Phone Agent add-on
Your phone, answered. Every call, every hour.
An AI receptionist on your own number. It knows your services, prices and calendar because it reads them from your PhotoFounder account, so it can book a shoot while you are shooting one.
The demo line is a real studio’s receptionist. Ask it about services, get a quote for an address, or book a test shoot.
Incoming call · Vanguard Visuals
Answered 0:01Thanks for calling Vanguard Visuals! This is Alex. How can I help you today?
Hi, I need photos and drone for 1420 Alder Lane, ideally Thursday morning.
Thursday at 9:00 with Marco is open. Signature plus drone comes to $425, paid after delivery. Shall I book it?
Yes please.
What it does
A receptionist that can actually do things.
Most phone bots take a message. This one has your calendar, your prices and your booking rules, and the same tools your dashboard uses.
Answers every call
Day, night and weekends, in a voice you pick or your own cloned voice. No hold music, no voicemail jail.
Books from your real calendar
It sees your team’s availability with drive time, offers real slots, and books, reschedules or cancels on the spot.
Quotes your actual prices
Packages, add-ons, size brackets and travel fees come from your account. It never makes a price up.
Verifies before it shares
Before it reads out or changes an existing booking, it texts a one-time code to the number on file.
Transfers or takes a message
Someone asks for you, gets upset or has an unusual request: it hands over to your mobile or takes a message and emails it.
Every call written down
Summary, outcome, what it did and the transcript land in your dashboard. No audio is kept.
What it knows
Set up once. Stays current by itself.
There is nothing to upload or retrain. The receptionist reads your account the way your booking page does.
Services and prices
Read live from your Services page. Change a price and the receptionist quotes the new one on the next call.
Booking rules and policies
Cancellation windows, payment timing per customer type, service area and travel fees, locations and hours.
Your own rules and FAQ
“We don’t shoot on Sundays.” “Twilight is an add-on.” Write it once and it is part of every call.
Your number
New number, your number, or both.
Setup includes registering a number for the receptionist. Your existing business number can forward to it, or move onto it.
Get a new local number
Included in the setup fee. Pick an area code and the receptionist answers it minutes later. Put it on your website and cards.
Keep your number and forward it
Stay with your carrier. Forward every call, or only the ones you miss, to the receptionist line. We show you the exact codes to dial.
Port your number to us
Move your existing number onto the receptionist for good. We handle the port with your carrier; it usually takes one to four weeks, and the receptionist answers a temporary number meanwhile.
Pricing
One setup fee, one monthly price.
Add it to a Yearly or Founder plan from your dashboard. Cancel any time from Billing.
One-time setup
- Your receptionist created and tuned to your studio
- A local number registered, or your own number ported
- Forwarding set up with you if you keep your number
Then every month
- 250 minutes of calls included
- $0.40 per extra minute from your cloud balance
- Daily minute cap you control
Phone Agent questions
A one-time $149 setup that includes registering your number, then $99 a month with 250 minutes of calls included. Extra minutes are $0.40 each from your cloud balance, and you can cap how many minutes a day it may use.
Yes, two ways. Forward it to the receptionist line at your carrier, either for every call or only when you do not answer, and callers still show their own number. Or port it to us so the receptionist answers it directly; we run the port with your carrier and it takes one to four weeks.
It reads your services, add-ons, size brackets, service area, travel fees and booking policies straight from your PhotoFounder account, and they refresh whenever you change them. Prices are always quoted from the live price list for the address the caller gives, never from memory.
No. Anyone can ask about services, prices and availability or book a new shoot. To hear or change an existing booking, the caller first receives a six-digit code by text at the number on that booking. Admin actions, like changing a price, are only possible from your approved phone numbers and after a PIN.
It transfers the call to a number you choose, announcing the caller first, or takes a message with a callback number and emails it to you. Outside your hours it takes messages by default. If you pause it, calls go to voicemail that is transcribed and emailed to you.
Calls are transcribed, and you see the transcript and a summary in your dashboard. The audio is not kept. You can turn on a recording disclosure line if your state requires one.
Choose from a set of natural voices on ElevenLabs’ latest v4 Turbo model, built for live conversation, or use a clone of your own voice made in the video builder. Give it a name and write its greeting.
Both Yearly and Founder. The owner adds it from the Phone Agent page in the dashboard, and it is set up in minutes.
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