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The Call While You Are Working
Under a sink, on a roof, mid-treatment or mid-appointment. The caller does not leave a voicemail, they phone the next business in the results.
AI Receptionist
An AI Receptionist That Answers, Qualifies And Books. It Does Not Pretend To Be A Person.
Most missed revenue in a small business is a phone nobody could reach. An AI receptionist answers every call and message in seconds, takes the details, books the appointment and hands anything complicated to you. What it will not do is close a sale or pretend it is human.
Runs On LinkBuffer CloudEdmonton & CalgaryNo Lock-In Contracts
15
Alberta Businesses On Retainer
5.0★
From 10 Client Reviews
123k+
Contacts On LinkBuffer Cloud
5.4×
Average Lead Growth
What It Is Actually For
The Three Calls You Are Losing Right Now
An AI receptionist is not a novelty. It exists because of three specific, measurable gaps.
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The Call After You Close
Roughly a third of enquiries to a local business arrive outside opening hours. Almost none of them wait until morning.
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The Call You Answered But Never Logged
Somebody took a message on a scrap of paper. It never reached a follow-up list, and nobody called back.
Free, No Obligation
See What Your Own Missed Calls Are Worth
Two business days. Straight to your inbox.
Tell us the business and we will show you what is currently going unanswered, and what it would take to stop it.
- What proportion of your calls go unanswered, measured
- What happens to enquiries outside your opening hours
- Exactly what the assistant would and would not handle
- What it costs, and whether it is worth it for your volume
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Two business days. No obligation.
What It Does
What The Assistant Actually Handles
Answers Voice Calls
Picks up when you cannot, in a natural voice, and states clearly that it is an assistant. Takes the name, number, address and reason for the call.
Answers Messages
SMS, web chat, Facebook and Instagram, in one inbox, replying in seconds rather than whenever somebody checks.
Books Into Your Calendar
Real availability, real appointments, with confirmation and reminders attached.
Hands Over Cleanly
Anything it cannot handle goes to a human with the full conversation attached, so nobody has to start again.
The Honest Numbers
What This Market Actually Looks Like
1,000
Canadian Searches A Month For AI Receptionist
$34.84
What A Click Costs In This Category
69/100
How Competitive That Search Is
$90.24
Cost Per Click For AI Phone Answering
We publish this because it cuts both ways. A thousand searches a month is real demand, and a competition index of 69 means well-funded companies are bidding hard for it. We are a local agency, not a venture-backed startup. What we offer is the same technology, set up by people you can meet, with the honest caveats included.
How It Runs
From Nothing To Answering In Two Weeks
Listen To What You Actually Get Asked
We go through your real calls and messages. The assistant is only as good as the questions it has been taught to answer.
Week 1Build And Script It
Hours, pricing, service area, booking rules, and a clear list of what it must escalate rather than guess at.
Week 1 to 2Test It On You First
You try to break it before a customer does. Everything it gets wrong gets fixed while nobody is watching.
Week 2Go Live And Keep Tuning
Every conversation is reviewable. What it handled badly in month one becomes a rule in month two.
OngoingCommon Questions
Your Questions, Answered
Will it pretend to be a human?
No. It identifies itself as an assistant. Pretending otherwise damages trust the moment somebody realises, and in some contexts it is legally risky. If you want a bot that lies about being a person, we are the wrong agency.
What happens when it does not know the answer?
It says so and hands over, with the conversation attached. We would much rather it escalate too often at the start than confidently make something up to a customer.
Can it handle an emergency call?
It can triage and escalate immediately, and for genuinely urgent trades work that is usually how we set it up. It should not be the last line for anything safety critical.
Is this just a chatbot with a new name?
It is the same family of technology, set up properly against your real calls and connected to a calendar and a CRM. The difference is not the model, it is the configuration and the handover.
Do we have to sign a long contract?
No. Month to month, and the conversation history is yours to export whenever you want it.
Where this sits
Two Halves Of The Same Problem
Being answered by AI and being found by AI are different jobs. Most businesses need both, and almost nobody sells them together honestly.
LinkBuffer Cloud
The platform the receptionist runs on. CRM, conversations, booking, reviews and follow-up in one login.
Missed Call Text Back
The cheapest version of this idea. If a full assistant is more than you need, start here.
AI Automation
The rest of the work an assistant cannot do on its own — the sequences, the routing and the reporting behind it.
Getting Found By AI
The other half. Being the business an assistant names when somebody asks it for a recommendation.
Put a number on it
What Slow Answers Are Costing You
Pick your industry below. The click costs and conversion rates are real, sourced figures, and the response-time penalty comes from a Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 companies. It is an estimate of the opportunity, not a promise of revenue.
Plan your numbers
What Are Your Slow Replies Actually Costing?
Pick your industry, set your budget, and put in your own numbers. This runs on published Canadian ad costs and industry conversion benchmarks — the sources are listed underneath.
What you put into paid search in a month. Leave it where it is if you are only planning.
Your number, not ours. First job, first course of treatment, or lifetime value — whichever you actually manage against.
Of the people who enquire, how many buy. Set this to your own number.
Be honest about evenings and weekends. The 37% default is the share of 2,241 companies that managed it in the Harvard Business Review audit.
How it runs today
Clicks—
Enquiries—
Answered fast—
Gone cold—
Customers—
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Every enquiry answered
Clicks—
Enquiries—
Answered fast—
Gone cold0
Customers—
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The gap, per month
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How this is calculated. Clicks = budget ÷ cost per click. Cost per click is the midpoint of Google’s own low and high top-of-page bid estimates for that industry in Canada. Enquiries = clicks × the median Google Ads search conversion rate for that category in the
WordStream 2026 benchmark study (13,474 campaigns, April 2025 – March 2026). Enquiries you do not answer quickly are modelled as one seventh as likely to convert, from the
Harvard Business Review audit of 2,241 companies, which found firms replying within an hour were roughly seven times likelier to qualify a lead.
Where to be sceptical. That seven-times figure describes a salesperson picking up the phone. An automated first reply is not the same thing, so treat the right-hand column as the size of the opportunity, not a promise. Benchmarks are medians across many advertisers; your own account will differ. Nothing here is a quote.
Come And See Us
Two Alberta Offices. No Offshore Work.
Edmonton
Head Office
Unit 101 – 10460 176 Street NWEdmonton, AB T5S 2E4
(587) 849-0706
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Mon–Sat · 9am–9pm
Calgary
Serving Calgary & Area
6600 36 St NE #120Calgary, AB T3J 4C8
(587) 849-0706
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