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Looking for a receptionist agency?

Hear it answer for your business, right now. Skip the placement fee and the six-week wait. Every call answered in your business's name from a flat monthly price, live today, and keep looking for a person if you still want one.

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Receptionist agency

A receptionist agency, 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 receptionist agency really cost?

A fee on top of a salary on top of a wait

Agencies typically charge a percentage of the first year's salary for a permanent placement, or a daily margin on a temp, and the phone still rings unanswered until the start date.

A placement fee before a single call is answered

Agencies charge a share of the first year's salary for a permanent hire. Nothing changes on the phone until the person starts, weeks later.

Temps arrive knowing nothing about your business

A temp receptionist learns your services, your team and your diary from scratch on Monday morning. By the time they know it, their booking ends.

The agency's best candidate leaves soonest

Good receptionists get offered more within the year, often through the same agency. The fee is paid again, the gap opens again.

What changes with an AI receptionist instead of hiring

Nothing to pay until it works

Seven days free, then a flat monthly price. No placement fee, no temp margin, no notice period, and it starts the same day.

Live today, while you keep looking

Built from your website in 30 seconds, answering the same day. Keep the agency search going if you still want a person, and cover the phone in the meantime.

No fee, no margin, no notice period

Seven days free, then a flat monthly price. Cancel any time with one click.

Stays on as the overflow when your person starts

Once a receptionist is hired, it answers when every line is busy, at lunch, and after hours, so the new hire is never the only line of defence.

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 receptionist agency takes every week

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

Accountants in January

“I have had a letter from HMRC about my self-assessment and the deadline is next week. Can someone help me?”

It takes the caller's name and number, what the letter says and whether they are an existing client, and books a call with an accountant in the connected calendar. It explains the new client fee as written and gives no tax advice.

A January enquiry booked while the firm waited for the agency's temp to start.

Branch office with nobody in

“I am ringing the Harrogate office. I need to drop some documents in. What time are you open until?”

It gives the Harrogate office hours and address from your site, says where documents can be left if your rule allows it, and sends a message to the office manager that a client is coming in.

A branch covered on its own number while the agency looked for a person. Team plan.

School admissions for September

“We are moving to the area in September. Do you have places in Year 4, and how do we visit?”

It explains the admissions process from your website, takes the child's name and year group and the parents' details, and books a visit with the admissions registrar in the connected calendar. It texts the date and the address.

A September admission captured and a visit booked, on the day the receptionist left.

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Receptionist agency: 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

Cover the phone from today while you recruit

Yes

Answer, book, take messages and transfer, in your name

Yes

Stay on as the overflow and after-hours line once your person starts

Yes

Find, vet and place a human receptionist

That is still an agency's job, if you still want one.

No

Receptionist agency 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

Receptionist agency questions, answered

Updated November 2026

What does a receptionist agency charge?

Permanent placement fees are commonly a percentage of first-year salary, often in the 15 to 25 percent range, and temp agencies add a daily margin on top of the wage. Check the agency's own terms. SiVoice has no fee: a flat £150 or $199 a month, cancel any time.

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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