Answering calls right now on three live lines

Every call answered.
Every job booked.

VAG AI is the AI receptionist for service businesses. It picks up your line in one ring, 24 hours a day, books the appointment, answers from your own information, takes the message, and hands urgent calls to a person. Every call, written down.

Keep your number Live in 3–5 days From $149/mo, no contract 14-day pilot, no card
portal.vagai.net · Mystic Valley HVAC
Calls today0
Answered0%
Booked0+3
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Live · (781) 555-0164
“Water heater leaking, need someone today” · booking
1:14
TimeCallerSummaryOutcome
6:41p
(617) 555-0142new caller
No heat, Carrier furnace · emergency slot 7–8pmBooked
5:58p
Dana Whitfieldreturning
Asked about maintenance plan pricingAnswered
5:12p
(339) 555-0107new caller
Wants a quote for a mini-split; callback tomorrow AMMessage
4:47p
Tom Reyesreturning
Gas smell · transferred to on-callTransferred
4:05p
(978) 555-0193new caller
Rescheduled Thursday tune-up to Friday 9amBooked
Example data · every row opens a summary, the transcript and the exact cost of the call
HVAC & plumbingVeterinary clinicsReal estate brokeragesProperty managementLaw officesElectriciansSalons & med spasAuto repairLocksmiths & garage doorsLandscapingPet groomingSelf-storageInsurance agenciesRestaurants
1 ringAverage answer time, every hour of the year
24/7Nights, weekends, holidays, lunch breaks
5 daysFrom signup to live, with your approved script
$149Starting monthly, flat, no contract
The problem

The call you missed at 6:40pm booked with someone else.

A ringing phone is revenue standing at the door. When nobody picks up, most callers don't leave a voicemail. They dial the next name on the list. For service businesses, a large share of calls arrive when the desk is closed, at lunch, or on a job site.

40%of a typical service business's calls land outside a staffed 9-to-5 front desk
  • An HVAC or plumbing emergency call at 8pm is worth $400–$700 today, and a five-figure replacement tomorrow.
  • A buyer standing at a For Sale sign redials the next sign within ninety seconds.
  • A vet's front desk is interrupted mid-checkout by the phone forty times a day.

Where a service business's calls actually land

by hour of day
Inside staffed hoursWould ring out or hit voicemail

Illustrative shape based on industry averages for service businesses (35–45% of inbound volume after hours). Your own call log becomes the real chart in your portal during the pilot.

What it does

A front desk that does the work, not just the greeting.

Trained on your services, hours, prices and rules. It acts inside the call, then hands you the record.

Books straight into your calendar

Offers real open slots from Google Calendar or Outlook, books the appointment, and confirms by text. Reschedules and cancels follow your policy.

Answers from your own information

Your prices, service area, policies and FAQs in a knowledge base you edit any time. When it doesn't know, it says so and takes a message rather than guessing.

Transfers urgent calls, live

Your rules decide what's urgent. The agent hands the caller to a real phone mid-call, or takes a message and alerts you.

Texts the follow-up

A confirmation after every booking, and a follow-up text when a call ends without its need met, so no one is left hanging.

Every call, written down

Summary, transcript, outcome and the exact per-call cost in your portal within seconds of hang-up.

Sounds like a person, says it's not one

Natural turn-taking, polite interruptions, no robot pause. It identifies itself as an AI assistant on every call and always connects a caller who asks for a human.

Measured, not promised

Calls answered, calls recovered outside your hours, bookings made and minutes used, counted in the portal. The pilot ends with a scoreboard, not an opinion.

6:41pm on a Tuesday

Watch one call turn into a booked job.

The customer keeps dialing the number on your truck. The agent picks up, does the work, and everything it did lands in your portal before the call ends.

  • Answered in one ring. Identifies itself as an AI assistant, in your business's name.
  • Understands the emergency. Triage rules you set: no heat in winter is urgent, a filter question is not.
  • Books and confirms. Slot placed on the on-call schedule, confirmation texted to the caller.
  • Logged, with transcript. Summary, caller details, outcome and the cost of the call in your portal.
Mystic Valley HVAC6:41 PM
Incoming · (617) 555-0142forwarded from your main line
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Try it now

Don't take our word for it. Interrupt it.

This is the same engine that answers our clients' phones. Ask it about pricing, change your mind mid-sentence, be difficult. It will answer out loud, and it will note your details so a human can follow up.

Prefer a real phone?Call the live demo lineask for the number in chat
  • Works in Chrome, Edge or Safari with a microphone
  • Or type instead, same brain
  • Nothing is stored beyond what a human needs to call you back
Industries

Built for the businesses where a missed call really costs.

Every agent is trained on your business, your services, your hours, your booking rules, your voice. Not a generic bot.

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HVAC, plumbing & electrical

Answers the 8pm no-heat call while your techs are on a job, qualifies the emergency, books the slot or dispatches to your on-call line, and texts the customer a confirmation.

Emergency triage · Booking · On-call transfer
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Veterinary clinics

Takes the pressure off a front desk interrupted mid-checkout. Books wellness visits and vaccinations, answers hours-and-services questions, routes real emergencies to the vet on duty.

Appointments · Reminders · Emergency routing
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Real estate brokerages

Catches the sign call before the caller dials the next sign. Qualifies buyers and sellers on budget, timeline and property, books showings, and routes hot leads to the agent while they're still interested.

Lead qualifying · Showings · Speed to lead
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Property management

The 2am burst-pipe call reaches a calm voice that logs the unit, the issue and the callback number, pages your emergency vendor, and files a maintenance ticket without waking the whole office.

Maintenance intake · After-hours · Vendor paging
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Law & professional offices

Intake without advice: captures the caller's situation, contact details and urgency, books the consultation, and never characterises a case. Conflict checks and counsel stay with your firm.

Intake · Consult booking · Confidential

Salons, auto shops & more

Locksmiths, garage doors, landscaping, pet grooming, self-storage, funeral homes, insurance agencies. If you lose money when the phone rings out, the agent pays for itself.

Describe your business in chat

Medical and dental practices: available once a Business Associate Agreement is in place. Ask us.

Set up on day one

Live in under a week. No new hardware, no new software.

  1. Day 1

    Tell us about your business

    Five minutes in our setup chat, or a 30-minute call. Services, hours, booking rules, what to do after hours, who gets urgent calls. We build your agent from exactly that.

  2. Day 2–4

    Approve the script, forward your line

    You listen to test calls and sign off before a single real caller hears it. Then forward your number: all calls, or only the ones you don't pick up within a few rings. Undoing it takes a minute.

  3. Day 5

    Get booked work, not voicemails

    Appointments land where your team already looks. Every call arrives as a written summary with the caller's details and a full transcript. Nothing is lost, nothing needs typing up.

What happens on every call

your number stays yours; the agent sits behind it
Customer dialsthe same number they always have, on your truck, your sign, your website.
Your line forwardsall calls, or only unanswered ones after a few rings. A carrier setting, one minute to undo.
VAG AI answers in one ringIdentifies itself as an AI assistant, then works from your own information:
  • Answers questions from your knowledge base
  • Books, reschedules, cancels
  • Takes a message with a callback number
  • Hands urgent calls to a person, live
  • Screens spam and sales calls
Calendarappointment placed
Text follow-upto the caller when a call ends unresolved
Portalsummary, transcript, cost per call
Your phoneurgent transfer or message alert
The math

You don't need it to work. You need it to work once a month.

A flat monthly fee against the calls you're already missing. Put your own numbers in.

Recovered revenue / month$0
VAG AI / month$199
Net per month
$0

Recovered
Plan cost

What answering the phone costs per month

typical US ranges

Receptionist range is salary only, for one shift. Nights and weekends still go unanswered. Answering services read a script and bill per call; they don't book into your calendar or know your prices.

Versus the alternatives

A fraction of a receptionist. More hours than three of them.

One receptionist covers one shift. An answering service covers the phone but not your calendar, your prices or your rules. VAG AI covers every hour of every day, books directly, and costs less than a week of wages.

  • Flat monthly price, no per-call fees
  • Answers 24/7, including holidays
  • Knows your services, prices and policies
  • Transfers to a person the moment it should
Security & compliance

Boring where it should be boring.

The parts a careful owner, office manager or IT person asks about before signing.

Isolated per client

Your knowledge base, call logs, contacts and settings live in your own tenant. Row-level security in the database, not a filter in the app.

Disclosed and consented

The agent identifies itself as an AI. Recording is off unless you turn it on, and when on it is announced up front. Massachusetts is an all-party-consent state and we build for it.

A human is one sentence away

Any caller who asks for a person gets one. Urgent situations follow your transfer rules to a real phone, live, mid-call.

Your number, your control

Forwarding is a carrier setting you own. Turn it off and calls ring your desk again in a minute. Month to month; leaving is one email.

Your data stays yours

Transcripts, contacts and any recordings are exportable any time and deleted on request when you leave.

Works with what you have

Google Calendar and Outlook booking on Growth and above; a webhook for your CRM or Make/Zapier on Pro. No new phone system.

Monitored around the clock

Service health and every call's outcome are logged. If something fails, the call falls back to voicemail and a message to you, never to silence.

Health information: only with a BAA

We don't take protected health information until a Business Associate Agreement is signed and zero-retention is on. Veterinary practices are outside HIPAA and fully supported today.

Pricing

Less than a week of receptionist wages. Published, because we can.

Flat monthly, priced by talk-time hours. No per-call surprises. Setup and training waived for founding clients.

Starter

$149/mo
30 hours of calls / month

Solo operator or single location

  • 24/7 answering on your number
  • Appointment booking & messages
  • Knowledge base trained on your business
  • Transcripts & call log in the portal
  • Missed-call text follow-up
Start with Starter

Pro

$249/mo
60 hours of calls / month

High volume or two locations

  • Everything in Growth
  • Multiple lines & locations
  • Custom call flows
  • Post-call webhook to your CRM
  • Call recording (announced)
Start with Pro

Pro+

$299/mo
60 hours, inbound + outbound

Reminders and follow-ups that call out

  • Everything in Pro
  • Outbound reminder & follow-up calls
  • Consent-checked dialing (TCPA)
  • Campaign reporting
  • Dedicated account manager
Start with Pro+
Extra dedicated line +$50/moFree two-week pilot on your own number no cardNeed more hours? We size it from your first month's log
Hours coveredBooks into calendarKnows your prices & rulesWritten record of every callMonthly
Full-time receptionist40 / week, one shiftYesYesRarely$2,800 – $4,500
Answering service24/7Usually notScript onlyMessage slips$200 – $1,500 + per call
Voicemail24/7NoNoIf they leave one$0, and most callers hang up
VAG AI24/7, every dayYesYes, from your own informationSummary + transcript, every call$149 – $299 flat

Founding client program: five businesses, setup free, priced for life.

Be one of the first five. We build your agent by hand alongside you, waive setup and training, and lock your plan price for as long as you stay.

Spots remaining: 5 of 5 · Greater Boston first
Claim a founding spot
Straight answers

The questions a careful business owner asks first.

Will it embarrass me?

You hear it before a single real caller does. We record test calls during setup and you sign off on the script. If a call goes anywhere it shouldn't, the agent hands to a human rather than guessing.

Does it pretend to be a person?

No. It identifies itself as an AI assistant, and it will always connect a caller to a human who asks for one. Trust is the product.

What about my customers' information?

We collect only what the call requires, keep it in your own isolated tenant, and you control what's stored and for how long. Health information is handled only under a signed Business Associate Agreement.

Am I locked in?

Month to month. Cancel any time and your number forwards straight back to you. We'd rather earn the next month than trap you in twelve.

Who am I actually dealing with?

VAG AI LLC, a registered US company with named owners you can reach by phone. You get a real contract, a real invoice, and a human who answers when you call us.

What if it can't answer something?

It says so, takes a message, and flags it. Then we add it to the knowledge base so it's answered forever after. The agent gets better every week it works for you.

Get started

Hear it answer your own phone.

Tell us about your business and we'll build a working agent trained on your real information, free, for two weeks, on your own number. If it doesn't earn its keep, you walk away and we part as friends.

  • No card, no contract for the pilot
  • Live in 3–5 business days
  • You approve the script before it takes a call
  • Founding-client setup fee waived

A phone number or email is required so we can reach you. We'll respond the same business day.

FAQ

Everything else.

Do I have to change my phone number?

No. You keep your number and forward it to the agent, either all calls or only the ones you don't pick up within a few rings. It's a carrier setting and undoing it takes about a minute. If you'd rather have a brand-new number, we provide one.

How natural does it actually sound?

Judge for yourself in the live demo on this page. It is the same engine that answers our clients' calls. It interrupts politely, handles someone changing their mind mid-sentence, and doesn't do the robot pause.

What happens when someone is angry, or it's a real emergency?

The agent recognises escalation and hands to a human immediately, live on the call, or takes an urgent message and alerts you by text if you're closed. You set the rules for what counts as urgent and where it goes.

Can it book directly into my calendar?

Yes. On Growth and above we connect to Google Calendar or Outlook so appointments appear where your team already looks. On Starter it takes the booking request and details and you confirm.

How long is setup, really?

Three to five business days. The setup chat or one call to gather your information, a build, then a review round where you listen to test calls and tell us what to change.

What does it cost beyond the monthly plan?

Nothing for founding clients. The setup and training fee is waived. Plans are priced by hours of call time; if you regularly need more, we move you up a plan or add hours, and we tell you before it happens.

Who owns the call data?

You do. Transcripts, contact details and any recordings are yours; export them any time, and we delete them on request when you leave.

Are calls recorded?

Only if you turn recording on. Every call is transcribed to give you the written summary. When recording is on, callers are told at the start of the call, which is what Massachusetts and other all-party-consent states require.

Is this HIPAA compliant?

Not by default, and we won't pretend otherwise. Medical and dental practices onboard only after a Business Associate Agreement is signed with us and our vendors and zero-data-retention is switched on. Veterinary practices are not covered by HIPAA and are fully supported today.

The next call is ringing right now.

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