AI Receptionist
The receptionist who never misses a call, for $1,500 a month.
Trained on your business, your services and your real past calls. Answers 24/7, handles more than one call at a time, qualifies the lead, gets them booked on the calendar, and hands the call straight to a real person the moment anyone asks for one.
The AI Receptionist is a $1,500/month service that gives a business 24/7 call handling, trained on that business's actual products, services and past sales or booking calls. Where the configured system supports it, it answers common questions, qualifies a lead, captures their information, gets them onto the calendar, and can power-dial an outbound list. It hands the call to a real person the moment one is asked for. A full-time human receptionist typically runs $3,000-$5,000 a month; this runs 24/7, handles multiple calls at once, and never takes a sick day. DHM DATA
Trained on your business, not a generic script
Before it ever answers a call, the AI Receptionist is trained on the business's actual products and services, and on real past sales and booking calls, so it answers the way a business's best person already does, not with a canned script that half-fits.
What it handles
- Answers common questions about the business, using what it was trained on
- Qualifies a lead and captures their information
- Gets the caller onto the calendar, not a "someone will call you back"
- Handles more than one call at the same time, so a rush never hits voicemail
- Runs 24/7 — nights, weekends, holidays, the hours nobody's staffed
- Never calls in sick, never takes a lunch break, never gives notice
- Can power-dial outbound from a CSV or similar list, for follow-up or reactivation
What it hands off
- The moment a caller asks for a real person, it redirects the call, no arguing about it
- Complex, sensitive or unusual conversations route straight to the team
- It is infrastructure connected to the website and CRM, not a replacement for the business's identity
- It does not promise a perfect answer on every single call
2 a.m., a burst pipe, and two plumbers' voicemail
A homeowner's pipe bursts at 2 a.m. Panicked, they call the first plumber that comes up. Voicemail. They call the second. Voicemail. They call a third, and someone, or something, actually answers, asks the right questions, and gets a technician on the way. That third business gets the job. The other two never even find out they lost it.
That's not a rare story. It's the default outcome for any business that only answers calls during business hours, or gets slammed during a rush and can't pick up. The job doesn't disappear, it just goes to whoever answered.
The part that's easy to miss
A missed call doesn't show up as a loss anywhere. There's no invoice for it, no line item on a statement. It just doesn't happen. That's exactly why it's easy to underestimate how much it costs over a year.
The math
What is a missed call actually costing you?
Move the sliders to numbers that match this business. This is the same napkin math that decides whether $1,500 a month is cheap or expensive.
Revenue at risk a year: $36,000
Still ahead after the $1,500/mo AI Receptionist: $1,500/mo
Rough model: job value × missed calls a month, times 12 for the annual figure. It assumes a missed call was a real, winnable job, and that the AI Receptionist catches the calls a voicemail would otherwise lose. Not every answered call closes, so treat this as the size of the leak, not a guarantee of recovered revenue. DHM DATA
A human receptionist vs. the AI Receptionist
A full-time receptionist is a real cost, and a good one is worth it. The AI Receptionist isn't trying to be a person — it's trying to make sure the phone never goes to voicemail, at a fraction of the cost.
| Human receptionist | AI Receptionist | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | $3,000-$5,000/mo | $1,500/mo |
| Typical annual cost | ~$36,000-$60,000/yr | $18,000/yr |
| Hours covered | Business hours, one shift at a time | 24/7, every day |
| Concurrent calls | One at a time | More than one at once |
| Sick days, lunch breaks, turnover | Yes, all three | None |
| Outbound dialing to a list | Manual, one call at a time | Automated, from a CSV or similar list |
| Redirects to a real person on request | N/A | Yes, immediately |
The human-receptionist salary range is a general market figure, not a DHM client benchmark. AI Receptionist pricing and capabilities are DHM's own. DHM DATA
Trained to sound like a person, because it has to
Nobody books a job with something that sounds like a phone tree. The AI Receptionist is trained on natural, human-like cadence and conversation flow, not a flat text-to-speech read. The easiest way to judge that for yourself is to hear it — the free demo below has it call you directly.
How it connects
The AI Receptionist sits inside the same chain as every other lead: website, CRM, calendar and follow-up. It doesn't run on its own separate system. Full mechanics on the website automation page; how it fits the broader lead-generation picture on that page.
Free, no obligation
Let the AI Receptionist call you.
Give it a name, number and the best time to reach you, and the AI Receptionist calls directly so you can talk to it yourself. No sales call attached, no obligation — just hearing exactly what a caller would hear.
Questions we get
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI Receptionist actually sound like a person?
It's trained on natural, human-like cadence rather than a flat text-to-speech read. The clearest way to judge it is to hear it yourself with the free demo call above.
What happens if a caller asks for a real person?
The call redirects to a person immediately. It doesn't argue or try to keep handling the conversation once someone's asked for a human.
Can it call outbound, not just answer inbound calls?
Yes. Given a CSV or similar list, it can power-dial outbound for follow-up, reactivation or appointment reminders, the same trained voice and cadence as the inbound line.
How does $1,500/month compare to hiring a receptionist?
A full-time human receptionist typically runs $3,000-$5,000 a month. The AI Receptionist runs $1,500 a month, covers 24/7 instead of one shift, handles more than one call at a time, and never takes a sick day. It isn't trying to replace a person for every situation, just to make sure the phone gets answered.
Can the AI Receptionist book appointments directly?
Where the configured system supports it, yes, it can offer booking options and schedule appointments directly on the connected calendar.
Can it be added after the website is already built?
Yes. It's a $1,500/month service that can be added to either the Conversion Website or the Search-Ready Website, at launch or afterward.
Next step
See what your website is costing you
A free, short review of your current lead coverage, including after-hours — or get the AI Receptionist to call you first.
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