01 — The ring
TUE 7:42 PM
+1 (612) 555‑0148 · New caller
Picked up on the first ring. You never heard it.
AI front desk for service businesses
Your phone rang.
You were under
a sink.
Callfoyer answers on the first ring, books the job, and leaves the whole conversation on your desk — sorted, summarised, and waiting for the two minutes you actually have.
- About twenty minutes to set up
- Keep your number
- Cancel any time
02 — The foyer
2 MIN 09 SEC
- Agent
- Thanks for calling Maple Home Services — this is the front desk. What's going on?
- Caller
- Water's coming up through the basement drain. Can someone look at it tomorrow?
- Agent
- I have Thursday 8–10 AM open. Should I hold that under your address on Linden Ave?
03 — On your desk
Needs you
Booking held · Thu 8–10 AM · 214 Linden Ave
- Added to Google Calendar
- Summary in your inbox
- Flagged: possible sewer line
One thing left for a human: caller asked about financing. Callfoyer didn't guess — it wrote the question down.
The difference
Answered is not the same as handled.
Anything can pick up a phone. The question is what's waiting for you afterwards — a voicemail you'll listen to at 10pm, a message pad with a name and a number, or a job already on the calendar with the reason it might go sideways written down.
| After the call | Voicemail | Answering service | Basic AI receptionist | Callfoyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picks up at 9pm on a Sunday | Yes, with a beep | Usually at an after-hours rate | Yes | Yes — and it knows you're closed and says so |
| Knows your prices, service area and the work you turn down | No | Reads from a script you maintain | Whatever you pasted into a prompt box | Scanned from your site, then your docs and rules |
| Books into your real calendar | No | Emails you a request to book | Varies by product; often an add-on | Google Calendar, live, while the caller is still on |
| Tells you what to do next | You listen to nine of them and decide | A name and a number on a message pad | A transcript emailed to you | A sorted queue — needs you, or already handled |
| Admits when it doesn't know | Not applicable | Yes, and takes a message | Nothing in the design stops it filling a gap | Says so, logs the gap, and asks you to fill it in |
| What it costs each month | Nothing, plus the jobs you lose | A monthly retainer, plus per-call fees | A low monthly fee, then per-minute overage | From $79, minutes included |
Callfoyer
SWIPE TO COMPARE →
- Picks up at 9pm on a Sunday
- Yes — and it knows you're closed and says so
- Knows your prices, service area and the work you turn down
- Scanned from your site, then your docs and rules
- Books into your real calendar
- Google Calendar, live, while the caller is still on
- Tells you what to do next
- A sorted queue — needs you, or already handled
- Admits when it doesn't know
- Says so, logs the gap, and asks you to fill it in
- What it costs each month
- From $79, minutes included
Voicemail
- Picks up at 9pm on a Sunday
- Yes, with a beep
- Knows your prices, service area and the work you turn down
- No
- Books into your real calendar
- No
- Tells you what to do next
- You listen to nine of them and decide
- Admits when it doesn't know
- Not applicable
- What it costs each month
- Nothing, plus the jobs you lose
Answering service
- Picks up at 9pm on a Sunday
- Usually at an after-hours rate
- Knows your prices, service area and the work you turn down
- Reads from a script you maintain
- Books into your real calendar
- Emails you a request to book
- Tells you what to do next
- A name and a number on a message pad
- Admits when it doesn't know
- Yes, and takes a message
- What it costs each month
- A monthly retainer, plus per-call fees
Basic AI receptionist
- Picks up at 9pm on a Sunday
- Yes
- Knows your prices, service area and the work you turn down
- Whatever you pasted into a prompt box
- Books into your real calendar
- Varies by product; often an add-on
- Tells you what to do next
- A transcript emailed to you
- Admits when it doesn't know
- Nothing in the design stops it filling a gap
- What it costs each month
- A low monthly fee, then per-minute overage
Setup
Four steps. One coffee.
No install, no new handset, no porting your number unless you want to. You forward your line and hang up.
- 01
Describe the business
Your name and website. Two fields. That's the whole form.
- 02
We read your site
Services, hours, service area and pricing come back as a profile you correct in place.
- 03
Pick a voice, hear it
Listen to your own greeting before anyone else does. Change a word, hear it again.
- 04
Pick a plan, forward your line
Choose your number and plan, then dial the code we give you for your carrier. Send everything, or only what you miss.
Inside the app
Built for the ten minutes you get between jobs.
Inbox
Two piles, not forty voicemails
Every call lands in one of two places: needs you, or handled. The handled pile is there if you're curious. The other one is your morning.
- — Snooze anything until you're off the ladder
- — Assign to whoever actually owns it
- — Spam and wrong numbers never reach the pile
Call record
Nothing it did is a mystery
Recording, full transcript, and a line-by-line log of every action taken — which calendar, which message, which number it transferred to, and whether it worked.
- — Search the words your callers actually used
- — See the tool call and its result, not just a summary
- — Forward the whole thing to a tech in one tap
Knowledge gaps
It gets smarter from the questions it couldn't answer
When callers ask something your profile doesn't cover, Callfoyer says so on the call and files the question here. Answer it once; it never comes back.
- Asked 7 timesTHIS MONTH
“Do you offer financing on jobs over $2,000?”
Agent said it would have someone follow up. 3 of these callers never booked.
Answer it - Asked 4 timesTHIS MONTH
“Is there an emergency call-out fee after 8pm?”
Your site lists hours but no after-hours pricing. The agent won't invent one.
Answer it - Asked 3 timesTHIS MONTH
“Do you work on tankless water heaters?”
Not listed in your services. Two callers went elsewhere.
Answer it
Capabilities
Eight things it does on the call itself.
Every one of these is a switch you control. The agent can't reach a tool you haven't connected, and never uses one you've switched off.
- 01
Answers from your knowledge
Hours, service area, pricing, warranty terms — and the jobs you don't take.
- 02
Books on your calendar
Real Google Calendar availability, not a request form you handle later.
- 03
Transfers with context
Warm hand-off to the right person, but only under the rules you wrote.
- 04
Texts you what's urgent
A burst pipe or no heat reaches your phone the moment the message is taken.
- 05
Takes a message
With the reason, the urgency, the address, and when they're actually reachable.
- 06
Qualifies the job
Type of work, address, how urgent, and whether it's inside your radius.
- 07
Screens the junk out
Robodialers and SEO cold calls are logged, never put in front of you.
- 08
Says when it's stuck
“I'll have someone call you back” beats a confident wrong answer.
Guardrails
And a short list of things it will never do
Never quotes a price you haven't set.
Never books outside your hours, your radius, or a service you don't offer.
Never claims to be a person. If asked, it says what it is.
Add your own rules in plain English. They apply from the next call.
Industries
We've already written your trade's conversations down.
Each trade has a different conversation. Pick yours to see the calls it has to sort — then build your agent from your own website and correct what it got wrong.
- PlumbingSeparates a burst pipe from a dripping tap before it books anything.
- HVACKnows a no-heat call in January outranks a maintenance check.
- ElectricalAsks panel age and permit questions your estimator will need anyway.
- RoofingCaptures storm-damage and insurance-claim detail on the first call.
- Dental & medicalBooks and reschedules without ever discussing a diagnosis.
- Salons & studiosHandles the six calls that arrive while you have hands in someone's hair.
- Legal & accountingIntakes the matter type and conflicts check, gives no advice.
- Everything else →Landscaping, cleaning, towing, pest control, garage doors, veterinary — twenty-two in all.
Recovered work, per month
- 52 missed calls answered
- per month
- 7 in 10 stay on the line, 35% of those book
- 13 jobs
- Less Starter, $79/mo
- $5,381 net
Pricing
Minutes included. No per-call surcharge.
Starter
One person, one seat
$79/mo
- 300 minutes included
- One seat
- Every capability included
- Inbox, transcripts, recordings
- POPULAR
Professional
Most service businesses
$199/mo
- 1,000 minutes included
- Up to 10 team members
- Every capability included
- Calls in English and Spanish
- Assignment and a shared inbox
Business
Multi-crew, multi-location
$449/mo
- 3,000 minutes included
- Up to 25 team members
- Every capability included
- Calls in English and Spanish
- Analytics and call outcomes
Custom
Franchises and high volume
Let's talk
- Volume minute pricing
- Custom integrations
- Onboarding help for your team
- Named contact
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Still unsure? Set it up and call it yourself from your own phone — nothing forwards until you've heard it and said so.
See how setup works- Will my callers know it isn't a person?
- It introduces itself as the front desk and never pretends otherwise. If someone asks directly, it tells them. Most callers don't ask — they just want their question answered.
- Do I have to change my number?
- No, and you don't give it up either. You keep your number and forward it — everything, or only the calls you don't pick up in four rings. We give you the exact code for your carrier, and Callfoyer answers on a new number of its own.
- What if it gets something wrong?
- Every call has a recording and a transcript, and every action it took is logged with its result. If a rule needs tightening you write it in plain English and it applies to the next call.
- What happens if I run out of minutes?
- Nothing stops. You'll see it coming in the app well before it happens, and you can move up a plan mid-cycle without losing the difference.
- Can it transfer to me when it matters?
- Yes, and only under the conditions you set — an existing customer, a named person, an emergency word. It hands over with a one-line summary so you're not starting cold.
- Who can hear my recordings?
- You and the team members you invite, at the permission level you give them. Our support staff cannot browse accounts: opening yours creates a session that expires, is logged against the staff member's name, and cannot reach our own staff tooling.
Twenty minutes from now
Somebody is going to call while you're reading this.
Building it is free and takes about twenty minutes — you hear it in your own greeting before you decide anything. Pick a plan and a number when you want it answering for real, and turn the forwarding off in one tap if you hate it.