AI receptionist for small business
An AI receptionist for small business answers your phone when you cannot. It picks up in your business name and books the work instead of taking a message. The honest pitch is narrower than most of what you will read. It is very good at answering on the fourth ring at nine at night. It is not a stand-in for the person who knows your customers by name. EveryDial is built to back up a small office, not to empty one, and our pricing is on the page rather than behind a sales call.
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What your receptionist does for you
Picks up when nobody else can
Evenings, weekends, and the twenty minutes you spend under a van. Every call gets answered in your business name instead of ringing out. That is the whole job, and it is the part software is genuinely good at.
Books the job, does not just log it
It asks the questions your work needs, agrees a time inside the hours you are open, and sends you the details by email. A message that says somebody rang is not worth much at ten at night.
It backs up your office, it does not replace it
Hard calls and upset customers should reach a person. You decide which calls those are. Anyone selling you a full replacement for your front desk is overselling.
Work out whether you need one first
Open your call log. Count the calls you missed last month outside your open hours. Then count how many of those turned into work. If the answer is none, you do not need this yet. Almost every page selling one of these skips that step.
What it does not do yet
It answers in English only. It does not sync to Jobber or any other field software yet, and there is no calendar behind it, so an agreed time reaches you by email rather than landing in a calendar. Those are on the roadmap, and we would rather you knew before signing up than after.
Pricing is published, with the minutes
Starter is $49 a month with 100 receptionist minutes. Pro is $149 with 400. Minutes past your plan are $0.49 and $0.37. Both plans are month to month and you cancel in the billing portal.
Common questions
- How much does an AI receptionist cost for a small business?
- The honest answer is that it is hard to find out, which is itself the problem. These are usually sold by included minutes or included calls with a rate for anything past that, but of the four product pages ranking for this search on 2026-08-02, not one showed a figure on the page. EveryDial is $49 a month for 100 receptionist minutes or $149 for 400, with minutes past your plan at $0.49 and $0.37.
- Is an AI receptionist worth it?
- It is worth it if you are losing calls and those calls are worth money. Count the missed calls in your log for one month, guess conservatively at how many would have become jobs, and compare that to the plan price. If you answer nearly every call today, save your money.
- Will my customers know they are talking to an AI receptionist?
- Some will, and it is worth being honest that some people do not like it. On one widely read small business thread, one of the top replies is an owner saying they would hang up and call the next company, while further down other owners report being impressed by the one they use. Both reactions are real. The way to find out which you get is on your own phone with your own customers, which is what the free minutes are for.
- Do I still need somebody answering the phone?
- For anything that needs a judgment call, yes. This handles the calls that would otherwise go to voicemail, and it hands the rest to you. If you have an office manager, this covers the hours they do not work rather than taking their job.
- Is there a free AI receptionist?
- A few services have a free tier with a small allowance, which is enough to test one and not enough to run on. EveryDial gives you 10 receptionist minutes on signup with no credit card. You tell it your services, hours and prices, then call it yourself and listen. Forwarding your real business number comes later, after the card step, so nothing reaches a customer until you decide it should.
- What is the best AI receptionist for small business?
- There is no single answer, and it is worth knowing that most of the best-of lists ranking for this question were written by one of the companies on the list, which put itself first. Compare four things yourself: what it collects on a call, whether it agrees a time or only takes a message, the published price with the included minutes, and the rate once you go past them. Then call each one and listen.
Stop sending work to voicemail.
EveryDial picks up, books the customer in, and sends you the details. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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