Use Case

AI Receptionist That Answers Every Call, 24/7

Retell AI answers your business calls around the clock. It greets callers, answers their questions, books appointments, and routes the call to the right person with full context, so you never miss a lead, even after hours and across time zones.

Retell Advantages

Why businesses use Retell AI as their AI receptionist

Never miss a call

Callers get an immediate, natural answer instead of hold music or voicemail. Retell picks up every call, day or night, so first-time callers and loyal customers both get a fast response.

Free your front desk

Retell handles routine calls, scheduling, and FAQs, so your team can focus on in-person customers and the requests that need a person. You cut staffing pressure while keeping service consistent.

Scales with call volume

From a single clinic to a multi-location business, Retell answers many calls at once with no busy signals. It supports multiple languages and can switch language during the call.

Qualifies and routes leads

Retell identifies why someone is calling, captures the details that matter, and transfers the call to the right person with full context. Sales teams pick up warm, qualified calls instead of cold ones.

Pay only for what you use

Pricing starts at $0.07 per minute with no platform fee, and Retell connects to your CRM and phone system, so you can start small and grow without a big upfront commitment.

PROGRESS

How an AI receptionist call works

Retell AI connects seamlessly with your existing phone systems and CRMs. Powered by advanced language models, it understands caller intent, manages back-and-forth conversation, and executes actions in real time. The platform’s build-test-deploy-monitor cycle ensures your AI receptionist is always improving.

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Integrations

Integrate Your Tech Stack

Retell AI simplifies the integration of AI voice agents into your existing tech stack, ensuring a seamless transition without disrupting your current workflows. With its low-code platform, businesses can easily deploy custom voice bots that interact naturally with customers, enhancing service efficiency. Retell AI supports integration with various telephony and CRM systems, allowing for quick adaptation to your operational needs.

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Compliance

Fully Compliant Platform for AI Receptionists

Trust is essential when adopting an AI receptionist. Retell AI is built with enterprise-grade security, ensuring every call is protected while meeting the strictest industry standards.
SOC 2 Type I & II
Our platform follows SOC 2 standards, ensuring that all AI virtual receptionist interactions and stored data meet rigorous security, availability, and confidentiality requirements.
HIPAA Compliance
Retell is a HIPAA-compliant AI receptionist solution, making it safe for healthcare and dental practices. Patient information is always encrypted and protected, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
GDPR Compliance
For global businesses, Retell AI guarantees full GDPR compliance. This means that personal data handled by our AI phone receptionist is managed transparently and securely, no matter where your customers are located.
PII Redaction
Built-in PII redaction ensures that sensitive customer information never gets exposed. Every AI virtual receptionist with top lead qualification features can operate securely, automatically removing personally identifiable data from stored transcripts.
Full Transparency

No Platform fees. pay only for what you use

Treat Retell like your outsourced call center.

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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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AI receptionist?

An AI receptionist is a voice agent that answers your business calls, works out what each caller wants, and takes action. It greets callers in your business name, answers common questions from your knowledge base, books appointments during the call, routes or transfers calls to the right person, and logs every conversation for you to review. Unlike a phone menu, it holds a natural conversation and can finish tasks while the caller is still on the line.

What features should I look for in an AI receptionist?

Look for natural, low-latency conversation so callers are not left waiting, appointment booking that writes to your calendar, and a warm transfer to a person with full context when a call needs one. Check that it builds a knowledge base from your website, handles many calls at once, works with your existing phone number and CRM, supports the languages your callers speak, and meets your security needs such as HIPAA, SOC 2, and PII redaction. Retell covers all of these, with around 600ms response time and pricing from $0.07 per minute.

How do I make an AI receptionist?

With Retell you build one in four steps and no coding. Start from a template that matches your call script, connect your existing telephony through Twilio, Vonage, or SIP (or get a Retell number), test the agent against real call scenarios, then publish it to take live calls. From the dashboard you can refine how it answers, books, and transfers, and review every call.

How do I replace a front desk receptionist with AI?

List the calls your front desk handles most, such as questions about hours, pricing, and booking. Load that into the agent's knowledge base, which Retell can build from your website, set the rules for when to transfer to a person, and connect your calendar so it can book. Run test calls, route your number to the AI for after-hours and overflow first, then move to full coverage once you are confident. The AI handles routine calls around the clock and passes complex ones to your team with full context.

Which AI virtual receptionist is best for small businesses?

The best fit answers calls naturally, books appointments, transfers to a person when needed, and is quick to set up without a big budget or a long contract. Clear per-minute pricing matters too, so costs track with call volume. Retell suits small businesses on all of these: it starts at $0.07 per minute with no platform fee, includes $10 in free credit to test, sets up from a template in days, and books and transfers calls out of the box.

Does Retell AI answer questions, book appointments, and route calls?

Yes. Retell answers callers' questions using your knowledge base, books appointments during the call through integrations such as Cal.com, and routes or transfers calls to the right person with full context. It can also qualify leads and capture caller details for follow-up.

Does Retell AI Receptionist comply with data privacy regulations?

Yes. Retell is SOC 2 Type 1 and Type 2 certified and compliant with HIPAA and GDPR. A Business Associate Agreement for HIPAA and a Data Processing Addendum with EU Standard Contractual Clauses for GDPR are available to self-sign at no extra cost. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, built-in PII redaction removes sensitive details from transcripts and recordings, and you can set data retention per agent from 1 day up to 2 years. Certificates and audit reports are in the Compliance Trust Center.

How does Retell AI Receptionist handle emergencies?

Retell follows the escalation rules you set. When a call signals urgency or asks for a person, the agent transfers it right away to a live team member or an on-call number and passes the full context, so the caller does not repeat themselves. You decide which situations trigger an instant transfer and where those calls go.