Hire an AI Employee to Handle Your Calls

VirtualPBX AI Voice isnтАЩt one-size-fits-all intelligence. ItтАЩs smarter, integrated AI that starts by knowing exactly what itтАЩs there to do. Give it a specific job, the right knowledge, and clear boundaries, and it can handle real conversations, keep the context, and bring your team in when itтАЩs time.

$99/month gets you a custom AI employee + phone service for 5 people.

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VirtualPBX AI employees answer calls naturally, talk with customers, and take care of common requests, transferring to a person when needed.

Want to hear it for yourself? Call 877-722-3337 to talk with an AI employee configured for VirtualPBX. Ask questions, schedule a conversation, and see what's possible.

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What Can an AI Employee Do For You?

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31 Calls Routed
AI VOICE

Elana

Routing request to specialistтАж
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Direct Caller Assistance

RECEPTIONIST
Greets callers, answers routine questions, verifies availability, and guides callers to exactly who or what they need.

Bypasses hold music and wrong departments by verifying live employee presence before initiating a warm handoff.

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Questions answered

12

Calls transferred

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AI VOICE
43 Callers Assisted

Ramone

Absorbing peak call volumeтАж
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Instant Overflow Handling

SEASONAL SUPPORT
Steps in to absorb call spikes during busy times without the time and cost of temporary hiring and training.

Answers every incoming call immediately, capturing details and routing priority requests so zero business is lost when volume surges.

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Jobs qualified

23

Callers assisted

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AI VOICE
19 Product Walkthroughs Scheduled

James

Dispatching walkthrough linkтАж
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Immediate Scheduling

SHOWING AGENT
Schedules product walkthroughs or live demos. Listens to the specific needs, then texts a scheduling link.

Structured stage rules to conduct brief discoveries ensures teams get qualified leads instead of empty calendar slots.

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Demos scheduled

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Tours booked

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AI VOICE
20 Follow-Ups Created

Jean

Verifying live pricing catalogтАж
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Guaranteed Follow-Ups

PROJECT ESTIMATOR
Answers specific questions about service plans, estimates, and pricing options before passing buyers to an account manager.

References your live online pricing catalog automatically, overriding outdated document files or legacy PDFs to quote exact figures every time.

9

Proposals created

11

Quotes sent

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AI VOICE
16 Late Night Calls Navigated

Silas

Evaluating urgency criteriaтАж
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Instant On-Call Escalation

AFTER-HOURS DISPATCH
Filters after-hours calls to separate routine requests from critical emergencies.

Logs standard messages for the morning and immediately bridges high-priority calls to the on-call team's phone. No missed emergencies, no unnecessary late-night interruptions.

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Emergencies escalated

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Callbacks scheduled

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AI VOICE
41 Complete & Accurate Messages Delivered

Sam

Capturing caller detailsтАж
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100% Accuracy Delivered

CALLBACK ASSISTANT
Replaces traditional voicemail with structured, organized callback notes with the exact information you need.

Architecturally isolated from product documentation, it captures caller data and delivers it within your workflow tools immediately.

23

Messages sent to Slack

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Messages delivered via SMS

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Not All AI Is Built The Same

Three decades of building business phone systems taught us that the details matter. We brought that same discipline to AIтАФbuilding it with the depth, boundaries, and precision to handle real business conversations without guessing or losing context.

Silhouette of an AI employee with role-specific agent-tuned knowledge for targeted business calls.

Agent-Tuned Knowledge

The Right knowledge For The Right Job

Each AI has its own role-built knowledge base, so it gets the information it needs without digging through everything your business has ever given it.

Silhouette graphic illustrating canonical source hierarchy rules in an AI call answering system.

Canonical Source Hierarchy

The Right Answer Always Wins

It can prioritize the information you’ve designated as authoritative, so the latest, most reliable information wins when sources don’t agree.

Silhouette of a person on a telephone representing SIP-native routing in an AI phone answering system.

SIP-Native Routing

Transfers Actually... Transfer

AI Voice works inside your phone system, so when a caller needs a person, it routes them directly to the right extension, ring group, or team. 

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Live Session Context

Every Call Starts With Context

It uses information about the caller, their history, and your team for a relevant conversation from the start. ItтАЩs not just answering a callтАФitтАЩs continuing a relationship.

Profile silhouette graphic illustrating stage-based conversation logic in AI call answering.

Stage-Based Rules

An AI That Knows What Comes Next

AI Voice follows the conversation in the order you define, using the right information at the right time instead of firing off any answer that happens to match.

Expert Support

When You Need Us, We're Here

New technology shouldn’t mean you’re on your own. Our U.S.-based support team knows the system inside and out and is here when you need a handтАФfrom getting started to figuring out what comes next.

VirtualPBX Smarter Voice mobile app and desktop interface shown alongside a remote worker using a laptop.

Smarter Voice

The Phone System Underneath It All

Smarter Voice gives your business a full-featured phone system with the calling, routing, voicemail, business hours, and apps your team needs to stay connected from anywhere.

FCC STIR/SHAKEN Compliant
PCI DSS Compliant
EU & UK GDPR Compliant
Cloud Security Alliance

Whatever Happens Next, AI Voice Is ready

Give your team an extra set of hands for $99/month. We’ll even include business phone service for up to 5 people.

The first 14 days are on us. Put our AI employee to work and see what you think. If you love it, keep it. If you don’t, we will never lock you in.

What To Know As You Get Started

Here are answers to some of the questions we hear most often. DonтАЩt see yours? Call or text us at (888) 825-0800, or pop open our webchat. WeтАЩre always happy to talk it through.

How much does an AI answering service cost?

An AI answering service through VirtualPBX costs a flat rate of $99 per month for each AI employee. This provides predictable pricing without per-minute overage charges, per-call fees, or monthly credits. For new VirtualPBX customers, that $99 also includes business phone service for up to five people.

Because the service lives directly inside your PBX, you also avoid extra forwarding fees for transferred calls.

What makes AI Voice different from standard AI receptionists?

AI Voice employees integrate natively into your phone system and use isolated knowledge bases to ensure accurate answers. SIP-native routing transfers callers directly to internal extensions without relying on external call forwarding. Ultimately, the AI lives inside your phone system just like a real employee's extension. When it transfers a call, it performs a seamless internal handoffтАФmeaning no extra fees and no dropped calls.

Additionally, it uses agent-tuned knowledge. Instead of scanning your entire company handbook and guessing at answers, each AI employee is given a highly specific, restricted job manual. This keeps the system strictly focused on its role and prevents it from misquoting policies or inventing answers.

Should I use an AI receptionist or hire an outsourced human answering service?

An AI receptionist or employee becomes an instant expert on your business rules, is more cost-effective, and can handle multiple calls simultaneously, 24/7. Outsourced human answering services often struggle to learn the exact details of your business, leading to routing errors or generic responses. When you train an AI receptionist on your specific information, it is instantly an expert, resulting in a significantly higher success rate of meeting caller needs right from hello, before quickly routing them to the best internal team member.

How is this different from the frustrating automated voice tools of a few years ago?

The technology has fundamentally changed from early voice and keyword recognition models to advanced natural-language processing. Early automated voice tools were essentially glorified phone trees that forced callers to speak specific keywords or navigate rigid menus. Today, AI Voice employees hold actual, fluid conversations. They understand context, handle complex sentences, and dynamically guide the caller, providing a warm and professional experience that feels completely different from the legacy models.

Does the voice actually sound human, or is it robotic?

AI Voice employees use natural-language processing to sound conversational and fluid, avoiding the robotic cadence of traditional "Press 1" phone menus and automated voice recognition tools. Callers can speak naturally and explain what they need in full sentences. The AI employee understands the context and responds appropriately, rather than forcing the caller to guess which rigid menu option to choose.

As an AI receptionist, can AI Voice handle multiple calls at the same time?

Yes, an AI Voice employee can handle an unlimited number of overlapping calls simultaneously. Unlike a human receptionist who must place callers on hold when the phone lines get busy, the AI can answer ten different calls at the exact same time, ensuring no customer ever receives a busy signal or is forced to wait in a queue.

Can callers bypass the AI and speak to a live person?

Yes, callers are never trapped speaking to the AI. If a caller requests a human, or if their need falls outside of the AI's approved knowledge base, AI Voice will immediately initiate a warm transfer to the appropriate human representative, passing along the context of the call so the caller does not have to repeat themselves.

How does AI Voice prevent an AI employee from making up information?

AI Voice prevents hallucinations by operating exactly within the bounds of the knowledge base it's given. By limiting the AI employee to the specific knowledge, rules, and information assigned to its role, it cannot draw on unrelated knowledge to invent facts or promise incorrect information.

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