Sign up for your AI receptionist — free for 30 days

ModPhone is an AI answering service that gives your business one assistant across every customer channel. During your trial you get the full product — the same thing paying customers use — so you can judge it on real conversations, not a stripped-down preview. Here’s exactly what that means in 2026:

An AI receptionist is software that answers your business calls (and texts, emails and chats) the way a great front-desk person would — except it never sleeps, never puts anyone on hold, and remembers every conversation. That’s only become possible in the last few years, as large language models got good enough to hold a natural phone conversation in real time. When you sign up, you’re not booking a sales call or joining a waitlist; you’re creating a working assistant you can call in minutes.

• One AI with unified memory across phone, SMS, email and web chat — a caller who texted yesterday is recognized on today’s call.
• Answers grounded in your own website and documents, so your AI talks about your hours, services and policies.
• Appointment booking straight into Google Calendar or Outlook calendars, plus live transfers with context when a human is needed.
• Real-time voice that answers in under a second, so conversations feel natural instead of laggy.

Every conversation is encrypted in transit, and your knowledge base is never used to train shared models. Once you’re set up, you can add the same AI to your website with one line:

For example, our Greenville Humane Society case study shows the AI handling 1,500+ calls each month — the testimonial below comes straight from it, and you can read more customer reviews on our case studies page.

The math on a human front desk

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median full-time receptionist earns about $37,000 per year — and that covers roughly 40 hours a week, not nights, weekends or lunch rushes. ModPhone plans start at $49/mo and cover every hour of the year. In our experience across customer deployments, most callers hang up rather than leave a voicemail, so every unanswered ring is a lead you paid marketing dollars to generate and then lost in silence.

That said, an AI receptionist isn’t right for everyone — if you get two calls a week, voicemail may genuinely be all you need. On the other hand, if missed calls cost you jobs, patients or reservations, a 30-day free test with no card on file is about the cheapest experiment you can run. If you’re comparing services first, we’ve written honest head-to-heads: ModPhone vs. Smith.ai, ModPhone vs. Ruby, and AI phone agents vs. traditional IVR. And if you want to see how local businesses use it, start with our Charleston page or the industries directory.

If your business misses calls — after hours, during jobs, at the lunch rush — you should sign up and let ModPhone answer for 30 days. It costs nothing, requires no card, and takes about the length of a coffee break to set up. As of July 2026, one ModPhone assistant covers all four channels your customers actually use: phone, text, email and web chat. If you’d rather kick the tires first, try the live demo, skim the story behind ModPhone, or read what other owners say in our case studies. And when you’re ready, the form at the top of this page is the whole process — start your free trial today.