AI Agents & Automation for Local Businesses

The honest math

What a missed call actually costs you

Your business

Missed calls a week

Average job value

$

Calls you'd have won

%

What that is worth

$2,165a month

walking to whoever answers instead

The Receptionistfrom $49 a month

One of those calls, caught$100

At these numbers, catching one call a month pays for it.

The arithmetic is above, in the open: missed calls, times the share you would have won, times what a job is worth, over a 4.33-week month. No industry statistics and no invented multipliers.

Start with the phone. Or hand over the whole desk.

Our team builds every plan for you and trains it on your business. Live reception answers automatically, but only from facts and policies you approved. Outbound messages and anything irreversible wait for your one-tap approval. Sensitive or unusual situations come straight to us.

One receptionist, phone and website

The Receptionist

Answers every call and every website chat from the facts you approve, and books the job while they are still talking.

$99/mo

Monthly call minutes

The phone receptionist, answering in a natural voice and booking the job during the call
The website receptionist, giving a visitor at 2am the same answers a caller gets
The Call Catcher, texting back any call nobody answers within the minute
The Scheduler, sending reminders, rebooking no-shows and filling freed slots

Featured inside

Bilingual by default

A Spanish-speaking caller is answered in Spanish from the first word. Never a second number, never an add-on.

Everything included

It picks up and talks the way a person does: short sentences, numbers said as words. No menu, no hold music.
It books onto whichever calendar you connect, and reads the time back before confirming.
It reads the caller’s number back digit by digit. A misheard number is a lost job.
Ask it something outside your approved facts and it will not guess. A caller insisting someone quoted them a price does not move it.
Ask for a person and it hands you the call warm, speaking a summary to whoever picks up.
It texts your booking link to the caller while they are still on the line, once they say yes.
Every call comes back as a row you can read. A robocall that never speaks does not spend your minutes.
Two callers at once both get answered. No busy signal, no voicemail maze.

Answers onYour existing number

Books ontoYour own calendar

Voice400 minutes a month

After that30 cents a minute

Hire The Receptionist

30 days free, and never billed before it goes live. Cancel anytime.

or pay yearly, two months free

The calls answered and the paperwork chased

The Back Office

For the shop where quotes and follow-ups slip. One bill, one approval queue.

$399/mo

Monthly call minutes

2,000 minutesincluded every month

Everything in The Receptionist, with 2,000 voice minutes
The Rescue, chasing the quotes that went quiet and the carts left behind
The Closer, first to every new lead with a quote drafted from your photos and price rules
The Collector, chasing the overdue invoice with a payment link in every message, then asking for referrals once it is paid

Featured inside

The Email Assistant

Works your inbox morning and mid-afternoon, sorts what needs you from the noise, and files reply drafts in your own Drafts folder. Every reply is a draft only you send: it holds no send capability at all, as a structural property.

Everything included

The Reputation Desk, a reply drafted for every review you get and your Google profile kept fresh with posts drafted for your tap
The Email Assistant’s digest reads in money order: a customer inquiry sits on top with their own deadline quoted beside it.
Phishing is quarantined with its links never opened, and an instruction inside an email is content, never a command.
Legal, money, HR and health mail is flagged to you and never auto-drafted. Personal threads are never read or filed.
It ran on our own business inbox first, and it earned its place on this page there before it went on sale.

Voice2,000 minutes a month

After that30 cents a minute

AddsQuotes, invoices, reviews, inbox

ApprovalEvery draft waits for you

Hire The Back Office

30 days free, and never billed before it goes live. Cancel anytime.

or pay yearly, two months free

The whole desk, run like an admin

Best value

The General Manager

For the owner who wants an admin, not another app. Built to order around how you work.

$899/mo · by application

Monthly call minutes

5,000 minutesincluded every month

Everything in The Back Office, with 5,000 voice minutes
The Ghostwriter, content in your voice, published only with your approval
Leak Watch, your site and forms checked daily, and you hear the day something breaks
Your Google profile kept current, and referrals asked for at the happiest moment

Featured inside

The Coordinator

Built to order around how you actually work, scoped at your application. One human-signed brief a week: what it did, what it is watching, and the one thing that needs your call.

Everything included

Anything it is unsure about is held for you, never guessed at.

Voice5,000 minutes a month

After that30 cents a minute

AddsContent, site watch

StartsWith an application

Start an application

One human-signed brief a week. One-tap approvals.

Every agent, every minute and every boundary: see the full comparison below

Built so it doesn't fail

You decide what it may say.It answers only from the facts you approved, and it will not guess past them. Anything it sends out waits for your one-tap approval, and anything delicate comes straight to a person.

Thirty days to change your mind.The longest trial any of the names below publishes is fourteen days. Ours is thirty, you are never billed before it goes live, and you cancel from your phone. Point your own line at it and listen.

It proves itself monthly.An email that counts what it actually did for you, from the records rather than an estimate.

A kill switch, always.Say stop and we switch it off the same day.

Your data stays yours.Kept in its own isolated store, exported on request, deleted within 30 days of leaving.

The same on every plan: our team builds it, trains it on your business and keeps tuning it, with no setup fee. Outbound messages wait for your one-tap approval.

Texts follow the rules: business-appropriate hours, and any “STOP” ends them immediately. Texting features activate once carrier registration for your business number is approved, typically within days, occasionally a few weeks. Past your plan’s minutes, calls are thirty cents a minute. Spam calls are free, transfer time after a handoff is free, and your daily email flags you at eighty percent of your minutes so nothing surprises you. Your plan never upgrades itself. Our team does the setup on every plan and never charges for it.

Comparing us to a cheaper plan somewhere else? Read what its minutes say. One competitor’s own pricing page puts it plainly: its $20 tier “includes no voice minutes, so it does not answer calls on its own”. The cheap tiers take messages. Answering, booking, transfers and texting are the upgrades. These plans arrive working: we build them, train them on your business, and messages can wait for your approval.

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Compared, honestly

What the other names publish, and what they leave out

Every cell below comes from each company's own published pages, re-read on August 16, 2026. Where a rival beats us the cell says so. If a number here goes stale, tell us and we fix it the same day.

What matters	BellCode	Rosie	Zinng	Smith.ai AI	Goodcall
How much of it lands on you
Who builds it and trains it on your business	Our team, at no charge	You, until the $299 plan	Set up for you	You	You
Someone checks how well it is answering	Our team, every week	Not stated	Solo founder support	Human help costs per call	Human review claimed, cadence not stated
How long you can test it free	30 days, on your own line	7 days	7 days	25 free calls, none on the paid tier	14 days
What it does to your customers
Says “booked” only once the calendar confirms it	Yes, by design	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Nothing reaches a customer without your approval	One-tap approval by default	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Refunds, discounts, prices, contracts and deletions always wait for a person	Yes, and this one cannot be switched off	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
Your customers’ calls train an AI model	No, our provider does not train on them	Trains your own agent on your recordings	No, and they say so	Not stated	Yes, “to train and improve the models”
You can switch it off yourself, the same day	Yes, from your phone	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
An email counting what it actually did	Every Monday, with the month’s totals in the first one	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated
What it costs
The receptionist that actually books your calendar	$99 a month	From $149	From $99	$150 a month	From $79, you build the flow
Voice minutes at that price	400, about 130 answered calls	1,000 at $149. Their $49 plan carries 250 and cannot book	700 at $99. Their $49 plan carries 300 and is scheduling links only	75 calls at $150	Unlimited minutes, 100 callers at $79
What the next call costs after that	30 cents a minute	Your plan is upgraded automatically	“No overage penalties”, mechanics not published	$2.00 a call	50 cents per extra caller
Languages on the phone	English and Spanish, switching the moment the caller does	English and Spanish	63 languages	English and Spanish	Not stated

About those four hundred minutes. At three minutes a call, which is a fair length for a booking or a quote question, four hundred minutes is roughly a hundred and thirty answered calls in a month. Most of the shops we build for do not miss thirty. We print the number rather than a bigger one because we also print what the minute after your last one costs, which is thirty cents on either plan, and a plan that never surprises you is worth more than a ceiling you were never going to reach. The smaller plan is 150 minutes for $49, on the same terms.

Where they beat us, plainly. Zinng carries 700 minutes at our price and speaks 63 languages. Rosie’s $149 plan carries 1,000. Both true, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Minutes are also the cheapest thing on this page: the answering services these same businesses use today sell 100 minutes for $395 (Ruby) and 200 for $460 (PATLive), and the two closest AI competitors at our own price carry 220 minutes (Dialzara) and 200 (Frontdesk). What matters more is what happens inside those minutes.

On approval. One-tap approval by default. Switch any job to fully automatic when you trust it.

You can buy an AI that answers for $25 to $50 a month, and if all you want is messages taken, some of them are a fair buy. You will set it up and tune it yourself, and booking, transfers and texting are usually the upgrade. Ours starts at $49 and arrives already working: built around your business by our team, read every week by a person, and printing the overage rate instead of leaving you to find it. And when the website it answers on needs rebuilding, that is the same studio, on the same invoice.

The lineup

Every agent, and the plan that turns it on

Three you can hire on their own, the rest come inside a plan.

Which plan turns each agent on ✓ means it is on that plan
Agent	On its own	The Receptionistfrom $49/mo150, 400 or 1,000 minutes	The Back Office$399/mo2,000 minutes	The General Manager$899/mo5,000 minutes, by application
The Receptionist, phone and site	From $49	Included	Included	Included
The Email Assistant	Not sold on its own	Not on this plan	Included	Included
The Scheduler	In every size	Included	Included	Included
The Rescue	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Included	Included
The Closer	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Included	Included
The Collector	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Included	Included
The Reputation Desk	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Included	Included
The Ghostwriter	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Not on this plan	Included
Leak Watch	Not sold separately	Not on this plan	Not on this plan	Included
The Coordinator	Built to order	Built to order	Built to order	Built to order

The Coordinator is the one that is scoped with you rather than switched on, which is why it reads the same in every column. The Email Assistant comes inside The Back Office and The General Manager rather than on its own, which is what its row says.

The same rules govern all ten. Live reception answers on its own, only from facts you approved. Anything outbound waits for your one-tap approval. Anything an agent is unsure about comes to you, and any rule changes with one email. Each one is tested against its own scripts before it answers a real person, most go live in days, and the ones that send texts wait on US carrier registration of your business number, about a week, which we file for you. Every Monday one email counts what they actually did, and the first Monday of the month carries the month.

Every one of them has a working demonstration: the screen it runs on, the words it sends, and where it hands off to you.

Open the showroom

The platform

Every agent reports to one window

Clients get the Client Window: a live record of what the agents did, what they are asking to do, and what you approved.

The Client WindowCopperbell Plumbing & DrainSample data

Calls answered

47

▲ +9 vs prior 30 days

Appointments booked

12

▲ +3 vs prior 30 days

Invoices collected

$8,420

▲ +$1,150 vs prior 30 days

Reviews replied to

9

all of them

Jobs captured by the agents

The Receptionistmissed calls

The Receptionistwebsite inbound

The Rescuequotes

The Schedulerbookings

The Reputation Deskreviews

The Ghostwriterposts

+ 4 more agents

2:14 PMThe Call Catcher texted back a missed call in 41 seconds

1:52 PMThe Scheduler booked Tue 9:00 AM, water heater estimate

11:38 AMThe Closer drafted a quoteNeeds approval

10:07 AMThe Collector sent a payment reminder on invoice #1148

9:31 AMThe Reputation Desk replied to a new 5-star review

8:55 AMThe Rescue nudged a quote from last Thursday

Sample data from a fictional business, shown to illustrate the Client Window. Your window shows your real calls, bookings and approvals.

Try it, then take over

The receptionist answering on this site is the one we sell

That is our own homepage below, with the same agent answering in the corner of it. The exchange is scripted from its tested behavior; the rules underneath are read live from the configuration it runs on. Interrupt it whenever you like, the take-over button opens the real one, on this page.

BellCodeAnswering now

Do you answer after hours? I usually can't call during the day.

We're here in this chat around the clock. Tell me what you need and I'll get the details to the team, or leave a number and they'll call you back when you're free.

How much is the receptionist?

This chat is part of The Receptionist, which answers your phone and your website together and texts back any call nobody catches. It starts at $49 a month with 150 call minutes, $99 with 400, and the $199 size adds reminders and rebooking. Either way it answers your visitors like this and captures every lead.

Can you knock 20% off?

That's not something I can offer. Pricing questions I can't answer from our published facts go to the team, and they'll give you a straight answer.

Opens the real agent on this page, running the same rules as the ones below. A demonstration exchange, not a recording of a customer.

The authority boundary

Read live from the same configuration the agent runs on, so this list cannot drift from the code.

On its own

Answers from the facts and policies you approved, and nothing beyond them.
Takes a name and a number once, then leaves it alone if the visitor would rather not.

Always

Hands the conversation to your team the moment it is not sure.
Steps back the second a person takes over.

Never

Makes up a price, a discount or a promise your facts do not contain.
Tells a visitor an email went out or a call is coming when it cannot see either.

The flagship

One super agent that runs the whole operation

It does all ten jobs below itself, and watches the week around them: what came in, what went quiet, what changed on your site and in your reviews. Every Monday you get one brief, three things it did, what needs your call, one it is watching, signed by a person before it reaches you. Live reception answers on its own from facts you approved; anything else that reaches a customer waits for your tap. $899 a month, by application.

Everything it handles

The everyday work it takes off your plate:

01answers your website and captures leads
02texts back missed calls
03requests reviews and drafts the replies
04keeps your Google profile posted
05books appointments
06drafts quotes from photos
07follows up on quiet quotes and cold leads
08chases overdue invoices
09writes local pages and posts, with a person at the keyboard for this one
10asks your happy customers for referrals

On top of that

it keeps an eye on your website and reviews and flags the day something breaks
it works only from your own records, kept separate from every other client's
every week it sends you one short brief a person has signed off: what it did, what needs you, what it's watching
live reception answers on its own, only from facts you approved; everything outbound waits for your tap

Meet The General Manager

Privacy and control

How we handle your business and your data

Your business stays yours

It works from the services, hours, prices, tone and boundaries you approve. Your business information is used to do the job you hired it for, not for unrelated advertising or resale.

Only the access its job needs

Connections are limited to the specific task, with read-only or approval-first access wherever practical. You approve every permission and can revoke a connection.

Private by design

We maintain the AI agent and its connections without routinely monitoring your business activity. Support access is limited to setup or troubleshooting when it is needed.

You stay in charge

You decide what it may handle, what waits for approval, and when a conversation reaches a person. A clear monthly recap shows the results without exposing unrelated activity.

Going live is a fifteen-minute intake, then we build and test it against real scenarios and you review it first. Most ready-now AI agents are live within days; anything that texts customers takes about a week for the one-time carrier registration we file. Checkout opens a 30-day free period we extend if setup runs longer, so the first monthly charge cannot happen before go-live. Cancel anytime, no contracts.

Built private and secure, first. How we handle your data.

Need something built for a specific problem?

These packages cover the work we get asked for most, not the edge of what we can build. We are a web, software and AI studio, so if the thing you need answers calls, drafts replies, or watches a queue so you do not have to, describe it and we will tell you straight whether we can build it. If we cannot do it well, we will say so and point you toward someone who can.

Asked before hiring one

Can I choose one job, or do I need a whole system?

Start with one practical job: missed-call replies, website reception, reviews, scheduling, follow-up or another task from the showroom. Many are ready to configure now; the more connected systems are scoped and built around your tools before they go live.

When does billing start?

For ready-now AI agents, we do the setup and do not charge for it. Checkout opens a 30-day free period, and we extend it if setup takes longer, so the first monthly charge cannot happen before go-live. Built-to-order systems may require a clearly quoted build fee or deposit before work begins; their monthly service still starts at go-live. Monthly plans are cancel-anytime.

What if it says something wrong?

It only works from the facts and boundaries you approve, and it hands off to you the moment it is unsure. Before go-live we test it against real scenarios, and you review it first.

Do I need new phone numbers or software?

It depends on the AI agent. Text ones work from your existing business number after a one-time carrier registration we file for you. Website ones are one line of code we add. Some need a connection to do their job: your Google profile, your calendar, your invoicing tool, your inbox with read-and-draft access only, or your store. We set all of it up, and we never ask for more access than the job needs.

Can you see everything I or my customers enter?

No. The AI agent receives only the information and permissions needed for its defined job. We do not routinely monitor your day-to-day business activity. If support access is needed for setup or troubleshooting, it is limited to that purpose and the permissions you approved.

How do I know it's doing anything?

Every AI agent sends a monthly email that names what it actually did: leads by name, reviews, booked jobs, collected invoices. If a month is quiet, the email says that too.

Not sure which one? Talk to us first, we’ll tell you honestly if you don’t need one yet.

Your phone and your website, answered while you're on the job

What a missed call actually costs you

Start with the phone. Or hand over the whole desk.

The Receptionist

The Back Office

The General Manager

What the other names publish, and what they leave out

Every agent, and the plan that turns it on

Every agent reports to one window

The receptionist answering on this site is the one we sell

The authority boundary

One super agent that runs the whole operation

How we handle your business and your data

Your business stays yours

Only the access its job needs

Private by design

You stay in charge

Need something built for a specific problem?

Asked before hiring one