Answer it anyway
With a customer in front of you, or from the top of a ladder, half-listening. The caller hears all of it.
Answered · step two of the loop
The phone getsanswered.
It knows your services, your hours and your prices, and it books the appointment while your hands are full.
(224) 435-4566 is answered by it · Month-to-month · Cancel anytime
The alternatives
A call you cannot take has three endings, and you are not going to like any of them.
Let it go to voicemail
Most people don't leave one. They call the next name on the list instead.
Pay a call centre
Priced by the call, staffed by someone who has never set foot in your business.
What it does
It is not a voicemail with a better voice.
Answers what everyone asks
Hours, address, prices, and whether you do the thing they are calling about.
Books the appointment
Reads your calendar, offers real slots, writes the appointment in.
Takes the message
Name, number, and what they actually want — texted to you as the call ends.
Hands you the ones that need you
Someone who asks for a person gets a person. It does not argue.
Your number
You keep your number. It decides when to pick up.
Nothing is ported away from you and nothing is installed. Your line points at the receptionist under conditions you choose.
A line of its own
A new number you start handing out. The one you have carries on exactly as it does now.
Busy, or no answer
It rings you first. Four rings or a busy signal and the call rolls to the receptionist instead of voicemail — which is what covers your evenings.
Everything, with a way through
It answers every call and puts the ones that need you through to you.
Every one of these is a setting on the line you already own, or a new number that leaves it alone. Nothing is ported away from you and nothing is installed. The one that matters most is the middle one: after hours you are not answering anyway, so no answer is what puts an evening call in front of something instead of in voicemail.
When it doesn't know
It takes a message rather than inventing an answer.
The expensive failure for a receptionist is not silence. It is confidence about something that is not true.
It cannot quote a stale price
Your prices live in one place and are handed to it at the start of every call. It holds no copy of its own to go stale.
It says it is an AI
In the opening line, before anything else, along with the fact that the call is recorded.
It does not guess
A question it cannot answer becomes your callback, with the question attached — not an answer somebody invented.
What it costs
Two prices, and one question tells you which is yours.
The price includes a person. We set it up around your business, connect your calendar, test it with you before it takes a real call, and change it when your hours or prices change. That is the difference between this and an app you configure yourself.
Owner-operated
$199/mo
One calendar, one place to send a call. You are the one who shows up.
- Designed for
- about 150 typical calls
- Included
- 500 AI minutes included
Team
$299/mo
Calls routed to different people. Up to three calendars and three call destinations.
- Designed for
- about 250 typical calls
- Included
- 800 AI minutes included
- Additional AI usage
- $0.35 a minute
No setup fee
First month due before it takes a call
30-day money-back guarantee
Cancel anytime
The call figures describe what each tier is built for. Billing runs on AI minutes — 500 and 800 — so a month of more, shorter calls than the estimate costs no more, as long as it fits the minutes. Your monthly fee comes back in full. Usage billed beyond the plan does not, and the guarantee covers a first subscription, once per business. Cancelling stops the next renewal rather than the month in progress.
Getting started
You hear it working before it takes a real call.
01
Day one
A call, and the twenty questions you get asked every week
Your services, your hours, your prices, the area you cover, and the requests you turn down.
02
Within a week
You ring it yourself, before any customer does
Configured, connected to your calendar, and answering — on a test line you can call as many times as you like.
03
When you say so
Your number starts pointing at it
After hours, on busy, or for everything. You pick, and it can change later.
04
From then on
Every call arrives as a text
Who rang, what they wanted, and what it told them. If something is wrong you tell us and it changes.
Start here
Call it. If nobody picks up, we have wasted your time.
No form and nothing to fill in. The number is answered by the AI receptionist — it says so, answers what you ask, and books you in if you want.
Who you’re dealing with
CYLO is a small studio in Chicago’s Northwest suburbs. The people who build your site and set up your receptionist are the people who answer your email. There is no account manager in between.