After missing a call that she says cost a speaking gig worth about £12,000, the consultant put a basic AI voice agent on a secondary number that took after-hours calls. It answered questions from a script and offered a calendar link.
How it went
She says it answered 41 calls that would have gone to voicemail, 11 callers booked a slot, and two became clients worth about £4,800 together. She estimates £40 to £150 a month for such a service.
Worth knowing
This is one consultant's account on her own blog, with no publication date, a small sample, and a consultancy promotion. She says complaints and emotional calls should go to a human, and calls need a recording notice under UK GDPR.
Try it yourself
Paste into ChatGPT, Claude or another AI assistant and fill in the square brackets.
I run [type of business] in [town]. Write a short call script for an AI voice agent that answers calls when I am unavailable: greeting that says it is an AI, five common questions with answers, what it collects, and when it hands off to me. Show me the script before I use it.
Source: Lilach Bullock. Summarised in our own words; read the original for the full account.
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