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Every call you miss is a customer calling your competitor next. TaskPilot Front Desk answers 24/7 in your business's name, books appointments, and texts back everyone you miss — set up for you, flat $249/month, and your phone number never changes.
If you run a business in Sarasota that lives on the phone — a roofing crew, a dental office, a salon, a property management company — you already know the math. You can't answer while you're on a roof, with a patient, or in a treatment room. The call goes to voicemail. And the caller doesn't wait.
Research consistently finds that around 62% of calls to small businesses go unanswered, and the large majority of people who reach voicemail never call back. They call the next business on Google instead. For a service business, one missed call can be a job worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.
An AI receptionist is a phone assistant trained on your business — your hours, prices, services, and booking rules. When a call comes in that nobody picks up, it answers in your business's name and handles it like a good front-desk person would:
What it does not do is replace your staff. It catches what they can't get to: after hours, lunch breaks, the third call while they're on the second.
This is the part most Sarasota business owners are surprised by. You don't port your number, buy a new phone system, or sign a contract with a phone company. We use conditional call forwarding: only the calls you don't answer roll over to your AI front desk. You dial one short code on your phone to turn it on, and the same kind of code to turn it off. Your customers dial the number they always have. Nothing about your existing setup changes.
$249 per month, flat. No setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime. That number includes everything: answering, appointment booking, missed-call text-backs, bilingual handling, owner alerts, and daily summaries.
Compare that to how this category usually bills. National answering services commonly charge per feature and per call — appointment booking as a paid add-on, Spanish handling as another, text notifications as another, with per-minute overages on top. Customer reviews of the big providers are full of complaints about bills arriving 30–60% above the advertised rate. Traditional human answering services often charge around $250/month for as little as 50 minutes of talk time.
Our price is the price. If we quote you $249, your invoice says $249.
The national AI receptionist products are self-serve software: you sign up, paste in your website, and hope the AI figured your business out. When it gets something wrong, you file a support ticket.
We're in Sarasota. We do the setup for you — writing the answers, connecting the calendar, testing the call flows before it ever touches a real customer — and when something needs adjusting, you text a person who knows your business, not a queue. We already run the phones, texts, and $7,300/month in automated billing for a local gym here, and rebuilt a Florida shop owner's 4-hour daily routine into a 20-minute one.
TaskPilot Front Desk is $249 per month flat, with no setup fee and no contract. That includes call answering, appointment booking, missed-call text-backs, bilingual handling, and owner notifications. Most national providers charge separately for each of those, plus per-minute overages, which is why their real invoices often run well above the advertised price.
No. Your number and phones stay exactly as they are. We use conditional call forwarding, so only calls you don't answer reach the AI receptionist. You turn it on by dialing a short code, and you can turn it off the same way in under a minute.
No. It catches the calls your team can't get to — after hours, during lunch, or the third call while they're already on two. Your staff answer exactly as they do now.
It only speaks from facts you approve: your hours, prices, and services. If a caller asks something outside that, it takes a message and texts you rather than guessing. You can review calls and we tune the answers whenever you want.
Usually days, not weeks. You fill out one short intake, we build and test everything for you, then we go live together on a short call.
Yes, bilingual handling is included at no extra cost. Several national services charge extra per call for Spanish or limit it to business hours.
Anytime, with no contract or penalty. Turning off the forwarding restores your phone to exactly how it worked before.
Book a free 10-minute call and we'll map exactly where your business is losing time or leads — the written summary is yours whether you hire us or not.
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