An AI on your phone, compared honestly.
How an AI voice employee compares with the other ways to handle your calls, including where the other option is the better choice. For named products, see the alternatives page.
- AI receptionist or a person at the desk? Often both.
A full-time receptionist works about 40 of the week's 168 hours and, at the national median wage plus typical benefits, costs roughly $4,610 a month. An AI receptionist answers at any hour for a monthly plan (Nerro's Business plan is $79 for 750 minutes), but it can't greet visitors or use judgement on unusual calls. You don't have to choose one: you can let the AI take overflow, after-hours and routine calls, and keep people for the rest.
- A phone menu, or an AI that listens?
An IVR phone menu asks callers to press keys or say a menu word, then routes them to a person or a recording. An AI voice agent lets the caller say what they need in their own words, then answers the question, books the appointment or transfers to the right person itself. A menu is cheaper and fully predictable; an AI handles the call instead of sorting it, but it needs your business details to answer well.
- Answering yourself, or covering the calls you miss?
Answering your own phone costs nothing and callers get the person who knows the business best. The cost is the calls you can't take: on a job, on another call, or after hours. An AI can cover only those. Forward unanswered calls to it, and your phone still rings first; the AI picks up when you don't, answers, books or takes the details, and you read what happened.
Put an AI employee on your line for 3 days.
Tell Nerro about your business. It builds and tests your AI employee, and you decide when it goes live.
Free for 3 days with up to 10 answered calls. No card. Then from $49 a month.