AI voice receptionist for small business

Every missed call is a customer calling your competitor.

Q: How is this really set up in 5 minutes?

You paste your website URL. We scrape it (services, hours, FAQs). You pick a vertical template and a voice. You claim a phone number. We provision the AI assistant and link it to the number. End-to-end: ~5 minutes from signup to a number that rings to your AI. Nobody else in this price range does this.

Q: What does it cost per call?

Your plan includes a minute bucket (Starter $49 = 250 min/mo, Growth $179 = 1000 min, Scale $399 = 3000 min). Most service-business calls run 1–3 minutes. If you go over, we charge a clear per-minute overage — no surprise bills.

Q: Will it sound robotic?

Try the live demo right now from your laptop and decide. We use Deepgram Nova-3 for understanding, Claude for thinking on paid plans (Groq on the free trial), and Azure Neural voices for speaking — the same stack you'd hire an agency to build for you, with sub-500ms latency.

Q: What if it fumbles a call?

Every call is fully transcribed and recorded — you see exactly what happened. You can transfer specific intents to a human (yourself, an on-call number) automatically. And you can refine the system prompt in our dashboard without re-onboarding.

Q: Do I need to port my number, or change carriers?

Neither. Forward your existing line to your new AI number in minutes — no porting, no downtime, keep your current carrier. Calls keep working the whole time, and you can fully port the number over later if you ever want to. No rip-and-replace.

Q: What about HIPAA / consent recording laws?

We default to playing a consent disclosure at call start for two-party-consent states. We don't sign HIPAA BAAs in v1, so we don't recommend the product for clinical medical use yet. Dental, optometry, vet — generally fine. Hospitals — not yet.

Ahoya picks up in under a second — nights, weekends, mid-job. It books the appointment, answers questions, and texts your team. Live on a real number 5 minutes from now, from $39/mo.

Start free — 5 min, no card

No card · 20 free minutes · your number, your data.

Or call and talk to the AI now (415) 801-8120

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Ahoya · live call

Incoming call

(415) 555-0162

Ahoya is answering…

The actual voices your callers will hear

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Paste your URL — done.

Answers

24/7

Even nights & weekends.

Picks up in

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Before it hits voicemail.

From

$0/mo

Billed yearly · no setup fees.

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Built by a small team. Every call is consent-disclosed, transcribed, and yours to audit — no black box.

Where calls get lost

You don't miss calls because you don't care

You're busy running the business. These are the three leaks every small business has — and each one is a customer who moves on.

After hours & weekends

Friday 6 PM to Monday 8 AM is when customers finally have time to call — and when nobody picks up.

Mid-job, hands full

You're on a ladder, with a patient, or with a client. The phone rings out.

Voicemail hang-ups

Most callers won't leave a message. They hang up and dial the next result on Google.

Missed callExample

Tue 6:42 PM · 0:00

(415) 555-0148 · Sarah D.

Rang 6 times → voicemail. No message left.

Lost — went to voicemail

Likely calling the next result on Google

No message. No callback. No booking.

A full-time receptionist costs $3,000+/month and goes home at 5. Yours answers every call, books the appointment, and texts your team — 24/7, from $49.

Every missed call is a customer who dials the next business instead.

Missed calls per week12

Revenue per new customer$450

Calls that become customers45%

Lost to missed calls

$126,263 / year

about $10,522 every month — roughly 52 missed calls.

An AI receptionist recovers

$8,944 / month

That's 183× the cost of a $49/mo Starter plan.

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01 · How it works

From URL to live receptionist in four steps

No sales call. No SDRs. The system does the configuration work that other AI receptionists make you do by hand.

Paste your website URL

We scrape it and pull your business name, services, hours, location, and FAQs automatically.

Pick a vertical + voice

Five templates (home services, dental, salon, law, restaurant) auto-configure prompts and intents. Pick a voice you like.

Claim a phone number

Choose an area code. We provision a real phone number and wire it into your agent automatically.

Go live

Call your number from your phone, hear it work, then start forwarding your existing line. SMS handoffs to your team start immediately.

02 · The real thing

Not a mockup — this is the actual product

Every call transcribed and recorded, every booking captured, all on a dashboard you watch in real time.

Your whole front desk, at a glance

Calls, bookings, capture rate, minutes used — and the latest activity as it happens. Open it on your phone between jobs.

Calls, bookings, and capture rate at a glance
Live activity as it happens
Works on your phone between jobs

Every call, fully transcribed + recorded

Read the summary, play the recording, see exactly what the AI booked — and jump straight to the booking it captured. No black box.

Full transcript and recording for every call
Summary and outcome up top
Jump straight to the captured booking

Bookings captured and ready to confirm

Name, time, and service pulled off the call. Confirm in a tap and we auto-text the customer a reminder an hour before.

Name, service, and time pulled off the call
Confirm in one tap
Automatic reminder text an hour before

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Analytics

See every call turn into a decision you can act on

Your receptionist doesn't just answer — it reports. Call volume, capture rate, what got booked, and what it saved after hours, all in one live view.

Volume & answer rate, day by dayWatch trends build and catch a slow week before it costs you.
Every outcome, accounted forBooked, logged, or transferred — see exactly what the AI did.
Peak hours & after-hours savesKnow when calls land and how many you'd have missed alone.

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Ahoya · Analytics

app.ahoya.ai/analytics

WeekMonth

Calls answered

128▲ 12%

Capture rate

94%▲ 6%

Booked

37▲ 9

Calls this weekExample

BookedAnsweredMissed

Booked this week

New patient intakeTue · 9:12am+3
Weekend bookingSat · 4:40pm+2
Estimate requestWed · 11:03am+2

Recovered after-hours

After-hours callMon · 8:51pmsaved
Missed → texted backThu · 7:22pmsaved
Voicemail avoidedFri · 6:05pmsaved

Built to be trusted

The stack you'd hire an agency to build

No black box. Real speech AI under the hood — and every call is yours to see, hear, and export.

Deepgram Nova-3understanding

Claudereasoning

Azure Neuralvoice

Vapitelephony

Consent-disclosed recording

We play a recording disclosure at call start for two-party-consent states — compliant by default.

Every call is yours

Full transcripts and recordings on your dashboard, exportable any time. No lock-in.

Hand off to a human anytime

Route any intent — or a whole call — straight to your cell. The AI knows when it's out of its depth.

Where it draws the line — on purpose

Won't give medical or legal advice

It books and answers logistics, and hands off anything clinical. Not for HIPAA-clinical use yet.

Won't take payments

It captures the booking and texts your team — money still runs through the system you already use.

Won't wing it when unsure

Out of its depth, or asked for a human? It transfers the call or logs it for your team — no bluffing.

Hear how it actually sounds

Every voice you can pick — scroll the list and tap to hear a sample.

We're early — and we onboard our first customers by hand. You get the founders on the other end of the line, not a ticket queue. Privacy & recording policy.

No fake reviews here

Be one of our first customers

We're a small team just getting started — so you won't find stock testimonials on this page. What you'll get instead: we help you set it up personally and make sure it works for your business.

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03 · For your industry

Custom built for your business.

Each template ships with the right questions, intents, and team handoffs for your trade — no prompt engineering required.

Books and schedules service visits
Texts the on-call tech for emergencies
Promises a callback instead of quoting a price

AI front office for home services

Capture the job, the address, and the problem on every call — and text your on-call tech the moment it's an emergency.

Start free See it for Home services →

Ready when you are

Stop sending customers to voicemail.

Start free — 5 min, no card

No card · 20 free minutes · your number, your data.

04 · What you get

The most complete AI front desk

Everything the other guys charge extra for — booking, two-way SMS, transfers, multilingual, analytics — included and transparent. Watch it, tune it, and wire it into the tools you already run.

AI answers and writes down the booking

See a real call

Call answeredExample

Tue 6:42 PM · 1:12

(415) 555-0148 · Sarah D.

Wants a teeth cleaning this week — offered Friday, confirmed details, sent a reminder.

Booked — Fri 2:00 PM

Texted your team · just now

Texts your team the second a call matters

Team SMS handoffs

New booking — Sarah D., teeth cleaning, Fri 2:00 PM. Call back: (415) 555-0148.

Texted to your team · just now

Live on a real number in minutes

Get a number

(415) 802-1199San Francisco

(212) 555-0143New York

(305) 555-0177Miami

Routes every call by what the caller needs

Smart routing

Incoming call

↓

Booking → calendar

Question → answered

Urgent → text you

Every call on a glass-box dashboard

Open the dashboard

Calls this weekExample

BookedAnsweredMissed

Wires into the tools you already use

Integrations

Zapier

HubSpot

Jobber

ServiceTitan

Acuity

Google Cal

Pipedrive

HoneyBook

Webhook

Plus everything else — included, not an upsell

Two-way SMS
Missed-call text-back
Multilingual (EN · ES · FR)
Warm human transfer
Spam & robocall screening
Call recording & transcripts
Bookings + SMS reminders
Zapier + webhooks
Reliability monitor
AI call-quality scoring
Web & push alerts
Your number, your data

05 · Honest comparison

Why pick us over the alternatives

The AI receptionist market is crowded. Here's where we actually win.

	That's us Ahoya	Rosie / My AI Front Desk	Smith.ai
Self-serve in <5 min from URL	Yes	No	No
Live in-browser demo, no signup	Yes	No	No
Public, transparent pricing	Yes	Yes	No
Real-time transcripts + recordings	Yes	No	Yes
Universal CRM webhook out	Yes	No	No
Starts at $49/mo	Yes	Yes	No

Compared on publicly listed features as of June 2026. We kept the rows where we genuinely differ — including the one where Smith.ai matches us.

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