AI Receptionist

The receptionist that answers every call

A natural-voice AI that picks up 24/7, books the job, and texts you the details — grounded only in what you teach it, so it never invents a price or a promise. Catch just the calls your crew misses, or run the whole front desk.

Build and test it free — no card until you go live.

See it answer a call, book the job, and text the details.

Step 1

Teach it your business

Add your services, hours, pricing, and what you don’t do — or point it at your website and it drafts the rest. It only ever answers from this.

Step 2

It answers your calls

A natural voice picks up 24/7 — as a backstop when your crew can’t get to the phone, or as the full front desk. Never a missed call again.

Step 3

It books and texts you

It captures the name, address, and job, books the appointment, and sends every lead straight to you and the tools you already use.

Step 4

It never makes things up

Anything it wasn’t taught, it takes a message for — no invented prices, no promises you can’t keep. Refusing to guess is the whole point.

What it does

More than an answering machine

Backstop or full front desk

Ring your crew first and let the AI catch only what they miss — so you pay for the overflow, not every call — or hand it the whole line.

Every lead, texted and logged

The moment a call ends you get the caller, the job, and a summary — in a text and in your dashboard, with the recording and transcript.

Into the tools you use

New leads, bookings, missed calls and call summaries flow to Zapier, Make, Slack, your CRM or any URL — no copy-paste.

Grounded, never guessing

It answers only from what you taught it and the documents you upload. Wrong information costs you a customer — so it refuses instead.

How it compares

Voicemail, a hire, or an answering service?

The honest trade-offs against the other ways to handle a ringing phone. Voicemail is free; a great receptionist has judgment no software matches. Here's where an AI that answers every call — and refuses to guess — fits in.

FieldLine AI receptionist compared with voicemail, a human receptionist, and a traditional answering service
CriterionFieldLine AIVoicemailA receptionistAnswering service
Picks up 24/7Every call, any hourTakes a messageBusiness hoursUsually 24/7
Actually answers questionsIn a natural voiceNo — one-wayYesReads a basic script
Knows your prices, services & what you don’t doOnly what you teach itNoIf trainedA short script
Never invents an answerRefuses instead of guessingN/APeople improviseOff-script, they guess
Books the job & captures the leadBooks and logs itYou call backYesTakes a message
Texts you the lead the second the call endsText + dashboardNoIf they rememberEmailed later
Handles a rush of calls at onceAnswers every lineAll to voicemailOne at a timeYou may hold
Cost$35/mo, publicFreeA full-time salaryPer-minute or retainer
Setup~2 min, self-serveBuilt inHire & trainContract & onboarding
Questions

AI receptionists, explained