A receptionist costs $4,000+ a month and works set hours. AskMyBusiness costs a flat $99 a month and answers your website around the clock, every day.
A receptionist costs a salary, works set hours, and takes sick days and vacation. AskMyBusiness costs a flat $99 a month, answers visitors on your website 24 hours a day, and never clocks out. Both can greet a visitor and pass along a message. Only one of them costs the same in month twelve as it did in month one.
A full-time front desk runs $4,000 or more a month, and that number holds whether the phone rings twice or fifty times a day. It covers one person, during that person's hours, at that person's desk. Nights, weekends, lunch breaks, and sick days are gaps a receptionist can't cover alone, no matter how good they are at the job.
AskMyBusiness runs $99 a month, flat, for one business and one website. No per-conversation charge, no tiers to upgrade into. It answers at 2 p.m. and 2 a.m. the same way, because it isn't a shift worker.
A receptionist reads tone, remembers a regular caller's name, and handles a situation that needs judgment on the spot. AskMyBusiness doesn't replace that. It answers from what your business has already published — services, pricing, hours, policies, booking pages — and shows the page it pulled the answer from. If it can't verify an answer against your content, it says so and offers a person instead of guessing.
When a visitor needs more than an answer — they want to book, talk to someone, or the situation calls for judgment — AskMyBusiness captures their name and contact, with their permission, and sends it to the owner's inbox. That happens even at midnight, which is the one thing a single receptionist structurally cannot do.
AskMyBusiness goes on the website you already have with one line of code, whatever platform it's built on — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, GTM, or Framer — or it runs at its own link with a QR code if you'd rather not touch the site at all. Nothing gets rebuilt or migrated. A receptionist still answers the phone and greets people at the counter; the assistant covers the website, all the time, including the hours nobody's at the counter.
A visitor to a med spa's site asks at 11 p.m.: "Do you have anything for acne scarring, and what would that cost?"
The assistant answers from the site's published services and pricing page, cites the page it pulled from, and adds the field's required line: it can't give medical advice on which treatment is right for her skin, and offers to have a clinician follow up. It then asks for her name and a way to reach her. With her permission, that goes straight to the owner's inbox — before the office opens the next morning.
The facts here cover what AskMyBusiness does: answer from your published content, show its source, and hand off to a person when a visitor needs to talk, book, or needs judgment the assistant isn't built to give. Whether that fully replaces a receptionist's other duties — phones, front counter, filing — is a call each owner makes based on what a receptionist does at that specific business.
AskMyBusiness is $99 a month, flat, for one business and one website, month to month, cancel anytime. A full-time front desk runs $4,000 or more a month. The comparison is on the pricing page at askmy.business.
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Build my free previewUpdated 2026-09-01 · AskMyBusiness by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN