An AI receptionist for professional services.
For agencies, clinics, and firms, every missed inquiry is a missed engagement. An AI receptionist for professional services captures and qualifies leads, books consultations around the clock, and answers service questions — so your billable experts stay focused on client work.
- AI chat + voice agents · answers, qualifies, books
- Calendar + CRM booking · 50+ languages
- From $97 a month · 15-day free trial
Parsimony Chat is self-serve with a free trial; custom deployments are scoped after one call. Phone +1 (307) 284-5523.
What it handles
The AI receptionist, job by job.
Six jobs, one agent. Each one is routine on its own and expensive in aggregate when it falls on billable staff instead.
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Capture every inquiry
Answers calls, chats, and web forms the moment they arrive, so a message never sits unanswered while your team is with a client.
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Qualify and take intake
Asks the questions your intake process already asks, gathers the engagement details you need, and routes qualified prospects to the right person.
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Book consultations 24/7
Checks your calendar and schedules the call or appointment directly — nights and weekends included, when your desk is closed.
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Answer service and process questions
Explains your services, process, and policies from your own materials — consistently, and in the same voice as your firm.
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Serve clients in any language
Handles inquiries in 50+ languages, so language is never the reason a lead calls someone else instead.
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Free your billable staff's time
Removes routine intake, scheduling, and repeat questions from the people whose time is billed by the hour.
A sample intake call
Intake automation, one call at a time.
A composite example of the intake-and-booking loop an AI receptionist runs for a professional-services firm — a consulting or accounting practice, in this case. The wording, the routing rules, and the calendar it books into are built for your practice specifically.
Transcript — illustrative example
Caller: "Hi, I run a 12-person agency and we're looking for help cleaning up our bookkeeping before year-end."
AI receptionist: "I can help get that started. Are you looking for a one-time cleanup, ongoing bookkeeping, or both?"
Caller: "Both, probably. We're about four months behind."
AI receptionist: "Understood. Can I get your name, company, and the best email for a summary?"
Caller provides name, company, and email.
AI receptionist: "Thanks. I have a 30-minute consultation with our engagement lead Thursday at 2pm, or Friday at 10am — which works better?"
Caller: "Thursday at 2 works."
AI receptionist: "You're booked for Thursday at 2pm. I've sent a calendar invite and a short intake form to your email so the call starts productive. Anything else I can help with today?"
Estimate your savings
What could an AI receptionist save your firm?
Enter your inquiry volume below to see the time and cost an AI receptionist could offload each month. Worked on the calculator's own starting numbers — 1,200 inquiries a month, 6 minutes handled per inquiry, $25 an hour fully loaded, 70% automated — the estimate comes to about 840 inquiries handled, 84 hours saved, and roughly $2,100 a month. Your numbers will differ; the sliders are yours to adjust.
Your numbers
Chats, emails, and calls your team handles monthly.
Minutes a team member spends per inquiry.
Hourly cost per support team member (wages + overhead).
Set the share of routine inquiries you expect the agent to handle.
Add a quoted or estimated cost to see net savings and payback below.
Your estimate
840
Inquiries handled by AI / month
84 hrs
Team hours saved / month
$2,100
Estimated monthly savings
$25,200
Estimated annual savings
Estimates only, based on the inputs you provide. Actual results vary by business. Contact us for a tailored assessment.
What it connects to
What the receptionist connects to.
It is built on the systems you already run, not a separate inbox your team has to check.
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Calendar
Books straight into the calendar you already use, so the appointment lands where your team already looks for it — no separate portal to check.
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CRM
Every inquiry, its answers, and the booking write to Parsimony Automate or the CRM you already run, so nothing lives only in a chat log or someone's inbox.
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Phone and web chat
Answers on your phone line and your website chat, and hands the conversation to a person, with the transcript attached, when it goes beyond its script.
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Cloud ERP, if you run one
For firms already on Parsimony Cloud ERP, the agent can look up account and billing status at the moment a client asks.
What changes
Win more consultations, bill more hours.
When intake and scheduling run themselves, you respond faster, convert more inquiries, and keep expensive expert time on the work clients actually pay for.
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No missed inquiries after hours or during client meetings
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Faster response that wins more engagements before a competitor calls back
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Consultations booked without back-and-forth emails or phone tag
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Cleaner, more complete intake information waiting before the first call
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Billable staff freed from routine scheduling and repeat questions
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Consistent, professional answers every time, in your firm's own voice
How it compares
The AI receptionist next to the alternatives.
Every firm already has a way of handling inquiries — it just isn't always a good one. Here is how an AI receptionist stacks up against a live answering service, a front desk, and voicemail.
| Method | Coverage | Speed to respond | Booking | Priced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parsimony AI receptionist | 24/7 — calls, chats, and forms | Immediate | Books the consultation live | From $97 a month, 15-day trial |
| Live answering service | Business hours, or overflow, on shared staff | Depends on the queue | Takes a message; the firm calls back | Typically per minute or per call |
| Front-desk staff only | While someone is at the desk | Fast in hours, none after | Books on the spot, during business hours | A salaried role |
| Voicemail | Whenever no one picks up | After the beep | None — the caller has to call back | Free, and it shows |
Operator's note
Not a bot you configure yourself.
Parsimony Chat is self-serve: upload your intake FAQs and service pages, connect the calendar, and the agent answers and books from them during the 15-day trial. When a firm wants the intake script written with them, or a custom CRM integration, Parsimony scopes that as a larger deployment.
That is why the packages are on the page and custom deployments are scoped separately: the questions you ask, the calendar it books into, and the CRM it writes to are different for every firm. See what's public and what's scoped on the pricing page.
FAQ
Common questions.
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Does the AI receptionist replace my front desk?
No — it works alongside your team. It answers, qualifies, and books what it can, and hands anything outside its script to a person, with the transcript attached.
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How does it handle sensitive intake details?
It only collects what you tell it to ask for, and every conversation writes to your CRM or the system of record you already use, instead of sitting only in a chat log. Compliance requirements specific to your practice are part of the build — ask us on the first call.
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How is an AI receptionist priced?
Self-serve as Parsimony Chat: $97 / $197 / $497 a month with a 15-day free trial, a chat agent and a voice agent in every package. Custom calendar and CRM integrations beyond the packages are scoped separately. Parsimony Automate, the CRM it can write to, has its own public plans on the pricing page.
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Does it work with the calendar and CRM I already use?
Yes. It's built and tuned by Parsimony on your calendar and your CRM — Parsimony Automate or the one you already run — so bookings and intake notes land where your team already looks for them.
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How long does setup take?
Typically weeks, not quarters. The intake script, the routing rules, and the calendar connection are scoped and tested before the agent takes a live inquiry.
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Pricing
Automate and Parsimony Chat are self-serve.
Cloud ERP is quoted.
Parsimony Chat, the AI chat and voice agents, is $97 / $197 / $497 a month with a 15-day free trial — see the Chat packages. Parsimony Automate is $57 / $199 / $497 a month with a free trial on every plan (30 days on Startup, 7 on Professional and Premium) — see the Automate plans. Cloud ERP is quoted to the job: call or send the form and we put a package together.
- 01Quoted
Cloud ERP
Managed ERPNext on Frappe Cloud. Quoted to the job; the $999 operations analysis is the fixed-price first step.
- 02$97 / $197 / $497 a month · self-serve
Parsimony Chat — AI chat and voice agents
Chat on your site, voice on your phone line, trained on what you upload. 15-day free trial. No credit card required.
- 03$57 / $199 / $497 a month · self-serve
Automate
CRM, funnels, two-way text, workflows, and websites on one login.