Nextiva XBert
Nextiva XBert is Nextiva's AI employee for customer conversations, an AI-powered answering service, receptionist, and support agent that handles calls, texts, chats, and emails 24/7. It greets callers, answers questions, books and reschedules appointments, captures lead details, and resolves routine issues without human intervention, escalating only when a situation is too complex or sensitive for AI to handle alone.
XBert trains itself on your business by pulling in your website, services, hours, and FAQs, then keeps improving from every real interaction. It unifies voice, text, and chat into one conversation thread, so context carries across channels. Built on Nextiva's enterprise-grade platform, it offers PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance, full call recording/transcription, and customizable guardrails for what it can and can't do.
Pricing starts around $99/month for a set number of AI conversations, with setup available in minutes, no coding required.
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Moneypenny
Moneypenny (formerly VoiceNation) is a comprehensive phone answering service that provides businesses with professional, 24/7 call handling, live chat support, and omnichannel customer service solutions. Their team of highly trained receptionists offers tailored support for a wide range of industries, ensuring that businesses never miss an opportunity. In addition to traditional call handling, Moneypenny also offers an innovative AI Receptionist solution, which uses generative AI to provide natural, conversational interactions, seamlessly transferring to human receptionists when needed. With flexible plans, including options for call transfers, scripted responses, CRM integration, and bilingual services, Moneypenny helps businesses optimize customer interactions and focus on core operations.
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fonio
fonio is an AI phone assistant that answers calls around the clock and handles conversations like a human employee. It can receive calls, understand each caller’s request, answer common questions, collect structured information, forward urgent or specialized inquiries, schedule appointments, and send transcripts or callback notes when staff are unavailable. Businesses can define the assistant’s voice, language, welcome message, in-call behavior, escalation rules, and post-call workflows without coding. fonio can handle multiple calls at once, helping teams avoid missed calls and long hold times during busy periods. Its multilingual assistant supports more than 35 languages, automatically recognizes the caller’s language, responds appropriately, and can switch languages during a conversation. It connects with calendar tools, CRMs, databases, and internal systems through native integrations and APIs, allowing it to check availability, retrieve information, write data back, etc.
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Upfirst
Upfirst is an AI-powered virtual receptionist. Founded on the belief that small businesses should be able to afford great answering services, we help people change how they run their businesses by making it easy and affordable to get a virtual receptionist that’s dedicated to them.
Upfirst helps small businesses answer calls around the clock so that callers never reach a voicemail. Businesses use our AI answering service to give callers an immediate human-like voice to answer questions, take messages, set appointments, and more.
Knowing that every call is covered by a knowledgeable receptionist, business owners are able to focus on the day-to-day tasks that continue to drive their business forward, saving themselves time and money.
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