Your phone gets answered. The job gets logged. The follow-up already went out.
Most AI receptionists hand you a transcript and call it a day. We hand you a booked job sitting in your CRM with the address, the scope, and the callback already scheduled — built, wired, and running inside a week.
Talk to it yourself right now. No form, no calendar link, no sales call first.
Running live on our own two small businesses since February 2025. The numbers are below.
Lead Rescue, start to finish.
The call that would have gone to voicemail — and what happens to it instead.
These are our numbers, not an industry average.
Counted from the lead records our AI receptionists created across our two businesses between February 2025 and August 2026. Timing is measured on the 105 records whose timestamp is the call itself; 19 later records were entered in a catch-up batch and are counted in the 124 total but excluded from the time-of-day figures. Business hours are Monday–Saturday, 8 AM to 5 PM Central. Ask us for the export — we'll send it.
A voicemail is a customer dialing your competitor.
Six out of ten people who became a lead for us called outside business hours. Almost a third called between 8 PM and 6 AM. Eleven of them called on a Sunday.
Before we turned this on, every one of those calls went to voicemail. Almost none of them left a message. They just called the next name on the list.
You already know this. You've watched a job you were perfectly capable of doing go to somebody who happened to pick up the phone. The problem was never your crew or your pricing — it's that the phone rang while you were on a roof.
Answering the call is the easy half.
There are a dozen services that will answer your phone for $49 a month. They'll take a message and email you a transcript. Then the transcript sits in your inbox with the other four hundred emails, and on Thursday you remember you never called the guy back.
We finish the job.
| What happens after the phone rings | $49 AI receptionist | Vertex |
|---|---|---|
| Answers 24/7 in a natural voice | Yes | Yes |
| Takes a message, emails a transcript | Yes | Yes |
| Asks your qualifying questions — scope, address, timeline | Sometimes | Yes |
| Creates the lead inside your CRM | No | Yes |
| Moves pipeline status and logs the activity | No | Yes |
| Fires the follow-up text or email automatically | No | Yes |
| Warm-transfers the calls that deserve a human | Rarely | Yes |
| Somebody builds and tunes the whole thing for you | No | Yes |
Wired into [LIST ONLY THE CRMs YOU HAVE ACTUALLY CONNECTED].
Live in a week. About forty minutes of your time.
We listen to how your calls actually go
One thirty-minute call. What people ask, what you need to know before you can quote, who gets the call that can't wait. We write the script from your answers, not a template.
We build it and wire it to your system
Five business days. Voice, script, transfer rules, and the CRM connection so every call becomes a record with the details attached. You keep your existing number — calls forward.
You listen to every call for a week and we tune it
Recordings and summaries land in your inbox daily. You tell us what it got wrong, we fix it. After that it's month to month and you can walk away whenever.
What hiring somebody to answer the phone actually costs.
Not the wage. The wage plus everything on top of it — and the hours you still aren't covered.
- Median wage
- $18.27/hr
- Annual wages
- $38,010
- Benefits & payroll tax
- $16,337
- Total per year
- $54,347
- Hours covered
- 40 / week
- Cost per hour covered
- $26.13
- Median wage
- $18.27/hr
- Annual wages
- $19,001
- Payroll tax only
- $1,805
- Total per year
- $20,806
- Hours covered
- 20 / week
- Cost per hour covered
- $20.01
- Monthly
- $497
- Annual
- $5,964
- Benefits & payroll tax
- $0
- Setup, year one only
- $500
- Hours covered
- 168 / week
- Cost per hour covered
- $0.68
Where these numbers come from. Median receptionist pay of $18.27/hour and $38,010/year is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figure for May 2025. Benefits and payroll tax are applied at 43% of wages, derived from the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation release for March 2026, where benefits averaged 30.1% of total private-industry compensation. Part-time assumes 20 hours a week with payroll taxes but no benefits.
What we left out, in both directions. The hiring column excludes recruiting, training, paid time off, turnover, a desk and a phone system — all of which would make the gap wider. And a receptionist does things this does not: greets people who walk in, handles filing and scheduling, and exercises judgment no script covers. If you need those, hire somebody. If you need the phone answered, this is the cheaper answer by a wide margin.
Priced like a hire, because it replaces one.
Against $4,529 a month for somebody who still goes home at five.
- 24/7 answering service
- Qualifying questions you choose
- Warm transfer on your rules
- Daily recordings and summaries
- Built and tuned for you
- Everything in Front Desk
- Every call becomes a lead in your CRM
- Job details captured on the record
- Pipeline status and activity logging
- Automatic follow-up text or email
- Routing by branch or territory
- Per-location reporting
- Shared or separate scripts
$500 one-time setup. Month to month after the first thirty days — no annual contract.
Our guarantee: if it doesn't capture at least one job in your first thirty days that you'd otherwise have missed, we refund the setup fee and you keep the recordings.
The questions everybody asks
Will it sound like a robot?
What happens when it can't answer something?
Do I have to change my phone number?
I already have an answering service.
What if my callers are older, or don't speak English?
Am I locked into a contract?
Who's actually behind this?
We're not right for everybody.
Built for you if —
- ✓You're a trades or service business doing roughly $500K–$5M a year
- ✓You have one office person, or nobody, and the phone still rings after five
- ✓A single missed job costs you more than a month of this
- ✓You want it set up for you, not a dashboard and a tutorial
Go somewhere else if —
- ✕You need HIPAA-grade handling — that's a different build and we'll say so
- ✕You're doing more than [2,000] calls a month; you need a contact center, not a receptionist
- ✕You want the cheapest thing that answers. Rosie is $49 and it's fine. Genuinely.
I built this because I was losing jobs to my own voicemail.
I'm Alfredo Ollivierre. I run two small businesses in North Texas — one of them has been going since 1994. Before that I spent twenty-five years in retail and finished as an EVP running a $110 million store.
None of that stopped me from watching customers call on a Saturday, hit voicemail, and spend their money somewhere else on Monday. So I built the thing that answers, asks the right questions, and drops the lead on my board before I've had coffee. It's been running on both businesses since February 2025. Then other owners started asking if I'd build them one.
Every service on the “best AI answering” lists is written up by the company that made the list. I'm the guy who put six of them on his own business phone to find out which ones actually work.
Go ahead and call it.
Pretend you're a customer. Ask it something hard. It takes ninety seconds and it'll tell you more than anything else on this page.
If it's not for you, tell me why. I'll take the note either way.