AI receptionist for your trade
The same receptionist answers a plumber's 2 AM leak and a dentist's 9 AM toothache. What changes is what you tell it. Pick your trade and see exactly that.
Pick your trade
Each page plays a real call in that trade and shows the instructions a business like yours gives the receptionist: what it knows, when it books, when it hands off, what it never says.
For HVAC companies
No-heat and no-cool calls triaged, tune-ups booked, after hours too.
For plumbers
Leaks triaged on the phone, jobs booked, the on-call plumber rung for floods.
For contractors
Estimate requests qualified and walk-throughs booked while you are on site.
For restaurants
Hours, allergies and table requests answered, nobody pulled off the floor.
For dentists
Dental emergencies triaged, new patients booked, recalls rebooked.
For law firms
Intake taken, conflicts flagged, consultations booked, no legal advice.
For real estate agents
Listing questions answered, showings booked, buyers routed to the listing agent.
For salons
Bookings with the right stylist, prices answered, color consultations first.
For med spas
Consultations booked, treatment prices answered, medical questions sent to a provider.
For chiropractors
New-patient visits booked, insurance questions answered from your list.
For auto repair shops
Drop-offs booked, oil-change prices answered, status calls sent to the service advisor.
For veterinary clinics
Vaccines and checkups booked, emergencies sent to the right place.
Same receptionist, different instructions
An AI receptionist is a voice agent that answers your business phone when your team can't: it greets callers, answers from the instructions you give it, books appointments into your calendar and puts urgent calls through to a person. For a small business the trade decides the instructions (what counts as an emergency, which visits to book, what it must never say), not the software. Allo's AI receptionist costs one $32 seat a month with no per-minute fees.
What it knows
Your services, prices, hours, area and policies, written in plain sentences or read from your website.
When it books
Which visits it books, for how long, with whom, and in which windows, straight into your calendar.
When it hands off
The calls that need a person now: a burst pipe, a toothache, a court deadline. They ring the right phone.
What it never says
No medical or legal advice, no repair prices over the phone, no promises your team didn't make.
Six trades, six real calls
Recorded with fictional businesses. Each one shows a different job: answering, booking, recognising a caller, handing off.
Kessler Chiropractic
A new patient asking the first-visit fee and the insurers the clinic works with.
AI receptionist, answering service or voicemail
The three ways a small business deals with the calls it can't take. Answering-service features and prices vary by provider: the column below describes the typical offer.
$32/moAnswering
Doing something with the call
Cost
The AI around the receptionist
Every card opens its page. The receptionist is one part of an AI phone system.
AI receptionistHow it answers, what it knows, how it's set up.
Learn moreAI appointment bookingReal free slots, booking rules, mid-call.
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AI answering serviceEvery call answered, without a call center.
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AI IVRCallers say what they need instead of pressing 1.
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AI call summariesEvery call in three lines, in your inbox.
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Missed call text backA text goes out before they call someone else.
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Call routingUrgent calls ring the right phone.
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Voicemail to textRead every message in seconds.
Learn moreAI receptionist: questions
Something specific to your trade? Each trade page answers its own questions, or book a demo.
A voice AI that answers your business phone like a receptionist would: it greets the caller, answers questions from the information you give it, books appointments into your calendar, takes messages and transfers calls that need a person. Unlike voicemail it holds a real conversation, and unlike an answering service it is not charged by the minute.
Any business whose phone rings while the team is busy with customers: home services like HVAC and plumbing, contractors, dental and chiropractic clinics, med spas, salons, veterinary clinics, auto repair shops, restaurants, law firms and real estate teams. Each has its own page above.
It speaks with a natural voice you choose and answers in full sentences, without a menu. It does not pretend to be a person: you can have it introduce itself as the business's assistant, and it hands the call to your team whenever your rules say so.
It follows your hand-off rules: it transfers the call to the right person, or takes a detailed message when nobody is available. Every call leaves a recording, a transcript and a summary in Allo, so nothing is lost.
The AI receptionist takes one Business seat: $32 a month billed yearly, or $45 month to month. That is the whole bill for it, with no per-minute meter, so a busy week costs the same as a quiet one. Every plan starts with a 3-day free trial. A human answering service typically charges $1,000 or more a month. Compare AI receptionists.
Yes. You can port your number to Allo and keep it, or keep it where it is and forward calls to your Allo line, for example only when nobody picks up or after hours. Callers dial the number they already know.
Minutes. You write its instructions in plain words, point it at your website so it learns your services and hours, connect your calendar and choose who it hands calls to. You can also set it up from Claude or ChatGPT with the Allo MCP, just by asking.
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