Definition

What is an AI front desk agent?

Sera is an AI front desk for local businesses: she answers every phone call, text, web chat, email and WhatsApp message, 24/7, and books the appointment. An AI front desk agent is software that does the job a receptionist does — picks up, understands what the caller actually wants, answers from your own information, books the appointment, and passes anything it shouldn't handle to a person. Unlike a phone tree, it doesn't make callers pick from a menu, and unlike a web form, it doesn't collect a message for someone to answer on Monday. It finishes the conversation.

What it isn't

A phone tree (IVR)

A phone tree makes callers press 1 for this and 2 for that, then usually ends in voicemail. An AI front desk asks what they need in plain language and handles it.

A website chatbot

Most chatbots match keywords to canned replies and collect a form. An AI front desk answers from your own information and books the appointment in the same conversation.

An answering service

An answering service takes a message for someone to return later. An AI front desk finishes the job — answers the question, books the time, sends the confirmation.

A replacement for your team

It covers the calls your team can't get to — the lunch rush, after hours, weekends — and hands anything it shouldn't handle to a person, with the full conversation attached.

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