AI receptionist for small business
Never miss another customer.
Your phone gets answered 24/7 — urgent sorted from routine, details captured, you texted, the appointment booked. Whether you're closed, with a customer, or already on another call.
From $99/month. One recovered customer usually covers it.
The math
- $99
- Starting plan, per month
- ~$200
- Typical recovered booking
- 24/7
- Nights, weekends, holidays
- <2 min
- Typical emergency call
One recovered customer pays for the month. Everything after that is margin.
The problem
Right now you have three bad options
Every small business is picking one of them. All three quietly cost you customers.
01
Answer everything yourself
Including after close, mid-appointment, and your day off. It holds up until you're already on a call — then the second caller is simply gone.
02
Let it go to voicemail
Someone with an urgent problem is not leaving a message. They hang up and dial the next number on the list.
03
Hire an answering service
Hundreds a month for a stranger reading a generic script — one who doesn't know your services, can't quote a price, and can't book into your calendar.
The fourth option
An AI receptionist that actually
understands your business
01
It knows your business
Not a generic script. It works from your services, your price ranges, your area, and your definition of urgent — starting from a template you adjust in minutes.
02
It never sleeps
Nights, weekends, holidays, and the twenty minutes you're with a customer. The calls that cost you the most are the ones you can't physically take.
03
It costs less than one job
A human answering service runs hundreds a month. AlwaysGreet starts at $99 — roughly what a single recovered customer is worth.
Setup
Live in three steps
No hardware. No new number. No contract to unwind.
- 01
Tell it about your business
Hours, services, what you charge, what counts as urgent. Start from a template and adjust — about ten minutes.
- 02
Test it on a real call
Run a real scenario and hear exactly what your customer would hear. Rewrite anything that doesn't sound like you.
- 03
Forward your calls
After-hours only, or everything you can't pick up. Your number stays your number — nothing on your listings changes.
Listen to a real call before you pay anything.
Where it earns its keep
Four calls you're losing today
Catch the after-hours call
The urgent call outside opening hours is often the highest-value one you get, and the one you're least able to answer. It gets triaged, priced honestly, and sent to you as a text.
Stop losing the second caller
When you're already on the phone, the next caller normally hits voicemail and disappears. Concurrent calls get answered instead.
Qualify before you commit
What they need, where they are, how urgent it is. You get the full picture in a text before deciding how to respond.
Filter the noise
Sales calls, robodialers, and repeat spam get rate-limited and flagged automatically, so they never reach you and never run up your bill.
As you grow
More calls, more lines, same front desk
Every plan answers, triages, texts, and books. Higher tiers add talk time and simultaneous calls.
| Plan | Talk time | At once | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 200 min | 1 call | |
| Pro | 500 min | 2 calls | |
| Multi | 900 min | 3 calls |
Control
You hold the off switch
Handing your phone to software is a real decision. These run before a call is ever answered — they're enforced in code, not promises in a help doc.
Kill switch
One tap stops the AI answering. No support ticket, no waiting on us.
Spend cap
A daily ceiling pauses the line automatically if anything runs away.
Rate limits
Per-caller hourly limits and automatic flagging of repeat short-call bursts.
Your wording
Every line it speaks and every price it quotes is yours to edit, any time.
Hear it in action
What your customer actually hears
A dead refrigerator at 10:41 p.m., because it shows every part of the job at once: triage, a diagnostic question that changes the answer, an honest price, details captured, the owner texted, the work booked — in two minutes, after close.
- 10:41 p.m. — inbound call, business closed
AlwaysGreet
Northgate Appliance Repair, after-hours line. What can I help with?
Caller
Our fridge has stopped. It was fine this morning and now everything inside is warm.
AlwaysGreet
That's a clock on your groceries, so let's move. Is the freezer side also warm, or just the fridge?
Caller
Both, I think. There's no noise from it at all.
AlwaysGreet
No noise at all usually points at the compressor or the start relay rather than a door seal, which is a same-day visit. What brand is it, and roughly how old?
Caller
It's a Samsung, maybe six years?
AlwaysGreet
Six years is well worth repairing. Our diagnostic visit is $95 and that comes off the repair if you go ahead. In the meantime, keep the doors shut — a full fridge holds temperature for a few hours. Can I take your name, address, and callback number?
Caller
Tom Àlvarez, 219 Kestrel Way. 480-555-0164.
- Owner texted — EMERGENCY · Tom Àlvarez · 480-555-0164 · Fridge + freezer dead, no compressor noise · Samsung, ~6yr · 219 Kestrel Way
AlwaysGreet
Tom, that's with the on-call tech now and you're first on tomorrow's board with a callback tonight to confirm a window. Keep those doors closed until then.
- Call ended · 2m 06s · booked · $240 recovered
One example of many — see a 2 a.m. lockout, a burst pipe, or a salon booking.
Results
Built for how a small business actually runs
Illustrative examples — AlwaysGreet is newly launched. These describe the outcomes the product is built for, not quotes from real customers.
It caught two emergency calls the first weekend. That's the year paid for, and I slept through both.
I stopped losing the calls that came in while I was with a client. Those were the ones that hurt.
My old answering service read a script and took a message. This one quotes the job and books it into my morning.
Who it's for
If you lose money when the phone rings out, it's for you
Every one of these ships with a ready-made template — services, pricing language, and its own definition of urgent. Anything not listed is a custom setup you write in about ten minutes.
- Locksmith →
- HVAC →
- Plumbing →
- Electrical
- Appliance repair
- Auto repair
- Towing & roadside
- Landscaping & lawn
- Property management
- Cleaning service
- Moving company
- Salon & barbershop →
- Pet care & grooming
- Med spa & clinic
Industries with an arrow have a dedicated page.
Pricing
Priced like one customer, not like payroll
No setup fee, no contract, cancel whenever. Minutes are talk time — a typical call runs under two minutes.
Save 17% with annual — 2 months free.
Starter
$99/mo
$99 billed monthly
Stop missing the one call that pays for the month.
- 200 talk minutes
- 1 call at a time
- After-hours call capture
- Then $0.30/min, only if you go over
Pro
Popular$149/mo
$149 billed monthly
For businesses busy enough to drop calls.
- 500 talk minutes
- 2 calls at a time
- Owner SMS + booking
- Then $0.28/min, only if you go over
Multi
$249/mo
$249 billed monthly
Multiple locations or lines, one AI front desk.
- 900 talk minutes
- 3 calls at a time
- Lowest overage rate
- Then $0.25/min, only if you go over
Talk minutes are allocated monthly on both plans — annual changes how you pay, not what you get each month. Overage is billed as it happens. Cancel any time; annual is refunded pro rata on unused whole months.
Questions
The things owners actually ask
Will it sound like a robot?
No — it's a natural voice that interrupts and responds like a person, not a phone tree. But judge that yourself rather than taking our word: run the demo and listen to a real call before paying anything.
Do I have to change my phone number?
No. Your number stays exactly as it is on your listings, your signage, and your website. You forward calls to AlwaysGreet — either everything you don't pick up, or only outside opening hours. Turning it off puts everything back as it was.
Can it answer only after hours?
Yes, and most businesses start there. Turn on after-hours-only and the AI stays silent while you're open — you take those calls yourself. It picks up nights, weekends, and holidays.
What stops spam calls burning through my minutes?
A per-caller hourly limit, automatic flagging of repeat short-call bursts, and a daily spend cap that pauses the line if something goes wrong. These run before a call is answered, so a robodialer can't run up your bill.
What if it says something wrong to my customer?
There's a kill switch in your dashboard — one tap and it stops answering immediately, with no support ticket and no waiting on us. You can also edit exactly what it says and what it quotes at any time.
How long does setup take?
About ten minutes. Start from a template, set your hours, services, and price ranges, test it on a real scenario, then forward your calls. You can be live the same day.
What happens if I go over my minutes?
Calls keep getting answered at your plan's per-minute rate, and you'll see the overage on your dashboard as it accrues. If you'd rather it stop cold at the limit instead, that's a setting you control.
How many customers did you miss last month?
You don't know. That's the problem.