather than on unstructured back-and-forth.
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When your people are consumed by the harvest, sorting, and curing cycle, the phone still rings. The agent covers those weeks so a buyer enquiry never collides with the busiest part of your production calendar.
Many buyers first reach out through a website form or a message. The chat agent responds instantly with the right information and routes qualified enquiries into your pipeline.
CallSphere provides AI voice and chat agents that answer inbound calls and messages 24/7, qualify and score leads, book calls into your calendar, and hand off to a human when a negotiation needs one. Sub-second responses keep the conversation natural, and every interaction is summarised and scored so you know which buyers are real. It connects to your calendar, to CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, and to custom systems over webhooks and REST. Hear a live agent at https://callsphere.ai/demo.
A Sambava vanilla exporter lets the agent field overnight European enquiries, capture grade and volume, and book a video call with the sales lead for the morning.
An Antalaha cooperative uses chat to answer sampling and certification questions from international buyers instantly and routes serious ones to the export manager.
A clove and pepper trader in Vohemar qualifies Asian-market enquiries during their working day, which is the trader's night, without missing a beat.
A cacao processor handles US and European roaster enquiries, collects specs, and schedules follow-ups so no sample request goes cold.
An essential-oil supplier captures recurring-supply enquiries and keeps repeat buyers reachable year-round.
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CallSphere offers five monthly plans in US dollars: Lite 50, Starter 149, Growth 499, Scale 1,499, and custom Enterprise. For an export SMB, the numbers are almost comical in the exporter's favour. If a Sambava exporter on the Starter plan captures a single container enquiry it would otherwise have missed, worth 33,000,000 MGA at risk, the subscription for a year is repaid many times over by that one deal. Compare plans at https://callsphere.ai/pricing.
You load your product specs, grades, and certifications, and the agent answers within them, capturing anything beyond scope for your team. It qualifies and books rather than negotiating final terms, which stays with your people.
Yes. This is precisely what a 24/7 agent is for. Your European, American, and Asian buyers get an immediate, informed response during their working hours, which are your off hours, so no enquiry falls through the gap.
Interactions are encrypted in transit and at rest, with audit logs and retention controls. As Madagascar's data-protection rules develop, working with a provider that already meets international standards protects your commercial information and reassures international buyers.
Yes, and across 57+ languages, switching to whatever the buyer speaks. Francophone and anglophone buyers are equally well served.
Most exporters go live within 24 hours, and a 7-day pilot lets you measure the enquiries you recover before committing.
The world wants what SAVA grows. The only thing standing between an international buyer and your export is whether someone answers when they reach out. Now something always does. Start a pilot at https://callsphere.ai/pilot, hear a live agent at https://callsphere.ai/demo, see plans at https://callsphere.ai/pricing, or contact the team at https://callsphere.ai/contact.
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Written by
Sagar Shankaran· Founder, CallSphere
Sagar Shankaran is the founder of CallSphere, where he builds production AI voice and chat agents deployed across healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and home services. He writes about agentic AI, LLM engineering, and shipping voice agents that handle real calls in production.
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