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An AI receptionist is a voice agent that answers your business phone, holds a real conversation with the caller, and finishes the job: booking the appointment, answering the question, taking the message, or handing the call to a person. AnswerAI builds yours on your actual services, prices, hours, and policies, so it answers the way your best front desk hire would, 24 hours a day.

Yes. Play the call at the top of this page, which is a real recording, unedited. Your receptionist runs on the newest voice models available and is tuned to your tone and pacing, so most callers never realize they aren't speaking with a person.

AnswerAI is quoted per build rather than off a plan list, because what your receptionist handles is settled with you before it goes live and no two builds carry the same scope. For comparison: the Government of Alberta puts the average receptionist wage at $21.94 an hour, which is about $45,635 a year at full-time hours in wage alone, before CPP, EI, WCB, vacation pay and cover for absence, and that person still only covers 40 of the 168 hours a week your phone can ring. There is no per-seat pricing and no overtime, so nights, weekends and holidays are answered at the same rate as a Tuesday afternoon. The pilot is free either way: about 14 days, no call limit, no setup fee.

Yes. Your receptionist checks live availability while the caller is still on the line, books the slot straight into your calendar, and can take the deposit before the call ends. The appointment lands in the same software your team already opens every morning, so nobody re-types anything.

AnswerAI connects to the tools you already run, including Google Calendar, Calendly, Outlook, Slack, Housecall Pro, Vagaro, and Stripe. If your software has an API, it connects. If it doesn't, we build the bridge. Nothing gets ripped out and replaced.

It hands the call off rather than guessing. When a call falls outside what your receptionist should handle, it transfers to your team, takes a message, or routes to voicemail, and which of those happens is a rule you settle during the build rather than a default we pick. The caller's name, number and full context are already captured either way, so whoever picks it up already knows what the caller wanted.

Yes, as many as come in at once. Five callers get five conversations and nobody sits in a hold queue. That's the difference on a busy morning between a booked week and a full voicemail box, and it's the one thing a single person at a front desk can never do.

About one to two weeks from the first conversation to a live line. We learn your business, build and script the receptionist on your real services and prices, and you hear it before any customer does. Switching it on then takes under a minute, because it's one forwarding code on the phone you already have.

No. You keep the number your customers already have. Setup is a single call forwarding code entered on your existing line, so nothing changes on the caller's side, and you can turn the forwarding off again whenever you want.

Yes. The pilot is free and runs two weeks. Your receptionist is live and answering real calls before you decide anything, and you can listen back to every one of those calls in your dashboard.

Yes, and the specifics are published rather than summarised. The platform your receptionist runs on holds SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2, HIPAA is available under a self-serve BAA, and your calls are never used as training data. Retention is set per agent anywhere from one day to two years, and personally identifiable information can be excluded from recordings and transcripts entirely: a shorter window is the most effective privacy control most businesses have, and it costs nothing. Call data is stored in the United States. The security page carries the full detail, and the vendor checklist goes out on request.