ClearLine
Your next customer is calling. Are you ready?
An AI receptionist on a dedicated business line that answers every call, filters out robocalls and sales noise, and delivers only real prospects to your attention. With full call notes and a recording link you can play from your own cell phone.
From $3,000 as a one-time build. Everything runs in accounts you own, so your number, your recordings, and your call history stay yours permanently.
robocalls placed in the US in 2025, growing 15.4% year over year
YouMail Robocall Index, Jan 2026of small business calls go to voicemail or get no response at all
411 Locals study, 85 businessesof callers who reach voicemail never call back. 62% contact a competitor
AMBS Call Center, 2024lost every month to missed calls, by 42% of small businesses surveyed
Vida survey, Entrepreneur, May 2025The problem
There are two versions of this, and they end the same way.
The first is the owner who gave out a personal cell when they started. It ended up on lists. The robocalls began. Every one of them burns the same attention a real prospect would need, and once a number is public there is no taking it back.
The second is a main line that has become a daily target for sales calls and automated campaigns. Someone answers. It is noise again. Real customers get the same rushed treatment as everyone else, because nobody can tell the difference before picking up.
Bottom line: every robocall that gets through is a tax on your focus. Every real customer who cannot reach you is revenue your competitor just collected.
What an unmanaged line is costing you
- —No way to separate real prospects from automated noise before you pick up
- —When a real prospect calls and you miss it, there is no name, no context, and no path to follow up
- —No structured record of who called, what they needed, or when they want a callback
- —No separation between business hours and personal time, and no way to set that boundary
See it in action
Watch a live call, start to summary
A real call from the first ring through to the email summary landing in the inbox. Nothing staged.
Try it yourself
Or just call it and hear for yourself
Pick up your phone and call the demo line. You will talk to the same kind of AI receptionist your business would get. It answers, holds a natural conversation, and handles the call start to finish.
561-933-5073Live demo line, answering 24/7. The call opens with an AI disclosure and a recording notice, exactly like the real thing.
What it does
A receptionist that knows your business and works around the clock
01
Prospect and vendor classification
Every caller is classified as a real prospect, a vendor, or an automated call before you see a notification. You know what you are dealing with before you pick up.
02
Robocall filtering
Automated and pre-recorded calls are detected, logged silently, and never generate an alert. No interruption, and they never enter your prospect records.
03
A full summary on every real call
Name, reason for calling, preferred callback time, key details, and a direct recording link. It lands in your email when the call ends. Play it from your phone before you call back.
04
Loaded with your business knowledge
It knows your services, your customers, what you do and what you do not. It represents your business the way you would, not with a generic script.
05
Answers product and service questions
Trained on what you offer, how you work, and your hours. Callers get useful answers on the spot in a natural back-and-forth, instead of waiting for a callback.
06
Notifications your way
Slack, SMS, email, Microsoft Teams, or anything that accepts a webhook. You are alerted the moment a real prospect is identified, and never forced to adopt a new tool.
The process
How a call actually flows
01
A caller dials your ClearLine number
Not your cell. Not your main line. A dedicated number, US area code of your choice, configured for your business.
02
The receptionist answers
It discloses that it is an AI assistant, handles the call professionally, and answers questions from your knowledge base.
03
Real callers are classified and captured
Name, reason for calling, callback preference, and any details shared, all captured in structured form.
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Robocalls are logged silently
No alert fires. Nobody on your end is interrupted. They are recorded and logged but never reach your attention.
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You get an immediate notification
A real-time alert fires through your preferred channel the moment a prospect or vendor is identified, before the call even ends.
06
The summary and recording arrive
A complete email with the caller details, an AI-generated summary, and a direct link to the recording.
The standard build covers the dedicated number, the trained receptionist, classification, filtering, notifications, and summaries. Where a build costs more is when it has to do more. CRM integration, extra classification logic, routing different callers different ways. Those are quoted against your actual calls, not guessed at from a pricing page.
Anyone who quotes a flat number before understanding your calls is either guessing or selling you a generic script.
Bottom line: the price tracks the complexity of the job. Tell me the job and I will tell you the price.
Included in the build
- →Dedicated business phone number, area code of your choice
- →AI receptionist trained on your business, products, and services
- →Prospect and vendor classification with structured data capture
- →Robocall detection and silent filtering
- →Real-time notifications to your preferred platform
- →Full email summary with a direct recording link on every real call
- →Complete call records, including every filtered call
- →Configurable recording retention, expiring on a schedule you set
- →AI disclosure and recording consent flow, with compliance documentation
- →Testing across realistic call scenarios, plus a walkthrough at handoff
- →All infrastructure in your own accounts, plus a reusable automation server that can run further automations later at no extra hosting cost
How it compares
Against a SaaS answering service and against hiring
ClearLine
SaaS answering service
Human receptionist
Ownership
You own it
You rent it
Employed staff
What you pay monthly
Platform cost only, billed to your own accounts
Subscription markup, every month, forever
$4,000 to $4,600, salary plus benefits and taxes
Coverage
24/7/365
Varies by plan
About 40 hours a week
Simultaneous calls
Unlimited at once
Varies
One at a time
Configured for your business
Built specifically for you
Generic
Yes
Robocall filtering
Built in
Not addressed
Manual screening
Runs more than the phone
Same server hosts other automations at no added cost
Receptionist only
One person, one task
Your data if you leave
You keep everything
Gone
Walks out the door
What it costs to run
Two numbers, and I never touch either one
Both are billed to you directly by the vendors, on accounts in your name. There is no markup, no resale, and no margin hiding in your monthly bill.
Fixed, every month
$10Your dedicated phone number and the server it runs on. This does not change with how busy you are.
Usage, per minute
$0.15Charged only on calls actually answered. Filtered robocalls still cost a few seconds each, which is the cheapest part of the whole system.
So in practice
$85–$170What a typical month looks like at 500 to 1,000 inbound minutes. Fewer calls costs less. That is the whole formula.
Why I don't touch that bill. ClearLine runs on your own Retell and hosting accounts, in your name, on your card. I never resell or mark up those charges. That is not a technicality: it is why your call recordings and customer data stay somewhere you control and can audit, and why nothing has to move if we stop working together. Rates are set by those vendors and can change, so treat the figures above as planning rather than a quote.
Budget for this separately
Keeping it current is a support retainer, from $500 a month
An unmaintained system fails quietly when an API changes or a credential expires, and you find out from a customer rather than a dashboard. The retainer is optional and month to month, but it is a real cost worth planning for rather than a surprise later.
Privacy and compliance
ClearLine is designed around the privacy and consent principles behind CCPA and CIPA, and built using security practices drawn from recognized frameworks including SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001.
- →Every call opens with an AI disclosure and a recording notification
- →Recording consent is handled at call initiation
- →Recordings expire and delete on a schedule you choose
- →Compliance documentation is delivered with the build
Confirming the consent flow meets the requirements in your jurisdiction is your responsibility, and none of this is legal advice.
Built by
I built this for my own business first
I needed a business number that was not my personal cell. I wanted something that would handle calls professionally, alert me with a real summary, and stop robocalls from competing for the attention a legitimate prospect deserves.
What gets built for you is the same production-tested system. Not a demo, not a prototype. The demo line above is running it right now.
Credentials
- →CISSP, Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- →CAISP, Certified Artificial Intelligence Security Professional
- →CFE, Certified Fraud Examiner
- →16 years in digital and computer forensics at the federal level
More on the background over on the about page.
Questions
Before you book a call
A dedicated business number, US area code of your choice. It is set up in your own account and billed directly to you, so your personal cell stays off every list.
About $10 a month in fixed cost for your number and hosting, plus per-minute AI usage for the calls you take. All billed directly to your own accounts, and it scales with your call volume. That covers platform costs only. Keeping the system current and monitored is a separate support retainer, and it is a real cost worth budgeting for.
They are detected the moment the automated pattern is identified, then logged silently as an unclassified record. No alert fires, nobody is interrupted, and they never enter your prospect records.
Yes, and it is one of the things it does best. It is trained on your products, services, pricing logic, hours, and the questions your customers actually ask, and answers them conversationally during the call rather than making everyone wait for a callback. If your offerings change, the knowledge base is updated as part of ongoing support.
You decide. Recordings can expire and permanently delete on whatever window fits your business, whether that is 7 days, 30, 90, or something else. Because the system runs in your own accounts, you control the retention policy rather than a third-party vendor. It is set during the build and can be adjusted later.
Yes, as an optional add-on to the build. When active, every real caller becomes a contact in the CRM you already use, with their call details, summary, and recording link attached, and no manual data entry.
Typically one to two weeks from the scoping call to live deployment, depending on how complex the knowledge base is and whether CRM integration is included. Work begins once the agreement is executed and payment is processed.
Every call begins with an AI disclosure and a recording notification, which meets CIPA all-party consent requirements for California and equivalent standards elsewhere. Compliance documentation is delivered with the build. Confirming it meets the requirements in your jurisdiction is your responsibility, and this is not legal advice.
Yes. The architecture is modular, so CRM integration, extra classification logic, and new notification channels can be added as separate build items. And because ClearLine runs on your own automation server, that same server can host further automations such as lead routing, follow-up reminders, or review requests at no additional hosting cost.
The build is a one-time project fee, non-refundable once work has started. Ongoing costs are your number, per-minute usage, and hosting, all billed directly to your own accounts. The optional support retainer is separate.
Right fit
This is the right starting point if
- →Inbound calls are how work reaches you, and you cannot always pick up
- →Robocalls are burning attention you would rather spend on customers
- →You want a written record of who called, not a voicemail light
- →You want the system in your name, not rented from a platform
- —Start with theAI Operations Assessmentinstead if the bigger question is where AI creates risk across the whole business.
- —Skip this if your call volume is low enough that voicemail genuinely works. It will not pay for itself, and I will say so.
- —This is not built to book jobs, quote prices, or take payment with nobody reviewing it.
Ready to clear your line?
Book a call to scope the build and get a quote. Free, twenty minutes, no pitch. Bring a rough sense of how many calls you get a week and how many you miss.
Or call the demo line first: 561-933-5073