The AI receptionist for small service businesses
Carbon Copy Receptionist.
Build your CCR free — no card — and hear it answer a test call for your own business. When you want it picking up on a real number, it's less than $100 a month: nights, weekends, mid-job, texting you what happened and booking straight into your calendar.
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Live — hear a CCR first: call (205) 927-4631. Our demo receptionist is answering right now.The problem
You're not missing calls because you don't care.
You're missing them because you were on a job with both hands full — or because the workday ended two hours ago. When you're the whole company, you're also the receptionist.
- It's 7:40pm on a Tuesday and you're finally at dinner. The phone rings. Answer it and you're back on the clock. Let it ring and that job goes to whoever picks up next.
- Saturday morning, you're up a ladder with both hands full. Three rings, voicemail. Most callers don't leave one — they just dial your competitor.
- A homeowner with a leaking water heater calls four companies at 9pm. The job goes to the only one that answered.
That's the part CCR takes off your hands. The phone still gets answered — you get a text with the name, what they need, and when they want you there. Read it now, or read it in the morning.
The short version
The rest of the pitch, in three pages.
FAQ
The questions we get.
Will callers know it's AI?
CCR sounds like a person on the phone, not a menu. Call our demo line at (205) 927-4631 and judge for yourself. And it doesn't pretend to be one: ask, and it says so straight out — we'd rather your customers know what they're talking to than work it out halfway through and feel handled. Most callers just care that someone answered.
What about the caller who just wants a human?
Some people do, and that's fine. CCR doesn't argue with them — it takes their details and gets them to you. It isn't there to keep customers away from you; it's there so nobody's talking to a beep at nine at night.
How fast can I hear my own CCR?
Today. Answer the questions, and about half an hour later your CCR is built and waiting for a test call you place from your browser or our mobile app. Putting CCR on a real phone number is the slower half: once you subscribe, a person reviews your receptionist against your answers before your number goes live. That's hours, not minutes — a receptionist that goes live wrong is worse than one that goes live later.
What do I get before I pay anything?
The whole build. Sign up with no card, answer the questions, and we build your CCR on your business — then you call it and hear how it handles your calls, in your browser or in our mobile app. That's free for 7 days and 30 minutes of test call time. Nothing is charged until you decide to subscribe.
What happens when the free trial ends?
Nothing is charged — there's no card on file to charge. When the 7 days or the 30 test minutes run out, your CCR simply waits: it stays built on your answers, and it starts answering for real whenever you subscribe.
What happens when CCR can't answer something?
The same thing a good receptionist does: says so instead of guessing, takes down the details, tells the caller when to expect a call back, and texts you the whole thing right away.
How does booking work? What if it double-books?
CCR reads your real calendar availability and books directly into it. It can't book over existing appointments, and you set the rules — job types, durations, buffer time, service area.
Can CCR take just the after-hours calls?
Yes — that's how most owners start. Leave forwarding on and keep answering like normal: any call you pick up is yours, and any call you don't — at dinner, on a ladder, at 6am on a Sunday — is CCR's. Want a hard cutoff instead? One dial code hands CCR the phones when you knock off; one takes them back in the morning.
Do I have to change my phone number?
No. Your published number never changes. One dial code forwards missed calls to CCR; one code turns it off. Full-time answering works the same way.
What if CCR makes a mistake?
Calls are recorded and transcribed, and flagged calls get reviewed daily. CCR gets corrected the same day. A technical problem just returns your phones to exactly how they work today.
Is there a contract? A setup fee?
Neither — and there's no card to start, so you build your CCR and hear it answer before you pay anything. After that it's $99 a month, month-to-month, and you cancel anytime right in your account — two clicks. No cancellation calls, no hoops, no "let me transfer you to retention."
Is there a limit on calls?
Each month includes 300 minutes of CCR's call time — that's about 150 two-minute calls. If it goes over, CCR keeps answering and the extra minutes bill at $0.50 a minute on the same invoice. No cutoff, no forced upgrade to a bigger plan.
We already use an answering service.
Then you're likely paying more than this for business hours, hold times, and message-taking only. CCR answers instantly, around the clock, knows your business, and books the job. Run them side by side for a month and compare.
Tonight's calls don't have to be yours. Hear your own CCR answer before you pay.
Build it free with no card. Subscribe when you've heard it for yourself — month-to-month, no setup fee, and if CCR is ever unavailable your phones fall back to exactly how they work today.