AI receptionist for small businesses
AI call screener for your own phone
Octag picks up when you can't, answers questions from your own price list, books the job, and sends you the details before you're off the ladder.
Robocalls get hung up on. Real people get a polite assistant. You get the message in seconds, or tap to listen in and take over.
Answering for your own business needs a phone line; those open soon. Join early access and set up what Octag should know today.
Since October 1, Google Local Services Ads charges you for calls you miss during business hours. Octag answers every one, day or night, and Google's own AI callers get a straight answer on price and availability.
How it works
Pick a new number, or keep the one on your truck and forward it.
Paste your website. Octag drafts your hours, services and prices for you to check.
Always, after hours, or only when you're busy. Every call ends with a message slip.
It's the line your declined and missed calls go to.
We show the exact code for your carrier. Your phone and number stay the same.
Octag answers. You get the message, or tap to listen in.
You stay in charge
The transcript scrolls as people talk, so you know who it is before you decide.
Your phone rings, the call is yours, and Octag steps out.
Type "ask for their email" in the middle of a call and it does, without the caller seeing your note.
The school, your mom, a burst pipe. Octag patches them to you with a one-line heads-up.
Robocalls are hung up on and blocked. They never use your minutes.
Hold music, dead air and callers who won't stop are cut off. You set the longest a call can run.
What lands on your phone
Who called, what they wanted, what Octag already did, and what's left for you. Like the pink pad on a front desk, without the handwriting.
Made for
English and Spanish at launch. More languages, Haitian Creole and Portuguese first, after we test them on real calls.
Trust
Octag's first sentence says it's an AI and that the call is recorded and transcribed. Florida requires everyone's consent to record.
No audio is kept unless you turn recording on. Transcripts delete after 90 days, or sooner if you choose. Your calls never train AI models.
Octag never pays, cancels or signs you up for anything. Those wait for your tap.
Spam and hang-ups under 15 seconds are free. Personal plans never top up without your tap.
Questions
No app can answer your phone's own calls on iPhone or Android, so nobody can sell you that. Instead your carrier forwards the calls you decline or miss to your Octag number. You set it once by dialing a short code, and another code switches it off.
Yes. Your phone rings as usual. Decline it, or let it ring, and Octag answers. Businesses can also send every call to Octag first.
Yes. Octag says so in its first sentence and tells callers the call is recorded and transcribed. It never pretends to be you.
It says it will find out, takes the caller's details, and marks the slip "Please call". It never makes up prices or promises a time it hasn't checked.
Auto top-up adds 100 minutes for $15 so you never miss a lead. You can switch it off.Calls go to a plain voicemail and you still get the transcript. Add minutes when you want. We never charge you without your tap.
That's next. "Call for me" will book, reschedule and ask questions on businesses' main lines, and it asks you before anything is final.
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and most carriers that support call forwarding. Some prepaid plans don't, and the setup checks yours.
Early access: no card and no charge. These are the launch prices; plans start when phone numbers open.
Pricing
For an owner who can't always pick up.
For a front desk that's always busy.
For teams and more than one location.
Never offline. Auto top-up adds 100 minutes for $15 when you run low, and you can switch it off. Spam and hang-ups under 15 seconds are free. For comparison, human answering services start around $250 for 50 minutes.
Screens your calls and takes your messages.
Also makes calls for you.
Need more? Add 60 minutes for $4.99 or 150 minutes for $9.99. They never expire, and we never charge you without your tap.
Tap to call. Your browser will ask for the microphone.
Octag says it's an AI and that the call is recorded and transcribed. Practice calls are short and free; nothing is recorded as audio.