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, takes the job details, and sends you the message before you're off the ladder.
Robocalls get hung up on. Real people get a polite assistant. You get the message in seconds, or watch the call live.
Practice calls run here in your browser, as a caller to a sample business. For a real phone call, dial (646) 518-1052: Octag answers as itself, day or night.
Example set in your area. Octag phone numbers start in the US.
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. Watch it live, or read the message after.
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 rings you first, says who and why, and you press 1 to take it.
Robocalls are hung up on, and spam never uses your minutes.
Hold music, dead air and callers who won't stop are cut off. You set the longest a call can run.
Fake banks and "verify your account" calls get no information and land in Calls with a warning, never as urgent.
Call your Octag number from your own phone and type your PIN: Octag reads you what's waiting and marks things done.
Invite your front desk or a partner by link. Each slip shows who handled it.
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
Octag answers in your caller's language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Hindi, Vietnamese and many more. Your message slips always arrive in English.
Trust
Octag's first sentence says it's an AI and that the call is recorded and transcribed. Several states require everyone on a call to know it's recorded, so Octag tells every caller, everywhere.
Octag keeps transcripts, never call audio. Transcripts delete after 90 days, or sooner if you ask. 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.
Your monthly minutes come first, then any minute packs, which never expire. Auto top-up adds 100 minutes for $15 when you run out, so you never miss a lead; you can switch it off. With no minutes left, Octag takes a voicemail and you still get the transcript. You get an alert at 80% and 100%.Your monthly minutes come first, then any packs you added, which never expire. With none left, calls go to a plain voicemail and you still get the transcript. Add 60 or 150 minutes when you want; we never charge you without your tap. You get an alert at 80% and 100%.
That's next. "Call for me" will book, reschedule and ask questions on businesses' main lines, and it asks you before anything is final.
Octag is an AI receptionist and call screener. Calls you miss or decline are forwarded to your Octag number; Octag answers, says it's an AI, answers questions from your own price list and hours, takes the message and sends you a slip with who called, what they wanted and what's left for you.
Business plans are $49, $129 and $279 a month for 300, 1,000 and 2,000 minutes. Personal plans are $9.99 and $19.99 a month, and $4.99 for students with a school email (50 minutes). Yearly plans get two months free. Early access is free, with no card, until phone numbers open.
If a caller describes a medical emergency, a fire, a gas leak or anyone in danger, Octag tells them right away to hang up and call 911, and saves an urgent message for you. Octag can't call 911 or send help itself, and it says so. Someone in crisis is given 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Octag's first sentence on every call says it's an AI and that the call is recorded and transcribed, which is what states that require everyone's consent ask for. A caller who doesn't want that can say so: if they'd rather not go on, Octag ends the call and keeps nothing they said, only that their number called. Check your own state's rules for your business; this isn't legal advice.
Yes. Recruiters and your school's offices get a polite assistant that takes their name, number and when they're free, and you get the message in seconds. Family can ring straight through, and Octag answers them in their language with the slip in English. Callers after your FSA ID, a fee for loan forgiveness or a visa problem, or offering a job paid by check are marked as possible scams, and Octag never says where you are or when your classes are. Octag for students.
Octag phone numbers start in the US. Anyone can try a practice call in the browser today, in English, Spanish and other languages.
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.
Students: $4.99 a month for 50 minutes with a school email (.edu). Octag for students
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 always says it's an AI and that the call is recorded and transcribed. In a practice call the words are written down so you can see them; the audio isn't kept. Practice calls are short and free.