Your office closes.Your front
desk doesn't.
AskAndBook answers in your business name, books inside the call, and replies on WhatsApp before reception walks in. English, Afrikaans, isiZulu. Friday 9pm, Sunday morning, whenever the phone rings.
The phone rings. Nobody answers. The caller books the next name on the list.
Around 38% of calls to small businesses go unanswered. Each one is a customer ready to book somewhere else. Run your own numbers below.
It holds the whole call. It locks what matters.
Scripted receptionist AIs lose the call the moment a caller goes off-script. AskAndBook keeps the whole conversation in memory at once. It bends to the caller. It still reads back the name, the phone, the time. Click a caller move and watch it pick up where it dropped.
Not a voicemail. A receptionist that finishes the job.
It answers, books inside the call, and sends the confirmation. By the time you wake up, the call is logged, the booking is in your calendar, and the customer has a WhatsApp on their phone.
Picks up in your business name in your choice of natural-sounding voices. Knows your hours, services and prices from the knowledge base you write, and never invents an answer.
Straight into Google Calendar, Cal.com or your own system. Never double-books, never books outside your hours, and reads the confirmation back before hanging up.
When a caller isn't booking today, it takes the details and a follow-up reason, so nothing slips through and Tuesday-you knows exactly why you're calling.
Refund disputes, complaints, anything outside the knowledge base: it hands the call to your team. If nobody picks up, it captures the details so you call back with context.
Live in about 10 minutes.
Try the demo. Sign up. The portal walks you through the rest as a checklist you finish with your coffee. No onboarding call, no engineer waiting on a brief.
Hear it answer
Sixty seconds of details, one live call. It learns your business and books a caller while you listen. When you're ready, pick a plan and your portal opens.
The portal sets you up
A guided checklist, not a manual. Set your operating hours, services and prices, write the FAQs your AI answers from, and connect Google Calendar and Sheets in a click each.
Forward your number
We give you your own AI number. Forward your existing line to it after hours, when you're busy, or all the time. Your number stays yours, nothing to port.
Watch the calls land
From the first ring, every call, transcript and booking lands in your portal, and confirmations land in your customers' WhatsApp. Change anything yourself, anytime.
Open the portal with coffee, not panic.
Last night's calls, bookings, and WhatsApp threads land in one portal you own. Read any transcript. Step into a thread. Pause the AI in a click and switch it back on tomorrow morning.
Full transcript, what the caller asked, whether they booked, and what the call cost you.
Reply in a WhatsApp conversation yourself and the AI reads the room and steps back.
Off sick or away? Calls bounce to a friendly message until you switch it back on.
Hours, prices, FAQ answers, voice, transfer rules. You edit, it saves live.
Everyone gets their own everything.
A practice isn't one shared diary. Each dentist, agent or stylist has their own hours, clients and rules. As an AskAndBook custom build, it books straight into the right person's diary and follows the rules reception usually has to memorise. Standard plans run one calendar per business.
Bookings land only in her diary, inside her hours, around her longer procedures.
Booking routed hereThe AI knows which schemes he takes, and offers him when a caller's plan fits, before reception is involved.
Scheme-matched automaticallyUrgent calls reach the right person on call, never a shared front desk that closed at five.
Escalates to the right phoneIt sits on top of the tools you already use.
We don't replace your stack. Bookings land in your calendar. Leads land in your sheet. Call records land in your inbox. Your team opens the tools they already opened this morning.
Appointments appear instantly. Cancel and reschedule keep your existing workflows working.
One click creates a pre-formatted bookings sheet, and a leads sheet, that fills itself.
Post-call follow-ups, booking confirmations to callers, and alerts to you for new bookings, leads and escalations.
Already have one? We POST booking data to your webhook. Cal.com works the same way.
Need more than a front desk? We build it.
The same team that answers your phones builds custom AI for businesses with bigger jobs: intake agents, quoting bots, CRM automations, internal copilots. Tell us the job. We scope it in a week and quote it fixed-price.
Made for how South Africa actually books.
Foreign receptionist tools miss the small things that lose the booking here. AskAndBook gets them right the first call.
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Medical aid names, suburb pronunciations, scheme references, body-corporate codes. It captures them against the booking the first time, so your team isn't decoding them after the call.
Your AI number is South African. Callers see a local number, never a foreign code, and your own line stays exactly as it is.
Answers at 7pm on a Friday and through long weekends, in your timezone, while rivals hit voicemail.
The chat your customers already use.
Every plan confirms bookings on WhatsApp. Customers reply to move or cancel. Pro and Business add your own Meta-verified WhatsApp Business number, so customers can ask a price, check a slot, or book outright, from the chat they already use every day.
Month to month. Cancel anytime.
Every plan answers like the demo. Full conversations. Locked details. Your own portal. Pro and Business add a dedicated WhatsApp Business line.
What owners ask first.
Nothing. We give you your own AI number and you forward calls to it: after hours, when you're busy, or all the time. Your number stays yours, nothing to port, and you can stop forwarding whenever you like.
English, Afrikaans and isiZulu. It switches the moment the caller does, mid-call, and switches back. No menu, no "press 2 for Afrikaans".
Every plan sends a friendly WhatsApp confirmation after a call, and your customer can reply to move, check or cancel. On Pro and Business, you get a dedicated Meta-approved WhatsApp Business line so customers can also start the conversation themselves: ask FAQs, get prices, book a slot, all without ringing.
Recording consent is a switch you control, every transcript lives in your portal, and you can delete your data whenever you want. We never sell or share it.
It runs in the cloud, not in your office. When your lights are off and your competitors' phones ring out, yours still answers and books.
It transfers to your team: blind transfer, or smart transfer where your team presses 1 to accept. If nobody picks up, it captures the caller's name, number and what they wanted, so you can call back with context.
No. Month to month, cancel in the portal in one click. Overage is billed per minute and we always warn you before it starts.
Your phone is ringing right now.
Sixty seconds of setup. One call to your test number. You hear it answer in your business name. Free, no card.