AI receptionist UK: what it really costs, and what it can actually do
A London receptionist costs £28,000 to £35,000 a year. An AI one costs £69 to £299 a month. That gap is why everyone's asking. Here's the honest version of what you get.
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Most writing about AI automation is either hype or a sales pitch with a blog post wrapped around it. We try to write the thing we'd want to read before spending money: opinion, original research, and practical guides.
A post doing the rounds says the money in AI consulting isn't in agents, it's in data plumbing. It's right, and it explains why most 'AI agent' projects quietly fail.
A London receptionist costs £28,000 to £35,000 a year. An AI one costs £69 to £299 a month. That gap is why everyone's asking. Here's the honest version of what you get.
You don't need to be a lawyer to automate safely, but you do need to get a handful of things right. Here's the honest, plain-English version for UK businesses.
We ran our crawler over 239 real UK trades websites across 15 cities. The results are worse than we expected, and they explain exactly where the work is going.
Almost every agency page on this topic refuses to give a number. Here are ours, and how to judge whether a quote you have been given is reasonable.
The most expensive problem in a trades business is invisible: the customer who called, got no answer, and quietly called someone else.
They are not interchangeable, and picking the wrong one is an expensive mistake to unwind later. Here is how we choose.
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