Local Knowledge, Your own AI Assistant
Northside Plumbing
Sample business, answered by AlloPlace
Ask what your customers ask.
Can someone come Thursday?
Do you work weekends?
Parlez-vous français ?- Receptionist: Northside Plumbing, this is the virtual receptionist. How can I help?
- Caller: Hi, my water heater is leaking.
- Receptionist: Sorry to hear that. Is water pooling on the floor right now?
- Caller: A little. It's not an emergency.
- Receptionist: I can send a plumber Thursday at 9 am. Does that work?
- Caller: Thursday works.
Booked Thursday, 9:00 am. Confirmation text sent.
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The receptionist is an AI and says so. This preview plays a sample call and doesn't use your microphone.
AlloPlace helps people connect with local businesses. Location-aware AI assistants answer questions and provide support when no human is around. Each one knows its business inside out: the hours, the services and the neighbourhoods it serves.
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Listen before you read anything else
We could tell you it sounds natural. It's easier to let you hear it. These are two real calls, start to finish.
In English
A homeowner calls a plumbing company about a leaking water heater. The receptionist asks two questions, finds an opening Thursday morning and books it.
Recording coming soon
En français
A driver calls a garage to book a winter tire change.
Recording coming soon
The phone always rings at the wrong time
You're on a ladder. You're under a car. You're standing in a customer's kitchen with your hands full. The phone buzzes in your pocket and you let it go, because what else can you do.
Most people who get voicemail don't leave a message. They call the next business on the list. In a study of more than 70 million calls to home-services companies, only about half reached a person.1
What it does when it picks up
Answers the question
It knows your hours, your services and the answers you give every day, because you told it. When it doesn't know something, it says so and takes a message.
Books the appointment
It checks your Google Calendar, offers real open times and books the one the caller picks. The caller gets a confirmation text.
Puts the call through
Burst pipe, upset customer, or someone who just wants to talk to you: it transfers the call to you or whoever is on call.
Writes it all down
Every call lands in one inbox with the recording, the transcript and a one-line summary.
English and French on the same line
You choose the language it greets callers in. If a caller answers in the other language, it switches. In Quebec this isn't a nice extra. Customers have the right to be served in French.
Up and running without a sales call
Tell it about your business
Type in your hours and services, or point it at your website and let it read them.
Call it yourself
Make a free test call from your browser. Ask it the awkward questions your customers ask.
Turn it on
Get a local or toll-free number, or forward the one you have. Choose when it answers.
Made for businesses that live on the phone
Simple pricing
Plans start at US$30 a month (about CA$43) for 150 minutes of calls. Booking, call transfers and every other feature come with every plan. A bigger plan gets you more minutes, never more features.
Straight answers
It tells callers it's an AI
Every call opens with your business name and a short line saying the caller is talking to an AI assistant. If someone would rather speak to a person, they can say so, and it puts them through to you or takes a message, depending on how you've set it up. We don't think a business should start a customer relationship by pretending.
You can read every call
Recording, transcript and summary, in your dashboard.
No setup fee
Monthly plans, and you can cancel when you like. TBD: confirm cancellation terms
Built on open-source software
The receptionist runs on LobbyStack, an open-source project. If you're the technical type, you can read the code. Open-source notices
Hear it before you decide
Set it up with your own business details and give it a call. It's free, and you don't need a card.
Hear it on a test call1 Invoca, 2026 study of more than 70 million calls to home-services businesses. Vendor data.