AI receptionist
$149/mo
- 500 minutes included
- Inbound calls 24/7 in English, Spanish and Vietnamese
- Booking, messages, leads, orders and pay links
- Transcript and summary of every call
AI Voice Agents · Talos Connect
AI voice agents that answer, book and follow up, built into Talos Connect.
Your AI voice agent runs inside Talos Connect, our business phone, texting and scheduling platform. It picks up on the first ring at 2 PM or 2 AM, books on your real calendar, texts the confirmation and writes up every call, so nothing waits for a callback.
The short answer
A Talos AI voice agent is the AI receptionist built into Talos Connect, our business phone and texting platform. It answers every call on the first ring, 24/7, in English, Spanish or Vietnamese, books on your Connect calendar, texts the confirmation and writes up the call. It costs $149 a month with 500 minutes, for businesses anywhere in the US.
See it work
One call: answered, booked and written up.
Watch a 9 PM call get answered and booked in 60 seconds. Below are the screens your team sees the next morning in Talos Connect.
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Real product, demo account and sample data
Who it's for
Built for businesses that cannot let the phone ring out
Any business where a missed call is a missed job, booking or client.
01
Home services
HVAC, plumbing, electrical and roofing: emergency calls captured with the address and urgency instead of going to voicemail.
02
Restaurants, salons and auto shops
Orders from the live menu, bookings, reschedules and "are you open?" questions handled while your team is with a customer.
03
Law firms and professional services
Intake with the matter or need recorded, names captured for your conflict check, and the consultation booked.
04
Healthcare offices
Medical, dental and veterinary scheduling and messages handled, with a BAA available and no clinical advice given.
What we automate
Skills, not scripts
Each skill uses your real data in Talos Connect, so the agent never guesses an hour, a price or an open slot.
Book, reschedule and cancel
Checks real availability, offers up to three times, reads the details back, books and texts a confirmation.
Answer from your knowledge base
Hours, prices, service area, parking and policies, answered only from what you have approved.
Take a proper message
Name, number and reason, delivered as a task with a due time and a notification.
Escalate emergencies
You define what is urgent. It alerts your team, offers the next emergency slot or directs callers to 911.
Capture leads
Job details, address and urgency go straight into your Talos Connect pipeline.
Take orders and reservations
For restaurants: orders from the live menu with tax and pickup times, and table bookings.
Balances and pay links
Reads a balance back and texts a secure payment link.
Hand off to a person
Transfers on request during office hours, or takes a message when you are closed.
English, Spanish and Vietnamese
Callers are helped in the language they are most comfortable with. Your team still gets the transcript and summary.
Under the hood
What happens in the two seconds after a caller speaks
The voice agent works inside your real calendar, customer list and knowledge base in Talos Connect, so it acts on the call instead of just taking a message.
- 01
The call arrives
Your Talos Connect line sends the call to the AI: always, after hours, or when nobody picks up.
- 02
Speech becomes text
Speech recognition transcribes the caller in real time.
- 03
The model decides
A language model reads the conversation and your instructions, then chooses to answer or to use a tool.
- 04
Tools act on your account
Look up the caller, check availability, book, take a message, send a text or transfer the call.
- 05
A natural voice replies
Text-to-speech answers in one or two short sentences.
- 06
The call is written up
Transcript, summary, sentiment, outcome and follow-up tasks land on the customer's timeline.
Helpful, honest and hard to derail
- Says it is an AI when asked, and offers a person.
- Uses your data for every fact. It never guesses hours, prices or availability.
- Never gives medical, legal or financial advice.
- Stays on the reason for the call and cannot be re-prompted by a caller.
- Honors opt-outs and permitted calling hours on outbound calls.
AI voice agent on a callInbound, 4:52 PM
- Are you a real person?
- I'm an AI assistant for the office. I can book appointments, take a message or connect you to the team. How can I help?
- I need to move my Thursday appointment.
- lookup_caller → Thu 2:30 PM appointment
- reschedule_appointment → Mon 9:00 AM, confirmation text sent
- You're all set for Monday at 9:00 AM. I just texted you the confirmation.
Before / after
Before vs after a Talos voice agent
Before
Without an AI voice agent
- After-hours calls go to voicemail, and many callers try the next business instead
- Staff stop helping the customer in front of them to answer routine calls
- New leads wait hours for a callback
- No record of what was said, missed or promised
After
With a Talos voice agent
- Every call answered on the first ring, day or night
- Routine booking and questions handled without pulling staff away
- Leads captured with details and a follow-up task in Talos Connect
- A transcript and summary of every call on the customer's timeline
How it works
From demo to live calls
01
A demo with your call flow
We set up a live demo with your hours, services and real scenarios before you commit to anything.
02
Teach it your business
Your hours, services, policies and answers go into the knowledge base. You decide what is urgent and who gets transfers.
03
Choose when it answers
Always, after hours only, or when nobody picks up. You can change it at any time.
04
Port your numbers and go live
Talos Connect is our own business phone service. We port your existing numbers, so customers keep calling the number they know.
What to expect
Product facts, not projections
What every Talos Connect AI voice agent does from day one.
1st ring
Every call answered
Nights, weekends and holidays included.
24/7
Coverage
No answering-service shifts or holiday rates.
3
Languages
English, Spanish and Vietnamese on every call.
500
Minutes included
In the $149 monthly plan. More are $75 per 500.
Pricing
Published prices. No quote needed.
The voice agent is part of Talos Connect, so you can see what it costs before you book a demo.
More minutes
$75/500 min
- Add minutes as your call volume grows
- Same skills and languages
AI outbound
$199/mo add-on
- Recalls, reactivation, reminders and past-due balances
- Consent, opt-out and calling-hour guardrails
Phone seats
$19.95/user/mo
- Business lines for your team: seats are $19.95, $24.95 or $34.95
- Keep your numbers: we port them for you
These are Talos Connect list prices. The voice agent runs on Talos Connect, our own business phone service, so phones, texting, scheduling and the AI come on one bill.
Integrations
Sends every call to the tools you already use
Talos Connect sends new contacts, calls with their AI summary, bookings and leads to your CRM, team chat or automation tool. Our team sets up the connection for you.
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- GoHighLevel
- Pipedrive
- Zoho CRM
- Close
- monday.com
- Airtable
- Slack
- Zapier
- Make
- n8n
Your options
In-house, answering service or an AI voice agent?
Most businesses end up with a blend. Here is how the three compare.
Available 24/7
- In-house receptionist
- No
- Live answering service
- Yes
- AI voice agent
- Yes
Books directly on your calendar
- In-house receptionist
- Yes
- Live answering service
- Sometimes
- AI voice agent
- Yes
Handles many calls at once
- In-house receptionist
- No
- Live answering service
- Limited by staffing
- AI voice agent
- Yes
Knows your customers' history
- In-house receptionist
- Yes
- Live answering service
- No
- AI voice agent
- Yes
Empathy in difficult conversations
- In-house receptionist
- Strongest
- Live answering service
- Strong
- AI voice agent
- Hands off to a person
Cost model
- In-house receptionist
- Salary and benefits
- Live answering service
- Per minute or per call
- AI voice agent
- Flat monthly fee plus minutes
A fair summary of typical arrangements. Capabilities vary by provider.
Keeping your phone system?
We also build custom voice agents.
If you are not switching phone service, our automation team builds a voice agent around the phone system, CRM and calendar you already run, such as Google Calendar, Calendly, Cal.com or GoHighLevel. Custom builds are a fixed fee per system, then a flat monthly rate.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
An AI voice agent answers your business phone in a natural voice, understands what the caller wants, and uses tools connected to your systems to act: it looks up the caller, checks open times, books, takes a message or transfers the call. The Talos AI voice agent is built into Talos Connect, so every call is saved with a transcript and summary.
The Talos Connect AI receptionist is $149 a month including 500 minutes, and more minutes are $75 per 500. AI outbound campaigns are an optional $199 a month, and Talos Connect phone seats start at $19.95 per user a month. Custom voice agents built around another phone system are quoted per build.
To use the AI receptionist in Talos Connect, yes. Talos Connect is our own business phone service, and we port your existing numbers so callers keep dialing the number they know. If you want to keep your current phone system, our custom build team can build a voice agent around it instead.
Yes. The agent introduces itself as a virtual assistant and says it is an AI when asked. Being upfront builds trust, and some states regulate undisclosed AI voice calls.
During office hours it transfers the call to your team. When you are closed it takes a detailed message, marks it urgent if appropriate, and notifies your team.
Yes. Unlike a person, the agent can answer simultaneous calls, which matters most during a rush or after an outage.
It books on the Talos Connect calendar, which handles online booking, confirmations and reminders. Direct booking into medical and dental practice management or EHR systems is on our roadmap; until then the agent captures the request for your team to confirm.
Yes, as a $199 a month add-on: recalls, reactivation, reminders and past-due balances. Outbound calling follows consent rules, honors opt-outs and keeps to permitted calling hours.
Yes. Talos signs a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with healthcare clients, and the agent never gives medical advice: it books, takes messages and hands clinical questions to your team.
Anywhere in the United States. Setup, number porting, training and support are all done remotely, so no site visit is needed.
See it answer your phones
We will set up a live demo with your own call flow, hours and services, and answer every question. No pressure and no obligation.
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