Turn inbound interest into booked discovery calls.
Your expertise is the product, and your time is the bottleneck. Your AI receptionist qualifies inbound inquiries, screens out poor fits, and books discovery calls so you spend your hours on prospects worth your rate.
An AI receptionist for consultants answers inbound calls 24/7, screens leads by company size, budget, and scope, books discovery calls to your calendar, and takes detailed messages so you protect billable hours.
What a missed call costs you.
- 01Every inbound call interrupts deep, billable client work.
- 02Unqualified prospects consume time better spent on real opportunities.
- 03Leads expect a fast, professional response that matches your fees.
What a missed call could be worth
Run your own numbers. Drag the sliders to match your shop, and the figure at the bottom updates as you go.
This is an estimate built from your own inputs, not a quote. Nobody can say a given missed call was a real customer, so read the result as a possibility, not a bill.
Many calls to small businesses go unanswered, and most callers never leave a message.
Not every missed call is a sale: some are spam, wrong numbers, or people you already serve. Your honest guess.
Phone callers are high-intent and convert far better than web forms. 30% is a conservative start for a prospect you actually talk to.
For most service businesses, a single job runs a few hundred dollars. Count repeat work and referrals and a customer's lifetime value reaches several thousand. Use the number that fits you.
You can't know any single missed call was a real customer; some are wrong numbers or sales calls. But across a month, if even 30% of the people who reached your voicemail would have booked, that works out to about $5,063.
And the fix scales with the math: even Enterprise, our $999-a-month plan, runs about 20% of that estimate, roughly $48,762 a year below it.
First AI Employee's Essential plan is $99 a month. The question isn't whether every missed call is a lost job; it's whether catching them clears $99.
Start a 7-day free trial →An estimate from your own inputs, not a quote. The default customer value above is just a starting estimate; set it to your own.
Sources: Invoca's home-services call benchmarks on how often calls go unanswered (a home-services benchmark; the defaults here are illustrative and fully adjustable); CRM Magazine on voicemail behavior; Invoca's call-conversion benchmarks on how well phone leads convert.
On the call, it handles all of it.
Discovery-call booking
Schedules intro and discovery calls against your real availability.
Lead screening
Captures company size, budget range, and scope to flag the prospects worth your time.
Professional first impression
Greets every caller with a calm, on-brand tone that reflects a premium practice.
Message capture
Takes detailed messages and routes them to you or the right team member.
In your callers' own words.
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I’d like to talk to someone about a project. Are you taking new clients?
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What does an engagement with you typically cost?
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Can I get 20 minutes on the calendar this week?
Client Intake: built in for consulting & professional services.
The big one here: matter details, the parties for a conflict check, the documents, gathered before the consult, so the first meeting is billable work, not data entry.
How Client Intake works →Add-ons, rated for consulting & professional services.
We rate every add-on for how much it actually earns its keep in your trade — the must-haves and the ones you can skip. Honest stars, not a sales pitch.
Prospects research you online before they pick up the phone; it qualifies and books the consult while they’re still on your site.
A careful reply signals the diligence clients hire you for, drafted without ever revealing anything confidential.
Prospects vet you by your reviews before they ever call; a tactful, consented request keeps them current.
Stop sending consulting & professional services callers to voicemail.
Your AI receptionist answers 24/7, qualifies the caller, and books the work, so more of your calls turn into customers instead of a competitor's.
Not for: healthcare or anyone handling protected health information. We are not HIPAA-compliant and don't sign BAAs.