Never Miss Another Call.
Ava is an AI receptionist for small businesses. She answers every call 24/7, qualifies the caller, and sends them straight to your booking page, so an after-hours call becomes a booked job instead of a voicemail nobody hears.
While you're on a roof, under a sink, or driving to the next job, Ava picks up like she's sitting in your front office. 78% of callers won't leave a voicemail.1 Ava never sends them to one.
Answers live, 24/7. No phone trees, no hold music.
- Answers 24/7, even at 2am
- Built for the trades
- See how she handles your call types
An AI receptionist is software that answers a business's phone calls 24/7 in a natural voice, qualifying the caller, texting a booking link, and logging the call so no lead ever reaches voicemail. WebDevAuto's AI receptionist for small businesses is named Ava, built for home-service companies.
Pick your Ava plan
Month to month, no setup fee, cancel anytime. A human answering service for the same coverage runs $250 and up.
Ava Starter
200 call minutes included, then $0.35/min
For a solo operator or a slower phone. Ava answers, qualifies, books, logs every call to your CRM, and routes emergencies. 200 call minutes included.
- Answers 24/7 in a natural voice
- Qualifies the caller and books the appointment
- Logs every call to your CRM
- Routes real emergencies to you
Ava Core
450 call minutes included, then $0.30/min
The default for a busy service business. Everything in Starter with 450 included minutes for steady daily call volume. Less than one recovered job a month.
- Answers 24/7 in a natural voice
- Qualifies the caller and books the appointment
- Logs every call to your CRM
- Routes real emergencies to you
Ava Premium
1000 call minutes included, then $0.25/min
High call volume or multiple locations. The most included minutes, the lowest overage, multi-location routing, and dedicated onboarding.
- Answers 24/7 in a natural voice
- Qualifies the caller and books the appointment
- Logs every call to your CRM
- Routes real emergencies to you
- Multi-location routing and dedicated onboarding
No setup fee. Month to month. Usage billed only for the minutes Ava actually handles.
The same call, with and without Ava
A homeowner's AC quits at 7:42pm on a Friday. Here is how that call goes each way.
- 7:42pm. The phone rings at the office. Everyone went home hours ago.
- 7:43pm. The call rolls to voicemail. 78% of callers hang up without leaving one.
- Saturday morning. You spot the missed call and ring back.
- Too late. They already booked the next company that answered.
- 7:42pm. Ava answers on the first ring, in a natural voice.
- 7:43pm. She hears "AC not cooling," qualifies it, and confirms you cover the area.
- 7:44pm. She confirms the same-day 3pm slot, quotes the $129 diagnostic, and texts a booking link.
- 7:45pm. The homeowner taps the link, locks in 3pm, and the whole call is logged in your CRM.
Proof
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Want to hear her handle your kind of call first?
Call the demo line above and ask her anything, or tell us how your calls actually come in (after-hours volume, dispatch rules, the questions you need asked every time) and we will come back with the right tier, the price, and a timeline.
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How it works
She answers, qualifies, and books. Then hands you the job.
Four things Ava does on every call, day or night. The full mechanism and a real transcript are in the detail below.
Answers on the first ring
Live, in a natural voice, 24 hours a day. No phone tree, no hold music, and no voicemail for a caller to hang up on.
Qualifies the caller
What the job is, where it is, and whether you cover it. The questions you would ask, asked the same way every time.
Books the work
She takes the appointment against your real availability and sends the confirmation, so the job is on the calendar before you hear the phone rang.
Hands you the record
The call, the transcript, and the contact land on one customer record in your CRM. Nothing to re-key, nothing on a sticky note.
Part of your WebDevAuto system
Ava answers the phone. Something has to make it ring, and something has to work the lead.
Ava is worth having on her own. She is worth more when the calls she answers were produced, tracked, and followed up by the same system.
- Local SEOGets you found, which is what makes the phone ring in the first place.
- Your websiteRoutes its tap-to-call button and its forms straight to Ava.
- Ava, your AI receptionistYou are hereAnswers 24/7, qualifies, and books the job before your competitor wakes up.
- Missed-call automationCovers the calls that still slip through with a text back in about 30 seconds.
- Review automationAsks for the Google review once the job Ava booked is finished.
Or put her inside the whole system
Ava works on her own, and she gets better next to the AI CRM: pair them and the calls she answers land on the same customer record as your forms, texts, and invoices. Add the website and the ranking that feed her and the front office runs itself.
Want to understand how it works?
Here is exactly how we build, operate, and improve her: a full transcript of a real after-hours call, how she is configured for your trade, why contractors pick her over an answering service, and how she compares to a virtual receptionist.
So we built someone who never misses work.
How Ava handles every call
- ▸Every call gets answered. First ring, 24/7, in a natural voice. On a job, asleep, or slammed, the call still gets picked up.
- ▸Ava qualifies the caller. She asks the right questions for your trade, figures out the job and the urgency, and confirms you cover the area.
- ▸She gets them booked. Ava texts the caller your booking link so they lock in a time, and logs the whole call to your CRM as a clean lead.
- ▸Nothing slips. If a call goes unresolved, Ava follows up automatically and texts the caller their booking link, so a missed connection still turns into a booked job.
Hear Ava handle an after-hours HVAC call
Why contractors choose Ava
- ▸Never lose another emergency call. The 2am furnace, the Friday-night flood, the weekend lockout, the calls worth the most money are the ones you cannot pick up. Ava can.
- ▸Answer in seconds, not the next business day. 78% of callers will not leave a voicemail. Ava never sends them to one.
- ▸Sound human, and know your business. A real conversation trained on your services, pricing, hours, and service area. Not a phone-tree menu.
- ▸Turn after-hours calls into booked jobs. Ava qualifies and texts a booking link while your competitor's phone rings out.
- ▸One flat monthly price. No per-minute answering-service meter running on every call.
Answering service vs. virtual receptionist vs. AI receptionist
| Answering Service | Virtual Receptionist (human) | AI Receptionist (Ava) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who staffs it | Human agents at a call center | Remote human receptionists | Voice AI, no humans in the call path |
| Pricing model | $0.85 to $1.50 per minute | $250 to $500/mo + per-minute overages | Flat monthly + small per-min overage after bundle |
| Hours of coverage | 24/7 with staffing limits at peak | 24/7 with handoff queues | 24/7/365: no queues, no handoffs, no hold time |
| In the call path | Human reads a script | Human exercises judgment | Ava runs the conversation end-to-end |
| CRM + booking | Email summary at best | Email or basic integrations | Texts a booking link; logs the call to your CRM in real time |
| Cost vs. a missed AC replacement | Often more expensive | Comparable or more expensive | Less than one missed job pays for a full year |
If you're still on a traditional answering service paying $1+/minute, you're paying 5x to 10x what an AI receptionist costs for the same coverage.
Built for the trades
Ava is tuned per trade: different intake questions, different emergency keywords, different escalation rules.
after-hours no-cool and no-heat calls, same-day emergency dispatch, service-area confirmation.
burst pipes and floods at midnight, urgency triage, escalation to your on-call tech.
outage and safety calls qualified fast, hazard keywords escalated, routine work booked.
storm-damage surges, leak triage, inspection scheduling without the phone tag.
same call patterns, same after-hours pain. Ava answers, qualifies, and books while you work.
Run a med spa, clinic, salon, or law office? Ava works there too. We build those on their own pages.
Pricing for AI Receptionist
Engagement
Monthly Services
Three à-la-carte monthly services: website, SEO, and CRM. No setup fees, no deposits. The website runs on a 12-month term and SEO on a 6-month minimum, both month to month after; the CRM is month to month with no minimum. Take one or stack all three.
Not sure where to start? Run a free diagnostic on your current site first.
Website Design & Hosting
A conversion-engineered website that loads fast, captures leads, and stays maintained.
- Custom conversion-engineered website
- Loads in about two seconds
- Lead forms wired to your inbox
- Hosting + monitoring + maintenance
- No setup fee
Any business that needs a professional, high-performing web presence without a big upfront cost.
SEO & Google Business Profile Optimization
Ongoing SEO and Google Business Profile management so you rank on search, Maps, and AI assistant answers.
- Ongoing on-page + technical SEO
- Google Business Profile setup + optimization
- Rank on Google search and Maps
- Show up in AI assistant answers
- Monthly rankings + traffic reporting
Local service businesses where organic search and Google Maps are the primary lead source.
AI CRM
Customer database, pipelines, unified inbox, invoicing, and automated follow-ups, with AI billed by what you use.
- Customer database + pipelines + analytics
- Unified inbox (email + text)
- Invoicing with built-in payments
- Automated follow-ups + scheduling
- AI features (billed by usage)
- Ava answers your calls
- AI texts & emails customers back
- Content + ad generation
Businesses ready to systematize follow-up, automate ops, and add AI on their own terms. AI features are billed based on usage, you only pay for what you actually use.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ava an automated receptionist or a real answering service?
- She is an automated receptionist, and the difference from a traditional answering service is worth understanding before you choose. An answering service is people reading a script who take a message and pass it on. An automated receptionist answers in a natural voice, asks the qualifying questions you would ask, books against your real calendar, and writes the whole call to your customer record. The message never has to be re-keyed by anyone, and there is no per-message fee for taking it.
- What is an AI receptionist?
- An AI receptionist is a fully automated voice AI that answers inbound calls, qualifies leads, texts a booking link, and logs call details, with no human in the call path. Unlike a traditional answering service (human-staffed, charged by the minute) or a virtual receptionist (remote human), an AI receptionist runs conversations end-to-end at a predictable flat-rate cost. WebDevAuto's AI receptionist is named Ava.
- What is the difference between an AI receptionist and an answering service?
- An answering service is a human-staffed call center that reads scripts, typically charged at $0.85 to $1.50 per minute. An AI receptionist is a voice AI that handles the same tasks automatically (answering, qualifying, booking, and logging) at a flat monthly cost. The same call that costs $1.50/min with an answering service costs a fraction of that with Ava, with no staffing limits at peak volume.
- Can an AI actually answer my business calls and book jobs?
- Yes, that is exactly what Ava does. She answers on the first ring, 24/7, holds a real conversation (not a phone-tree menu), qualifies the caller, texts a booking link so they lock in a time, and logs the full call to your CRM, with no human in the loop. When a call genuinely needs a person, an emergency or a complex quote, she connects the caller to your on-call line or texts your team with the full context.
- Is call recording legal? Do I need to disclose that calls are recorded?
- 12 US states require all-party (two-party) consent for recorded calls. Ava includes a standard recording disclosure at the start of every call, configurable per state. Single-party-consent states require disclosure only to one party. We configure the correct disclosure posture during onboarding based on your state(s) of operation.
- Can Ava make outbound calls?
- No. Ava handles incoming calls only by default. Outbound automated calling is governed by different laws (TCPA, FTC Telemarketing Sales Rule) and is not part of the AI Receptionist product.
- Can Ava transfer a call to a human?
- Yes. If a caller asks for a person, or the call hits an emergency keyword or an edge case that needs human judgment, Ava either connects them to your on-call line or captures a detailed message and texts your team, configured per business. Every handoff carries the full call context into your inbox and customer system, so the person who picks up does not have to start the conversation over.
- How much does an AI receptionist cost?
- Ava starts at $129/mo with call minutes bundled and metered after that. AI features are billed based on usage, you only pay for what you actually use. That is typically a fraction of a traditional answering service (often $0.85 to $1.50 per minute) or a human virtual receptionist ($250 to $500 per month plus per-minute overages) for the same 24/7 coverage.
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Three plans with minutes bundled, from $129/mo. Start with the one that fits your call volume, or call the live demo line and hear her handle a call first.
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- 1.CallbirdAI: Why contractors lose money on missed calls (1,200+ contractor study; 78% caller voicemail-avoidance behavior; $45-120K annual loss range) (https://www.callbirdai.com/blog-contractors-lose-money-missed-calls)