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The calls you miss are the jobs you lose.
A 24/7 AI receptionist that answers your phone, handles the usual questions and books appointments straight into your diary — while you are with a customer, on a job, or asleep.
In build — 3 founding places £750 one-time build · then £79/mo Founding rate, first three only · £1,250 once the places are goneBeing built now. I am taking three founding clients at a reduced rate so it gets shaped around real call volume before it opens properly — and those three keep the launch rate for life.
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If you run the business and also do the work, the phone rings at the worst possible moment — mid-haircut, under a sink, during service. So it goes unanswered, and most people who reach voicemail simply call the next name on the list. That missed call was not a lost enquiry, it was a lost job.
An AI receptionist picks up every time, in a voice you choose, and knows your services, prices, hours and how you like to handle bookings. It answers the routine questions, takes the booking, and passes anything unusual to you with a summary.
There are usually two ways to buy one of these, and it is worth knowing where this sits. At one end are self-serve tools from around £25/mo: you write the script, wire it to your calendar, and find out what it gets wrong on live customers. At the other end, agencies that build one properly charge several times this and usually take six to eight weeks. I am not going to put a number on what they charge, because I have no sourced one — ask two of them and compare.
Here the price is a one-time build, not a subscription — £750 for the three founding places, £1,250 after that. I script it around your business, connect it to the diary you already use, and test it on real calls before it ever answers a customer — the agency job, nearer the self-serve price, in days rather than weeks. It costs less because it is one person with no agency overhead, no sales team and a scope agreed before I start — not because there is less in it. The £79/mo afterwards covers hosting and any changes you want.
If you would rather set one up yourself, say so and I will point you at the tools I would use. For a lot of businesses that genuinely is the right answer.
What you get
Everything included, nothing billed later.
- Answers every call, 24/7
No voicemail, no hold music, no engaged tone — including evenings, weekends and while you are mid-job.
- Knows your business
Trained on your actual services, prices, hours, location and policies. Not a generic script that says someone will call back.
- Takes bookings
Books into your existing calendar or booking system, checks availability, and confirms with the customer.
- Follows up on leads
Chases the enquiries that go quiet, which is where most small-business revenue silently leaks away.
- A voice that suits you
Choose the voice and tone so it sounds like your business rather than a call centre in a different hemisphere.
- Summaries you can read
Every call logged with what was said and what was agreed, so nothing depends on remembering.
Who it's for
Built for businesses like these.
How it works
Three steps, no jargon.
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Build and train
I configure the receptionist on your services, prices and calendar, then test it against real scenarios until the answers are right.
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Go live, keep tuning
It starts answering. I adjust as real calls come in — the first fortnight always surfaces questions nobody predicted.
Questions
The things people actually ask.
It means the receptionist is being built now rather than sitting finished on a shelf, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Three founding places are open at £750 instead of £1,250, and those three shape it around their real calls before it opens properly. Nothing is charged until there is a working line you have heard answer your own number, and founding clients keep the launch rate for life.
Yes — calls are answered by an AI and callers are told so at the start of the call, and call recording is set up to meet the consent rules in your state. I do not recommend hiding it: the receptionist says plainly that it is an assistant and can take a booking or pass you a message. In practice callers care far more about being answered than about who answered.
It takes the details, tells the caller you will be in touch, and sends you a summary immediately. It is built to hand over cleanly rather than to bluff, because a wrong confident answer costs more than a handover.
The £79/mo covers the running service, call handling and ongoing tuning as your prices and services change. Cancel any time.
No — they do different jobs. The receptionist catches people who ring; a website catches people who search. Most businesses leak customers through both.
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