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24/7 AI receptionist · English & Español
Vanguard answers your business line 24/7, books the appointment while you work, and no call goes to voicemail. Every paid plan includes a professional website. From $49 a month, no contract.
✓ No credit card · ✓ No contract · ✓ Cancel anytime
✓ Keep your number — works with the phone you already have.
62% of calls to small businesses go unanswered. (411 Locals study of 85 small businesses across 58 industries — an independent study, not ours.)
From $49/month — 250 minutes, website included.
See all four plans →Hear it work
This is exactly what your callers hear — a natural voice that answers, understands, and books the appointment. Tap a business to watch it handle a different call.
Hear it for realCall (620) 333-3017Everything included
Not a list of add-ons. Every paid plan gets all of this, Starter included. The plans differ only in minutes and in how many competitor comparisons you get each month.
Every paid plan includes a real website for your business — your services, your prices, your hours, a Call button and directions. Starter too.
Snap your price board or hand it a link and it fills in your services and prices for you. You check them and you're done. No competitor we found does this.
We build it from your answers and it takes an automatic exam on your own prices and hours before it ever answers a real call.
It answers in the language the caller uses and switches mid-call if they do. On every plan, at no extra cost.
Each one signs in with their own 6-digit code and sees only their own appointments. The customer's phone number stays hidden unless you allow it.
Six voices, women and men, with a sample recorded from a real phone call — so you hear exactly what your callers will hear before you choose.
One click in your dashboard. No phone call, no email, no waiting for someone to approve it. Your data goes with it.
$0.20 on Starter, $0.15 on Essential, $0.14 on Professional, $0.125 on Premium. Every call is rounded up to the next whole minute. No surprise bill, ever.
One private link connects Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook, and new appointments show up on their own.
Give it a number and it transfers the caller instead of taking a message — for the calls that need you.
Every Monday morning: calls answered, appointments booked, how many came in after hours — the ones that would have gone to voicemail — and an estimate of what was booked, from your own prices. If a week was quiet, it says so.
We email you at 80% and again at 100% of your minutes, and you can switch on a cap: past your plan, the receptionist takes a message instead of running up the bill. At most one call can go over the limit before the cap kicks in, because we never cut a call that's already in progress.
Put your website next to up to five competitors'. See who can be called with one tap, who shows hours and prices, who has a Book button, who loads fast — and the 3 changes that matter most. Starter 1 a month, Essential 2, Professional and Premium 4.
Not a customer yet? Enter your website and get a plain-English report by email: what a customer on a phone sees, and what to fix first. About the free check
About those labels. Available now works today. We set it up for you means it's included and we turn it on for you, not from a button. Switching on soon is built and tested but not open to customers yet — we'd rather tell you than surprise you.
Included free
No website? No problem. Pick a look below and we build your business site — included with your receptionist, hosted by us, at no extra cost, on a web address we set up for you (no domain to buy). Your professional website will be ready within 48 hours. We take the time to review the design so it represents your business the right way.
Extra services
We're considering these add-ons. Tell us which ones you'd use and we'll email you if we build them. No commitment.
Use yourbusiness.com for your website instead of a Vanguard address.
Let customers book an appointment right from your website, day or night.
Take deposits or payments online from your website.
Pricing
Start with 14 days or 100 free minutes — no credit card. Then pick the plan that fits your call volume. Every paid plan includes a professional website for your business.
What a human receptionist costs — versus where Vanguard starts.
Month to month · No contracts · Cancel anytime
Not ready to pick a plan? Try the free website check — see what your customers see on their phone.
A call takes about a minute and a half of your plan (every call is rounded up to the next whole minute). Find the row closest to your shop:
Pick low and move up later — going over never costs more per minute than your plan does, and we'll tell you when you're close. You can change plans any time.
The free trial is the real product — 14 days or 100 minutes, whichever comes first
What's included from day one
How it works
A 5-minute questionnaire: your services, prices, hours, and the questions customers always ask. No website? Send a photo of your price list — we read it and your receptionist learns your services and prices from it.
Custom-trained on your business: your greeting, your services, your rules. We test it before it ever answers a customer, and we email you the moment it's ready.
Keep your number. One quick setting on your phone sends calls you can't take to Vanguard.
Every booking and every call appears in your app, in real time. You just show up and do the work.
Built for your industry
Never lose a booking because your hands were busy with a cut.
Answers even when your tech's hands are covered in polish.
Quotes and books jobs while your team's under the hood.
Picks up mid-treatment so a quiet front desk never costs a booking.
Answers in English or Spanish before a family calls the next vendor.
Captures every inquiry while you're on location, camera in hand.
The problem
You can't pick up while you're cutting hair, under a car, or with a client. But your callers won't wait — they dial the next shop on Google.
of calls to small businesses go unanswered during working hours.
of calls get no answer at all — not even voicemail.
of missed callers never call back. They book somewhere else.
Sources: 411 Locals study of 85 small businesses across 58 industries (62% unanswered, 24.3% no answer at all); Forbes / BIA Kelsey (85% don't call back). Independent studies, not ours.
Do the math
Assumes 85% of missed callers never call back.
And what it costs to fix it
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: median receptionist pay $38,010/year (May 2025), before payroll taxes and benefits.
Free, no account
Tell us your website. We check eight things a customer notices — whether it opens fast, whether they can tap to call, whether your hours and prices are there — and we email you the report in plain English. No account, no card, nothing to install.
Questions
Get started
Create your free account first — takes a minute — then tell us about your business and we'll have your AI receptionist answering calls today.
Contact
Questions first? Talk to our AI receptionist — it answers 24/7 in English and Spanish. Or email our team.
This cannot be undone. Your AI receptionist stops answering immediately and your phone number is released. Turn call forwarding off on your phone line first (usually *73).