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Rinqly is an AI receptionist for US small businesses that rely on the phone. It answers every call 24/7 in a natural voice, answers questions about services, prices and hours from the business's website and knowledge base, qualifies callers and books appointments into Google Calendar or Outlook. Urgent calls can be transferred to a person, and the owner gets a transcript and summary after each call. The same AI agent also runs a website chat widget and outbound calls for reminders and lead follow-ups, so one setup covers three channels. Rinqly integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, Slack, Zapier and more, and is built for dental and medical practices, law firms, home services, med spas, salons, real estate and auto repair. Setup is self-serve. Plans start at $49/month with a free trial that includes 60 minutes, no credit card required.

365vox is a DIY AI voice receptionist and AI answering service for small and mid-sized businesses. It answers incoming calls 24/7 on your existing phone number, including after hours, on weekends, and when your team is busy, helping you capture more leads and avoid missed calls. The AI receptionist can answer common questions, book, reschedule, and cancel appointments, collect customer details, and transfer urgent calls to your team. Every call generates a transcript, summary, and recommended next step, emailed to your team and synced with supported CRM, calendar, and practice-management tools, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Calendar, Outlook, Acuity, Mindbody, Dentrix, and Buildium. Built for healthcare clinics, dental practices, med spas, property managers, home service companies, schools, and public agencies. Privacy and compliance features support HIPAA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA requirements; a BAA is available. Pricing: $0.75 per conversation minute, billed by the second — no monthly plans, bundled minutes, setup fees, or contracts. Setup takes about five business days; free 7-day trial, no credit card required. Try the AI receptionist live: call (450) 367-9990.

TeleWizard provides managed AI phone agents that answer calls, collect intake information, book appointments and route requests using each business's instructions. The team configures the service, connects calendars and CRM tools, tests workflows before launch and provides ongoing maintenance. Businesses can add web chat and messaging channels to support more ways for customers to get in touch. AI Supervisor reviews conversations to highlight communication issues and business friction. TeleWizard supports after-hours and overflow coverage, multilingual conversations and staff handoffs. Pricing is based on a tailored quotation, with setup and recurring plans scoped around the business's usage, systems and required actions. Law firms can use configured reception workflows to gather intake details, book consultations and route inquiries. Clio Manage and Grow workflows and Lawmatics integrations connect reception with legal systems. The service follows each firm's approved questions, answers and handoff rules. Businesses can request a guided demonstration and tailored quotation for their specific needs.

TalaGuard Pro is an AI assistant for call center agents and the team leaders, QA analysts and managers who support them. Agents use a Windows desktop app during live calls, and supervisors work from a web portal. While a customer is on the line, the agent presses one hotkey to get a suggested response drawn from the company's own knowledge base, with the source file named. A second hotkey opens Policy Chat, where agents can ask the questions a new hire would usually ask their team lead. When the call ends, the app drafts the call note automatically. Every call is saved to a call log. QA analysts and team leaders score calls against a QMS form, leave coaching comments, and can use an optional auto-QA pre-fill. Admins manage settings and locks across a role hierarchy from agent up to senior operations manager. Privacy is a core design choice. Customer details can be masked before any text reaches the AI model, and teams can connect their own AI provider key so call data does not pass through a shared account. Industry knowledge base templates help new teams start quickly, and higher plans add meeting transcription with speaker labels. TalaGuard Pro is built for small and mid-sized contact centers and BPOs. A browser demo is available without signing up, and new workspaces get a 14-day free trial with no card required.

Ringbrook is an AI receptionist for plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, roofers and other small trade and home-service businesses. You keep your own number: dial one short code from your carrier and the calls you don't pick up go to Brook, Ringbrook's AI. She answers in your business name, day or night, says she is an AI, and asks the questions you'd ask: what's wrong, name, callback number, address, how urgent. Seconds after the call you get a text with the details, and every call is recorded and written out on your dashboard. If a caller asks for a person, Brook can hand the call to your cell. Connect Google Calendar and she can book open times inside the hours you choose. Try it free for 7 days with no card; if you don't add a card it simply switches off. Then plans start at $99 a month, with no contract, no setup fee and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Brook also answers in Spanish when the caller speaks Spanish.

CrossCX is a customer experience quality platform for brands with in-house customer service. Listener QM automates quality monitoring of calls, chats and emails: scorecards, evaluation of human advisors and AI agents, AI-assisted debriefing, alerts and corrective action plans. Cross-Mining speech analytics adds multilingual transcription (30+ languages), automatic tags, sentiment along each call and cross-cutting themes across all conversations. CRM Dataviz (built on Tableau) and Voice of Customer complete the platform, and an MCP server lets AI assistants query your own data.

Ruqaya AI is an AI phone receptionist for small businesses in the US and Canada. It answers the calls you can't, 24/7, so your business doesn't miss calls when you are busy with a customer, closed, or working on a job. When a call comes in, Ruqaya AI answers in your business name with a professional voice and tells callers it is an AI assistant whenever they ask. It takes appointment requests, answers common questions using the FAQs, prices and hours you provide, flags urgent calls, and emails you the caller's details with a summary after every call. Your dashboard includes the call log, transcripts and recordings, and you can edit your greeting, hours and FAQs yourself. Higher plans add live transfer of emergency calls to your phone, custom lead-qualifying questions and a monthly call review. Setup is simple: tell us about your business, we train your receptionist, and you forward your calls to Ruqaya AI. Plans are month-to-month with no contract: Starter $39/month, Growth $79/month and Pro $129/month, plus a one-time $99 setup fee, and a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first month. You can hear a live demo by calling +1 (229) 949-4846.