Managed AI Receptionist

An AI receptionist built around how your business operates.

HaileyAI answers front-office calls, understands why the caller is calling, routes requests, supports scheduling, captures structured messages, and escalates exceptions through rules designed around your team.

Front-desk answering Scheduling support Smart routing Human escalation
HaileyAI Reception Console
Live
Current call Intent identified
JD
Jordan Davis Inbound call · Main office line
I need to move my service appointment to Friday afternoon.
I can help with that. Let me confirm your appointment and check Friday availability.

Workflow progress

Caller and appointment identifiedComplete
Friday availability checkedComplete
Reschedule confirmationReady

Reception queue

Sales inquiryQualified and routed
Message for accountingDetails captured
Appointment requestBooked
Urgent service issueEscalated
4Active paths
0Menu trees
Front-desk consistency

Give callers the same approved greeting, intake logic, and routing experience across business hours and overflow periods.

Natural conversation

Let callers explain what they need instead of navigating a rigid keypad menu or repeating details to multiple people.

Structured outcomes

Move each call toward a documented next step such as routing, scheduling, message capture, follow-up, or escalation.

Human backup

Keep staff available for exceptions, sensitive conversations, approvals, and situations that require judgment.

Front-office workflows

Handle the routine calls that interrupt your team all day.

HaileyAI is configured around your departments, employee directory, scheduling rules, locations, call types, escalation paths, and customer experience standards.

Call greeting and intent capture

Answer inbound calls, greet callers professionally, understand why they are calling, and guide the conversation toward an approved next step.

Department and employee routing

Route callers by department, employee, office, location, customer type, account ownership, intent, or business-hour rule.

Appointment scheduling

Book, reschedule, confirm, or collect appointment requests using approved availability rules and connected scheduling systems.

Structured message capture

Collect caller name, company, phone number, reason for calling, urgency, account details, and the information your team needs to respond.

Directory and account lookup

Use approved directory, customer, account, representative, order, or service data to support routing and common questions.

After-hours reception

Maintain structured front-desk coverage during nights, weekends, holidays, staff absences, and unexpected call-volume spikes.

Multi-location call handling

Apply location-specific hours, departments, calendars, service areas, directories, routing rules, and escalation contacts.

Lead capture and qualification

Collect opportunity details, ask approved qualification questions, identify fit, and route qualified callers to the appropriate team.

Escalation and exception handling

Transfer unclear, sensitive, urgent, policy-bound, or judgment-heavy situations to the appropriate human team.

Primary Hailey modules

One receptionist experience powered by the right modules.

Most AI receptionist deployments begin with Hailey Operator and add Hailey Scheduler when appointment workflows are part of the front-desk experience.

Core reception module

Hailey Operator

Handles the front door of the phone operation: answering, intent identification, common questions, directory lookup, routing, structured messages, and escalation.

  • Department and employee routing
  • Front-desk questions and caller intake
  • After-hours and overflow coverage
  • Human handoff with call context
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Scheduling module

Hailey Scheduler

Adds appointment handling to the receptionist workflow, including availability, qualification, booking, rescheduling, confirmations, and calendar-connected actions.

  • Appointment booking and changes
  • Availability and scheduling rules
  • Qualification before scheduling
  • Confirmation and follow-up workflows
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Routing examples

Different callers can follow different front-desk paths.

Routing logic can use caller intent, business hours, location, account context, urgency, employee assignment, and approved exception rules.

Caller request
Primary action
Module
Possible outcome
“I need to speak with my account representative.”
Validate account or representative assignment
Operator
Route to assigned representative or approved fallback
“Can I move my appointment to Friday?”
Check appointment and available times
Scheduler
Reschedule and confirm, or escalate an exception
“I have an urgent service issue after hours.”
Collect service details and assess urgency
Operator + escalation
Route urgent call or capture structured follow-up
“I’m interested in your services.”
Capture and qualify the opportunity
Operator
Route qualified caller or book a consultation
Managed operating model

A receptionist workflow needs more than a friendly voice.

Reliable front-office call handling depends on connected systems, clear boundaries, reporting, security controls, and ongoing refinement.

Integrations

Connected front-office systems

Work with approved calendars, CRMs, employee directories, help desks, account data, ticketing tools, and messaging systems depending on scope.

Human boundaries

Defined escalation paths

Keep people available for sensitive calls, approvals, exceptions, policy decisions, and situations that require judgment.

Visibility

Reporting and QA

Review caller intents, transfer results, scheduling outcomes, messages, escalations, and recurring front-desk patterns.

Security

Security-minded handling

Use scoped access, encryption, PII redaction where configured, approved retention practices, and workflow-specific controls.

Deployment process

Build the AI receptionist around your actual front desk.

HaileyAI is implemented as a managed operational system rather than a generic phone bot added to the main line.

1

Map calls

Review common requests, departments, employees, locations, hours, call volume, and coverage gaps.

2

Define rules

Set approved greetings, intake questions, routing logic, calendars, messages, escalation, and fallback behavior.

3

Connect systems

Review telephony, calendars, CRM, directory, customer data, ticketing, messaging, and reporting needs.

4

Test scenarios

Validate routine calls, transfers, scheduling, after-hours handling, failures, edge cases, and caller experience.

5

Launch and refine

Monitor real calls, review outcomes, and improve routing, knowledge, wording, and workflow behavior over time.

Comparison

AI receptionist vs answering service vs IVR.

HaileyAI is designed for organizations that need natural front-desk call handling tied to real business workflows, not only message taking or static menu routing.

Capability HaileyAI Traditional answering service IVR or phone tree
Caller interactionNatural conversation with intent recognition.Human agent following a provider script.Menu prompts and keypad selections.
Routing logicCan use intent, directory, account, location, hours, and approved business rules.Usually based on instructions and manual judgment.Static menu branches.
SchedulingCan support connected booking, changes, confirmations, and qualification.Often limited or manual.Usually unavailable.
Message captureStructured fields based on the specific workflow.Human notes based on a script.Voicemail or basic recording.
After-hours coverageCan handle approved workflows, routing, and urgent escalation.Available according to provider scope and staffing.Typically voicemail or limited routing.
Ongoing managementManaged reporting, QA, maintenance, and workflow optimization.Provider-dependent service management.Manual menu maintenance.

A straightforward commercial structure for a managed AI receptionist.

Pricing separates the managed platform, deployed modules, usage, and implementation so the operating model remains clear.

Managed platform $4,500/month

Platform management, monitoring, reporting, QA, maintenance, and ongoing optimization.

Hailey modules $1,500/month

Per deployed module, such as Hailey Operator or Hailey Scheduler.

Usage Starts around $2

Per handled call. Final usage depends on call volume, characteristics, and deployment requirements.

Implementation Scoped separately

Workflow design, integrations, testing, launch preparation, and customer-specific build work.

Third-party carrier, software, API, vendor, or customer IT costs may be separate unless included in the proposal. Pricing shown is a planning framework, not a final quote.

Related pages

Explore the broader HaileyAI product and workflow model.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about AI receptionists.

Clear answers for operations leaders, office managers, customer-service teams, and enterprise buyers.

What is an AI receptionist?

An AI receptionist is a voice-based call handling system that answers business calls, understands caller intent, collects information, routes requests, supports approved scheduling workflows, and escalates based on business rules.

How is HaileyAI different from a traditional answering service?

Traditional answering services usually take messages or follow provider scripts. HaileyAI is a managed AI receptionist built around operational workflows such as routing, scheduling, directory lookup, structured intake, after-hours coverage, reporting, and escalation.

Can the AI receptionist transfer calls?

Yes. HaileyAI can transfer calls based on caller intent, department, employee assignment, location, customer type, account context, urgency, business hours, or other approved routing rules.

Can HaileyAI schedule appointments?

Yes, when Hailey Scheduler is configured for the workflow. HaileyAI can support appointment booking, rescheduling, confirmations, qualification, and scheduling intake through approved calendar or scheduling systems.

Can HaileyAI handle more than one office or location?

Yes. Multi-location deployments can use location-specific hours, departments, employee directories, calendars, service areas, routing logic, and escalation contacts.

Can the AI receptionist answer after-hours calls?

Yes. HaileyAI can answer nights, weekends, holidays, staffing gaps, and overflow periods. It can complete approved workflows, capture details, route urgent issues, and organize routine follow-up.

What happens when a caller needs a person?

When a request is sensitive, unclear, urgent, outside the approved workflow, or requires human judgment, HaileyAI can route or escalate the call through the organization’s defined handoff process.

Can HaileyAI connect to our current phone and business systems?

HaileyAI can work with approved telephony, calendar, CRM, directory, help desk, ticketing, customer-data, and reporting systems depending on API access, security controls, and implementation scope.

How much does a HaileyAI receptionist cost?

The standard commercial structure includes a $4,500 monthly managed platform fee, $1,500 per deployed Hailey module each month, usage starting around $2 per handled call, and separately scoped build and implementation.

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