AI Receptionist

Meet Reese.
Your AI Receptionist.

Reese answers every call, chat, and text — 24 hours a day. She books appointments, answers FAQs, captures every lead, and hands off to your team with full context. You never ask her to cover a shift. She never calls in sick.

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The Problem

Every missed call is a customer who already called someone else.

Front desks miss calls. After-hours inquiries hit voicemail. Weekend calls go unanswered. For service businesses — medical, legal, HVAC, dental, real estate — the first to respond wins the booking. The 5-minute response window is not a guideline. It's the difference between a booked appointment and a lost one.

The cost isn't just the lost lead. It's the human receptionist you're paying $40K/year who covers 9-to-5 and can only take one call at a time. Meanwhile, your website chat sits idle. Your SMS line goes unmonitored. You have three inbound channels and coverage on one.

What Reese Handles

Eight tasks. Every channel. Around the clock.

01

Answer inbound calls

Any configured phone number

02

Book appointments

Live calendar check + confirmation on the call

03

Respond to website chat

Homepage widget, landing pages

04

Reply to inbound SMS

Configured SMS number

05

Capture lead info

Name, email, need — every time

06

Route to specialists

Hands off with transcript + context

07

Answer business FAQs

Hours, services, pricing, directions

08

Handle after-hours inquiries

24/7 — not just business hours

Channels

Voice, chat, SMS, and email — Reese covers all four.

01

Voice

  • Answers inbound calls in real time
  • Books appointments while on the call
  • Warm transfers to humans when escalation is needed
02

Chat

  • Embeds on any page via a single script tag
  • Routes to the right employee based on the page it's on
  • Handles FAQs, qualifies leads, and creates CRM records
03

SMS

  • Responds to inbound texts within seconds
  • Follows TCPA-compliant opt-out handling
  • Threads into the same contact timeline as voice and chat
04

Email

  • Classifies inbound emails by intent
  • Routes to the right department automatically
  • Drafts a reply for human review or sends directly at your discretion
How It Works

From first call to department task in four steps.

Reese doesn't route to voicemail. She answers, books, and hands off — every time.

01
Arrive

A visitor calls, chats, or texts

On any channel — a call to your main number, a widget load on your pricing page, an inbound SMS — the right employee answers. Which employee depends on where the contact arrived: homepage chat defaults to Reese; the /pricing page widget routes to Vance; your support line routes to Sage. The routing is set once when you embed the widget or configure the phone number.

02
Answer

The agent answers in role-specific persona

The voice runtime loads the employee's full persona — name, title, personality, department knowledge, and the specific instructions you've configured ("always ask for the caller's email before routing"). On voice, you hear the agent's name. On chat, you see their name in the widget. The visitor interacts with a specialist, not a generic assistant.

03
Act

The agent does the work inline

Books a slot on your calendar. Qualifies a lead against your ICP criteria. Creates a support ticket. Answers the FAQ without escalating. The agent isn't scripted — it has access to your knowledge base, your calendar, and your CRM. If it can handle the interaction end-to-end, it does. If it can't, it escalates with full context.

04
Hand Off

The outcome lands on the right department's board

A booked appointment creates a task on the Receptionist department's kanban. A qualified lead creates a CRM record and a Sales department task. A support ticket lands in Support. The conversation happened on a phone; the work landed in the right place. Nothing falls into a voicemail inbox that nobody checks.

Per-Page Routing

Reese is your default. Specialists on specific pages.

◆ Widget routing examples
Page: /contact
(no param — org default)
Visitor chats with Reese (Receptionist) — org default
Page: /
(no param — org default)
Homepage chat defaults to Reese
Page: /book
Widget param: ?employee=reese
Booking page — Reese handles appointment intake

Reese is your org's default employee — any page without a ?employee param routes to her. On pages where you want a specialist (sales line to Vance, docs page to Sage), you add one query parameter to the widget embed. Reese covers everything else.

Try It

Talk to Reese right now.

This is the actual Palatai widget, not a mock. Reese is answering. Ask about booking, services, or availability.

[ Chat widget loads here — powered by Reese ]
ROI Math

What Reese replaces.

A human receptionist at a medical or dental practice costs $38,000–$52,000 per year in salary, plus benefits, PTO, and onboarding. They work one shift. They take breaks. They can't be on the phone and answering the website chat simultaneously. When the front desk is busy, calls get missed. When it's after hours, calls go to voicemail. Most callers do not leave a message.

Reese costs $750/month. She covers every channel simultaneously, around the clock, 365 days a year. A single recovered booking per month — the average dental cleaning is $180–$350; an HVAC service call is $150–$400 — covers more than her monthly cost.

Human receptionist$38–52K/yr + benefits · Business hours only · One call at a time
Answering service$300–600/mo · No bookings · No CRM · Script-only
IVR / phone tree$100–300/mo · Routes only — no AI · No booking
Reese — AI Receptionist (Palatai)from $750/mo · 24/7 · all channels · books appointments · CRM-connected
In Practice

Medical / Dental: A Monday morning with zero voicemails.

◆ Real scenario — Phoenix dental practice

A dental practice closes at 6pm. Between 6pm and 9am — 15 hours — Reese fielded 11 inbound calls, confirmed 4 new patient appointments, answered 6 FAQs about insurance acceptance, and captured 1 lead who needed a callback on implant pricing. Monday morning, the front desk arrived to 5 kanban tasks with full call transcripts. Zero calls went to voicemail.

Pricing

Hire Reese from $750/mo.

HIRE REESE — RECEPTIONIST DEPARTMENT

$750/mo

+ $2,500 one-time setup

  • Voice
  • Chat
  • SMS
  • Email routing
  • Reese's persona included

The Receptionist department includes Always-On Channels for Reese. This is the all-in-one hire for front-desk coverage.

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ADD ALWAYS-ON CHANNELS TO ANY HIRE

+$750/mo

+ $2,500 one-time setup

  • Voice
  • Chat
  • SMS for this agent

Already hiring another agent? Add Always-On Channels for +$750/mo. The agent answers in their own role-specific persona.

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FAQ

Questions about Reese.

Yes. Reese is configured with your practice's services, hours, booking protocols, and HIPAA-friendly routing. She does not handle PHI in the chat transcript — she captures name, contact, and appointment type, then hands to your EHR or booking system. She is particularly effective at after-hours inquiry capture, where 35–45% of medical appointment requests originate.
Yes, with a Google Calendar integration active. Reese checks availability, proposes slots, and confirms the booking during the call or chat — no callback loop. For practices on scheduling systems beyond Google Calendar, the manual option is to have Reese capture the request and create a task for a human to confirm; full integration with third-party schedulers is on the roadmap.
Reese is configured with your knowledge base — your services, FAQs, pricing, hours, and custom instructions. If a question is outside scope, she takes a message and flags it for follow-up, or warm-transfers to a human if one is available. She does not guess or fabricate answers.
Yes. You configure Reese's language per phone number or per chat widget. A Spanish-speaking number and an English-speaking number can both route to Reese with different language settings — no separate product tier required.
No. You give her a knowledge base and persona instructions (e.g., "always ask for the patient's preferred appointment time before ending the call"). She handles the conversation naturally — not from a script. This is why she handles unexpected questions that a scripted IVR cannot.
Provider connection (Retell for voice, Twilio for SMS), phone number configuration, widget embedding, brand-voice configuration, knowledge base population, and scenario testing. Palatai's setup team runs 20+ inbound scenarios before going live to ensure Reese responds correctly in your industry context.
See Also
← Explore the full Always-On Agent family/features/always-on-agents
See also: AI Sales Agent (Vance)/features/ai-sales-agent
See also: AI Concierge (Riley)/features/ai-concierge
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