List the calls you get and what each caller needs, set up the greeting and forwarding your phone already has, then hand the routine calls to an AI voice agent that answers from your information, books or takes a message, and passes the rest to a person.
For anyone asking: Can an AI receptionist answer my business calls?
Each one's way of doing it, and the point where it stops.
Lindy's Phone line answers its own number as a receptionist: it takes messages with name, reason and contact details, books callers through a booking link you choose, answers from the information you give it, texts confirmations and sends you a summary. Where it stops: Anything outside the information you gave becomes a message. Calls are recorded, and pausing the line does not stop the number's monthly fee.
Voice is a channel of a Botpress agent through its Twilio integration: callers talk to the bot on a Twilio number and get the answers of the agent and knowledge base you built in Studio. Where it stops: The voice channel is listed only on the Enterprise plan, and you build the agent and its knowledge yourself.
Relevance AI phone agents place outbound calls in real time and can run tools during the call, with voicemail detection, optional recording and a call summary afterward. The number comes from Relevance or a Twilio number you connect. Where it stops: Outbound only: its docs describe no inbound answering. The phone voice comes from ElevenLabs only.
Call For Me places a single phone call on your behalf, for example to a business, and returns a transcript and a summary. The call must not hide that the caller is an AI. Where it stops: Outbound only, and not for marketing, sales or lead-generation calls.
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