Every call answered.
Every booking taken.
An AI receptionist and answering service that picks up on the first ring, nights and weekends included, answers the questions your staff keep answering, and books the appointment while the caller is still on the line.
(417) 932-2502 — No form, no sales call. It answers as a sample HVAC shop; yours answers as you.Thanks for calling Marisol's Salon, this is the AI receptionist. Calls are recorded so we can follow up. How can I help?
Do you have anything Thursday afternoon for a color?
Let me check the schedule. I have Thursday at two thirty or four. Which works better?
Two thirty.
You're booked, Thursday at two thirty. Is there anything else I can help you with?
If the phone is how
customers reach you.
It's for any business where a missed call is a missed booking, a missed question, or a customer who rang the next place instead. Here's what it does in a few of them.
Home services: HVAC, plumbing and electrical
Books the job, answers the emergency question, and puts urgent calls through to you. It's the same receptionist, and it has its own page with a calculator, a sample call and trade-specific answers.
Restaurants
Answers hours, location and menu questions, and takes reservation requests onto your calendar. It doesn't place orders in your point-of-sale system, so for takeout it takes a message.
Salons and barbershops
Books appointments while your hands are busy, and answers the price and service questions that come in all day.
Auto shops
Takes down what's wrong and who's asking, books the drop-off, and puts urgent calls through to you.
Fitness and wellness studios
Answers class, membership and hours questions, and books trial visits around your schedule.
Professional offices
Accounting, insurance, real estate and similar: takes the caller's details and what they need, books a consultation or a showing, and passes urgent calls to you.
Property managers
Takes maintenance and viewing requests with the details your team needs, and puts emergencies through to a person.
Not on the list? If your callers mostly want an answer, an appointment or a message, it fits.
It does the part of the
front desk that never stops.
Your business, your hours, your answers. Set up once, then it picks up.
Answers the questions you keep answering
Hours, location, prices, what you offer. It answers from information you give it, the way you'd want it answered, and it's set up not to guess.
QuestionsBooks the appointment
It checks your calendar and takes the slot mid-conversation, on Google Calendar or Cal.com. No phone tag, no sticky notes.
SchedulingPuts through the calls that matter
Urgent, important, or a caller who wants a person: it connects them to you or your team, with what they said already gathered.
Live transferTells you what happened
After every call you get a short summary: who called, what they wanted, and the number to reach them.
SummaryYour calendar. Your CRM. Your tools.
It runs on a platform with built-in connections to the tools most small businesses already use. I set up the ones you need, and tell you plainly which ones work for yours before you commit.
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Live in days,
not months.
I build it around how you already run — nothing to install, no new number, no change to your workflow. You keep your line; I handle the rest.
I learn your business
A short call to capture your services, service area, hours, pricing, and how you like calls handled. This becomes a knowledge base built around your business, not a generic script.
I build & tailor it
I set up the voice, answers, booking, and transfer rules as workflows tuned to your business — so it responds the way you would, and routes the calls that need a human.
Keep your number
You forward your calls to the assistant — after-hours only, or all of them. Your existing number stays exactly as it is. Nothing changes for your customers.
You stop missing calls
Every call answered, booked, or routed to you — with a summary of who called and why. I keep tuning it as your business changes.
I'm an engineer, not a marketing agency. Production AI at Uber, Carvana, and CellarTracker (10M+ users) — I build this around how your calls actually come in, not from a template, and when it needs changing you're talking to the person who changes it.
You already pay
to make the phone ring.
No contracts, no setup fee, no quote-on-a-call runaround. Here's the whole thing.
The cost of
answering every one.
- 100 calls a month included, then $1.50 a call. Spam, wrong numbers and hang-ups under 15 seconds don't count; a call over 10 minutes counts as two.
- No setup fee. I build and tune it around your business, and your first two weeks are free.
- Pause any month — you're not billed, and your number and setup wait for you. Pausing isn't cancelling.
The questions every
owner asks.
No. Callers hear a natural voice that talks like a person, not a phone tree. It says up front that it's an AI receptionist and that the call is recorded, then gets straight to helping. Don't take my word for it: call (417) 932-2502 and hear it yourself.
It answers as a made-up HVAC company, because it has to be set up as some kind of business to be worth hearing. Yours runs on your business, your services and your hours. Ask it what it costs, tell it you need an appointment, or ask for a person. (417) 932-2502, any hour.
A live answering service usually bills by the minute, and on many plans the call ends as a message you have to return. A phone menu or voicemail answers nothing, and plenty of callers hang up and try the next number. This is an answering service and virtual receptionist in one: it answers on the first ring, day or night, answers the caller's questions and books the appointment while they're still on the line. You get a text summary and a recording of every call.
If most of your calls are a question, an appointment or a message, yes. It connects to calendars and to CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce, and to many other tools through Zapier or Make. What it doesn't do is place orders in a point-of-sale system. Tell me what you run on the call, and I'll say plainly whether it fits before you commit.
It does what a good receptionist does: takes the details, tells the caller you'll follow up, and sends you a summary right away, or puts the call through to you if it's urgent. It's set up not to guess at an answer it doesn't have.
No. You keep your number and forward calls to the receptionist, all of them or only the ones you'd otherwise miss. Nothing changes for your customers, and you can switch forwarding off anytime.
Yes, and every caller is told at the start of the call. Recordings and transcripts are kept for 90 days, then deleted. It's one reason the greeting always says it's an AI receptionist.
$199 a month, with 100 calls included. Past that it's $1.50 a call. Spam, wrong numbers and hang-ups under 15 seconds don't count, and a call over 10 minutes counts as two. There's no setup fee, and your first two weeks are free, so if you walk away in that window you've paid nothing.
Hear it answer for your business.
Call the demo line and talk to it yourself, no booking and no form. Then book a call, and we'll talk through how it would answer for your business.
Book a demoCall (417) 932-2502