Handing over your phone should be reversible in one tap.
The honest objection to an AI answering your business line is: what if it says something wrong, or something goes haywire at 3 a.m. and I find out from a bill? These exist because those are reasonable things to worry about.
How it works
What actually happens
01
A kill switch that actually kills
One tap in your dashboard and the AI stops answering immediately. No support ticket, no waiting on us, no window where it's still talking to customers.
02
Daily spend cap pauses the line
Set a ceiling on what a day can cost. Hit it and the line pauses itself until tomorrow rather than continuing to spend while you're asleep.
03
Enforced in code, before pickup
Every one of these is checked at the moment a call arrives, not applied to a bill afterwards. A stopped call is a call that never cost anything.
04
Your wording, your prices
Everything the agent says and every figure it quotes comes from text you can edit. If it phrases something in a way you'd never say, you change it yourself.
Being straight with you
What this doesn't do
Every limit below is one you'd otherwise discover after paying.
Caps stop calls, and stopping calls loses jobs
A spend cap that trips at 2 a.m. means the next caller doesn't get answered. That's the trade — set the cap where the runaway-cost risk genuinely outweighs a missed job, not as low as it will go.
It can't unsay something
The kill switch stops the next call, not the last one. Editing what the agent says is prevention; the switch is containment.
More features
The rest of it
Emergency triage →
Tells an emergency from a routine job, using rules you write.
After-hours answering →
Answers nights, weekends, and holidays — and stays quiet while you're open.
Alerts & booking →
Texts you the job, books the slot, or transfers the call live.
Revenue reporting →
Reports the jobs and the dollars, not the minutes answered.
Spam & abuse filtering →
Robodialers and repeat callers get stopped before they cost you.
Pricing
Priced like one customer, not like payroll
No setup fee, no contract, cancel whenever. Minutes are talk time — a typical call runs under two minutes.
Save 17% with annual — 2 months free.
Starter
$99/mo
$99 billed monthly
Stop missing the one call that pays for the month.
- 200 talk minutes
- 1 call at a time
- After-hours call capture
- Then $0.30/min, only if you go over
Pro
Popular$149/mo
$149 billed monthly
For businesses busy enough to drop calls.
- 500 talk minutes
- 2 calls at a time
- Owner SMS + booking
- Then $0.28/min, only if you go over
Multi
$249/mo
$249 billed monthly
Multiple locations or lines, one AI front desk.
- 900 talk minutes
- 3 calls at a time
- Lowest overage rate
- Then $0.25/min, only if you go over
Talk minutes are allocated monthly on both plans — annual changes how you pay, not what you get each month. Overage is billed as it happens. Cancel any time; annual is refunded pro rata on unused whole months.
Questions
The things owners actually ask
How fast does the kill switch take effect?
Immediately, on the next inbound call. There's no propagation delay to wait out and nothing to confirm by email.
What should I set the daily cap to?
Work out roughly what a normal day costs you in talk time and set it a few times higher. It's a circuit breaker for something going wrong, not a budget — set it too tight and it trips on a genuinely busy day.
Do I lose the calls that come in while it's paused?
Yes — a paused line doesn't answer. That's why the cap is yours to set rather than ours, and why we'd rather you set it generously.
Will it sound like a robot?
No — it's a natural voice that interrupts and responds like a person, not a phone tree. But judge that yourself rather than taking our word: run the demo and listen to a real call before paying anything.
Do I have to change my phone number?
No. Your number stays exactly as it is on your listings, your signage, and your website. You forward calls to AlwaysGreet — either everything you don't pick up, or only outside opening hours. Turning it off puts everything back as it was.
Can it answer only after hours?
Yes, and most businesses start there. Turn on after-hours-only and the AI stays silent while you're open — you take those calls yourself. It picks up nights, weekends, and holidays.
What stops spam calls burning through my minutes?
A per-caller hourly limit, automatic flagging of repeat short-call bursts, and a daily spend cap that pauses the line if something goes wrong. These run before a call is answered, so a robodialer can't run up your bill.
Look at the controls before you buy
The protection settings are visible in the demo dashboard.