An AI receptionist that answers in one ring, routes calls, books appointments, takes messages, and works 24/7 — at $0.03/min. Healthcare, legal, real-estate, restaurant, salon, and home-services ready.
AI Receptionist is most effective when the assistant has a clear job, a clear escalation path, and access to the systems that matter. Burki gives you that structure. The assistant can answer naturally, collect the right details, call tools, update records, and hand off to a human when the conversation should not stay automated.
The goal is not to replace every phone conversation. The goal is to remove the repetitive calls that slow your team down while preserving context for the calls that need a person. You can start with one flow, test it with real calls, review transcripts, and improve the prompt, voice, tools, and routing rules over time.
Because Burki supports bring-your-own providers, you can choose the model, voice, speech recognition, and carrier setup that fits your workflow. That makes ai receptionist easier to tune for speed, quality, cost, compliance, and regional telephony constraints.
A live receptionist costs $40–60k fully loaded and only covers one shift. Answering services charge $1–2/min and still hand off most calls back to you. Voicemail loses you 30%+ of inbound business. Small businesses and multi-location teams need someone always answering — without paying for it.
Burki's AI voice receptionist picks up on the first ring, identifies the caller's need in natural language, routes to the right person or department, schedules appointments directly in your calendar, takes messages with full transcripts, and texts urgent items to your team. One agent handles unlimited concurrent calls across one location or fifty.
Why businesses choose Burki for ai receptionist.
No hold music, no ‘please leave a message,’ no lost callers.
Same AI handles 1 location or 50, around the clock.
AI understands intent and transfers to the right person, with context.
Native calendar integration — appointments go straight into your real system.
Urgent inquiries sent as SMS to the right team member instantly.
Pay only for the seconds the AI is actually on a call. Idle hours cost zero.
Implement ai receptionist with Burki in four simple steps.
Upload hours, services, FAQs, staff directory, and routing rules. Burki's prompt builder turns these into a polished receptionist persona.
Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, Acuity — the AI books in your real system. Twilio messaging covers callback texts.
Port your number, point a forward, or use a brand-new line. Multi-location? Add per-location greeting + routing rules.
Use 200 free minutes to test. Listen to the first 50 real calls in the dashboard, tune the prompt, scale up.
Single-location practice taking 800 calls/month at ~3 min each
No bulk minimums. No hidden fees. Pay only for what you use.
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Start with 200 free minutes. No credit card required. No bulk minimums.