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Wattle AI is a cloud-based AI receptionist for small businesses and service teams that handle customer enquiries by phone. It answers calls around the clock, follows configurable questions and call flows, captures caller details, and can schedule appointments on supported plans. It supports a web agent, WhatsApp Business calling, and SMS, bringing conversations into a shared inbox with customer profiles, call recordings, transcripts, summaries, and staff handoff. Teams can configure voice agents, set instructions and guardrails, route urgent calls, and connect calendars, spreadsheets, accounting tools, and workflow services. Use cases include after-hours and overflow answering, appointment booking, job and maintenance intake, clinic and salon enquiries, restaurant reservations, and staff follow-up. Monthly plans include call minutes; Australian mobile numbers, outbound calls, and transfers may be billed separately.

Cedri is an AI receptionist for Canadian small businesses. It answers your business line 24 hours a day, in English and French on the same call, and books the job while the caller is still on the phone instead of taking a message. You get a local Canadian phone number. Callers can book, move or cancel an appointment, ask about your services, hours and prices, and be transferred to a person when they need one. You and the customer both get a text confirmation, and returning callers are recognized. Cedri is set up for your trade, with templates for more than 100 kinds of business, from plumbers and dental clinics to salons and restaurants. It uses the words your customers use. Every call gets a summary and a full transcript in the iPhone and Android apps and on the web. Bookings sync with Google Calendar and Outlook (beta). Bookings and call transcripts are stored in Canada. One plan: CA$18.99 a month with 30 answered calls included. No per-minute charges, no contract.