The problem
Your phone rings all day. Someone picks up for about half of it.
A front desk covers business hours, minus lunch, minus the minutes they're already helping someone in person. Everything else goes to voicemail, and most callers who reach voicemail just hang up.
Out of 24 hours, a typical front desk can answer for about 8. An AI receptionist covers all 24, including the minutes when your receptionist is already on another line.
Emergencies, new clients who finally have time to call, and people comparing options from the couch.
Three calls come in at once at 10am. One gets answered and the other two hear a recording.
Your front desk is out sick, at lunch, or helping someone at the counter. The calls keep coming anyway.
Quick check: open your phone log and count the missed calls from last week. Multiply by what a new customer is worth to you. That's roughly what voicemail costs you every week.
What it does
Answers the phone like your best front-desk person.
It's not a phone menu and it's not voicemail. It's a natural-sounding voice agent trained on your business: your services, hours, prices you're comfortable sharing, service area, and the questions callers ask most.
Answers 24/7, on the first ring
Nights, weekends, holidays and busy lines. It can answer every call, or only take over when nobody picks up.
Books on your real calendar
It checks open times and books the appointment, consultation or service call directly. Then it texts the caller a confirmation.
Answers your FAQs correctly
Hours, location, services, insurance, service area, what to bring. It answers from what you've approved and never makes things up.
Screens and qualifies
It asks the questions you would: what they need, how urgent it is, where they're located, whether they're a new or existing customer. Callers you can't help are filtered out politely.
Sends urgent calls to a person
You set the rules. A burst pipe, a client with a court date tomorrow or a patient in pain gets transferred to you right away, or you get an instant text.
Logs every call
You get a summary and full transcript in your inbox, by text, or in your CRM. When you call someone back, you already know what they need.
Want to know how many calls you're missing?
On the free audit, we look at when your calls come in, where they go unanswered, and what an AI receptionist would cover. You get a flat-rate quote within one business day.
Compare your options
AI receptionist vs. answering service vs. hiring
There are four ways to handle the calls your team can't get to. Here's how they compare on what matters to a small business.
| What matters | Voicemail | Live answering service | Another receptionist | AI receptionist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers nights & weekends | Records a message | Usually, at higher rates | No, business hours | Yes, 24/7 |
| Books appointments | No | Often takes a message instead | Yes | Yes, directly on your calendar |
| Knows your business | — | Follows a general script | Yes, once trained | Yes, from your approved answers |
| Several calls at once | All to voicemail | Depends on staffing | One at a time | Every call, at the same time |
| How you pay | Free, plus the jobs you lose | Usually per minute or per call | Salary, taxes, benefits, training | Flat monthly retainer, no per-minute fees |
| Hands off to a human | You call back later | Yes | Yes | Yes, transfers urgent calls live |
Most of our clients keep their front desk. The AI receptionist handles overflow, after-hours calls and the routine questions, so your staff can focus on the people in front of them.
Setup
Live in 2–3 weeks. Your phone number stays the same.
We build it, test it and maintain it. All you do is take one 30-minute call and approve the script.
- Day 1
Free call audit
30 minutes on how calls reach you today, what callers ask, and which calls need a human.
- Week 1
Script & knowledge
We write the greeting, the questions, the answers you approve, and the rules for urgent calls.
- Week 2
Connect your tools
We set up call forwarding from your current number and connect your calendar, CRM and text alerts.
- Week 2–3
Test, then go live
We make dozens of test calls before any real caller reaches it, then keep tuning based on real calls each month.
Who it's for
Built for businesses where a missed call is a missed customer
Set up for small and mid-sized businesses across South Carolina: Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Lexington and everywhere in between.
FAQ
Questions owners ask about AI receptionists
What is an AI receptionist?
An AI receptionist is a voice agent that answers your business phone in natural conversation. It greets callers, answers common questions from your own information, books appointments on your calendar, takes messages, and transfers urgent calls to a person. Every call is logged with a transcript.
Is an AI receptionist better than an answering service?
For most small businesses it covers more for less. Live answering services usually bill per minute or per call and mostly take messages. An AI receptionist answers every call at once, around the clock, and can book directly onto your calendar. A live service still makes sense if callers need a human for sensitive conversations; many businesses use AI first and transfer to a person when needed.
Will callers know they are talking to AI?
We recommend it says so. The receptionist introduces itself as your virtual assistant, sounds natural, and offers to connect the caller with a person at any point. Callers mostly care that someone picked up and solved their problem.
Can I keep my business phone number?
Yes. Your number stays the same. Calls forward to the AI receptionist when nobody picks up, after hours, or all the time, depending on how you want it set up. Your current phone provider usually handles the forwarding in a few minutes.
What happens with urgent calls?
You decide what counts as urgent: a burst pipe, a new client with a court date, an existing patient in pain. Those calls are transferred to your cell or on-call person right away, or you get an instant text with the details. Everything else is booked or logged for the morning.
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
It is priced as a one-time build fee plus a flat monthly retainer, month to month, with no per-minute charges. The total depends on call volume and what it connects to, such as your calendar or CRM, so we quote after a free 30-minute audit instead of posting one sticker price. See how our pricing works.
How long does setup take?
Most AI receptionists go live in 2 to 3 weeks: one week to write the call script and load your business information, one to connect your phone and calendar, and a few days of test calls before real callers reach it.
Free call audit
Find out how many calls you're missing, for free.
Thirty minutes with us, by phone or video. Here's what you leave with:
- A map of when your calls come in and where they go unanswered.
- A draft of how your AI receptionist would greet callers and what it would handle.
- A flat-rate quote within one business day, month to month with no contract.
- No obligation. If it's not a fit for your call volume, we'll tell you.
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