A call gets answered, a price you never quoted gets promised, and you honor it or lose the customer. Every answer is written down and approved by you first.
Tara AI Receptionist, Setup
$999 one-time setup
This is the one time build that turns your business into answers a receptionist can use. Your hours, your prices in your words, your booking limits, and the line where a call stops being hers and becomes yours.
We write it from one interview. You read every answer and change what does not sound like you. We test the calls with you before a customer ever reaches her.
$999, one time. It is not a standalone product. Buy it with the monthly plan, because setup builds the receptionist and the monthly plan runs her.
The problem it solves
An answering service that does not know your business is worse than voicemail. It quotes a price you do not honor or books a Saturday you do not work. It offers an opinion on something you would never discuss over the phone.
The difference between a receptionist that helps and one that costs you money is not the technology. It is whether someone sat down and wrote out what she is allowed to say, and whether you read it before customers did.
Who this is for
Owners buying the monthly receptionist service. Every account starts here, once.
If you are comparing this against the monthly page and wondering which one you need, the answer is both. This page is the build. The monthly page is the service that answers the phone afterward.
How Creative Marketing AI helps
We start with one interview. Not a form, a conversation about how your business actually runs: what you do and what you do not do; how far you drive; what you charge and how you word it; which questions you hear every single day; and what you want a caller to hear at 9 p.m. on a Sunday.
From that we write your knowledge base. Plain English, that is the approved list of answers Tara is allowed to give, written the way you would say them. You get it back to read. Change a price, soften a policy, cut an answer you would rather she never gave. Nothing goes in that you did not approve. Anything not in it is a question she hands to a person instead of guessing at.
Then the booking rules. You tell us what she can put on the calendar and what she cannot: which services, which days, how long each one blocks, how far out she can schedule, how many she can stack. We connect your calendar once you approve it, and she books inside those limits and nowhere else.
Then the escalation paths, which are the rules for handing a call to a human. You name the calls that must reach a person and what she does with each: take a message, send you the transcript, or forward the call. She can also gather the address and the problem first, so whoever picks up already knows the situation. Medical, legal, financial, emergency, and safety questions always sit in that group. She does not give advice on any of them.
Last, we set up the routing from your existing number and run test calls with you. You dial in and hear what your callers will hear. Anything stiff, wrong, or mispronounced gets fixed and you call again. Live routing is the final step, and it happens after you say yes, not before.
What's included
- One onboarding interview, so you explain your business once instead of filling in forms for a week.
- A written knowledge base built from your answers, so what she says on the phone is what you would say yourself.
- Your review and approval of every answer before anything is live, so nothing reaches a customer that you have not read.
- Booking rules and calendar connection, so appointments land inside the limits you set instead of wherever there is a gap.
- Escalation paths, so the calls that need a person reach one, with the details already collected.
- Phone routing setup from your existing number, so you keep the number your customers already have.
- Test calls with you before go-live, so you hear exactly what your callers will hear and can say no.
How it works
- 1Buy setup together with the monthly plan.
- 2Complete the onboarding interview.
- 3We write the knowledge base, booking rules, and escalation paths from your answers.
- 4You read every answer and change what does not sound like you.
- 5We connect the calendar and the call routing.
- 6We run test calls together and fix what sounds wrong.
- 7You approve, and live calls start routing to her.
Is it the right fit?
Good fit
- Owners starting the monthly receptionist service.
- Businesses with real rules about pricing, scheduling, and what they will not discuss on the phone.
- Owners willing to spend an hour on the interview and read the answers afterward.
Not the right fit
- Anyone looking for a standalone purchase. Setup without the monthly plan builds a receptionist that never answers a call.
- Owners who do not want to review and approve the answers.
- Emergency-only businesses that have not defined human escalation.
What you provide
- Hours, services, service areas, and the questions you get asked all day.
- Booking rules, calendar access, and the limits on what can be scheduled.
- Escalation contacts, and when a human takes the call.
- Approved wording for prices, policies, emergencies, and anything sensitive.
- Call forwarding from your existing number, or cooperation from whoever manages it.
- Time to read the answers and approve them. This is the step that decides how good she is.
Straight talk
- This is a one time build, not an ongoing service. The monthly plan is what runs the receptionist afterward.
- Setup cannot be bought on its own and is not refundable as a substitute for the monthly service.
- Tara does not give medical, legal, financial, emergency, or safety advice. Those calls escalate to a person.
- She does not quote a price or make a promise you have not approved.
- Nothing here replaces a human on the calls that need one, and the rules you write decide which calls those are.
- Timelines depend on how fast your answers and approvals come back.
Common questions
Can I buy setup by itself?
No. Setup builds the receptionist. The monthly plan is what answers your phone. Buying setup alone leaves you with a configured receptionist and no service running her, which is why the two are sold together.
Why does the build cost $999 on top of the monthly price?
The monthly $799 is the running service. The $999 covers the work that happens once: the interview, writing your knowledge base, the booking and escalation rules, the routing, and the test calls. You pay it at the start and not again.
Do I keep my current phone number?
Yes. Your public number stays yours. We set up forwarding to the receptionist line on the routing you choose.
What if I want to change an answer later?
Send us the change. The knowledge base is yours and it gets edited as your business changes, prices move, or callers ask something the interview never covered. Ongoing edits are part of the monthly plan.
What if my call volume is high?
Setup is the same build either way, but the running plan may need to be the enterprise one. Ask before you buy, so the routing is scoped correctly the first time.
Ready when you are.
Tara AI Receptionist — Setup — $999 one-time setup.