AI receptionist for Irish practices and service businesses
Every call answered. Every detail captured.
Phone Call Desk answers your business line when you can't — books the appointment, takes the message, or puts the caller through — and emails you the transcript. Set up in ten minutes; it calls you first so you can hear it.
Hear it answer today · Euro prices set · Not open in Ireland yet
Example call · what a caller hears
Sophie · assistant
Good morning, Liffey Dental, Sophie speaking. I'm the practice's assistant — how can I help?
Caller
Hello, I need a check-up. Are you open on Saturdays?
Sophie · assistant
We are. I can offer Saturday the 14th at 10:30 or 11:15. Which suits you?
Caller
10:30, please. It's Aoife Byrne.
Sophie · assistant
Booked for Saturday the 14th at 10:30, Aoife. The practice will email you the details — anything else I can help with?
Outcome: booked · Transcript and summary emailed to the practice · Example call, 48 seconds
Under 1 s
to answer, day or night
24/7
including evenings and weekends
10 min
to set up — forward your line and go
Why it matters
Every missed call is a lost enquiry
The alternative to answering every call is not free. It is a receptionist you can't afford to staff around the clock, a human service that bills per call, or voicemail nobody leaves a message on.
€2,900 a month
That is roughly what a full-time receptionist costs an employer in Ireland once employer PRSI is added — for a 39-hour week. Evenings and weekends still go unanswered.
€199 for 100 calls
Europe's large human answering services bill a standing charge plus every call answered: ebuero, Germany's biggest, lists €59.90 a month plus €1.39 a call, weekdays only, with English answering charged on top. (Its own price list, read 10 September 2026.)
85% won't call back
A first-time caller who reaches voicemail usually rings the next practice on the list. (Widely quoted industry figure — we'll publish our own data from the first cohort.)
What you get
Everything a good receptionist does, on every call
Five promises we can show you today, plus a ten-minute set-up. The proof behind each one is on our trust page.
Answers every call, instantly, 24/7
No voicemail, no engaged tone; the caller talks to someone in seconds.
Does the work, not just the greeting
Books into the calendar, captures structured messages, transfers with a whisper, queues callbacks.
You see everything
Transcript and summary in your inbox minutes after each call; call log in the dashboard.
Built for EU rules
A recording notice before anything is recorded, retention you choose, erasure and export in one click, a published sub-processor register — and a plain statement that calls are processed in London, not in the EU.
Honest about AI
Says it is an assistant, hands over to a human when it should, never pretends.
Set up in ten minutes
Forward your existing line to your Phone Call Desk number — after hours, when busy, or all the time. Nothing to install.
How it works
Live in ten minutes, without changing your number
Forward your line, tell it about your business, and hear it call you. Most customers start with evenings and weekends and widen the hours once they've read a week of transcripts.
Forward your line
Point your existing number at your Phone Call Desk Irish number — after hours, when busy, or all the time. Most customers start with evenings and weekends.
It answers in your name
A short script tells it who you are, what you offer and what it must never say. It greets callers as your business and says it is an assistant.
It does the job
Books into Google Calendar, takes a structured message, transfers to the right person with a whisper, or queues a callback for business hours.
You get the transcript
A summary and the full transcript land in your inbox minutes after the call. Every call, message and booking is in the dashboard.
Website booking
Your website books into the same diary as your phone
Two lines on any page, or our WordPress plugin, put a booking form on your website that offers the same times the assistant offers on the phone — from one diary, so a visitor and a caller are never given the same one.
Who it's for
Built for businesses whose revenue starts with a phone call
Appointment-led practices, trades on the tools, agents out on viewings: businesses that already pay for the calls they miss.
Every enquiry captured with matter type and urgency; confidential; the solicitor calls back within the hour.
Books straight into the diary; frees the front desk; transcripts show what was said.
Answers while you work, emails you the job details, books the call-out; cheaper than a missed job.
Qualifies buyers and tenants, books viewings, routes maintenance; every call logged. Ask us about multi-office set-ups.
Pricing
Simple pricing. Every call answered.
Plans from €49 a month ex VAT — the lowest entry price of any EU provider we could find a price for. You can hear the assistant answer today; you cannot buy it in Ireland yet, and this page says what is still missing.
Starter
€49 / month
€42 annual (−15%)
- 200 minutes included
- 1 Irish number, 1 concurrent call
Most popular
Growth
€119 / month
€101 annual (−15%)
- 500 minutes included
- 2 Irish numbers, 2 concurrent calls
Practice
€239 / month
€203 annual (−15%)
- 1,100 minutes included
- 3 Irish numbers, 3 concurrent calls
Enterprise / Compliance from €589 / month, 12-month term — pooled minutes, a signed DPA, SLA and a named contact. Full comparison, add-ons and metering rules on the pricing page.
Questions we hear a lot
Straight answers
“Callers hate talking to a robot.”
They hate voicemail more. The assistant says what it is, answers in a second, and hands over to a person whenever asked. We measure hang-ups: on our test cohort callers stay because they get an answer.
“Is it open in Ireland?”
Not yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. You can hear the assistant answer today — the demo rings Irish mobiles — but we cannot sell you an Irish number until sign-up collects the business address the regulator requires and our euro prices are live with our payment provider. The trust page lists everything still missing. Leave your details and we will write to you before we open, not after.
“Where does my callers' data go?”
Today it is processed on our London servers, in the UK, and we say so on every page rather than leaving you to find out. An EU-only processing chain is what the Enterprise / Compliance plan is for, and an EU cell is designed but not running. If EU-only processing is a condition for you, tell us and it moves up the list.
“Placetel and fonio charge less per minute.”
Per minute, they do: Placetel sells 750 minutes for €69, fonio 1,000 for €119. Per month, we are the cheapest way to start — €49 against €69 and €119 — with no seats to buy and no twelve-month commitment. Below about 270 minutes a month we are cheaper outright; above it, they are. We would rather tell you where the line is than hide it.
“Does it speak Irish, or German, or French?”
No. English only, with an Irish English voice available. That is exactly why Ireland is first and why we are not selling in Germany or France: an assistant that answers a German caller in English is worse than no assistant.
“We'll wait until AI is better.”
Hear it answer first — that costs you nothing and takes a minute. If it is not good enough for your callers today, you will know in that one call, and we would rather you found out then than after paying.
Hear it answer your own phone.
Enter your number and email, click the confirmation link, and Sophie rings your Irish mobile within a minute — no account needed. That part works today. Buying it in Ireland does not yet, and the register-interest page says exactly what is missing.