AI Receptionist

Every missed call is a booking that goes to a competitor who picked up.

$1,800 setup, then $800 a month. Fixed price, US dollars. Live in 14 business days from a signed scope and the deposit.

Free audit, no accounts, we change nothing.

Or ask a person: aimarketing@gonzo.co.in +91 7390990227 WhatsApp

AI Receptionist is one of Gonzo Digital's nine fixed-price systems. It costs $1,800 to set up and $800 a month, in US dollars, and goes live 14 business days after a signed scope and the deposit. It is for clinics, salons and trades where the phone is the main sales channel (chat is covered today; phone calls are not built yet). Anything it sends on its own says it is from an AI.

What you get

  • 24/7 chat answering today (bookings, FAQs and routing); phone calls need a telephony gateway that is not chosen or built yet
  • Calendar-integrated booking with double-booking prevention
  • Escalation to a human for anything outside its script
  • Weekly missed-opportunity report: what it would have lost without this

Who it is for

Clinics, salons and trades where the phone is the main sales channel (chat is covered today; phone calls are not built yet).

How it behaves

  • Anything this system sends to a person on its own says it is an AI. There is no setting to turn that off.
  • Fixed scope. The deliverables above are the scope, and the price does not move with the hours.

What this page does not show

Client results. This page describes what the system can do, not what it has done for someone. We will publish a result only when a real client has earned it and agreed to be named.

More detail

How it runs

  1. Answers web chat today, and says it is an AI before anything else. Voice needs a telephony gateway that is not chosen or built yet; a voice would be plainly synthetic.
  2. Books into your calendar and refuses a double booking. If it cannot tell which slot the visitor means, it asks once more, then hands over to a person.
  3. Passes anything outside its script to a person, and files a weekly missed-opportunity estimate with its formula printed.

Where it connects

Each row says what exists today and what has to be true before it runs for you. "Tested in the sandbox" means tested against simulated services.

ConnectionStatus todayWhat going live needs
Phone line and voice gatewayNot built. The agent handles text turns only: no telephony account, no gateway chosen and no speech engine exists.Choosing and building a telephony gateway and a voice adapter. This is the largest piece still open.
Web chatBuilt, tested in the sandbox.A chat widget on your site.
Calendar (Google or Microsoft)Built against a sandbox calendar with fixed hours.A calendar adapter: an integration-router key, a slot map and a first live test.
Confirmations by email or WhatsAppBuilt. A confirmation goes by email when the contact has an address and has agreed to service messages. Otherwise a person is flagged.Email sending access. WhatsApp confirmations are out of scope.
Your CRMWrites a booking line to Gonzo's own CRM log in the sandbox.A CRM adapter, checked per CRM before you sign.
Your knowledge base, hours and average booking valueSupplied by you.The answers it may give, your opening hours, and what a booking is worth to you (for the estimate).

What this does not do

  • There is no live transfer. "Route" records the request, tells the visitor a person will get back to them, and puts a ticket in front of your duty contact.
  • It never uses a cloned or borrowed voice, and nothing in the code can select one.
  • It answers only from your knowledge base. A question outside it is handed to a person.
  • A visitor who raises money is told once, neutrally, that a person will get back to them.
  • A complaint, legal language, a VIP or a request for a person ends the conversation after one neutral sentence, and you are told.
  • A conversation is read turn by turn, up to twelve turns, and then it ends.
  • The missed-opportunity figure is an estimate. Its formula is printed beside it, and it uses your own average booking value.
  • It handles English, Hindi (including Hinglish) and Spanish for slot choices. Other languages are handed to a person.

Doubts people raise about this one

Does it answer or make phone calls?

Chat today. Voice needs a telephony gateway that is not chosen or built yet.

The AI Receptionist answers web chat: bookings, FAQs and routing, with calendar booking that prevents double-booking and a handoff to a person for anything outside its script. It has run only against simulated callers and a simulated calendar, never against a live phone line, voice gateway or calendar.

Phone calls are not built: there is no telephony account and no speech engine. Until there are, the Receptionist does not pick up a phone. A voice, when there is one, will be plainly synthetic, will say it is an AI and will never be a copy of a real person's voice.

The Outreach Engine is text only. Nothing here makes cold calls.

Can a person take over a conversation?

Yes. The lead, reception, outreach and support systems each hand over to a person: the Lead Response Engine the moment a lead asks something it cannot answer, the AI Receptionist for anything outside its script, the Outreach Engine the moment a lead replies, and the E-commerce Support Assistant the instant something is not a confident, rule-based answer.

Does it work with my WhatsApp?

It uses the official WhatsApp Business API, and only that. A reply inside the 24-hour window after a customer writes needs no template. A message outside the window needs an approved template and an opted-in contact. Messaging strangers and cold sends are not done, because WhatsApp's policy allows contact only with people who opted in. Broadcasts go only to opted-in contacts.

The API is reached through a provider. Whether your current number can be used, and what your setup needs, a person will check with you before you sign.

What do I need to provide to get started?

It depends on the product, and the build names what it reads:

  • AI Receptionist and Lead Response Engine: your knowledge base and business hours.
  • Dormant List Revival: your customer list, with consent records for who may be contacted.
  • E-commerce Support Assistant: your order data, your return policy and your product data.
  • Connected Operations Layer: you connect each account through its own sign-in, and can revoke it.

The exact checklist for your system is agreed when scope is signed. The full list is not on file, so a person will give it to you.

Is this really AI? Am I dealing with a bot?

Yes, the systems are AI, and they say so. The first message a system sends on its own, on chat, email or WhatsApp, states that it is an AI. That is built into the sending step. There is no setting to switch it off.

Voice is not built yet. A voice, when there is one, will be plainly synthetic, will say it is an AI and will never be a copy of a real person's voice.

This answer box is not AI. It searches a fixed list of written answers.

Will it embarrass me in front of a customer?

We cannot promise it never gets something wrong. No system can, and we will not say so.

What it is built to do instead:

  • Answer from the data and policy you give it. The support and reception systems say so when a question is not covered, and pass it to a person.
  • Stop and tell you on a complaint, a legal threat, a request for a human, a STOP, or a data-erasure request. It sends at most one neutral acknowledgment.
  • Say it is an AI on the first message, so nobody is misled about who they are talking to.
  • Keep money questions inside limits you set. Above them, it sends a holding line and asks you.
  • Write every action to a tamper-evident log you can check afterwards.

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Live in 14 business days from a signed scope and the deposit.

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Next steps

Start with the free audit.

Send one web address. In about five business days you get a short written report. If a system fits, a fixed-price scope follows.

Free audit, no accounts, we change nothing.

What happens next

  1. Free auditAbout five business days. A short written report on one page. We change nothing.
  2. Fixed-price scopeIf a system fits, you get its scope and price in writing. Nothing is paid on this site.
  3. Build7 to 21 business days from a signed scope and the deposit. The written handover comes before go-live.

Or ask a person: aimarketing@gonzo.co.in +91 7390990227 WhatsApp