The front desk that books while you work.
A website, your customer list, and a front desk that answers the phone at night, quoting only from your price book. See yours built before you pay a cent; own it from $490.
- 24 / 7
- calls, texts and forms
- 48 hours
- from intake to live
- $490–$2,500
- one-time, and yours
It is not Tuesday at three. It is Saturday at two, and Sunday at eleven.
Sat 14:12
A potential client messages on a Saturday asking about pricing. The owner sees it Monday morning. The client has already booked with someone else.
An owner, r/smallbusiness, quoted via theusefuldaily.com, 17 May 2026
Thu 21:47
A furnace quits at forty degrees. The shop’s phone rings four times in an empty office and goes to a voicemail nobody will hear until seven.
The call in the record above
Mon 07:02
Friday’s voicemail, finally played. And the two callers who did not leave one, who nobody will ever count.
What the call log shows once there is one
of callers to a home-services business reach a person.
Invoca, 70M+ calls, home-services report, July 2026 · verified 7 Sep 2026
Calls that become booked work, shops under five technicians against shops over twenty-five. The gap is who picks up.
Field-service benchmark, 3,000 businesses · verified 7 Sep 2026
You are not losing them to better work or a lower price. You are losing them to whoever was easier to reach. Hear what happens instead ↓
The three ways a shop answers the phone today.
Hire someone.
A receptionist’s median wage is $18.27 an hour, $38,010 a year. Part-time, twenty hours a week, is about $1,584 in wages and $1,740–2,270 a month with taxes and benefits. Business hours only. One call at a time.
BLS, May 2025 · loaded cost estimated from BLS employer-cost ratios, March 2026 · verified 7 Sep 2026
Rent an answering service.
$1.32 to $1.75 a minute for a live operator; $349 to $2,899 a month for 200 to 2,000 minutes. They take a message. They cannot quote your price or see your calendar.
Two live answering services’ pricing pages · fetched 7 Sep 2026
Let it go to voicemail.
Free. The caller books with whoever picked up.
See 52%, above
Every one of these stops when the office does. The calls do not.
Talk to the front desk. Watch the software move.
The desk answers as a real business, from a real price book and a real calendar. Ask it what a repair will cost. It will tell you the diagnostic fee from the book and refuse to guess the rest. Then watch the booking land, the contact row appear, and the confirmation text go out. Try to make it guess a price.
- 21:47:02CallerIncoming · (303) 555-0192 · after hours
- 21:47:04DeskCedar Ridge Mechanical, this call is recorded.
- 21:47:19CallerFurnace is dead. No heat at all, it's forty degrees in here.
- 21:47:23DeskNo-heat call. Priority list. Address?
- 21:47:41DeskAfter-hours diagnostic is $149, from your own price book.
- 21:47:55CallerAnd the repair?
- 21:47:57DeskNot going to guess at that. You'll see the price before anyone touches anything.
- 21:48:10DeskThere's a van at 7:15 tomorrow. Booked.
- 21:48:31ScribeBooking written once · confirmation texted from (303) 555-0147
- 07:02:00OwnerYou read it over coffee.
A demonstration. Cedar Ridge Mechanical is a fictional shop we built to show the product; no customer is involved.
Both voices are synthesized and the business is one of our own examples. This is what the agent does, not a customer’s call.
- CalendarTue 7:15 · after-hours diagnostic · van 2
- ContactDana Whitfield · +1 303 555 0192 · 2210 S Broadway
- Text sentConfirmation from (303) 555-0147 · 21:48:31
- RecordConsent 21:47:04 · quoted $149 from the book · repair price refused · booked once
Recording notice first · price from the book · booked once · texted from your number.
Call the Cedar Ridge Mechanical front desk.
It answers with the recording notice, quotes only from that shop’s price book, and books against real slots — and it refuses to guess at anything the book does not contain. Ask it for a price it does not have and watch what it does.
Nothing is recorded and nothing is stored. You can type instead of talking. Both voices in the recording below are synthesized; this one is a live model answering you.
The limits are the product.
An agent that will say anything is an agent you cannot put in front of your customers. These are the things ours refuses, and every one of them is checkable rather than promised.
- It will not invent a price. If a caller asks for a number that is not in your price book, it says it will not guess and offers to have a person confirm. Try it, above.
- It will not pretend to be a person. Asked directly, it says it is an automated system. The recording notice comes first on every call, in every state, with no setting to turn it off.
- It will not text people who did not ask. No cold SMS, no cold calling. STOP and HELP are honoured in the software, not in a policy document.
- It will not hold your data hostage. Stop paying the monthly and the site, the booking and the customer list keep working. Section 4 of the terms.
- We will not claim your sales will grow. Nobody honestly can. We guarantee the phone gets answered and the job reaches you; what you do with it is your trade.
Ten trades. One engine. Every one shot from a real page.
Cedar Ridge Mechanical, Meridian Aesthetics, Apex Auto Works, North Loop Dental, Atelier Nord, Black Harbor, Ironhouse Strength, Wag & Comb, North Star Cleaning, Keystone Rehab. Fictional businesses, real pages, each built the way yours would be. Labelled as demonstrations because they are.
Yours, in about a minute, from your Google profile. Open the showcase →
Two ways to get it.
A site built for you and delivered, owned outright. Or the whole system: site, records and a front desk that answers, licensed once and yours. Both start the same way. We build it first, you look, then you decide.
- We build it first. Type your business name; we read your public Google profile and build the site. No call, no brief, no form.
- You see it live. A real page on a real address. Open the booking, read what the desk would say on your phone.
- You decide in one click. One payment and it moves to your domain. Nobody can take it back.
A demonstration page for a fictional med spa.
The site, built for you.
$490–$1,490one-time · no monthly
We research the business, build the page on a real address, and send you the link with the price. You own it on delivery. Live in 2–5 business days.
- Written from your Google profile and one voice memo
- Booking request on every page, to your phone in 60 seconds
- Your photographs, your licences, your reviews
- Credits in full toward a license for twelve months
Cedar Ridge Mechanical(303) 555-0147
Tue 21:48
Cedar Ridge Mechanical: you’re booked for tomorrow, Tue, 7:15am at 2210 S Broadway. After-hours diagnostic $149, credited to the repair. Reply C to change, STOP to opt out.
Thanks
Noted. Owen will text when the van is 20 minutes out.
A demonstration thread from a fictional shop.
The system, owned.
$1,000–$2,500one-time · then one monthly choice from $79
The site, your customer database, quotes, booking, SMS, and a front desk that answers the phone on a plan from $297 a month. Buy the software once. Subscribe only to the intelligence.
- Quotes only from your imported price book
- Books against your real crew availability
- Recording notice first, on every call, every state
- Keeps serving if you stop paying — section 4 of the terms
Buy the software once. Pay monthly only for the AI.
One licence, bought once and owned. Then one monthly choice, and only for the part that thinks.
What you own, one-time.
A custom small-business site alone runs a median of about $5,000. Clutch, 2025, 406 owners · verified 7 Sep 2026
In all three: Website, mobile-first, on your domain · Contacts and job history · Quotes and invoices, text-to-pay. Nothing here is priced per seat or per user.
Launch
$1,000one-time, and yours
Look credible, stop losing web leads. One location.
- Reviews shown at the decision
- Photos, credentials, service areas
- Read API, full export
No booking and no SMS inbox. Those start at Growth.
then $297/mo · Concierge
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.
Growth
$1,500one-time, and yours
The phone answered. The quote followed through.
- Real-time booking against live availability
- Instant estimator from your price book
- Two-way SMS inbox
- Photo quotes, approved line by line
- Review requests and recall
- Call recording and transcripts
- Financing hand-off
- Declined-work register
- Read API, full export
then $297/mo · Concierge
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.
Command
$2,500one-time, and yours
Multi-location, or compliance a generic CRM cannot hold.
- Everything in Growth
- Your trade's native module
- Multi-location and territory routing
- Speed-to-lead SLA timer
- Memberships with dunning
- Full API, read and write
then $297/mo · Concierge
Thirty days, three numbers, or your money back.
What you subscribe to, monthly. One choice.
A part-time receptionist costs about $1,740–2,270 a month loaded, business hours only. A live answering service bills $1.32–1.75 a minute. BLS-derived estimate, 2026 · pricing pages, 7 Sep 2026
The plan is chosen above, beside the licenses, and it can change any month after that. See what each plan includes →
Or just the site, built for you.
One-time, no monthly, owned on delivery. Every build credits in full toward Growth for twelve months.
The page
$490one-time · live in 2 business days
One page that answers the phone's questions before it rings.
Not live within ten business days of intake complete, and the build is refunded in full.
The site
$990one-time · live in 4 business days
A full site with a booking request on every page.
Not live within ten business days of intake complete, and the build is refunded in full.
The site, with the desk
$1,490one-time · live in 5 business days
The full site, plus a month of the AI front desk answering it.
Not live within ten business days of intake complete, and the build is refunded in full.
What stops when you stop paying.
| Your site, on your domain | Keeps serving |
|---|---|
| Online booking and the booking form | Keeps working |
| Customer records, job history, exports | Yours, any time |
| Updates and support | Stop |
| The AI front desk | Stops — calls ring through to you |
Section 4 of the terms, not a marketing line.
Upgrade credit.
The difference between licenses is creditable in full for twelve months, and a build credits in full toward Growth. Starting small costs you nothing later, which is why we would rather you started there than bought a tier you are not ready to use.
Thirty days. Three numbers you can check.
Miss one and the license is refunded in full. We do not promise your sales will grow. Nobody honestly can.
- 95%of inbound calls answered.
Counted from the call log, not estimated.
- 60 sfrom yes to booked.
From the caller agreeing to the booking in your hands.
- Yourslive on your own domain.
Not a subdomain of ours unless you asked for one.
Ten founding businesses per trade, and we need the measurements more than the margin.
The first ten in each trade get design-partner pricing. We get a baseline before we start (calls in, jobs booked), the same numbers ninety days later, permission to quote the change, and a phone call with one prospect who asks. A policy that has not seen about fifty real labelled outcomes in a trade performs worse than our own marketing, so we cannot usefully take the eleventh.
- Auto repair10 of 10 open
- Med spa10 of 10 open
- Dental10 of 10 open
- HVAC & plumbing10 of 10 open
- Salon & barber10 of 10 open
- Fitness10 of 10 open
- Pet grooming10 of 10 open
- Cleaning10 of 10 open
- Tattoo10 of 10 open
- Chiro & PT10 of 10 open
Built by operators, not by an agency.
Twenty-plus years building software and businesses, in the room when the phone rang and nobody picked up. We are not selling you a retainer; we are selling you a system you own, and a monthly fee only for the part that thinks.
Every number on this page has a source and a date, listed below the questions. Where we have no number we say so. The recording notice plays first on every call because the law requires it in seven states and because it is the right thing to do. The agent refuses to guess because a wrong price costs you a customer. There are no testimonials here because there is no named customer we would quote yet; the first ten in each trade change that, with their names.
What people ask before they start.
What is Orabeam, exactly?
Orabeam is a website, a customer database and an AI front desk, sold together to US local service businesses — plumbers, HVAC contractors, med spas, dental practices, salons and the trades beside them. You buy the software once and own the license outright: the site, the bookings and the customer records keep serving whether or not you keep paying us. What you subscribe to is the intelligence. The front desk answers your phone when nobody is in the office, quotes only from the price book you imported, books against your real crew availability, and texts the customer a confirmation from your own number. It opens every call by saying the call is recorded, because all-party consent is a felony in seven states. It refuses to invent a price it cannot find, and offers to have someone confirm instead. Orabeam builds the whole thing from your public Google profile before you have paid anything.
I already have a website. Why would I need this?
Most owners who ask us do have one. The website is the smallest part of what Orabeam delivers; it is where the booking lands. What you are buying is the phone being answered when nobody can pick up and the job being written down once, into a customer record you own. If your current site is good, Orabeam moves it onto the same system and keeps the design; if it is not, the free build shows you the replacement before you decide. Either way the front desk, the booking and the records are the same software.
My customers want a real person. Won't they hang up on a robot?
Some will, and Orabeam is built for that. The alternative on a Thursday night is not a person; it is voicemail. The front desk says it is an automated system when asked, never pretends otherwise, and offers a person on every call that wants one — a message, a callback, or a transfer to your cell if you want the line open. It answers with the recording notice first, quotes only from your price book, and books against your calendar.
Can it quote a price on the phone? What if it gets it wrong?
Orabeam's front desk quotes only prices you imported into your price book, inside the bounds you set for each one. If a caller asks for a number that is not in the book, it says it will not guess and offers to have a person confirm. That refusal is checkable on this page: ask the live desk what a repair will cost and watch it decline. Every quote it gives is recorded in the conversation log with the price-book line it came from, so a wrong price is a wrong line in your book, and you fix it once.
What happens if I stop paying?
The site, the booking and the customer list keep working. You own the Orabeam license, so nobody can take the page down or hold your data; you can export everything, including call transcripts, at any time. What stops is updates, support and the AI: the front desk stops answering, and calls ring through to you as they did before. That is section 4 of the terms, and the table above the guarantee spells it out line by line.
I don't have time to set this up. What do you need from me?
About ten minutes, once. Orabeam builds the first version from your public Google profile with nothing from you. After you pay, the intake asks for your price list (a photo of it is fine), your hours and service area, a voice memo answering the ten questions your customers ask most, and your photographs if you have them. The site is live 48 hours after that intake is complete, the customer database within five business days, and the front desk two business days later, after twenty supervised calls.
What is the difference between a build and a license?
A build is a website, delivered and owned: one-time, from $490, no monthly, no CRM, no agents. A license is the Orabeam system — the site, the customer database and the front desk software — from $1,000 one-time, then one monthly choice: $79 to keep it running, or a front desk plan from $297 that includes that. If you start with a build, its price credits in full toward a Growth license for twelve months, so starting small costs nothing later.
Do you submit my site to ChatGPT?
Nobody can, and Orabeam will not tell you otherwise. What we do instead is build every page so an AI search engine can quote it: each service and question page carries a self-contained answer block that names your business, headings are the questions your customers actually ask, every statistic carries a source, and your name, address and phone match your Google profile exactly. Those are the levers with evidence behind them. Files like llms.txt are not, and we do not sell them.
Is it legal to record my calls?
Yes, when the caller is told. Orabeam's front desk opens every call by saying the call is recorded, before anything else is said, in every state, with no setting to turn it off. Seven states — Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada and New Hampshire — require every party's consent, and violating that is a felony; the notice-first rule covers them and the rest at once. Recordings and transcripts are yours, in your customer records, and stopping payment does not delete them.
See it built for your business.
Type your business name. We read your public Google profile and build the page while you wait. Nothing is signed, nothing is charged, and the 48 hours start when your intake is complete. When it is live, the phone gets answered at night, the price comes from your book, and the job is in your hands before you have finished your coffee.
Every number on this page, and where it comes from.
- 52% of callers to a home-services business reach a person
- Invoca, home-services report, 70M+ calls, July 2026 · verified 7 Sep 2026
- 24% of calls booked at shops under five technicians; 59% over twenty-five
- Field-service benchmark, 3,000 businesses · verified 7 Sep 2026
- Receptionist median wage $18.27/hour, $38,010/year
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OES, May 2025 · verified 7 Sep 2026
- Part-time receptionist $1,740–2,270/month loaded
- Estimate: BLS wage × Employer Costs for Employee Compensation benefit share, March 2026
- Live answering service $1.32–1.75/minute; $349–2,899/month for 200–2,000 minutes
- Two US answering services' published rate cards · fetched 7 Sep 2026
- Custom small-business website, median about $5,000
- Clutch, 2025 survey of 406 small-business owners
- All-party consent required in FL, IL, PA, MD, MA, NV, NH
- State statutes; summarised in docs/FEASIBILITY.md