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Hiring call handlers for the phones?

Hear it answer for your business, right now. Every call answered on the first ring, routed, logged and summarised, from a flat monthly price. Live today.

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Call handler

A call handler, a year

$37,230

Median full-time pay, United States, before employer costs, holiday, sick cover and recruitment

SiVoice Team plan, a year

$5,388

Every call answered, day and night, three lines, deposits, ring-backs

What you keep, a year

$31,842

Before the sick days, the holidays and the Monday-morning text

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024, receptionists and information clerks, median

Team plan $449 a month, the best plan· Solo from $199 · 7 days free, then monthly · cancel any time

Built on the engine behind ChatGPT's voice and billions of calls for

  • OpenAI
  • Spotify
  • Oracle
  • NVIDIA
  • Salesforce
  • Headspace
  • Coursera
  • Zocdoc
  • Axon
  • Skydio
  • Whatnot
  • Decagon
  • Retell
  • Cresta
  • micro1
  • Assort Health
  • Ultravox

The engine that answers for them answers for your receptionist.

Same lines, same clarity, same uptime. Whether you run one van or a hundred branches.

You get a brand-new phone number to share everywhere. Or link it to the number you already have. Your choice, one tap, in the dashboard.

Money-back guarantee

If your stress doesn't go down or your revenue doesn't go up in your first 30 days on a paid plan, tell us and we refund the month. No forms, no argument.

Does an AI receptionist really work? Check it yourself.

Talk to it in a minute

Paste your website below. In under a minute your receptionist is built from your own pages and you can call it in your browser, before you give us an email address.

Read every rule it follows

Nothing is hidden. In your dashboard every rule is written in plain English, and you can change any of them and hear the difference on the next call.

Watch the message land

Ring your own number after it's live. Seconds after you hang up, the summary, the caller's details and the full transcript are in your inbox, and the message is texted to your mobile.

A phone showing the receptionist ringing back after the line dropped

Try this on the demo call

Hang up on it. It rings you back.

Lose signal mid-call, or hang up by accident, and it rings you straight back and carries on where it was. No answer? It leaves a short message. Humans forget to ring back. This doesn't.

The voice

Press play. Would you know it wasn't a person?

It listens while it talks, lets callers interrupt, and answers in the time a person would. Callers can't tell the difference. Press play and hear for yourself.

What does hiring a call handler really cost?

Volume you can't staff for

Calls come in peaks. Staff for the peak and they sit idle; staff for the average and the peak goes unanswered.

Hired for the peaks, paid through the troughs

A plumbing company gets forty calls on a frozen January morning and six on a July afternoon. Staff for January and you pay for July.

A call handler needs a script and a supervisor

Someone has to write the script, train it, listen to calls and fix the mistakes. The owner of a small business does not have that time, so the script never gets written.

High turnover means the script is always being relearned

Call handling roles turn over faster than most. Every leaver takes the knowledge, and every starter gives wrong answers for a month.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Unlimited hands at the peak

Several callers at once, no queue, every call logged with a transcript and a one-line summary.

Every peak answered at once

Ten callers in the same minute get ten receptionists. No queue, no engaged tone, no caller giving up.

Your rules in plain English, followed exactly

What to ask, what to book, when to transfer, when to give the emergency number. Every rule is on the page and you can change it in a sentence.

Every call logged with a summary

A transcript, a one-line summary and what was done, for every call, in your dashboard and your inbox.

It happens to be AI. That is why it never calls in sick, never needs cover, and answers several callers at once. You do not need to know anything about AI to use it: paste your website, pick a voice, connect a number.

Three calls a call handler takes every week

What the caller says, what SiVoice does, and what lands with you.

Water through the kitchen ceiling

“There is water coming through my kitchen ceiling. I need a plumber now.”

It follows your emergency rule: tells the caller to turn off the stopcock if that is on your site, takes the address and the problem, and puts the call through to the on-call plumber or sends the urgent message. It gives the emergency call-out fee as written.

An emergency job dispatched by the rule, with the address already in the plumber's hand.

Skip hire for Monday

“How much is an eight-yard skip for a week and can you deliver on Monday?”

It gives the skip prices from your list, asks the delivery postcode and whether the skip goes on the road, explains the permit rule as written, and books the delivery or sends the request with best times. It texts a deposit link if your rule says so.

A skip ordered and paid for without a call handler on the phone.

Wasps' nest and an allergy

“There is a wasps' nest under the eaves and my son is allergic. How soon can you come?”

It takes the address and where the nest is, gives the treatment price from your site, marks the call urgent because of the allergy if that is your rule, and books the first slot in the connected calendar.

A same-day treatment booked and marked urgent for the right reason.

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Call handler: the job description, and who does what

Copy the duties into your advert if you still want to hire. The ticks show what SiVoice takes on from day one.

DutySiVoice

Answer high volumes of calls promptly

Several at once.

Yes

Identify the reason for the call and route or resolve it

Yes

Log every call with the outcome

Transcript and summary, automatically.

Yes

Follow a script and escalation rules

Your rules, word for word, editable any time.

Yes

Work from an office rota

It is always on.

No

Call handler salary against an AI receptionist: the numbers

Median full-time pay from the national statistics office, before employer taxes, pension, holiday and sick cover, recruitment and training. Team is the best plan: three numbers, an AI receptionist per location, deposits on the call, ring-backs, several callers at once. Solo is the one-person option.

A receptionist, a yearA receptionist, a monthSiVoice Team plan, a month BestSiVoice Solo plan, a month
United Kingdom£24,678£2,057£354 · excl. tax£150
United StatesYou$37,230$3,103$449 · excl. tax$199
Deutschland€33,636€2,803€419 · excl. tax€179

Nothing against them. They're people, and people have lives. The phone doesn't.

The fee before the salary

A recruitment agency typically charges a percentage of the first year's salary, commonly 15 to 25 percent, or a daily margin on a temp.

The salary is the start

Add employer's National Insurance or payroll tax, pension, training, and the cost of covering the desk when they're away.

Off sick

UK workers lost an average of 4.4 days each to sickness in 2024, says the ONS. The phone does not get the memo.

On holiday

28 days a year in the UK, and you pay for every one of them. Who answers while they're on the beach?

At lunch

One o'clock sharp, which is when the phone is busiest.

Evenings and weekends

Not on the rota. That is when customers finally have a minute to ring.

Monday morning, the text

Can't make it today. The desk is empty and the week starts on the back foot.

Two calls at once

One person answers one call. The second one is voicemail, however good they are.

Hands in their notice

Just as they finally know the job. Back to the advert, the gap and the training.

SiVoice: none of the above. Every call answered, day and night, from $449 a month on the Team plan.

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Sickness figure: ONS, Sickness absence in the UK labour market, 2023 and 2024. Agency fees vary; check the agency's own terms.

Why not voicemail, an answering service or another receptionist?

Each of them answers part of the problem. Only one answers every call, knows your business and costs less than a day of a receptionist's time.

VoicemailAnswering serviceAnother receptionistSiVoice
Answers every call, day and night
Knows your services, prices and locations
Books into your diary and takes complete details
Follows your rules word for word, every call
Several callers at once, no engaged tone
Live the same day, nothing to install

Call handler questions, answered

Updated November 2026

Can it follow our script?

Yes. Every rule it follows is written out in plain English under What it does; you can edit any of them and hear the change on the next call.

Is this instead of a receptionist, or as well as one?

Either. Some businesses use SiVoice instead of hiring, some use it to take the phone off a receptionist who is already run off their feet, and some use it to cover the gap while they recruit. It answers the phone; a person still greets whoever walks in.

How quickly can it start?

Paste your website and it is built in 30 seconds. You can talk to it in your browser straight away, before you give us an email address. Connecting a phone number takes a few more minutes, and it is answering the same day.

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