Answering right now — 24/7

Voicemail is where jobs go to die.

AwakeDesk is an AI phone receptionist for appointment businesses. It answers your business line, talks to customers like a seasoned front desk, books the job straight into your calendar, and texts the confirmation — at 7 a.m., at 9 p.m., and while you're up a ladder.

Don't take our word for it. Call it.

This is the live product, not a recording. Try to book something. Try to stump it.

TUESDAY · 9:47 PMAFTER CLOSE
Caller
My AC quit and it's still ninety out here.
AwakeDesk
That's miserable — let's get somebody out to you. I have tomorrow at 8 or 10:15. Which works better?
Caller
Eight's good.
AwakeDesk
Done — you're on the books for 8 a.m. I'm texting your confirmation now.
Booked Customer texted Owner texted

What happens when your phone rings

Answered like you'd answer it. Booked like you'd book it.

You keep your number — calls forward to AwakeDesk always, after hours, or only when nobody picks up. Then:

It picks up in seconds

Your greeting, your business name. No hold music, no phone tree, no "press 3."

It knows your business

Services, prices, staff, hours, holidays — and the twenty questions your customers actually ask.

It books real times

Google Calendar or the built-in appointment book, checked live before it ever offers a slot.

You hear about it

A text the moment it books, and every call in your dashboard with recording, transcript, and summary.

Everything the front desk does

One receptionist. Six jobs.

Books, moves, and cancels

Callers book new appointments, reschedule, or cancel — and can correct it mid-call ("I said 10:15, not 10:30").

Texts the customer

Confirmation texts, sent only after asking permission on the call, in plain words.

Texts youNEW

The moment an appointment is booked, moved, or cancelled, your phone buzzes. Turn it on or off in one checkbox.

Hands off to a human

Ask for a person and it rings the number you chose. Emergencies and angry callers get through, not deflected.

Takes real messages

Anything it can't handle becomes a message in your inbox with a callback number — never an improvised answer.

Keeps your number

No porting, no new number on your truck. Carrier-side forwarding you can switch off any day.

Straight talk

What it will not do.

This matters more than the feature list, because it's where most AI disappoints people.

It does not invent answers.

Prices, hours, and availability come from your settings and your calendar — never from a language model's guess. If it doesn't know, it says so and takes a message.

It does not promise unchecked times.

Every slot it offers came back from your calendar first.

It does not cold-call anyone.

AwakeDesk answers calls. It never places them.

It does not text without permission.

A customer is asked on the call, in plain words, before a single message is sent.

It hands off when it should.

An emergency, an angry caller, or anything outside what it knows becomes a human's problem in seconds — not an improvised answer.

The math

Cheaper than missing one job a month.

24/7Nights, weekends, holidays, lunch rushes. It doesn't take days off.
$149/moFlat. Unlimited minutes on the founding plan — no per-call fees, no overage.
~$5/minWhat typical live answering services charge. Do that math at your call volume.

Founding offer — first ten businesses

$149 a month. Locked for as long as you stay.

Unlimited minutes, answered and booked around the clock. Setup is a one-time $499: a technician builds your receptionist with you and proves it with live test calls before a single customer ever hears it. No contract — cancel any month.

Monthly

$149/month
plus one-time $499 white-glove setup
  • Unlimited minutes, 24/7
  • Founding price locked for life
  • No contract — cancel any month
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Checkout is handled by Stripe. After you sign up, we call to schedule your setup visit — nothing goes live until it has passed live test calls with you on the line.

Who's behind it

Built by a person. Installed by a person.

AwakeDesk is built by CodeAlpha, LLC in East Texas, and the first businesses are being onboarded by hand. Your receptionist isn't a signup form — it's built with you: your services, your prices, your people, your way of talking to customers.

Questions first? Email mike@codealpha.io or call (903) 617-7758.

How AwakeDesk uses Google Calendar. Connecting Google Calendar is optional, and you grant exactly two permissions. AwakeDesk reads your busy and free times so the receptionist only offers slots you genuinely have, and it creates, moves, and cancels the appointments your callers ask for. That is the whole of it.

We do not request the full calendar permission, which would also allow deleting entire calendars, and your calendar data is never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to train models. You can disconnect from your dashboard at any time. The privacy policy spells this out in full.