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AI Receptionist for UK Businesses

An electrical contractor in Sheffield was answering his office phone from the top of a ladder, with a consumer unit half wired below him and a customer on the line who wanted a quote for a kitchen he could not see. Across the country in Bristol, a dental practice had a hygienist column with three gaps that a phone call would have filled if anyone at the desk had been free to make it. We build the AI receptionist that takes those calls on a UK number, books into the diary the practice or the branch already runs, and puts a person on the line the moment the caller asks for one. A virtual receptionist service answers nicely and emails a message to somebody who was already busy. This books the job. The same agent works outbound, ringing the leads, the recalls and the confirmations on UK hours and inside PECR.

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AI receptionist for small businesses

The contractor in Sheffield had a landline that rang in an empty office and a mobile that rang while he was wiring a consumer unit, and the customers who got voicemail on both rang the next electrician on the list. The AI receptionist answers the landline and the mobile's divert now, asks what the job is and whether anything is sparking or tripping right now, finds the customer in the job system when they have used the firm before, and books a quote visit into whichever van covers that postcode on a day it is actually free. Anyone with no power in the house is put through to him, ladder or not. He found out from the first month's transcripts how many calls he had been losing, and stopped counting at thirty.

Dental practice reception and recalls

The practice manager at a mixed NHS and private practice in Bristol had been meaning to work the recall list since the previous August, when the phones went quiet for a fortnight and she got as far as the letter D. Her one receptionist was covering two lines, and the hygienist column had three gaps most weeks that a phone call would have filled if anyone at the desk had been free to make it. The AI receptionist we built for them answers both lines now, books into the practice software the nurses actually keep up to date rather than the one the practice paid for, texts the patient a confirmation while they are still on the call, and puts anyone who says the word pain through to a person before they have finished the sentence. In the afternoons, when the desk is quietest, it rings the recall list from where she left off and offers the hygienist gaps to whoever is overdue, and the column that used to sit empty on Tuesdays has had three or four names in it every week since March, most of them people whose surname starts with a letter later than D.

Outbound calling for property enquiries

A lettings branch in south Manchester was getting portal enquiries in batches, most of them out of hours, and the negotiators rang them back in the order they came in, which meant the good ones had already viewed somewhere else. The agent now rings within minutes, asks when they want to move, what they can pay a month, whether they have a guarantor and which areas they would consider, and books the viewing into the negotiator's diary. Sunday's enquiries are viewed by Tuesday. The branch manager noticed the difference before the reporting did.

How we work with UK businesses

Scoping is a call on UK time, the agent is built to the wording and the hours you sign off, and you listen to recordings before it takes a live call. Data stays in the UK or the EU as your policy requires, every call is transcribed, and the agent writes back to whichever diary, case or CRM system you already use. If your volume is low enough that a person on reception is the better answer, we will tell you on the first call.

Common questions

What is the difference between an AI receptionist and a virtual receptionist?

A virtual receptionist is a person at an answering company who picks up in your company name, takes a message and emails it to the desk that was busy, and the call still has to be returned by somebody in your office. The AI receptionist answers in your name as well, and then books the appointment, quotes the fixed price or takes the order in the system you already run, so the message never needs writing. An accountancy practice in Leeds that had cycled through two answering services told us that taking a message had never been the problem, and that is the part firms usually come to us for.

How much does an AI receptionist cost for a small business in the UK?

It is priced on the scoping call from your call volume and the systems the agent has to write into, so a two-chair dental practice and a lettings branch with four negotiators are not quoted the same figure. If the volume turns out to be low enough that a part-time person on reception would cost you less, we say so on that call rather than after the build.

Does the agent comply with PECR and UK GDPR?

Yes. Outbound calls are screened against the TPS and CTPS, consumers are only dialled with a lawful basis you can show, and the agent identifies itself, honours an opt-out on the call and never rings that number again. Recordings and transcripts stay in the UK or the EU, and the agent tells callers it is an AI receptionist and that the call is recorded. We are not your DPO, so we build to the policy your business sets and document it.

Can it book into our practice or branch software?

Dentally, SOE Exact and SystmOne on the dental and medical side, Reapit and Alto for estate agents, and HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive for sales teams are the ones we connect most often in the UK, and the agent writes the booking or the outcome straight into whichever you run. Something we have not met yet gets checked before the build rather than discovered during it.

Will it cope with regional accents?

It is tested on callers from Aberdeen to Cornwall before it goes live, and it is given your own list of local place names, road names and services so it does not guess at Bicester or Llanelli. Where it cannot make out what was said, it asks once, then hands the call to a person rather than booking the wrong thing.

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