24/7 AI phone receptionist
Your phone rings. Rouso picks up. You get a text.
An AI receptionist on your own number that answers in under 1.5 seconds, only from your information, and books the job. Live in about ten minutes.
Free for 14 days · No credit card · Cancel anytime
+1 (555) 234-7890
Rossi Pizza · Rouso answering
01:02<1.5s
To first spoken word
End of your sentence to Rouso replying
100%
Calls answered
No voicemail, no hold music, ever
10 min
To go live
Paste your info, point your number
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Facts invented
Answers only from what you provide
38% of inbound calls to small businesses go unanswered. Every one is a lost customer.
Industry research on SMB call handling
The honest math
Voicemail loses the customer. So does every other option.
Same Friday night, same three callers. Here is what changes when someone actually picks up.
Friday · dinner rush · without Rouso
3 missed calls. 3 customers gone.
- +1 (•••) •••-4821Voicemail · unheard8:42 PM
- +1 (•••) •••-0937Hung up after 4 rings8:47 PM
- +1 (•••) •••-2210Voicemail · 0:009:03 PM
Each one is roughly $80–$400 of work that called your competitor instead.
Same Friday · Rouso on the line
3 calls answered. 2 tables booked.
Replied in 0.9s
- Booked
- Text to owner
- 0 missed
Option 1
Voicemail
Most callers hang up and call your competitor. The customer is gone before you ever hear the message.
Option 2
A receptionist
A good hire is $3,000+ a month — and still goes home at 5pm, gets sick, and takes lunch.
Option 3
Cheap AI
Invents answers, rounds every call up to a full minute, and bills you even for robocalls and spam.
The Rouso way
Rouso answers in under 1.5 seconds
Only from your own information. One flat price with included minutes — counted by the second, never rounded up, and never auto-upgraded to a pricier plan behind your back.
- Answers in under 1.5 seconds
- Only ever your own information
- One flat price, minutes by the second
- Never charged for spam calls
What Rouso does
One receptionist. Every call. Nothing missed.
A natural-voice receptionist that picks up, answers from your own information, and never lets a caller hit voicemail.
Answers in under 1.5 seconds
Every inbound call picked up in under two rings — no hold music, no voicemail, no missed revenue. Always on, even at 3am on a holiday.
Caller stops talkingRouso replies · < 1.5sNever invents facts
Answers only from your own information. If it doesn’t know, it offers to take a message — it never guesses.
Books reservations
Captures name, date, time, and party size, then drops it straight into your dashboard.
Warm human transfer
When a caller asks for a person, Rouso says “transferring you now” and routes the call to your phone in real time.
SMS + email summaries
After every call you get the transcript, caller number, and any message — on your phone and in your inbox.
Email transcript deliveredcaller · intent · outcomenowReservation bookedTonight · 8:00 PM · party of 4nowSMS summary sentto you · just nownowLands where you already work
Bookings, transcripts, and summaries flow into Slack, Google Calendar, OpenTable, HubSpot and 40+ other tools.
Live in ~10 minutes
Hours, FAQs, escalation number. Done. Keep the number you already have.
During every call
By the time they hang up, it’s already where you need it.
No voicemail to replay, nothing to chase down. Everything the caller said is on your phone and in your inbox.
A customer calls
Any hour. Any day. Even mid-rush.
Picks up in < 1.5s
Text to you
Summary and transcript, seconds after hangup.
Email summary
Caller, intent, and outcome in your inbox.
Booking captured
Name, date, time, party size — on your dashboard.
Warm transfer
Asks for a person? Rouso rings your phone.
Hear it
Don’t take our word for it. Listen to it answer.
Play a real, scripted call, then watch the same call land in your log, line by line.
Try asking: “Are you open tonight, and do you have gluten-free?”
Scripted call · Mario’s Italian Kitchen
Press play and listen to a full reservation, start to finish.
Real text-to-speech, real back-and-forth. It greets the caller, takes a name and party size, and books the table in under a minute.
- Book a reservation
- Ask about hours
- Ask something it does not know
- 01Incoming call · +1 (•••) •••-4821
- 02Picked up in 0.9s · AI + recording disclosed
- 03Caller: “Are you open tonight? Do you have gluten-free?”
- 04FAQ matched · hours, menu
- 05Rouso: “Open until 10pm — gluten-free crust is $3 extra.”
- 06Caller: “Perfect, table for four at 8?”
- 07Reservation intent → party of 4 · 8:00 PM
- 08SMS summary sent to owner
- 09Call ended · 00:52 · transcript saved
Or call it yourself
Demo line launching soon. Play the call in the meantime.
How it works
Live tonight. Setup takes about ten minutes.
No engineers, no scripts to write, no hardware to install.
Step 01
Paste your info
Drop in your website, menu, or FAQ. Rouso builds its knowledge base from your own words in minutes.
app.rousoanswers.com/onboardingYour business info
42 facts foundBuild knowledge baseStep 02
Review what it’ll say
See exactly what your AI will — and won’t — answer. It stays grounded in what you gave it.
app.rousoanswers.com/onboarding/reviewWhat Rouso will say
- Do you deliver?Yes — within 3 miles, $25 minimum.
- Gluten-free options?Gluten-free crust, $3 extra.
- Do you cater weddings?I don’t have that — I can take a message.
Step 03
Point your number
Keep the number you already have. Forward it to Rouso and you’re live tonight.
app.rousoanswers.com/onboarding/numberForward your number
+1 (555) 234-7890RousoLive · answering calls
Keep the number you already have.
After every call
You get the whole story. Automatically.
A full transcript, the caller’s intent, and any message — on your phone and in your inbox the moment the call ends.
Product UI · sample call
Today 8:43 PM
Call summary — 8:42pm
Rouso Answers · hello@rousoanswers.com
- Caller
- +1 (•••) •••-4821
- Intent
- Hours · Gluten-free · Reservation
- Outcome
- Booked — party of 4, 8:00pm
Mock-ups of real product screens. Sample data shown for illustration.
Pricing
One flat price. Minutes that count honestly.
Every plan includes a pool of talk time, billed by the second rather than rounded up to the minute. No surprise bill, no charge for spam calls.
Starter
For solo operators & side hustles.
$147/mo600 minutes / mo
- AI phone receptionist
- 600 minutes / month
- Billed by the second, not rounded up
- SMS + email call summaries
- FAQ knowledge base
- Warm human transfer
- Full call transcripts
- Most popular
Growth
For busy restaurants & growing teams.
$397/mo1,800 minutes / mo
- Everything in Starter
- 1,800 minutes / month
- Priority AI processing
- Reservation booking
- Custom voice selection
- Analytics dashboard
Pro
For high-volume & multi-location.
$697/mo3,600 minutes / mo
- Everything in Growth
- 3,600 minutes / month
- Calls keep connecting past the cap
- Multiple locations
- Team access & roles
- Advanced analytics
- Dedicated support
- 14-day free trial
- No contract
- Cancel anytime
The cost of a missed call
See what a missed call really costs you.
Move the sliders. We’ll show what Rouso could recover every month.
A rough estimate from your own inputs, not a guarantee. Rouso answers every call so fewer of these slip away in the first place.
Potential monthly recovery
$2,182 /mo
That’s about 18 customers a month you’re not losing.
Stop losing them — start free14 days free · billed by the second
Built for the shop down the street
Made for the businesses that can’t answer the phone.
Representative scenarios of what Rouso is built to do. Verified customer stories arrive at launch.
“During the dinner rush we used to lose five or ten calls a night. With Rouso every one gets answered — and it books the table.”
“I’m under a car all day. Now I get a clean summary of every call instead of a voicemail I never check.”
“A missed call in July is a missed emergency job. Rouso picks up on the roof for me and texts the address before I’m down the ladder.”
Rouso vs the category
Same job. Honest pricing. Faster answer.
Most AI receptionists meter you by the minute and bill you for spam. Here is where Rouso does the same work without the gotchas.
| Dimension | RousoBuilt right | OthersThe category |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Included minutes, billed by the second | Metered per minute, rounded up |
| Surprise overage | None — predictable bill | $0.25–$2.40 / min overage |
| Spam-call charges | Never billed for spam | Often billed for every minute |
| Makes things up | Never — grounded in your info | Many hallucinate answers |
| Answer speed | Under 1.5 seconds | Rarely advertised |
| AI + recording disclosure | Built into every call | Usually not addressed |
| Try before you buy | Web demo + live call line | Often demo-gated by a form |
Comparisons reflect publicly available competitor information at time of writing and may change.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
About ten minutes. Paste your business info, hours, and top FAQs — Rouso provisions a number (or you forward your own) and goes live the same day.
Stop missing calls tonight.
Free for 14 days. No contract. Setup in about ten minutes.
No credit card required · Cancel anytime