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The AI receptionist that answers every call.
A phone AI that picks up day and night, knows your actual stock and services, answers questions like a good member of staff, captures the caller's details and books the work straight into your diary. Built by an AI studio in South Wales, serving the UK.
What it is
Missed calls are missed money.
TradeScale Plus builds AI voice receptionists for UK businesses: an AI that answers your phone with a natural voice, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is not a menu system and it is not a voicemail. It holds a real conversation, answers real questions about what you sell, and turns the call into a booked appointment with a name and number attached.
Every unanswered call is a customer who rings the next business on the list. If you are a dealer mid-handover, a plumber under a sink, a clinic at lunch or a venue on a Saturday night, the calls you miss are usually the ones worth the most. The AI receptionist exists so that never happens again: no missed call ever goes unanswered, and an enquiry at 8pm on a Sunday becomes a booked appointment before Monday morning.
The differentiator
It learns your business before it answers.
Most phone bots read from a script. Ours reads from your business. Before it takes a single call, we point the AI at your website and it builds a structured knowledge base of what you actually offer, and that knowledge is refreshed as your website changes.
- For a car dealer, that means every car on the forecourt, individually: year, make, model, mileage and price. A caller can ask about a specific Qashqai and the AI knows whether it is in stock and what it costs.
- For a clinic or salon, it is every treatment on the menu.
- For a tradesperson, it is the services offered and the areas covered.
- For an estate agent, it is the listings on the books.
Mid-call, the AI can also look things up live: it searches your current stock by make, model, price or fuel type and offers the closest matches, rather than guessing from stale information.
On the call
What it does while you work.
- Answers instantly, every time. Day, night, weekends and bank holidays. Callers get a helpful voice, not a voicemail.
- Answers real questions. Availability, prices, specifics of a car, treatment or service, drawn from your actual knowledge base and live stock lookups.
- Captures the caller's details. Name, phone number and email, with email addresses read back letter by letter so nothing is mistyped.
- Books the work. Viewings, test drives and appointments go straight into your calendar, and the customer is moved along your sales pipeline at the same time.
- Reschedules and cancels safely. It can move a booking to a new time. Before cancelling anything, it checks the caller's number against the number the booking was made with; if they do not match, it escalates to you instead.
- Escalates when it should. Anything it cannot or should not handle is flagged for your attention in your dashboard, with the caller's details captured so you can ring back informed.
- Stays in character. The assistant is built with anti-jailbreak defences and persona-stability rules, so it stays professional and on-brand even when callers try to derail it.
After the call
Nothing to type up.
When the call ends, the work is already done. The full transcript, a plain-English summary and the call recording land in your inbox, threaded against the right customer. If the caller was new, the system finds or creates their customer record from the phone number automatically. Every action the AI took on the call is logged, so you can always see exactly what it did and why.
Because the receptionist is part of the wider TradeScale Plus platform, the call does not sit in a silo: the same customer record carries their texts, WhatsApps and web chats too, and the automation engine picks up the follow-up from there.
Straight answers
What is live, what we set up.
We tell every client exactly what runs out of the box and what gets configured or built for them. No small print.
Answering, knowledge, booking, transcripts
The receptionist, the business knowledge base, live stock lookups, lead capture, booking and rescheduling, and post-call transcripts, summaries and recordings all run in the platform today, proven in production with car dealers.
Your phone number and voice account
The receptionist runs on dedicated voice AI infrastructure under your own account and number, which we connect with you during onboarding. You own the number, and per-minute call costs are billed at cost on your account, with no markup from us.
Alerts to your own phone
Escalations land in your dashboard activity feed as standard. If you want urgent alerts pushed to your own phone by text as well, that is something we build in for you.
Who it suits
If your phone rings, it fits.
Car dealers
The proven, flagship use. The AI knows every car on the forecourt and books test drives while the salesman is mid-handover.
Trades
A plumber under a sink cannot answer. The AI takes the job, the postcode and the details, and books it in for tomorrow.
Clinics, salons & gyms
Missed lunchtime calls become booked appointments, without pulling anyone off a client.
Estate & letting agents
A 9pm enquiry about a listing gets answered and a viewing captured, instead of going cold overnight.
Hospitality & venues
Reservation and event calls answered every time, with high-value enquiries flagged straight to the owner.
Professional services
After-hours enquiries captured and consultations booked, so the firm wakes up to a diary, not a voicemail.
A real scenario
Sunday, 8pm. A buyer rings about a Qashqai they saw online. The dealership is closed. The AI answers, confirms the exact car is in stock, quotes the price and mileage, takes the caller's name and mobile, and books a test drive for Tuesday at 10am. By the time the dealer opens Monday morning, the appointment is in the calendar, the customer is on the pipeline, and the full transcript is in the inbox. Nobody at the dealership lifted a finger.
Questions, answered
AI receptionist FAQs.
What is an AI receptionist?
An AI receptionist is a phone assistant that answers your business calls with a natural voice, 24 hours a day. Ours learns your business first: it knows your actual stock, services and prices, so it answers questions the way a good member of staff would, captures the caller's name and number, and books appointments straight into your calendar.
Will it book real appointments into my diary?
Yes. When a caller wants to come in, the AI books the viewing, test drive or appointment into your calendar and moves that customer along your sales pipeline at the same time. It can also reschedule or cancel a booking, and it verifies the caller against the number the booking was made with before it cancels anything.
What happens after each call?
The full transcript, a plain-English summary and the call recording land in your inbox, attached to the right customer record. If the caller was new, the system creates the customer record for you. Nothing needs typing up.
Do I need a new phone number?
No. The receptionist runs on dedicated voice AI infrastructure connected to your own number and accounts, which we set up with you during onboarding. You own the number, and call costs are billed at cost on your own account with no markup from us.
What does it do when it cannot help?
It captures the caller's details and what they wanted, then flags the call for your attention in your dashboard, so you can ring back knowing exactly what the conversation was about. It is built to stay in its lane rather than bluff about things it does not know.
The rest of the system
The receptionist is one part.
AI on every message
The same intelligence reads SMS, WhatsApp, web chat and more, updates your CRM and drafts replies for your approval.
Read moreThe automation engine
Quiet-lead chasing, reminders, review requests, campaigns and documents, drafted for your one-tap approval.
Read moreThe self-running CRM
A pipeline the AI maintains itself, full customer history, calendar, deal sheets and stock management.
Read moreYour AI business advisor
Ask your business anything, and get a plain-English daily brief with month-end forecasts.
Read moreCustom AI agents
Bespoke agents, software and whole systems, built around how your company actually runs.
Read moreEverything we build
The full picture: one AI operating system for your business, from an AI studio in South Wales.
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