Conduit is the AI receptionist and front desk for businesses that run on phone calls.

Conduit is the AI front desk for businesses that run on phone calls — trades like plumbing, HVAC, and electrical; salons and barbers; fitness and photo studios; cleaners; auto repair; small law, accounting, and insurance offices. It answers the calls you forward to it in your assistant's name, books the work into your Google Calendar, texts the customer, escalates emergencies to a human, and sends you a short briefing every morning. Every caller hears that it's a recorded AI assistant.

Some will, and the disclosure is not optional, so we don't hide it. What callers get instead of voicemail is an answer now, a booked time, and a confirmation text. Anyone who wants a person can say so: the assistant takes a message or, during your hours, passes them to you. You see every call, including the short ones, in Calls with its recording.

Because the cheaper plans meter. At 150 minutes a month, the $29 minute-metered plans work out to about $63 (Reception AI) and $72 (Dialzara) before texting. At 60 minutes or fewer, they're cheaper than Solo, and we'd rather you know. Solo includes 150 minutes, 300 texts, two-way Google Calendar booking, missed-call text-back, emergency escalation, and no overage billing — and minutes only count when a real person is talking to your assistant. Prices were read from each vendor's own pricing page on October 11, 2026; the pricing page compares them side by side.

It books. It checks your Google Calendar and the capacity you set, offers open times, books the visit, and texts a confirmation with a reschedule link the moment the call ends. It can't double-book you. Callers can reschedule or cancel by calling back.

Nothing bills. Your assistant switches to taking messages — every caller still leaves a complete message that lands in your inbox — and you choose whether to add a one-time pack (100 minutes for $29, 250 for $59) or wait for the month to reset. There is no overage billing of any kind, ever.

Setup is five screens. Calls are live the same day on your new number, and forwarding your existing number is one code you dial once. Texting takes longer: US carriers require a one-time registration of your business, which typically takes 1–3 weeks after you register and can run longer. Calls never wait on it.

The assistant recognizes urgent situations and gives safety guidance first when someone could be in danger. Then it puts the caller through to the first person on your emergency list and texts each contact in turn — by email until your texting is approved — until someone opens the alert. Emergencies never end at a voicemail.

Never. It won't state, estimate, or match a price on the phone — not even one the caller says they got elsewhere. It books the visit or a callback and takes the details; you handle the money conversation.

No. You keep your number and forward calls to your assistant — only the calls you miss, or every call. Forwarding is one code dialed on your phone; the turn-off code is shown next to it, so you can take the line back any time.

If Conduit isn't right for you, cancel within 30 days of going live and your first payment is refunded in full. The guarantee covers your first subscription payment; minute and text packs aren't refundable. After that, cancel any time from Billing; your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for, and you can export everything — contacts, calls, messages, your whole setup — before or after.