Most of what your phone costs you happens when nobody picks up.
We build assistants that answer the call and the chat window, work from your own facts, book into your real calendar, and hand off to a person the moment the honest answer is I do not know. Then we do the search and follow-up work that puts more calls in front of it.
Six working lines, one per industry · every price on this site names the file it came from
An unanswered call makes no sound at all.
Nothing in your day tells you it happened. There is no notification, no gap in the diary, no angry email. The caller simply goes back to the results page and picks somebody else, and the first you hear of it is a quiet month you cannot account for.
The three lines below are what a Tuesday evening looks like on a busy trade line. None of them appear in any report you currently read.
Composed as an illustration, not a customer's record. We do not publish anyone's call log.
Three moving parts.
You supply the facts.
No new number, no new hardware, nothing for your team to learn. We build it out of material you already have, and you approve how it sounds before a customer ever reaches it.
It answers your line
Conditional forwarding sends busy, unanswered and out-of-hours calls to the assistant. Your number does not change and nothing already printed goes out of date.
It finishes the job on the call
It answers from your knowledge base, screens on your rules, and writes the booking into your real calendar with the reference read back. A genuine emergency is escalated to a person rather than queued.
You get the record
Transcript, summary and reference, on your phone before the caller has put theirs down. You can see which turns came from your own facts and which were reasoned out, which is also how the bill is worked out.
One voice, and the sense to stop talking.
Click through the parts. The fourth one is the part most of this industry does not build, and it is the reason the other five can be trusted.
Work out whether this is worth it to you.
Four numbers, all of them yours. We have not filled in a recovery rate on your behalf, because the honest version of that number is the one you believe, not the one we would pick.
This is a model, not a projection. It multiplies the figures you set. It is not a forecast and it is not drawn from anyone else's results.
The model assumes a third of currently unanswered calls turn into work. Move the sliders to your own numbers. If the result does not clear the monthly fee, we would rather you knew that here than after signing.
A rate we cannot trace to a source does not go on the page. A ranking we cannot control does not get promised. And the assistant saying I would rather not guess is the behaviour we sell, so we do not charge you for it.
Six lines you can ring today.
Each of these has a working assistant on a real number and a demo site behind it. Call it, try to trip it up, then decide.
The call you sleep through
A caller with water coming through a ceiling does not leave a voicemail. They dial the next name in the results and stop thinking about you.
See the page DentalYour front desk is chairside.
A same-day cancellation is the hardest slot to refill and the most expensive to lose. Refilling it needs somebody free to make calls immediately.
See the page Auto repairEvery call is a status check.
Advisors spend the day answering a question a record already answers, and the booking calls queue behind it.
See the page Law firmsThe intake call decides
A caller with a deadline works down the list. The firm that answers and books is usually the firm that gets the matter.
See the page Youth sportsForty parents ask
One uncertain forecast produces a hundred identical calls to a volunteer who is already at the field setting up.
See the page VenuesThey are deciding
A guess about how busy you are sends a party somewhere else, or brings them at the worst possible moment.
See the pageEvery number here names its source.
Read the file reference under each line. If a figure ever appears on this site without one, it is a bug and we want to hear about it.
Source: fivestarguard rate card, assistant_metering.py:107 and assistant_metering.py:108. Overage assistant_metering.py:109.
Source: seo_billing.py:53, seo_billing.py:64, tiers at seo_billing.py:76-82. A page only earns its fee in a month when your own Search Console shows it reached position ten or better on at least one query and took at least one click.
Source: pricing.js:22 (domain_install), pricing.js:31 (league_season), pricing.js:43 (crm), pricing.js:52 (club_ops).
| Vendor | For | Published rate | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zalladin | Shared inbox, whole team | $59 per month | Flat per account. It does not rise when you hire. |
| GatherUp | Review requests, one location | $99 / month | Multi-location runs $60 per location per month. Read 2026-08-20 |
| Help Scout | Shared inbox | $25 / $45 / $75 per user / month | Per user. The bill grows with every hire. Read 2026-08-22 |
| Chatwoot Cloud | Shared inbox | $19 / $39 / $99 per agent / month | Per agent. Read 2026-08-22 |
| Missive | Shared inbox | $14 / $24 / $36 per user / month | Per user. Read 2026-08-22 |
| Less Annoying CRM | Contact list | $15 per user / month | Per user. Six volunteers is ninety dollars a month. Read 2026-08-22 |
| BrightLocal | Review requests | Does not publish a rate | Its own pricing page says price on request for all three tiers. Read 2026-08-22 |
| Podium | Review requests | Does not publish a rate | Sales only. No rate is published. Read 2026-08-22 |
Asked before every build.
Three things. An assistant that answers your phone and your chat window, local search pages built to be found, and the follow-up automations that chase payments, paperwork and renewals. The assistant is the main product. The other two are resold on the same stack and priced from the same rate card.
Yes. Six numbers are listed on the industry pages and every one of them connects to a working assistant. Ring it, ask it something it should not know, and see whether it guesses or hands you off. That is the test worth running.
It says so, captures the question with a reference, and tells the caller who is ringing back and when. It does not guess at a price, a coverage decision or a figure your business has not published. That turn is recorded and it is not billed to you.
$500 once to build it, then $199 a month, which includes 500 chat interactions and 75 call minutes. Chat past the bundle is $0.35 each and minutes past it are $2. Answering a caller in another language is billed by the minute, and only on the calls that use it.
$1,000 to build, taken as two instalments of $500, the second when the pages are live and you can see them. After that you pay a monthly fee per page, and a page only earns its fee in a month when your own Search Console shows it reached position ten or better on at least one query and took at least one click. Position is judged per query rather than on the page average.
No, and be careful with anyone who does. Nobody controls where a search engine puts a page. What we can do is tie the fee to the outcome, so a page that is not ranking and not being clicked does not bill that month. Customer reviews are one of the signals that search engines weigh, so they matter, but writing or gathering them is not work we do for you.
No. The assistant sits behind conditional forwarding, so it answers when your line is busy, unanswered or out of hours. Your number, your carrier and everything already printed stay as they are.
Every number on this site names the file it came from, and every competitor rate names the page and the date it was read. If that is the kind of supplier you want, the rest of the conversation is easy.
Ring one of ours before you believe a word of this.
Six live lines · or book thirty minutes and we will tell you what we would build