Mail that nobody answers is an expensive receipt for postage.
VoiceScout came out of Home Service AI LLC, our direct-mail company for home-service
businesses. The job was straightforward: pick the right households, put a card on the mat,
make the phone ring. We were good at the first three-quarters of that sentence.
What we kept running into was the last quarter. The cards landed on a Saturday. The calls
came at seven in the evening, or on a Sunday, or in the ninety minutes a two-truck
landscaping business is out on a job with nobody in an office, because there isn’t
an office. A campaign that a contractor paid real money for was being judged on whether
anyone happened to be near a phone.
You can’t fix that with better artwork. So we built the part that answers: an AI
receptionist who picks up on the first ring, knows what the business actually does, checks
whether the caller’s address is somewhere you’d drive, and writes the whole
thing down. Plenty of businesses now buy her on her own and never mail a postcard, and
that’s fine. She was always the half that mattered.
We’re early. There is no customer logo wall on this site because there is nothing
honest to put on it, and inventing one would be a strange way to ask you to forward us
your business line. What we can do instead is let you talk to her before you commit to
anything, and put you on the phone with the person who wrote the code rather than a rep
working from a script.
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EugeneFounder, VoiceScout