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Virtual receptionists

AI-assisted reception paths for calls, forms, and follow-up.

Virtual receptionist systems help local businesses respond faster when customers call, submit a form, ask a common question, or need a clear next step after hours.

Local business receptionist workflow for customer calls and appointment requests.

Response layer

The goal is not to pretend every conversation should be automated. The goal is to capture the right information, answer approved questions, route urgent issues, and hand off cleanly when a human should take over.

Calls

missed-call and intake paths

Forms

lead qualification and routing

After hours

approved response coverage

Meet Tara — our own AI receptionist and the spokesperson for Creative Marketing AI. She's the reason it's called the Tara AI Receptionist. When you sign up, your receptionist is yours: name her (or him) to match your brand.

Business outcome

What this area is responsible for.

Each service area has a specific job in the growth system. It should be easy for a client to understand what it does, where it fits, and what it does not promise.

Fewer missed opportunities

Missed-call text back, form follow-up, and intake routing reduce the number of leads that disappear before the business responds.

Clearer handoff rules

Approved response rules define what the receptionist can answer, what should be booked, and what must be handed to a person.

Better customer context

Calls and forms can collect service type, location, urgency, contact details, and preferred next step before the team follows up.

01

Map the customer questions

We identify the calls, form requests, appointment questions, and urgent routing rules the business handles most often.

02

Write approved response rules

The business approves the facts, limits, tone, service areas, booking rules, and escalation paths before automation is used.

03

Connect the intake path

Reception workflows can connect to website forms, phone follow-up, email, SMS, booking requests, or the portal depending on scope.

04

Review and adjust

Early conversations and handoffs are reviewed so the system gets tighter instead of drifting away from how the business works.

Workflow

Built as a process, not a vague add-on.

The landing page explains the work in plain language now. The pricing and checkout path can be connected later once the exact packages are defined.

How it connects

Keep your number. Setup takes about 5 minutes.

Your business keeps its current phone number — nothing you've published changes. Your AI receptionist gets its own line, and you simply forward calls to it. Most businesses forward only when no one answers, so the team picks up when they can and the receptionist catches everything else.

01

Keep your number

Your existing number stays exactly as it is, everywhere it is listed. Nothing for your customers to relearn.

02

We provide the line

Your AI receptionist gets its own dedicated phone number, set up on our side.

03

Forward your calls

A quick setting or star code on your phone — works with any carrier: cell, landline, or VoIP. Usually set to forward only when unanswered.

04

We walk you through it

We send a simple per-provider guide and set it up with you on a call. Reversible anytime.

No number changeWorks with any phone providerAbout 5 minutes to set upTurn it off anytime

What can be included

  • Missed-call text-back planning
  • Website form follow-up paths
  • Approved FAQ and service response rules
  • Lead intake fields and urgency routing
  • Human handoff and escalation rules
  • Review loop for early conversations

Important boundaries

  • Emergency, legal, medical, financial, and safety-sensitive conversations need clear human escalation rules.
  • Virtual receptionist systems should not quote unsupported prices, guarantees, diagnoses, or legal advice.
  • The system works best after the website, forms, services, service areas, and policies are clear.

Best fit

Where this service makes sense.

Service businesses that miss calls during jobs or appointments
Practices and offices with repeated intake questions
Teams that need after-hours response without promising 24/7 human staffing
Businesses with clear service areas, booking rules, and qualification steps

Related service paths

Connect this area to the right growth path.

Start with the audit when website, SEO, lead response, or managed platform scope is involved.

Hear her first

Pick the voice your callers will hear.

Every plan includes choosing your receptionist's voice. Tap play on a few — these are real samples from the voice library you'll pick from during setup.

Browse the full voice library

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Never locked in

Start small. Move up the day you need to.

One assistant, five plans. Move up or down any time and it takes effect the same day, with the difference prorated (a move down creates a credit). Your plan follows your business, not the other way round.

Grows with you

Your assistant keeps getting smarter, at no extra cost.

The AI models behind your assistant change every few months. Models that were too expensive last year become affordable this year. When a more capable model is available at the cost we run today, we move your assistant to it. Same price, better assistant, nothing for you to set up.

Included in every plan

The AI receptionist comes with your plan.

Every plan includes the AI receptionist, from 375 minutes a month on Base to 6,000 on Upgrade 4. After you sign up, you get a private onboarding link to build its knowledge base, and we set it up and test it before go-live. Past your minutes, extra minutes are $0.30 each. At 200% of your minutes the receptionist switches to taking messages only, so a busy month cannot run up a surprise bill.

  • Answers every call 24/7, so nothing goes to voicemail
  • Takes messages and callbacks, and passes on appointment requests
  • Sends you a summary of each call
  • Behaves the way your industry expects, built from your website
  • Forwards to your own number when it matters
  • After-hours and call-overflow coverage
See the plans

Month to month. No contract.