Stop missingcalls.
First AI Employee is a done-for-you AI receptionist that answers your calls and books appointments around the clock, and from Basic up it texts the customer back too. You just answer a few questions, and it's answering your calls in minutes.
Answering starts in minutes. Text confirmations and follow-ups turn on once the one-time carrier registration clears; carriers typically take a few business days.
The same call, two endings.
An 11:42 PM call goes one of two ways. One dies on voicemail. The other gets answered, booked, and confirmed before the caller hangs up.
And the customer gets a text.
Every booking gets a confirmation text on Basic and up: the date, the time and your number, in writing. Texting goes one way by default, so no customer of yours is ever stuck trading messages with a bot. Want real conversations instead? Switch two-way on once your carrier registration clears.
In short: First AI Employee is a done-for-you AI receptionist that answers your calls 24/7, books jobs, and from Basic up texts customers back. Built and tuned for you, answering in minutes, flat from $99 a month.
Everything a great receptionist does. Built not to drop the details.
Trained on your business and working every hour you don't, so the calls that used to hit voicemail get answered and leads stop slipping away.
See all capabilitiesAnswers your calls
No voicemail. No hold music. Designed to pick up on the first ring, day or night.
Never a busy signal
When several people call at once, they can all be answered at the same time instead of one at a time, because your line runs on our network, not a single wire. A rush stops turning callers away.
Books the job
Checks real-time availability, finds the right slot, books it, and sends a confirmation.
Sends you the job, with photos
Job Briefs: it texts the caller for photos and details of the problem, so you get a ready-to-quote brief and know the job before you drive out. Included with Basic and up.
Texts your customers
Confirms the booking, follows up on the calls you miss, and sends the links that move a job along, so a lead never goes cold while you are on a job. One way by default, on Basic and up, so your customers never get stuck texting a bot. Two-way is there as an add-on when you want a real conversation.
Answers the questions callers ask
Hours, pricing, services, directions, intake: answered naturally, trained on your business.
Routes emergencies
Urgent calls go straight to you on any plan. Emergency Dispatch, which routes after-hours jobs to your on-call staff automatically, comes with Basic and up.
Screens spam & robocalls
Junk is filtered out before it reaches you, so the calls you get are the ones that matter.
These describe how your AI receptionist is set up to work. Real-world results depend on your plan, your configuration, and the service being active. See our terms for details.
- Google Calendar
- Outlook Calendar
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Telegram
- Google Chat
Free on every plan. HighLevel, Follow Up Boss, RepairShopr, CompanyCam and Táve connect from your dashboard too. Google Sheets, Notion, Asana, ClickUp and Trello use the same managed path: approve your account, choose a destination, and wait for Ready. Your own Zapier account remains the fallback for other supported software. See what it connects to
Your own AI assistant can also review Front Desk records and prepare a task for your approval through our live MCP endpoint. Compatible MCP clients can identify themselves by URL without advance registration. The business owner still signs in, approves access and needs an eligible product. Developer documentation
Live in three steps. You do almost none of them.
Tell us about your business
A short onboarding call. We learn your services, hours, pricing, FAQs, and how you want calls handled.
We build & tune your AI
Answering your calls in minutes, then dialed in to your business within a day. You never write a prompt.
It answers your calls
Books appointments, answers questions, routes emergencies, and sends you transcripts, 24/7.
Every call comes back to you in writing.
This is the dashboard you log into: every call answered, summarized, and flagged for follow-up, with the full transcript a click away.
Who it's for, and who it isn't.
Best for
- Small US businesses that live and die by the phone: trades, law, accounting, real estate, consulting
- Owners who want it built and tuned for them, not a DIY platform to wire up
- Anyone who needs after-hours, overflow, or simultaneous-call coverage
- Businesses that book appointments and want the job captured on the call
Not for
- Healthcare, or anyone handling protected health information: we are not HIPAA-compliant and do not sign BAAs
- Businesses that need an integration we do not support yet (tell us what you run and we will say plainly)
- Buyers looking for the cheapest self-serve tool to configure and run themselves
“I called fourteen law firms to hand one of them my money. Nine never picked up, and to this day not one of them knows they lost me. I built First AI Employee so your business is never the one that misses the call.”
What this could save you.
An example, not a quote. Drag the slider to what you'd pay a front-desk hire; your costs will vary.
Transparent pricing. No surprises.
One flat monthly price per plan: no per-call charges, no surprise overages, no setup fee, no contract. Every price is right here on the page, the same for every customer, with no “contact sales” to find out what it costs.
Best for: solo owners and low call volume (400 min/mo).
- Custom-trained on your business
- Answering in minutes
- Front Desk: contacts, accounts, jobs, pipeline, tasks, and reports
- Caller Memory: knows your repeat callers
- Make It Yours: name your AI, pick its voice
- 24/7 answering, call routing, and booking
- Answers in English & Spanish
- Call transcripts & summaries
- Summaries in Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Signal, or Google Chat
- Spam & robocall filtering
Best for: most small businesses that want texting and Job Briefs (1,000 min/mo).
- Everything in Essential
- Front Desk: contacts, accounts, jobs, pipeline, tasks, and reports
- Priority support: your tickets go to the front of the line
- Job Briefs: photos + a ready-to-quote brief on every call
- Client Intake: details + documents gathered before each appointment
- Emergency Dispatch: after-hours jobs routed to your on-call team
- No-Show Shield: deposit links make bookings real
- Unlocks opt-in SMS overage: $0.025 per text segment, off by default
Best for: busy shops that want daily call insights and a growth add-on (2,000 min/mo).
- Everything in Basic
- Front Desk: contacts, accounts, jobs, pipeline, tasks, and reports
- Call Intelligence: a daily read on why you win and lose jobs
- Team Access: a login and role for your whole team
- $25/mo off AI Chat & Replies, every month: its Essential tier costs you nothing
- One extra phone number included, yours whenever you ask for it
- Unlocks a lower opt-in minute overage: $0.10/min
Texts come with Basic and Standard, on one monthly allowance. Essential does not send texts, and texts it receives are never charged. Opt-in overage is off by default: $0.20/min on Essential and Basic, $0.10/min on Standard, and $0.025 per text segment on Basic and Standard.
The questions people ask first.
What exactly is an AI receptionist?
It's a fully trained voice assistant that answers your phone and handles your front desk the way a great receptionist would: around the clock, on the first ring, in a natural conversation. It greets callers, answers questions about your business, books appointments, takes messages, and transfers or routes calls when needed. Unlike voicemail or a phone menu, it actually talks with the caller, understands what they need, and takes care of it, so you stop losing business to missed calls. (And on our Standard plan, it does considerably more than answer the phone; see below.)
Can I keep my existing phone number?
Yes. Your number stays yours. Most businesses forward their existing line to the number we provision, using their carrier's standard call forwarding: always, only when you don't pick up, or only after hours, whichever you prefer. You can stop forwarding whenever you like. One thing to know: forwarding carries calls, not texts, so texting runs on the number we provision.
Do I have to set it up myself?
No. Only minimal information is needed from you, and we do the building. Share whatever you have about your business in whatever form is easiest (website links, documents, or written notes) and we'll custom-build an agent tailored to your business. Our preliminary intake form takes under 5 minutes.
Will callers know they're talking to an AI?
If they ask, yes. It will never claim to be a person, and asked straight out whether it is an AI, it says so. What it doesn't do is open every call by announcing it: no law requires that of an inbound call, and most callers work it out in a sentence anyway. Every call does open by saying it is recorded and transcribed, which is what all-party consent states require.
Can it actually book appointments?
Yes. It checks your live availability during the call, books the slot, and confirms with the caller: no callback, no phone tag. The appointment is on your calendar before the caller hangs up.
Can it transfer calls to me or my team?
Yes. You set the rules (which calls go straight through, which take a message, and who urgent calls reach) and the assistant follows them.
What happens with emergency or urgent calls?
You define what "urgent" means for your business, and the assistant follows it: transferring immediately to you or an on-call number, or escalating exactly as you've instructed. Nothing important waits in a message box until morning.
How does pricing work?
One flat monthly price per plan: Essential $99, Basic $249, and Standard $399 for higher call volume. No per-minute billing by default, no per-call charges, and no surprise overages. If you'd rather not be capped during a busy stretch, you can opt in to overage at $0.20/min ($0.10/min on Standard), and on Basic and Standard texts past the allowance meter at $0.025 per segment; it's off by default. We'll also reach out during a billing period if there's something about your usage worth flagging.
Will my bill change if I get busy?
By default, no; that's the point. Most services charge by the call or the minute, so the busier you get, the more you pay. Your price is flat inside your plan's minute allowance: whether that's 50 calls or 500, it's the same predictable amount. The one exception is opt-in overage, off unless you turn it on.
What happens when my included minutes run out?
Nothing you didn't sign up for. Overage is off by default, so we never quietly start charging by the minute. If your month is tracking past your plan's allowance, we reach out and you decide what happens next: move up a plan, switch on overage at the published rate, or stay where you are. With overage off, we may limit or pause call handling until your minutes reset.
What's included in the trial?
The free trial puts the full voice receptionist on your line for 7 days, capped at 400 minutes: custom-trained on your business, answering calls, booking, and sending you transcripts. It doesn't include texting, because business texting requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC) that we submit for you once you're on a paid plan. A card is required to start, and you can cancel any time before the trial ends and you won't be charged.
Are my calls recorded?
Yes, openly. Every call states at its start that it is being recorded and transcribed. Audio is kept about 7 days and then deleted (recordings that evidence a caller's consent, or that relate to an active dispute, are kept longer); the transcript stays available for the life of your account. We never use recordings to create a voiceprint, we don't sell client information, and we don't use your data to train third-party or publicly available AI models.
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