The phone gets busiest at the same time your team does.
More call coverage for the months when every lead arrives at once
$399/mo
Busy Season gives Tara room to handle steady incoming calls without forcing a smaller business into the 2,000-minute Standard plan. She answers from approved business information, collects the right details, books inside your rules, and hands sensitive or urgent calls to a person.
The plan is $399 a month and includes 800 talk minutes. Additional minutes are $0.20 each. The one-time $999 setup builds and tests the knowledge base, call routing, booking, and escalation before launch.
The problem it solves
When demand rises, the people who normally answer the phone are already serving customers. Calls stack up, voicemail fills, and the hottest leads are returned hours later. Adding temporary staff takes hiring, training, scheduling, and supervision for a problem that may last only part of the year.
Busy Season keeps the first response consistent during that rush. It does not remove the need for people. It collects the information, handles approved questions and booking, and sends the calls that need judgment to the right person.
Who this is for
Busy Season fits contractors, professional offices, automotive businesses, and other teams whose call traffic rises during tax season, storms, weather changes, deadlines, promotions, or other predictable peaks.
It also fits businesses that have outgrown Starter but do not normally reach 2,000 talk minutes. The features stay consistent across tiers; this plan buys a larger included allowance.
How Creative Marketing AI helps
We turn your approved business information into a working receptionist knowledge base. Tara gets clear answers about services, hours, service areas, policies, and common questions, along with an explicit list of what must be escalated.
We build intake and booking around the way the team already works. A caller can be qualified and scheduled only within the rules you approve. If a call falls outside those rules, Tara collects the details and follows the handoff path.
We test the busy paths before launch: new leads, existing customers, after-hours calls, schedule requests, and sensitive questions. Your team hears each path and approves it before live routing begins.
What's included
- 24/7 answering for the calls you route to Tara
- 800 talk minutes each month
- Additional talk minutes at $0.20 each
- Approved answers about services, hours, policies, and service areas
- Lead qualification and intake questions
- Appointment booking inside approved rules
- SMS or email follow-up where configured
- Human handoff, messages, transcripts, and escalation rules
How it works
- 1Choose Busy Season and add the one-time setup.
- 2Complete the onboarding interview and identify the busiest call paths.
- 3Review the knowledge base, intake, booking, and handoff rules.
- 4Make test calls through each path and approve the experience.
- 5Route calls to Tara and refine approved answers as real calls reveal gaps.
Is it the right fit?
Good fit
- Businesses expecting roughly 300 to 800 talk minutes in a typical month
- Seasonal businesses that need more coverage during predictable peaks
- Teams that want calls qualified before a person follows up
- Offices that need after-hours and overflow coverage without another shift
Not the right fit
- Very low-volume businesses that fit comfortably inside Starter
- Businesses that need Standard's larger included capacity or operating scope
- Teams that require a person to answer every call
- Emergency-only operations without a human escalation plan
What you provide
- Business hours, services, service areas, and common caller questions
- Seasonal changes to hours, availability, offers, and service priorities
- Booking rules and approved calendar access
- Escalation contacts for each important call type
- Phone-forwarding access or cooperation from the current provider
Straight talk
- Busy Season includes 800 talk minutes per month; additional minutes are $0.20 each.
- Setup is a separate one-time $999 charge.
- Tara does not give medical, legal, financial, emergency, or safety advice.
- She uses approved information and does not improvise prices, policies, or promises.
- The system improves coverage and response consistency but does not guarantee leads, appointments, or revenue.
Common questions
Do I have to use Busy Season all year?
The service is billed monthly. We can review actual usage and move the business to the tier that fits, subject to the current subscription terms and any plan change taking effect in Stripe.
What happens after 800 minutes?
Calls continue to be answered. Each talk minute above the included 800 is billed at $0.20, so the service does not stop in the middle of a busy month.
How do I know whether Busy Season or Standard costs less?
We compare actual call usage along with routing, booking, and support needs. A larger included allowance is not automatically cheaper, so we recommend Standard only when its capacity and operating scope are the better fit.
Can Tara book different appointment types?
Yes, when you provide and approve the duration, availability, calendar, and limits for each appointment type. She books inside those rules and nowhere else.
Does she answer existing-customer calls too?
She can, using the routing and handoff rules you approve. Billing questions, emergencies, complaints, and sensitive matters should have a clear path to a person.
Ready when you are.
Tara AI Receptionist — Busy Season — $399/mo.