A demo, not a product
An AI receptionist you can hear for yourself
People call it an AI receptionist, a virtual receptionist, or an answering service that actually picks up. We are building one, and a working demo exists today. It is not something you can buy, it has no price, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
How to hear it
There is a phone line running right now, and we will give you the number. We send it by email rather than publishing it, and the reason is not mystique — a demo line is metered by the minute, and a number sitting on a public page gets dialled by people testing whether it is real. So: ask, and we send it.
- Go to the contact page and put the word DEMO at the start of your message.
- Tell us the trade you are in, so we can say what the demo will and will not handle for you before you ring it.
- We reply with the number, and with what to expect when you call. One person reads these; nothing automated will start emailing you.
There is no waiting list, because there is nothing to wait for. Asking gets you a phone number and a conversation, not a place in a queue for a launch.
What you will actually hear
Worth knowing in advance, because it surprises people. The demo answers as "Cool Breeze HVAC", an air-conditioning company that does not exist. It is a persona we invented so there would be something concrete to configure — not a customer of ours, not a business anyone can hire, and not a real phone line belonging to any company. Nobody is sitting on the other end.
Ask it when it opens, where it is, what its website is, or to book you an appointment, and it will answer as that fictional company. There is no queue, no transfer to a person, and nothing waiting to sell you anything after you hang up.
AI receptionist, virtual receptionist, answering service — what this actually is
Those three phrases get used for quite different things, so here is where this one sits. A traditional answering service is people in a room reading a script. A virtual receptionist is usually the same arrangement with a nicer name. An AI receptionist is software holding the conversation itself.
This is the third kind — and a demo of the third kind, rather than a service you can subscribe to. What is genuinely different from the automated phone systems everybody remembers is the voice: you cannot tell in a syllable any more. That is a change in what is possible, not evidence about outcomes, which is exactly why we would rather you heard it than read our description of it.
What it does, and nothing beyond that
- Answers basic questions — opening hours, where you are, what your website is. The questions that interrupt an owner's day and do not need an owner.
- Books an appointment.
That is the list, and it is deliberately short. It does not connect to your scheduling software, your CRM or your phone system, because none of that has been built. There is no price, no plan, no launch date and no waiting list, because there is no product yet — only a demo that works.
If you run an HVAC company
The demo is set up as an HVAC company because that is the trade the questions fit most obviously: what time do you open, do you cover my area, can somebody come out, book me in. Those are the calls that arrive while every technician is already on a job, and they are the ones an owner ends up taking personally.
What we cannot tell you is what an AI receptionist would do to an HVAC company's phone, because nobody is running one. What we can tell you is that a good deal of that traffic never reaches the phone at all — it leaves a slow website before anybody dials — and that half we can fix today.
If you run a chiropractic or physical therapy clinic
Clinics ask about this more than any other trade we hear from, and the honest answer has an extra step in it. A patient ringing a clinic gives an injury type, an insurance carrier or a reason for calling, and any vendor whose system receives that on your behalf is a business associate — which means a signed Business Associate Agreement has to exist before any patient information is handled. That is a conversation with a document at the start of it, not a feature to switch on. It is set out in full on the chiropractic page.
So the demo is worth hearing to judge what the technology sounds like, and it is not worth pointing at patient calls until that agreement exists. Both of those are true at once.
Why a website company is building this at all
Because the website and the phone are the same problem seen twice: somebody is trying to reach a business and something is in the way. We can fix the first half today and we are working on the second. What we are not going to do is sell you the second half before it exists.
What we want from you
An opinion, not an order. Hear it, then tell us whether something like this would actually be useful in your business, what it would need to do that it does not, and what you would want it never to do. That is the whole reason this page exists.
In the meantime, the thing we do sell and can deliver today is the website. The phone agent will be priced when it is a product, and not before.
- Status
- A working demo. Not for sale
- How to hear it
- Ask us and we send the number by email
- Who answers
- An AI voice agent, as a fictional HVAC company
- What it can do
- Answer basic questions; book an appointment
- Price
- None — it is not a product
- Businesses using it
- None
Ask for the demo line — put DEMO at the start of your message and tell us your trade. We send the number, and then we would like to know what you thought of it.
About the demo
How do I get the demo number?
Ask for it on the contact page and put the word DEMO at the start of your message. We reply with the number and with what to expect when you ring it. It is sent by email rather than published because a demo line is metered by the minute and a public number gets dialled by people checking whether it is real — which costs money and tells us nothing.
Is this an AI receptionist, a virtual receptionist or an answering service?
It is an AI receptionist in the strict sense: software holding the conversation, rather than staff reading a script in a room somewhere. People search all three phrases for roughly the same idea, so it is worth being precise about which one this is. It is also a demo rather than a service — there is nothing to subscribe to.
Whose business am I calling?
Nobody's. It answers as "Cool Breeze HVAC", a fictional company invented for the demo — not a client of ours and not a business that exists. We say so in advance because a caller who thinks they have reached a real air-conditioning company hangs up confused, and that would be our fault rather than theirs.
Am I joining a waiting list?
No. There is no launch to wait for and nothing to reserve. Asking gets you a phone number to ring and a conversation about whether the idea is any good. If it later becomes a product with a price, that will be written on this page in plain terms.
Can I buy this for my business?
Not today, and we would rather say so than take a deposit against something unfinished. It is a demo we can show you and change; it is not a service with a price, a plan or a commitment behind it.
What does an AI receptionist cost?
Ours has no price, because it is not a product yet, and we are not going to publish a number we would have to walk back. Other vendors publish theirs. The useful comparison is not one vendor against another but any of them against what an unanswered call is actually worth to you — which is your own average job value multiplied by the share of calls that turn into work.
Does it integrate with my scheduling software?
No. Any list of software names you see on a page like this one is usually aspirational, and ours was — so it is gone. Nothing is connected to anything, and if that ever changes we will name what has actually been built and tested.
Is an AI answering service safe for patient calls?
That is a different conversation with a different starting point, and it starts with an agreement rather than a feature. A vendor whose system takes patient information on your behalf has obligations before it handles anything at all — see the note on our <a href="/dental/">dental</a> and <a href="/chiropractic/">chiropractic</a> pages. Nothing involving that kind of information is going to be demonstrated casually on a phone line.