Voxgard

Capabilities

What Voxgard does on a call

This is the working list rather than the pitch: what the AI receptionist does while a caller is on the line, what it sends afterwards, and what the business sees in the dashboard. Written for the person deciding whether to put it on their phone line.

Voxgard is an AI receptionist for businesses that answers inbound phone calls 24 hours a day. It picks up in about 0.3 seconds, greets the caller with the business name, answers questions from the services, hours, location and price rules the business loaded, books the job while the caller is still on the line, and sends the follow-up text afterwards. It speaks 32 languages and follows a caller who changes language mid-sentence, in a matching voice, without being asked. Plans start at $249 per month, and the demo line +1 (323) 218-8898 is answered by a live Voxgard assistant.

Key facts

  • Voxgard answers an inbound business call in about 0.3 seconds, 24 hours a day, and handles 1,000+ concurrent calls without queueing.
  • Voxgard speaks 32 languages, detects the language from the caller's first phrase, and answers a caller who switches language mid-sentence in the new language and a matching voice.
  • Callers can interrupt Voxgard mid-sentence and it stops to listen; short back-channels such as "mm-hmm" or "okay" do not derail it.
  • Voxgard books the job on the call: it collects the details, offers slots that are genuinely open, checks a spoken street address against an address database, and reads the confirmed address back once before it books the time.
  • Two-way SMS and MMS run on the business's own number, and a caller who says "don't text me" is not texted again on any later call.
  • Voxgard reads photos a customer texts in and uses them in the estimate, sizing a load or valuing material against the business's own price sheet, always as a range a manager confirms.
  • When a caller needs a person, Voxgard rings the managers in priority order, recognizes a voicemail box and moves on to the next one, and hands over the call with a one-line summary of what the caller wants.
  • When a question falls outside what the business loaded, Voxgard says so and offers to take a message or reach a person instead of inventing an answer.
  • Every call is recorded with a word-for-word searchable transcript, a plain-English summary the moment it ends, the caller's details pulled out as structured fields, and a success score with a sentiment read.
  • Pricing is $249 per month for Basic with 300 included minutes, $549 for Standard with 1,000, and from $1,500 for Enterprise; texts are billed separately at $0.05 per SMS and $0.15 per MMS.

01 · On the call

The conversation itself

Voxgard answers in about 0.3 seconds and opens with the business's name, at 11pm and in the middle of the dinner rush alike. There is no queue and no voicemail box in front of it.

  • Interruptions are allowed. A caller can cut in mid-sentence and the AI stops to listen. Short back-channels like "yeah", "mm-hmm" and "okay" do not derail it; a real interruption does.
  • No dead air. If the caller goes quiet, the AI asks a follow-up question rather than waiting in silence.
  • A language change mid-call is followed. A caller who starts in English and switches to Spanish is answered in Spanish, in a matching voice, without being asked. 32 languages are available, and dialect follows the caller: a Madrid customer hears Castilian, an Argentinian hears rioplatense.
  • An unsupported language gets an honest answer. If someone speaks a language the assistant is not set up for, the AI apologizes in the language being spoken and asks them to continue in one it handles. It does not reply in the wrong language and it does not go quiet.
  • Answers come from the business's own data. Services, hours, location and price rules are loaded by the operator, and the AI answers from those. Where an answer is not there, it offers to take a message or reach a person instead of inventing one.
  • The whole call stays in context. Topic switches, callbacks and clarifications are held across the conversation rather than resetting each turn.
  • Business hours decide who answers. The hours the operator sets determine when the AI takes the call itself and when it routes to a person.

Callers it has met before

After each call Voxgard writes a short profile of who called and what they wanted. Next time that number rings, the record is loaded before the AI speaks, so a regular is greeted by name with the gist of last time and is not asked to repeat what the business already knows.

The current call always wins. New information from the caller overrides what is on file, and the AI does not bring up past conversations unless the caller does. Each business on an account stays isolated, with its own assistant, settings, contacts and calls.

02 · Booking & intake

Booking the job while the caller is still on the line

Voxgard collects the details, offers slots that are genuinely open rather than plausible, and confirms the booking before the caller hangs up. Appointments land in Google Calendar or Calendly.

  • A spoken address is checked before it is booked. The street address the caller says is verified against an address database, so a garbled or out-of-area address never turns into a wasted crew run.
  • The address is read back once. The AI reads the confirmed address back a single time and waits for a yes before it books the time. It does not make the caller sit through it again.
  • The awkward parts of a spoken address are handled. Apartment and floor, half numbers such as "1234 1/2", and a street the caller only half remembers. The search stays inside the caller's own postal code, so the street read back is really theirs.
  • Intake is not optional. The AI will not wrap up the call until every field the operator listed, such as name, phone and service requested, has been collected and confirmed.
  • Prices come from the price list. Quotes on the call are drawn from the business's own price list rather than guessed.
  • The customer record updates live. A corrected name and a texting preference are saved as the caller says them, while the call is still running, not hours later.
  • Minute limits are enforced automatically, so usage does not run away unnoticed.

03 · Messaging

SMS and MMS from the business's own number

Texting is two-way. The AI's follow-up and the customer's reply sit in one inbox the team answers by hand, and everything goes out from the number the business already gives customers.

  • The post-call text is automatic when the caller agreed to one: a booking confirmation, a link, an address, or instructions.
  • A quote can be texted during the call so the caller has the number in writing. It goes out exactly as configured, once per call.
  • "Don't text me" is permanent. Once a caller declines, that number is never texted again, on any later call.
  • Photos count as input. A customer can text a photo in and the AI uses it in the estimate: sizing a load, flagging special items, or valuing material against the business's own price sheet. The answer is always a range that a manager confirms before it becomes a price.
  • The confirmation can carry an add-to-calendar link. One tap drops the appointment into Apple, Google or Outlook Calendar with a reminder attached.
  • The team can be copied by email. Price-sheet and booking changes are confirmed to the team by email alongside the text path.

04 · Reaching a human

Getting the caller to a person, without a mailbox in the way

When the conversation needs someone on staff, the AI says "connecting you now", rings the managers in priority order, and bridges the first one who answers. Then it drops off the line so the two of them talk directly.

  • The manager starts informed. Whoever picks up takes the call with a one-line summary of what the caller wants already in hand.
  • Voicemail is recognized and skipped. If a manager's line goes to a mailbox, the AI notices and moves on to the next manager instead of parking a real customer in voicemail.
  • Nobody free is still an answer. If no one picks up, the caller hears that the team will call back rather than dead air, and the team is texted the caller's number along with the summary.
  • The call is never dropped. When a hand-off cannot complete, the AI picks the conversation back up and keeps helping.
  • A manager can join a live call from the dashboard. This one is available rather than on by default: an operator can switch on a mode where the dashboard flags a call worth joining and a manager bridges into the live conversation in one click. It stays off until the business turns it on.

05 · After the call

Every call becomes a record

Nothing depends on someone remembering to write it down. The moment a call ends, the business has the audio, the words, and a read on how it went.

  • Recording and transcript, side by side. Every call is recorded, with the audio and a word-for-word transcript next to each other.
  • Transcripts are searchable, so a phrase a customer used three weeks ago is findable.
  • A plain-English summary lands as the call ends, not on a nightly batch.
  • Details come out as fields. Caller name, phone, what they asked for and booking details are pulled out automatically, which is what turns calls into records rather than a pile of audio.
  • A success score and a sentiment read on each call show which ones want a human to look at them.
  • Every call is checked, not a sample. Each one is scanned for known problems as it ends, and anything that went wrong is flagged with a plain-language diagnosis in one review queue.

06 · Dashboard

What the business runs it from

Several businesses can sit under one account, each with its own assistant, settings and data.

  • Calls can be watched live as they happen.
  • Activity by day and week: volume, how many succeeded, how long they ran, the busy hours, and which languages callers used. The topics customers ask about most surface on their own.
  • The AI proposes improvements once it has enough calls behind it, in concrete terms ("callers keep asking about parking, add it?"), to apply in one click.
  • Voice Studio: 60+ voices across 30+ languages, filtered by language and by female or male, each one sampled with your own phrase before you commit to it.
  • Roles decide who can change what. Owner, admin, operator and viewer, with an audit log over sensitive actions.
  • Per-call usage and cost broken down and exportable as CSV.

Setting it up yourself

The owner of the business is the intended operator here. Nothing in the setup asks you to write instructions for the AI or to hire someone who can.

  • You answer questions, not write instructions. Hours, services, prices, what to say and what to refuse. There is no code to write and no wording to compose for the AI.
  • A built-in AI helper sits on every dashboard page and answers setup questions in ordinary language, telling you where to click and why, grounded in your own assistant's real settings.
  • Every change is versioned and reversible. Any earlier version of the setup can be restored, so experimenting costs nothing.
  • The dashboard runs in English, Spanish and Russian, so the person doing the setup can work in their own language.

07 · Email

The inbound email agent, on request

An AI email agent is available on request as an optional module, enabled per business. It reads the business's inbound email and drafts replies in the business's own voice, and the team decides per address whether replies go out automatically or wait for approval.

08 · Integrations & telephony

The tools and the phone line

Two-way sync with the CRM and pipeline tools the team already works in: HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, AmoCRM, Bitrix24, Zoho, monday.com, Freshsales, Close, Copper and Insightly. Calendars are Google Calendar and Calendly. Anything not on that list connects through webhooks, Zapier, n8n or Make.

CRM integration is a Standard-plan feature, and custom CRM and workflow integrations are part of the Enterprise configurator.

  • Keep the number you advertise. Forward your existing number to Voxgard or port it over. Nothing is installed on your premises.
  • Or take a new line. Numbers are available in 50+ countries, toll-free included.

09 · Pricing

What it costs

Basic

$249

per month · +$0.55/min

  • 300 included call minutes
  • 1 assistant, 1 call at a time
  • Recordings and searchable transcripts
  • Post-call summary
  • Two-way SMS and MMS

Standard

$549

per month · +$0.35/min

  • 1,000 included call minutes
  • Up to 3 assistants, 3 calls at once
  • CRM integration
  • Automated SMS follow-ups
  • Premium voices

Enterprise

$1,500

from, per month

  • Custom minute pool from 2,000/mo
  • Unlimited concurrency
  • Custom CRM and workflow integrations
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Quoted from the options you pick
  • Go past your monthly minutes and calls keep flowing. The extra minutes are billed at your plan's per-minute rate.
  • Text messages never draw from the minute allowance: $0.05 per SMS and $0.15 per MMS, billed per message sent.
  • Billing is month to month, cancel anytime. Paying a year up front saves 15%.
  • Self-serve checkout is not open yet. The plan buttons on the site read "Coming soon", so the way in today is a request for access or a call to the demo line.

The plan cards on the home page carry the same figures: voxgard.com/#pricing.

10 · FAQ

Questions people ask

What is an AI receptionist?

An AI receptionist is software that answers your business phone line, holds a spoken conversation with the caller, and finishes the task the caller rang about. Voxgard answers in about 0.3 seconds, speaks 32 languages, answers questions from the services, hours and price rules you loaded, books the job while the caller is on the line, and sends the confirmation text. What a human receptionist would jot on a pad, it writes into a record: the recording, a word-for-word transcript, a summary, and the caller's details as fields you can search.

Can AI answer business phone calls?

Yes. Voxgard answers inbound calls on a real business number 24 hours a day, and callers can interrupt it mid-sentence the way they would interrupt a person. It handles 1,000+ concurrent calls without queueing, so a rush hour does not turn into a busy signal. Where the conversation needs someone on staff, it says so and connects a person.

How much does an AI receptionist cost?

Voxgard starts at $249 per month for Basic, which includes 300 call minutes; minutes past that are $0.55 each. Standard is $549 per month with 1,000 included minutes and $0.35 per extra minute. Enterprise starts at $1,500 per month and is quoted from the options you pick. Text messages are billed separately and never draw from the minute allowance: $0.05 per SMS and $0.15 per MMS.

Is an AI receptionist worth it for a small business?

That depends on what a missed call is worth to you, so here are the figures Voxgard cites on its own site: 38% of business calls go unanswered during office hours (Hiya, 2025), the average missed inbound lead is worth $273 (Forrester, 2024), and 63% of callers who reach voicemail never call back (BrightLocal, 2024). The entry plan is $249 a month for 300 minutes, which is five hours of conversation. The arithmetic against your own call volume is yours to do.

Can AI book appointments over the phone?

Yes. Voxgard collects the details, offers slots that are genuinely open, and confirms the booking before the caller hangs up; appointments go into Google Calendar or Calendly. A spoken street address is checked against an address database first, then read back once for a yes, so a garbled address does not become a wasted visit. The call will not wrap up until every intake field you listed has been collected and confirmed.

Does it speak Spanish?

Yes, along with 31 other languages. The language is detected from the caller's first phrase, and a caller who starts in English and switches into Spanish mid-sentence is answered in Spanish in a matching voice, without being asked to repeat anything. Dialect follows the caller: a Madrid customer hears Castilian, an Argentinian hears rioplatense. If someone speaks a language the assistant is not set up for, it apologizes in the language being spoken and asks them to continue in one it handles.

What happens if the AI doesn't understand the caller?

It says so rather than inventing an answer, and offers to take a message or reach a person. If the caller goes quiet, it asks a follow-up question instead of waiting in silence. An address it cannot match is checked against an address database before anything is booked on it, and a language it does not support gets an apology in the language being spoken rather than a wrong-language reply.

Can a human take over the call?

Yes, in two ways. Any call can be handed to a person: Voxgard says it is connecting the caller, rings your managers in priority order, and bridges the first one who answers, who arrives with a one-line summary of what the caller wants. Separately, an operator can switch on a mode where the dashboard flags a call worth joining and a manager bridges into the live conversation in one click; that second one is available rather than on by default, and stays off until the business turns it on.

Will it text my customers?

Only when they agree to it, and always from your own business number rather than some shared shortcode. When a caller says yes to a text, the follow-up goes out as the call ends: a booking confirmation, an address, a link, or instructions, optionally with a one-tap add-to-calendar link. Replies land in one inbox your team answers by hand. A caller who says "don't text me" is not texted again on any later call.

Can it read a photo a customer sends?

Yes. A customer can text a photo to your number and Voxgard uses it in the estimate: sizing a load, flagging special items, or valuing material against your own price sheet. The result is always a range that a manager confirms before it goes back to the customer as a price, which is what keeps a photo estimate from turning into a promise you cannot keep.

Can I use my existing business phone number?

Yes. You can forward your current number to Voxgard or port it over, and nothing is installed on your premises. If you would rather start on a fresh line, numbers are available in 50+ countries with toll-free included. Business hours decide when the AI answers that line itself and when the call routes to a person.

Do I need a technical person to set this up?

No. Setting up the assistant means answering ordinary questions in the dashboard about your hours, services, prices, and what the AI should say and refuse. There is no code and no wording to compose for the AI, and a built-in helper on every page answers setup questions in plain language, grounded in your own assistant's settings. Every change is versioned and any earlier version can be restored, so a wrong turn is undone rather than repaired.

How long does setup take?

Under 24 hours from signup to the first live call, in the site's own words. The onboarding around that is what Voxgard calls a five-day pilot: roughly 10 minutes to connect the number, two days to load your scripts, FAQ, menu, hours and pricing and to choose a voice and tone, then a same-day switchover you can watch from the dashboard. Larger plans typically go live the same day.

Is my data secure?

Calls are encrypted in transit, and recordings and transcripts are encrypted at rest. Access is role-based across owner, admin, operator and viewer, with an audit log over sensitive actions. On data protection Voxgard states its status plainly rather than rounding up: data minimization and the right to erasure are in place, EU residency is available, GDPR work is in progress, and no completed certification is claimed. Self-hosting the voice engine inside your own VPC is available on request.

Is there a contract, or can I cancel anytime?

Billing is month to month with no long-term contract, and you can cancel at any time. Paying a year up front saves 15%. Self-serve checkout is not open yet, so the current way in is a request for access or a call to the demo line.

Hear it

Call the line and judge for yourself

The demo number is answered by a live Voxgard assistant, not a recording. Interrupt it, switch to Spanish halfway through, ask it something it cannot know. That is the fastest way to find out whether any of the above is true.