small_business_aiSeptember 18, 2026Issue #118

Reception is an AI receptionist for small biz calls

Reception answers calls around the clock. It fields questions, books appointments, and routes the ones that actually matter—using a business's own info, its rules, and real-time availability.

No more voicemail chains. The kind of tool the cousin with the plumbing crew or the abuela running the taquería needs: a front desk that never sleeps, doesn't take coffee breaks, and knows the difference between a customer call and a billing complaint.

It lives on the web. You point it at the business data and let it work.

Why this matters for us: when the phone stops going to voicemail, the abuelita's bodega doesn't miss sales, and the tío's repair shop stops losing jobs to the shop that answers faster.

“A front desk that never sleeps, doesn't take coffee breaks, and knows the difference between a customer call and a billing complaint.”

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