You don't need to understand AI to start using it. Try it free for 7 days.

You get the AI Receptionist free for 7 days, with 30 call minutes and no credit card. It is for businesses with a working website, and there is one free trial per business: we check every request before a receptionist is set up. Enter your website, confirm the details it finds, answer a few questions and verify your email with the link we send — you have 72 hours after creating your account to verify your email and submit your details. Your receptionist is ready by the next business day after that, and your 7 days start when we notify you it is ready, not when you sign up. Your own test calls count towards the 30 minutes, and each call is counted in whole minutes. Calls stop being answered when the 30 minutes or the 7 days run out, whichever comes first. Nothing is charged at any point: you pay NZ$99 a month only if you choose to subscribe. The trial is the AI Receptionist only; AI Office Manager is a separate paid plan.

Calls to your BossAI number are no longer answered by the receptionist, and nothing is charged. If you forwarded your phone to it, switch call forwarding off so your customers ring you directly again. Your answers and setup are kept, so if you subscribe it picks up where you left off, and your BossAI number is held for 14 days before it is released.

It works with any phone that can forward calls, because BossAI answers the calls your phone forwards to it. Most pay monthly plans can. Prepay plans on One NZ, Skinny and Kogan can't, so you would need to ask your phone company to turn call forwarding on first. Before you pay, we ask you to turn call forwarding on and off on your own phone, so you know it works.

It says so, takes the person's details, and creates a task for you with the whole conversation attached. It is instructed not to guess at prices, availability or anything it has not been told, because a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer.

The setup questions take most people under an hour. A new BossAI number is then checked on the New Zealand networks before it goes live, usually within a few hours, and we email you when it is. On the free trial, your receptionist is ready by the next business day after your email is verified and your details are submitted. Once it is ready you can ring it yourself and hear it answer. Your customers' calls only reach it when you switch on call forwarding, which takes a couple of minutes with your carrier and does not change the number on your van or your Google listing.