AI Receptionist That Answers Every Call, 24x7

Handle inbound calls, book appointments, and route leads with a voice that sounds human. Murf handles the setup, call flows, integrations, and optimization for you  - so your team never misses a lead.

For Businesses That Need Every Call Answered

Trusted by 1,000+ teams of all sizes across healthcare, finance, retail, real estate, customer support, and other industries.

40%

Reduction in

Cost-to-Serve

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Response

latency

30%

Increase

in CSAT scores

Handle All Front Desk Calls, With Murf’s AI Receptionist

Appointment Booking

Let callers schedule, reschedule, or cancel appointments over the phone. Murf’s AI receptionist checks availability, captures details, confirms the booking, and sends confirmation via SMS, email or WhatsApp.

Call Routing

Route callers to the right person, team, branch, or department whenever human intervention is required. AI receptionists replace phone trees and IVR menus with natural conversations that get customers to the right place faster.

Lead Qualification

Our AI virtual receptionist asks the right intake questions, captures caller details, identifies buying intent, and sends qualified leads to your CRM or sales team with a clean call summary.

FAQ Handling

Answer frequently asked questions about pricing, hours, locations, services, policies, availability, and order status instantly. Address customer concerns round the clock.

24/7 Call Answering service

Small service businesses lose 30-40% of potential clients to missed calls. Our AI phone receptionist handles multiple calls simultaneously, addresses customer inquiries and captures leads 24/7.

Custom Analytics

We design intricate and hyper personalized call analytics ranging from overall call quality metrics to detailed query level analytics. Our AI agent logs every call, generates call summaries, and shares call recordings for review and compliance check.

AI Receptionist That Never Misses A Call

Integrates With Existing Systems

Connect Murf's AI receptionist with your CRM, calendar, existing phone system, ticketing tools, workflow automations, and preferred LLM. Our AI receptionist fits into your existing workflow instead of forcing a new one.

Natural Voice & Multilingual support

Choose from 200+ voices across 35+ languages or clone your own brand voice. Our AI receptionist understands and speaks regional accents and dialects like a real human receptionist.

Built to Scale

Whether you receive 10 or 10,000 calls during peak hours, we support high volumes with low latency, fallback flows, elastic capacity, and 99% uptime. Scale call volumes without scaling cost.

Edge Cases Handling

Custom orchestration ensures smooth edge case handling, context retention across multiple turns, and barge-in handling. Murf's AI assistant can transfer calls to a human agent, share call context, and help your team continue the conversation without starting over.

Purpose-built Receptionist

Get AI-native answering service tuned to your needs, not some VOIP platform who retrofitted AI onto an IVR. We build AI-first agents that match human call quality in real world performance.

End-to-End Setup

We will design call flows, customize scripts, configure routing, connect systems, test real call scenarios, and prepare your AI receptionist before launch.

How It Works

1.

Build

Share your call goals, FAQs, routing rules, booking process, and escalation needs. Murf helps turn them into structured AI receptionist flows.

2.

Connect

Murf connects with your business phone setup, CRM, calendar, ticketing system, APIs, or preferred LLM. You keep your current tools while adding AI call handling on top

3.

Improve

Review call transcripts, summaries, missed intents, and outcomes. Murf helps optimize the experience so your voice AI receptionist gets better over time.

Traditional Receptionists vs Murf

Virtual Receptionist
MURF AI VOICE AGENT
Usually handled by a remote human team
Handled by an AI voice agent available 24/7
One receptionist can usually handle one call at a time
Handles multiple callers simultaneously
Coverage may vary after hours, during holidays, or during peak volume
24/7 AI receptionist without breaks or shift gaps
Often focuses on message-taking and call forwarding
Answers FAQs, books appointments, qualifies leads, and routes calls
Quality may vary depending on the person handling the call
Delivers a consistent brand voice on every call
Scaling coverage often means increasing staffing costs
Scales call coverage without adding more front-desk headcount
Call notes and summaries may need to be entered manually
Generates instant call summaries

Built for Various Use Cases

Healthcare

Answer patient calls, book appointments, collect intake details, route urgent requests, and support after-hours call coverage.

Legal

Qualify new client inquiries, capture case details, route urgent matters, and send call summaries to your intake team.

Real Estate

Capture buyer and seller leads, schedule property inquiries, route calls to agents, and follow up on missed opportunities.

Home Services

Book service calls, answer location or pricing questions, route emergency jobs, and capture new customer requests.

Dental

Schedule cleanings, reschedule appointments, answer common patient questions, and manage after-hours inquiries.

Financial Services

Route account questions, collect lead details, qualify inquiries, and escalate sensitive conversations to the right team.

Enterprise-grade Security

End-to-End Encryption

Voice streams, transcripts, and call metadata are protected in transit and at rest, helping your team manage customer conversations securely.

Compliance Controls

Murf supports enterprise-grade access controls, audit trails, role-based permissions, and governance workflows for teams in regulated industries.

Private by Design

Customer conversations are handled with strict data governance. Murf does not use your customer data to train shared models.

Murf Integrations

Murf plugs into your existing business systems, so your AI receptionist can answer calls, update records, book appointments, route tickets, and trigger workflows without manual effort. Bring your own LLMs and integrate seamlessly.
CRM
Pull caller context from Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, or Pipedrive in real time so your AI receptionist greets returning customers by name and routes them based on account history.
Telephony
Plug into Twilio, Vonage, or your existing SIP trunk to route inbound and outbound calls through your AI receptionist without changing your phone number or carrier.
Calendars
Connect Google Calendar, Outlook, and Calendly so the AI receptionist checks availability live, books appointments, and handles reschedules without a human in the loop.
Automation
Trigger workflows in Zapier, Make, or n8n the moment a call ends — log the lead, notify the team, send the follow-up, update the CRM, all without writing code.
Bring your LLM
Run your AI receptionist on OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or your own fine-tuned model. Swap providers anytime to balance cost, latency, and quality on your terms.
REST APIs and SDKs
Build custom integrations on top of Murf with documented REST APIs and SDKs for Python, Node, and Go. If it has an endpoint, your receptionist can call it.

FAQs

For any further questions,

send us a message at support@murf.ai

What is an AI receptionist?

An AI receptionist is a voice-based AI agent that answers business calls, understands caller intent, responds naturally, books appointments, routes calls, captures leads, and follows up automatically. It works like a virtual front desk that stays available 24/7.

Is an AI receptionist the same as an AI virtual receptionist?

Not exactly. A virtual receptionist is usually a remote human who answers calls for your business. An AI receptionist uses voice AI to answer calls, understand intent, book appointments, route callers, and summarize conversations automatically.

Can Murf work as an AI answering service?

Yes. Murf can work as an AI answering service that answers calls 24/7, captures caller details, handles FAQs, books appointments, qualifies leads, and sends summaries to your team.

How is an AI receptionist different from call answering services?

Traditional call answering services often focus on taking messages or forwarding calls. Murf can do more than answer calls  - it can understand the caller’s needs, update business systems, schedule appointments, and escalate with context. An AI reception for small businesses will be more crucial than call answering services. 

Can Murf work as an AI phone receptionist?

Yes. Murf can act as an AI phone receptionist for businesses that want to answer calls, route customers, collect information, and automate front-desk workflows without adding more staff.

What makes Murf one of the best AI receptionist options?

Murf combines natural AI voices, fast voice response, managed setup, CRM and calendar integrations, human escalation, and scalable call handling. Murf does not just give you software  - it helps deploy the receptionist workflow with you.

Can Murf’s AI receptionist book appointments?

Yes. Murf can connect with your calendar to check availability, schedule appointments, reschedule bookings, and send confirmation messages to callers.

Can Murf handle after-hours calls?

Yes. Murf works as a 24/7 AI receptionist that can answer questions, collect inquiries, book appointments, and escalate urgent calls even when your team is unavailable.

What happens if Murf cannot answer a question?

Murf can transfer the call to a human, take a detailed message, or trigger a follow-up based on your rules. The handoff includes call context, so your team knows what the caller needs.

Does Murf integrate with my CRM and calendar?

Yes. Murf can connect with CRMs, calendars, telephony platforms, ticketing tools, workflow systems, custom APIs, and bring-your-own-LLM setups.

Is Murf secure for healthcare, legal, or financial calls?

Murf supports enterprise-grade security, role-based access, audit trails, and privacy controls. For regulated industries, call flows can be configured around consent, escalation, and data-handling requirements.

What does an AI receptionist cost?

AI receptionist pricing depends on call volume, voice usage, integrations, and deployment needs. Murf offers flexible pricing for teams that want to automate reception workflows without scaling front-desk headcount.