AI Front Desk

Retell AI automates your front desk with an intelligent voice and chat system that answers calls, greets customers, routes requests, and handles intake through clear and natural conversations across voice, SMS, and chat.

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How our AI Front Desk Works

01
Build
Use our visual flow editor or voice agent API to design flexible front desk flows powered by LLMs and speech models. You can shape your AI front desk to match your rules, tone, and service needs.
02
Test
Simulate conversations and edge cases to check fallbacks, unclear inputs, varied accents, interruptions, and routing logic. Our platform manages fallback paths and keeps interactions simple and clear.
03
Deploy
Launch your AI front desk across voice calls, chat, SMS, web widgets, or automated inbound and outbound lines. Connect your CRM, support tools, or telephony system and provide full time coverage.
04
Monitor
Track metrics like resolved calls, transfers, drop offs, latency, sentiment, and completion rate. Use insights to improve and refine your flows.
How it works

Streamline Your Operations With an AI Front Desk

* better than IVR.

Call Routing

Route to the Right Team With Instant Transfer

Intent Detection with Conversational AI Front Desk

A conversational AI front desk can understand caller intent and route to the correct department or escalate without rigid menus.

Dynamic AI Based Routing

Use AI powered routing to send callers to the right contact or team instead of static queues.

Warm Transfer with Context

When escalation is needed, your AI front desk performs a warm transfer with full context, carrying conversation history and caller details.

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Handle IVR

Agent Navigates Legacy IVR Flows

Automated Navigation of Traditional Menus

Your AI can press digits or navigate legacy phone menus automatically to reach the correct destination, making your AI front desk compatible with older systems.

Real Time Data Retrieval

Retrieve data from CRMs, ticketing, or billing systems during the call and pass useful details to your staff or directly to the caller.

Bridge Between Old Systems and Conversational AI

This navigation bridge allows your AI front desk to work smoothly with outdated systems while giving callers a modern, natural experience.

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Reception and Notifications

Automate Intake, Front Desk Tasks and Notifications

AI Front Desk for Reception and Intake

Handle intake questions, common requests, identity checks, and general support tasks through your AI front desk. Ideal for healthcare, finance, or home services.

Smart Notifications and Proactive Updates

Set helpful reminders, follow ups, and status updates by call, SMS, or email to keep callers informed.

Surveys and Prescreening Automation

Collect short surveys or prescreening details before routing to your team. Useful for medical intake and customer service needs.

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Tailored AI Front Desk Tech for Your Industry

We built conversational AI front desk technology to support different industry needs, replacing old phone menus with natural and scalable interactions.

Use conversational logic to qualify callers, ask screening questions, and route them to the right specialist or department.

Qualification and Lead Routing

The AI front desk follows business hours, availability, and rules in real time and adjusts routing as needed.

Business Rules and Availability Handling
Warm Handoff and Escalation

When human help is needed, the AI performs a smooth handoff and passes full context, transcripts, and caller details.

Multichannel Front Desk

Accept inquiries through voice calls, chat widgets, SMS, or web. The AI front desk works across all channels with consistent behavior.

Analytics and Optimization

Dashboards show call flows, drop offs, success rates, and transcripts. You can adjust flows or prompts to improve results.

Smart Reminders and No Show Recovery

Support callers with reminders, simple follow ups, and rescheduling. This reduces missed calls or appointments.

Integrations

Connect Retell to Your Tech Stack

Our conversational AI call center platform connects with Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and custom databases, syncing transcripts, customer records, and follow-up actions in real time.
For telephony, Retell works with SIP, PSTN, and WebRTC providers, enabling large-scale AI call center solutions without expensive migrations.

How Different Industries Use AI Front Desks

Retell AI adapts to the unique needs of every industry, providing scalable and efficient phone automation. With a conversational AI front desk, you can replace outdated systems with clear and human-like interactions.

Pricing

Cut Costs by 90% with AI phone Agents

Scalable AI phone agents at a fraction of the cost, without compromising quality. Freeing your medical staff for higher-value tasks.

Pay as you go

$0 to start.

$0.07–$0.12 per minute – Pay only for what you use.
60 mins of free access.
20 concurrent calls.
10 Free Knowledge Bases.
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F.A.Q

Questions & answers

All account has a 60-minutes ($10) free trial.

What is an AI front desk?
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Does Retell work with my phone system and tools?
Can this handle healthcare and other regulated front desks?
Does this replace my front desk team?
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Which businesses benefit most from an AI front desk?
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Time to hire your AI call center.

Revolutionize your call operation with Retell.