After-hours, overflow, and field work can leave ready customers waiting or moving to another provider.
AI Voice Agent
Never Miss a Call—or Lose Another Lead
Answer after-hours and overflow calls, capture and qualify leads, and move appointment requests into an approved scheduling workflow—with a natural AI voice and a clear path to a person.
AI Agent Online — Handling Calls in Real-Time
Inbound Call — Sarah M.
"I'd like to book a consultation for next Tuesday..."
Appt Set
Inbound Call — Tech Support
"My dashboard isn't loading the analytics module..."
Resolved
Inbound Call — Lead Qualification
"What's your pricing for enterprise AI automation?"
Hot Lead
Outbound — Appointment Reminder
"Hi James, this is a reminder about your 2 PM call..."
Confirmed
The Real Cost
Every Missed Call Is a Customer You May Never Get Back
In today's instant-gratification world, 80% of callers who don't reach a live or intelligent answer will call a competitor. After-hours, overflow, and field work shouldn't cost you customers.
Off-Hours = Off Opportunities
When your phones go silent at 5 PM, your competitors' AI agents are still answering. Every unanswered call is a potential customer who found someone available.
Inconsistent Intake Loses Deals
When different people capture different information, you can't qualify, route, or follow up effectively. Structured, consistent call handling means no lead gets lost in the shuffle.
Overflow Frustrates Ready Buyers
Busy signals and long hold times tell prospects you're too busy for their business. AI can handle the volume spike and route urgent calls while maintaining professional service.
How We Help
Intelligent Call Handling Built for Your Business Rules
We configure AI agents that understand your services, boundaries, and escalation paths. They handle routine calls professionally and route complex or urgent matters to the right person with full context.
We Map Your Call Path First
Before choosing a voice or platform, we document your real call types, customer questions, qualification rules, and escalation paths. The technology serves your workflow—not the other way around.
Integrations That Work with Your Stack
Calendar, CRM, support systems, and phone lines connect seamlessly. We scope against the tools you actually use and verify every handoff before going live.
Human Oversight When It Matters
AI handles routine inquiries, but sensitive, expensive, or complex decisions always route to a person. You define the boundaries, approvals, and fallback paths before launch.
Transcripts and Insights You Can Use
When enabled with proper disclosures, receive searchable call summaries, outcome tracking, and action items to continuously improve your call handling.
Why this matters
A missed or mishandled call is a customer decision happening without your business.
Call automation only helps when it reflects the real questions, qualification rules, urgent cases, and follow-up ownership behind the phone line.
Names, needs, urgency, service area, and appointment details are captured differently—or not at all.
A polite conversation still fails if the summary, booking request, or escalation does not reach an owner.
How the solution works
Design the call path before choosing the voice or platform.
Client-owned assetsHuman approval gatesInspectable handoffNo outcome guarantees
Map real call types, caller intent, required details, and service boundaries.
Define what the agent can answer, request, record, and when a person must take over.
Inspect transcripts, summaries, handoffs, and missed intents to improve safely.
Capabilities
What Your AI Phone Agent Can Do
Start with the calls your team misses or repeats most: after-hours answering, lead intake, appointment requests, routine questions, and reliable human handoff.
AI Phone Answering
Give callers a consistent first response during the hours and call conditions you choose, including after-hours and overflow coverage.
- Custom greeting and brand voice
- After-hours and overflow rules
- Caller details captured consistently
- Human transfer and fallback paths
Appointment Requests
Connect an approved calendar workflow so the agent can gather scheduling details, offer eligible times, or send the request to a person for confirmation.
- Real-time calendar integration
- Conflict detection & rescheduling
- Configurable confirmation rules
- SMS or email follow-up when included
Lead Qualification & Scoring
Ask the questions your team approves, capture structured answers, and route qualified callers according to your real sales process.
- Custom qualification scripts
- Qualification criteria you approve
- Priority-caller transfer rules
- CRM logging when integrated
Technical Support
Use approved product documents and FAQs to answer routine questions, then escalate anything uncertain or sensitive with the conversation context.
- Knowledge base integration
- Step-by-step troubleshooting
- Ticket creation when integrated
- Smart escalation routing
Outbound Calling
Configure disclosed, consent-aware outbound workflows for reminders, follow-up, surveys, or re-engagement where they fit your policies and applicable rules.
- Appointment reminders
- Payment follow-ups
- Win-back campaigns
- Survey & feedback calls
Call Analytics & Insights
When recording and transcription are enabled with the required disclosures, receive searchable summaries, outcomes, and follow-up items.
- Real-time call transcription
- Sentiment analysis
- Call summary & action items
- Performance dashboards
How It Works
From Ring to Result in 4 Steps
We map the call, configure the boundaries, test the handoffs, and launch only after the workflow behaves as agreed.
1
Connect Your Number
Confirm whether your existing line can forward into the voice workflow or whether a dedicated number is the safer fit.
2
Train Your Agent
We configure your AI with your brand voice, scripts, product knowledge, calendar, and escalation rules.
3
Go Live
Run test calls, review difficult scenarios, verify disclosures and handoffs, then approve production call handling.
4
Optimize & Scale
Review call analytics, refine scripts, add new capabilities, and scale to additional lines or locations.
Integrations
Plays Nice With Your Stack
Calendar, CRM, support, and phone connections are scoped against the tools you actually use and verified before go-live.
📅 Google Calendar
📅 Outlook Calendar
📅 Calendly
💼 Salesforce
💼 HubSpot
💼 Pipedrive
🎫 Zendesk
🎫 Freshdesk
📧 Slack
📧 Microsoft Teams
📊 Twilio
📊 RingCentral
📊 Vonage
📊 Aircall
📊 Stripe
📊 Zapier
From missed call to next step
Turn More Calls Into Booked Work
Start with the phone moments that cost your team the most time or opportunity, then measure what improves.
| Business problem | First voice workflow | Outcome to measure |
|---|---|---|
| Leads call after hours | Answer within your configured coverage, capture the request, and route urgent or qualified callers. | More complete lead records and fewer missed opportunities |
| Scheduling creates back-and-forth | Check approved availability, collect the required details, and follow your confirmation rules. | More appointment requests with less manual coordination |
| Callers get trapped in rigid menus | Let callers speak naturally, interrupt when needed, and reach a person through defined fallback rules. | A clearer path to an answer or human handoff |
| Staff retype notes after every call | Produce a structured summary and send approved fields to the connected system. | Less repetitive data entry and faster follow-up |
Launch pricing
Choose a Clear Starting Point
Start with predictable monthly call capacity, then confirm your routing, integrations, and launch requirements in a written scope.
Small business
Starter Agent
For a focused reception, after-hours, or appointment-intake workflow.
$299 / month
1,000 connected call minutes included
$0.25 per additional minute
- 1 configured AI voice agent
- Business-hours, after-hours, and overflow rules
- Lead intake or appointment-request workflow
- One standard calendar or CRM connection
- Human transfer and fallback routing
- Transcripts and summaries when enabled
- Standard email support
Most popular
Pro Growth
For growing teams with multiple call paths, locations, or follow-up needs.
$699 / month
3,000 connected call minutes included
$0.20 per additional minute
- Up to 3 configured voice-agent roles
- Reception, after-hours, and approved follow-up flows
- Custom knowledge base
- Scoped calendar and CRM connections
- Multi-location routing options
- Call outcomes and analytics
- Priority support
Custom engineering
Enterprise Bespoke
For franchises, call centers, legacy phone systems, and specialized data workflows.
From $5,000 implementation
$5,000–$20,000 typical build range
Support from $1,500/month plus usage
- Custom PBX or SIP architecture
- Complex CRM, EHR, or internal-system workflows
- Custom APIs and webhooks
- Data-retention and deployment options
- Multi-location and high-volume design
- Dedicated support and SLA options
Launch pricing shown in USD. Included minutes cover connected AI call time. Phone numbers, carrier or SIP charges, SMS, recording and storage, premium third-party services, taxes, and work outside the agreed scope may cost extra. Final features, implementation timing, usage treatment, and support commitments are confirmed in a written order before activation.
AI receptionist questions
What to know before an AI voice agent answers your calls
A good AI receptionist starts with a narrow job, clear escalation rules, and a human fallback—not a promise to replace every phone workflow.
What can an AI receptionist handle for a small business?
Common starting points are after-hours call answering, lead intake, approved FAQs, appointment requests, message capture, and transfer to a person when the caller needs judgment or sensitive help.
Can an AI phone agent book appointments?
Yes, when it is connected to an approved scheduling workflow. Depending on your rules, it can offer eligible times or collect a request for your team to confirm.
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
Starter Agent is $299 per month with 1,000 connected call minutes, and Pro Growth is $699 per month with 3,000 minutes. Custom enterprise implementations typically begin at $5,000. Phone numbers, carrier charges, premium services, taxes, and work outside the agreed scope may cost extra.
What happens when the voice agent is unsure?
We define fallback rules before launch. The agent can take a message, transfer the call, or flag the conversation for a human instead of guessing.
Can I hear the voice before deciding?
Yes. The three previews below demonstrate different tone and pacing directions. A final voice and script are selected and tested for your workflow.
Live browser demo
Talk to a Live AI Receptionist
Give the agent a real business challenge. It can design a tailored call flow aloud, role-play it with you, estimate a plan, or send the team an appointment request.
Challenge it with a call your team handles every day
This is a working agent, not a prerecorded script. Tell it your business and one call you wish you never had to miss or repeat.
- Try: “I run a roofing company. Show me how you would handle a new lead.”
- Ask: “What would forty three-minute calls a day cost?”
- Interrupt, change the scenario, or ask it to request a strategy call
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Demo conversations are processed by Deepgram to provide speech recognition, AI responses, and voice playback. Do not share passwords, payment information, health details, or other sensitive data. See our privacy notice.
Hear the Difference
Our AI Voices — Let Us Build One for You
Preview three voice directions, then book a call so we can shape the right tone, pacing, and conversation style for your business.
Warm & Welcoming
Friendly and reassuring for appointments, local services, and customer care.
Clear & Professional
Direct and polished for lead qualification, intake, and business support.
Calm & Confident
Measured and composed for technical questions and high-trust conversations.
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Make the next decision
What should happen on every type of call?
Share the calls you receive, the details you need, and when a person must step in. We’ll map a focused first version around your operation.
- Which calls can be answered or qualified without a person?
- What information must be captured, and where should it be recorded?
- Which urgent, sensitive, or unusual calls require immediate handoff?