An AI receptionist for your Kent business — that actually answers
You are on a job. The phone rings. You cannot answer it, so the caller rings the next business on Google. That missed call was money.
We build AI receptionists that answer every call, day and night, in a natural voice. They answer questions, take the caller’s details, and book appointments straight into your calendar. No voicemail. No missed work.
We are not reselling someone else’s software from the other end of the country. We build these ourselves, and the proof is on this website: the voice assistant on badboylabs.com answers real callers and books real calls against a real calendar. Open it and interrogate it before you talk to us.
Built for businesses that live on the phone
Trades, clinics, salons, garages, letting agents — any Kent business where the phone is how work arrives and the owner is too busy doing the work to answer it.
A receptionist costs a salary. An answering service takes a message and the follow-up dies in your inbox. An AI receptionist answers instantly, every time, and puts the booking where it needs to go. That is our Speak-to-Lead package: an AI voice agent that answers every call 24/7, qualifies the caller, and books the job in.
- Answers 24/7 — evenings, weekends, while you are on the tools
- Books appointments into your real calendar, with confirmation emails
- Answers the questions you get asked forty times a week
- Takes a proper message with a callback number when it cannot help
- Passes everything to you by email or WhatsApp, nothing lost
Count the leak before you fix it
Open your phone log and count last week’s missed calls. Now put your own numbers into this: missed calls a week, times the share that were real enquiries (for most trades it is about half), times your average job value, times 48 working weeks.
Say it is four missed calls a week, half of them real, at £180 a job. That is £17,280 of enquiries a year going to whoever answered instead. Swap in your own numbers; the total is rarely smaller than you expect. That number is what any fix should be judged against, ours included.
Only one of these is us
One: answer more calls yourself. Free, and if you miss fewer than a couple a week, genuinely the right answer. It falls down because the calls come while you are working, and the ones you miss are the evenings and Saturdays when people finally sit down to sort things out.
Two: an answering service or a missed-call text-back tool. A human service runs from roughly £1 a minute and takes messages; text-back tools are cheaper still. Both beat voicemail. Both leave the follow-up and the booking with you, which is where enquiries were dying in the first place.
Three: an AI receptionist that answers, qualifies, and books the job into your calendar itself: our Speak-to-Lead package. It costs more than a text-back tool, and it is only worth it if the maths above says the leak is real. If you miss two calls a month, do not buy this; option one or two is the honest recommendation. If you miss calls every week, this is the one that closes the loop instead of moving it.
Try before you buy — literally
Most AI receptionist pages ask you to book a demo. Ours is the demo. The assistant on this site runs on the same technology we would set up for you: it checks a live Google Calendar, holds a slot while you talk, and sends a confirmation with a calendar invite when you say yes.
If it can handle that, it can handle "are you open Saturday" and "can I get someone out on Tuesday morning".
What it will not do
It will not price a complex job, calm down a furious customer, or replace your judgement. When a call needs a human, it says so, takes details, and gets out of the way. The goal is simple: no enquiry ever dies in a voicemail box again.
Three fixes that cost nothing, whoever you hire
Re-record your voicemail so it works for you: ask for the job, the postcode, and the best time to call back, and promise a text within the hour. Most voicemails ask for nothing and get nothing.
Check your Google Business Profile opening hours are actually right. A surprising share of "missed calls" are people ringing when you were never going to answer, because Google told them you were open.
If your phone system has a missed-call auto-text, switch it on today with one line: "Sorry we missed you, text us the job and postcode and we will come back within the hour." That single setting recovers a chunk of the leak for free. If you do all three and still miss work, that is when the receptionist conversation is worth having.
Frequently asked
How much does an AI receptionist cost?
We start with the problem, not a price list: how many calls you miss a week, and what a booked job is worth to you. Once the missed calls are counted in your numbers, we quote a one-time setup fee plus a monthly fee for optimisation and support, with options to choose between. Never a take-it-or-leave-it number, never a surprise invoice.
Will callers know it is AI?
Usually not, but we never pretend. It speaks naturally, handles interruptions, and if a caller asks, it says it is an assistant. Honesty keeps trust — and callers mostly just want their question answered.
Can it book appointments into my existing calendar?
Yes. Ours books against Google Calendar, checks real availability, holds the slot during the call, and emails a confirmation with a calendar invite. Other calendars and booking systems can usually be wired in too.
How long does setup take?
Days, not months. We need your opening hours, services, prices you are happy to share, and the questions you get asked most. Then we build it, you test it, and it goes live when you are happy.
What happens when it cannot answer something?
It takes the caller’s name, number, and what they need, then sends that to you immediately. Nothing gets guessed at and nothing gets lost — a clean handover beats a wrong answer.
Stop losing calls this week
Message us on WhatsApp or call — tell us what kind of calls you get and we’ll tell you straight whether an AI receptionist would pay for itself.
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