AI receptionist for local service businesses

Your phone is ringing. You're on a job.

Your AI receptionist answers every call, books the appointment, and puts the lead on your calendar. Nights, weekends, and the middle of a service call. You stop losing customers to voicemail.

No contracts. Live in a day. Keep your existing number. Cancel any time.
Line open right now
(360) 916‑2134

This is Ben, our own receptionist. Try to trip him up. Yours gets his own name and voice.

Thanks for calling. This is Ben, who am I speaking with?
Are you a real person?
Nope, I'm AI. Pretty wild, right? Still going to get you booked though.

Most calls to small businesses never get answered

0%

of calls to small businesses go unanswered

411 Locals, 2024
0%

of those callers never call back

PATLive
0%

hire whoever answers first

BrightLocal, 2024

Your competitor doesn't have to be better than you.
They just have to pick up.

What it actually costs

One Friday night

It's 7pm. Someone's water heater just let go and their basement is filling up. They search, they call the first plumber. It rings out.

They don't leave a message. Almost nobody does. They call the second plumber, who picks up, and that plumber books a two thousand dollar job before dessert.

You were the first plumber. You were at dinner with your family. You never even knew the phone rang.

That's not a slow week. That's a customer who now has a plumber, tells their neighbours about that plumber, and never thinks about you again.

Calls convert 10 to 15× better than web forms BIA/Kelsey

A missed call isn't a missed conversation. It's a missed sale from someone who was ready to buy right then.

Run your own numbers

Move the sliders. This is your money, not ours.

8
$350
30%
Walking to whoever answered instead
$3,640

Every month. A receptionist that never sleeps costs a fraction of that.

How it works

Three steps. Live in a day.

No new hardware, no new number, nothing for you to learn.

STEP 01

Forward your line

Keep the number your customers already know. Forward it to your receptionist when you can't pick up, or all the time. Takes two minutes and you can undo it instantly.

STEP 02

It answers

First ring, every time. It knows your services, your hours, and your service area, and it answers in the name and voice you picked. It works out what the caller actually needs.

STEP 03

The job lands on your calendar

It checks your real availability and books while the caller is still on the phone. You get the booking, the details, and a summary of the call.

Book a call

Pick a time that suits you

Twenty minutes with David. He'll price it for your business and answer whatever the demo couldn't.

Loading the calendar. If it doesn't appear, call our demo line on (360) 916‑2134 and he'll book you in.

If he doesn't book you a job in the first 30 days, you don't pay for them

You're trusting your phone line to something new, from someone you found on the internet. That's a real risk and it should sit with us, not you. Run it for a month. If he hasn't booked you a single appointment, that month is free.

What it handles

Not a voicemail with extra steps

Answers 24/7

Nights, weekends, holidays, and the forty minutes you're under a sink.

Books your calendar

Real availability, real bookings, confirmed while they're still on the line.

Qualifies the caller

What they need, how urgent it is, and whether it's worth your drive.

Answers your FAQs

Hours, service area, pricing, and the jobs you don't take on.

Sends every lead

Name, number, what they wanted, and a summary of the conversation.

Screens the junk

Spam and cold sales calls stop eating your afternoon.

Sounds like a person

Callers talk to it normally. If they ask, it tells them the truth.

Yours, not ours

Pick the name, the voice and how it talks. It should sound like your business.

Built for your trade

A plumber and a salon don't miss calls for the same reasons

Your receptionist gets set up around how your business actually runs.

Home services and trades

You're under a sink or up a ladder, and the emergency calls come in exactly when your hands are full. Home service businesses miss anywhere from 40 to 70 percent of their calls for that reason alone. It catches them, sorts the urgent from the quotable, and books the estimate while you keep working.

Cleaning companies

Quote requests, recurring schedule changes, and the commercial calls that come in after five when the decision maker finally has a minute. Whoever answers those tends to win the contract. Yours answers them.

Salons and barbers

Every ringing phone pulls a stylist away from the chair, and the ones you let ring are bookings. It takes the appointment, handles the reschedules, and answers the same five questions about pricing and parking so your team doesn't have to.

Dental and medical

Roughly 38 percent of healthcare calls come in outside business hours, and voicemail loses most of them. It answers new patient calls at nine at night, gathers what you need up front, and gets them on the schedule.

Gyms and studios

Membership questions and tour requests arrive while your front desk is covering a class. It handles the ones that matter, books the tour, and passes you the lead so nobody signs up somewhere else instead.

Pricing

Compare it to what you'd actually do instead

The real alternative isn't doing nothing. It's paying someone to sit by the phone, or letting the calls keep going to voicemail.

Option one

Hire a receptionist

$3,050–$5,800/mo

Full time, all in. Salary, payroll taxes, benefits, PTO and turnover.

  • Covers about 40 hours a week
  • Nothing after 5pm or at weekends
  • Sick days, holidays, lunch breaks
  • Rehiring costs when they leave
BLS median wage plus loaded employer cost, 2026
Option two

Human answering service

$285–$2,400/mo

Outsourced call centre, billed by the minute or the call.

  • Overage charges on a busy month
  • Reads a script, doesn't know your trade
  • Usually takes a message, doesn't book
  • Different person every call
Published rates across major providers, 2026
Option three

Krelode

Founding rate

Built for your business, run by us, priced to your call volume.

  • Answers 24/7, every call, no overage panic
  • Knows your services, prices and service area
  • Books straight onto your calendar
  • We build it, tune it and maintain it
  • No contract, cancel with 30 days' notice
Get your price

We're taking on a small number of founding clients, and the rate reflects that. Your number depends on call volume and what you need it doing, so you'll get a real figure on the call rather than a range that means nothing.

Questions

The ones everybody asks

No. Ben is our own receptionist, the one answering the demo line on this page. Yours is set up as its own thing. You choose the name, the voice, and how formal or casual it sounds, so callers hear something that fits your business rather than ours.

No. You keep your number and forward it to your receptionist. Your customers never see a different line, and you can switch forwarding off any time you want.

Some will, most won't ask. If someone asks directly, it says so straight away. An honest AI holds up better than a bad impression of a human.

Then it covers the gaps. Nights, weekends, lunch, and the moments your receptionist is already on the other line. He isn't there to replace your team.

He takes the details and gets them to you, the same as a good front desk would. He doesn't guess and he doesn't make things up.

About a day. We build him around your services, hours and calendar, then test him with you on a live call before he goes anywhere near a customer.

Those are real and for some businesses they're the right answer. The difference is who does the work. With those you write the scripts, wire up the calendar, test it, and fix it when it answers wrong. With us that's our job, and we keep tuning it as your business changes. If you'd rather spend a weekend configuring it yourself and save the difference, we'd honestly rather you did that than pay us and resent it.

It depends on your call volume and what you need him doing. Book fifteen minutes and you'll get a real number, not a quote form.

Don't take our word for it

Everyone else on the internet wants you to fill in a form and wait for a demo. Ben, our own receptionist, is on the phone right now. Ask him anything, try to break him, see how he handles it.