AI Receptionist
An AI receptionist that answers every call, day and night.
“I miss calls while I'm working, and every missed call is a customer who called someone else.”
An AI receptionist answers your business line day and night in your business's own voice. She knows your services, prices and hours, answers the questions callers actually ask, and texts you every message. Add booking and she puts the appointment into your calendar or Square while the caller is still on the phone. One is answering a real Pittsburgh salon's line right now, for about $10 to $15 a month to run.
Live on Lost Sheep Salon's phone line since July. In her last two weeks: 23 real conversations with 22 different callers, for $4.29 in AI usage.
$499
The basic receptionist. Add-ons like booking (+$399) are listed on this page.See all pricing ▸“Oh, Brilyn. Beautiful name.”
Brilyn owns Lost Sheep Salon. Here she calls her own salon line. The AI receptionist answers, takes an extensions appointment, asks her name, tells her it's a beautiful name and books it into Square. The confirmation text at the end is real. Nobody scripted that line.
The problem it fixes
When you're mid-cut, mid-job, on a roof or just closed for the night, the phone goes to voicemail. Most callers don't leave a message. They call the next business on the list. That isn't a phone problem, it's a lost-customer problem, and it happens quietly every single week.
A human answering service helps, but it costs about $250 to $2,100 a month, billed by the minute or the call, so the bill grows every time the phone rings. Most read from a script and take a message, and booking is often an extra per-call fee or a bigger plan.
What she does
- Answers every call, 24/7: nights, weekends, holidays and the middle of an appointment. No hold music and no voicemail dead ends.
- Sounds like your business. She's trained on your real services, prices, hours and the way you talk to customers, not a generic script.
- Books real appointments, with the booking add-on. She connects to Square or your calendar and puts the booking in while the caller is still on the line.
- Texts the right person. When she books a stylist or a technician, that person gets a text with the details.
- Screens out the junk. Robocalls and scam calls get shut down instead of eating your time.
- Knows when to hand off. Anything she shouldn't handle is summarized and sent to you, or transferred live.
Live on a real business's phone, not a demo
Lost Sheep Salon in Pittsburgh has run one since July. She answers on the salon's own number, handles real questions about services and stylists, and books into the salon's Square calendar. In her last two weeks, September 14 to 28, she had 23 real conversations with 22 different callers, and the AI usage for all of it came to $4.29.
Listen to the clip above: a real call where she takes an extensions appointment, asks the caller's name, tells her it's a beautiful name, and books it. Nobody scripted that line.
When she can't answer something
You decide what gets handed to a person. Some questions need a human on purpose: a hair-extension consult, a custom quote, an emergency service call. She takes a clean message and texts it to you right away, or sends the call straight through. The goal is simple: no caller ever hits a dead end again.
How we build her
- We learn your services, prices, hours and the questions your callers really ask.
- We build her knowledge base and tune her voice until she sounds like your front desk.
- We connect her to your booking system and give her a number, or forward your existing line.
- We test her on your real call types before she ever answers a customer.
- She goes live, and her calls feed the reporting you already get from us.
What it costs
The basic receptionist is $499. She answers every call in your business's voice, handles your common questions, takes a message when she needs to and texts it to you. You pay for her once, and call usage is billed at cost, usually $10 to $30 a month.
Everything else is an add-on, so you only pay for what your business needs. See the add-ons below.
Compare that with an answering service at about $250 to $2,100 a month, every month, for as long as you use it.
Add-ons
- Books appointments into Square or your calendar while the caller is on the line: +$399
- Connects to your CRM or job software: +$299
- A custom call flow, like intake questions, routing by service or live transfer rules: +$249
- A second language: +$199
- Another phone line or location: +$199
- Text-back and follow-up from your business number: missed-call text-back, confirmations and reminders, review requests and win-back texts. A one-time agent, $699, with texting usage at cost
- Trained & Tuned: we review her calls, refine her answers and keep your services and prices current. $99 a month for monthly tuning, or $199 a month for weekly tuning
Who it's for
Any business where the phone rings while you're busy doing the work: salons and studios, contractors and trades, clinics, law offices, short-term rental hosts, repair shops and service businesses of every kind. If a missed call costs you money, she pays for herself.
Questions owners ask
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
The basic receptionist is $499: she answers every call, handles your common questions and texts you every message. Booking into your calendar is a +$399 add-on, and text-back is an agent you can add for $699. Usage is billed at cost, usually $10 to $30 a month.
How does that compare to a human answering service?
An answering service runs about $250 to $2,100 a month, billed by the minute or call, and you rent it forever. The AI receptionist is a one-time build, trained on your business, with usage at cost.
Does it actually book appointments, or just take messages?
The basic receptionist answers, handles your common questions and texts you every message. With the booking add-on (+$399) she books real appointments into Square or your calendar while the caller is still on the line.
Is this running for a real business?
Yes. Lost Sheep Salon in Pittsburgh runs one today on its own number, in its own voice, booking into its own Square calendar.
What do I have to manage?
Nothing during the build. We create the knowledge base from your real services, prices and hours, and tune how she talks. After launch she runs for you, the first 30 days of tuning are included, and Trained & Tuned keeps her current after that.
Is an AI receptionist the same as an AI voice agent?
A receptionist is one kind of AI voice agent. We also build voice agents for intake, routing, qualifying and outbound reminders, on the same base with a custom call flow.
Is recording calls legal where I am?
It depends on your state. Pennsylvania requires every party's consent and Colorado requires one. We set up the disclosure your state needs.
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