AI receptionist, built and run for your business, not a platform you have to learn

Scale me AI charges a one-time build fee between $1,500 and $2,500 and a monthly run fee between $400 and $1,200, depending on call volume and integrations. The monthly fee bundles all platform costs (Vapi, Retell, ElevenLabs, Twilio, LLM tokens), so you get one number, not a multi-vendor bill. For comparison, a part-time human receptionist typically costs between $2,000 and $3,500 per month for business hours only. An AI receptionist works 24/7.

1 to 3 weeks. Discovery and scoping take 1 to 3 days. Build and integration wiring take 7 to 10 days. We run between 50 and 200 synthetic test calls against your specific call flows before a single real customer hears the agent, then we soft launch on one line before going to full traffic.

It answers every inbound call 24/7 in under 1.5 seconds. It books appointments by reading live availability from your scheduling tool (Cal.com, Calendly, Dentrix, Vagaro, ezyVet, etc.). It qualifies leads by capturing name, phone, intent, budget, and job type. It handles FAQ calls (hours, location, pricing, services accepted). And it transfers to a human within 2 seconds when the caller asks for one.

Traditional answering services use human agents or generic AI scripts and do not integrate with your CRM or scheduling software. They take a message and email it. An AI receptionist built by Scale me AI uses a custom-trained voice agent integrated with your actual systems. Bookings land in your calendar, leads land in your CRM, and the cost stays flat instead of scaling per-call.

RingCentral is a phone-system bundle ($39 to $59 per month, plus $0.50 per minute over 100 included). Smith.ai's AI plan starts at $95 per month with generic prompts and no PMS integration. Goodcall is per-agent SaaS at $59 to $199 per month. Scale me AI builds a custom agent on best-in-class infrastructure, integrates it with your specific tools (Dentrix, Clio, Vagaro, ServiceTitan, ezyVet, etc.), and operates it for you.

Most cannot. ElevenLabs and Cartesia voices pass naturalness checks for the majority of callers. Some will ask directly, and the agent acknowledges it honestly. Based on industry patterns, roughly 10% to 15% of callers will want a human regardless of voice quality. Every agent we build routes them to your team within 2 seconds when they say "human", "operator", or "manager".

We engineer against the failure modes most builds skip. We use zero-argument tool calls: the agent stores validated dates, phone numbers, and addresses at capture time, then reads them back out loud for confirmation before any booking API is called. The agent cannot pass a hallucinated date to your calendar. When a booking API returns an error, the agent says "I'm having trouble booking that, can a team member call you back?" instead of falsely confirming.

For dental, medical, vet, and mental-health practices, yes. We only deploy on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. Retell, Synthflow, Viva AI, Arini, and Savvy Agents all sign Business Associate Agreements. We sign a BAA before go-live. PII is redacted from logs by default. Recordings are encrypted at rest. We never run a regulated vertical on a non-compliant stack.

You do. Every transcript, recording, and analytic is yours. We sign a data-processing agreement that says exactly that. Recordings are never used to train any model, ours or a third party's. If you ever leave Scale me AI, you walk away with everything: prompts, knowledge base, transcripts, integrations.

Yes. We offer a 30-day pilot on one phone line or one use case (after-hours, peak-hours overflow, or one specific intent like new-patient intake). If the numbers, calls captured, leads booked, hours saved, do not make the math work after 30 days, you do not sign a longer engagement.