How much does an AI receptionist actually cost?
$249 a month, flat, for the receptionist on its own. That covers 150 calls a month, then 75 cents a call, with no setup fee and no contract. Inside the Front Desk plan it is $299 a month and comes with missed-call text-back and website chat. That is the whole price. There is no quote to request and no call to book before you see a number, which is the part most providers' pricing pages will not give you. What the money buys is one thing stated plainly: every call answered, the routine ones booked, the rest taken down and handed to you, and a summary of every call in your inbox.
By Busy Season Local, updated
The call you cannot answer, measured
We cannot count the calls a business misses. We can count what the listing tells the caller at the moment they decide, and the sweeps read the same thing in every trade.
Nassau plumbers publish no opening hours on Google. At eleven at night Google cannot say they are open, and the caller with water on the floor dials the next name.
Nassau electricians publish no hours at all. A receptionist that answers around the clock is worth nothing if the listing tells the customer nobody is there.
Nassau plumbers link to a website from the listing that does not load. The caller who taps it instead of calling gets an error, and calls the next plumber.
Nassau heating and cooling companies publish no hours, in the trade where the call arrives on the coldest night of the year and goes to whoever picks up.
Source: the September 2026 Nassau sweeps, read from each business's Google listing on the day of the sweep. A sweep cannot see a phone ring or go unanswered, so nothing on this page claims a missed-call rate; the counts are what the listing shows the caller before they decide. The prices are the prices on this site's pricing page and change only when that page does.
What the price buys, and what it does not
What is included at $249
It answers every call, day or night, in plain english. It books the routine jobs, which are most of them, following the rules you set: your hours, your service area, what needs a callback. It takes the message when it should not decide, and it texts you every lead the moment it takes one. You read a summary of every single call.
What it will not do, on purpose
It never pretends to be human. It never quotes a price you did not give it. It never handles a real emergency itself: those ring your phone immediately. A receptionist that oversteps costs you the customer and the review, so the limits are part of the product, not a gap in it.
How it compares, in words rather than a vendor's chart
A human answering service bills by the minute and still puts the caller on hold at dinner. Voicemail is where an emergency call goes to die; nobody leaves one, they dial the next name. The receptionist costs less than one lost job a month in most trades, and you can check that against your own job value on the missed-call page rather than take our word.
Check whether you need it in about a minute
Open your phone's call log and count last week's missed calls from numbers you did not know. Each one was a customer who dialled somebody.
Call your own business number at seven in the evening and listen to what a customer hears.
Talk to the demo on this site the way a customer would. If it says something you would not say, tell me, and it changes before it ever touches your line.
See what a customer meets at your web address
Text us the address from your own phone. A person opens it on a phone, the way your customers do, and texts back what is in the way. Or check your Google listing right here, read live.
It opens a text to (917) 397-0493 on your phone. Add the address and send.
Rather talk? Call (917) 397-0493
What the phone looks like trade by trade
Plumbers
13 publish no hours at all, in a trade people search at midnight.
HVAC
6 send callers to a website link that will not load.
Electricians
8 reviews is the middle of this trade, and 20 have none of their hours on Google.
Roofers
Every one of them publishes its hours. 64 have under twenty five reviews.
Auto repair
A median of 107 reviews, the most of nine trades, and 47 percent still missing from their own town's list.
Landscapers
37 of 81 never appear in the first sixty for their own town.
Contractors
56 hold a perfect five on fewer than ten reviews, which reads as no evidence.
Salons
265 salons across eight towns, and 98 are under fifty reviews.
Med spas
On a listing customers choose by looking, 45 carry fewer than ten photos.
Restaurants
465 reviews is the middle of this category and the median rating is 4.4, the lowest of any Nassau line of work measured.
Dentists
116 of 326 sit on a flat five, and 177 show fewer than ten photos.
Common questions
- Is there a setup fee or a contract?
- No setup fee, no contract, month to month, cancel in one email. Setup is a conversation about your services, hours and booking rules, and it is done before the first call comes in.
- What happens after 150 calls in a month?
- Each call past 150 is 75 cents. A business taking more than 150 calls a month is usually better on the Front Desk plan at $299, which adds missed-call text-back and website chat, and the arithmetic is on the pricing page rather than behind a call.
- Does it book into my calendar?
- It books following the rules you set: your hours, your service area, what needs a callback from you. It knows your services and your prices because you told it, and it will not invent one. When a booking needs a human decision, it takes the details and hands them to you instead of guessing.
- Can I try it before paying?
- Yes. The live demo on this site is the same front desk with a sample business in place of yours. Pick a trade and talk to it like a customer would. It costs nothing and nothing is installed.
The receptionist, from every side
Talk to the front desk, live
Pick a trade and talk to it like a customer. It answers out loud, books the job, and takes the message.
What your missed calls cost
Put your own numbers in before you decide whether the price above is worth it.
Every call answered and booked
The service page: what it does on your real line, and the honest limits it keeps.
Missed calls texted back in seconds
The cheaper half of the same problem: a text before the customer dials the next name.
Every price, out loud
Month to month, cancel in one email, every number on one page.
For a plumbing business
What it does with a burst pipe at two in the morning, and how it triages an emergency.
For heating and cooling
What it does when forty calls arrive on the coldest night of the year.
What does local SEO cost?
The Get Found plan, the audit and the free snapshot, priced the same way.
Hear it answer your calls before you pay for it
Send your business and your line of work, and the reply shows exactly how it would answer your phone, with your services and your hours. Free, usually the same day.
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