The AI receptionist that
answers every call.

fonea is $90 a month and includes 120 minutes of talk time. There is no per-call fee, no setup fee, and no annual contract, and you can cancel monthly. For comparison, a part-time front-desk hire costs well over $2,000 a month in wages alone before you cover evenings, weekends, vacation, and sick days, and a traditional answering service bills per call or per minute on top of a base rate, so your busiest month is also your most expensive one.

A telephone answering service puts a shared human on your line to take a message and pass it on, billed per call or per minute. An AI receptionist answers the call itself: it knows your hours, services, and pricing, so it can answer the question, book the appointment on your calendar, or transfer an urgent caller to your cell while they are still on the line. It picks up instantly on every call instead of queueing behind another company’s caller, costs the same at 2am as at 2pm, and bills one flat monthly rate. The trade-off is judgment: fonea handles your everyday calls and transfers the ones you told it to transfer.

Yes. fonea works through standard call forwarding on your existing line, which every US carrier supports on landlines, VoIP lines, and cell phones. Forward always, only when the line is busy, or only when nobody picks up. Your advertised number never changes, there is no porting, and you can switch forwarding off again at any time.

English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. fonea detects the language the caller is speaking and answers naturally in it, with no button to press and no separate Spanish line to publish. In a market with a large Spanish-speaking customer base that replaces a bilingual answering service on a single number.

fonea does not improvise an answer it does not have. It either transfers the call to you, instantly for anything you have defined as urgent, or takes a structured message with the caller’s name, number, and concern and sends it by email or text, so you call back with full context instead of a name and a number.

Within 24 hours, not weeks. You describe your business, your hours, and the questions you get every day, connect your calendar if you want direct booking, set call forwarding on your line, and make a test call. Most businesses are live the same day they sign up.

Callers are told at the start of every call that they are speaking with a digital assistant, and that disclosure cannot be disabled. Recording is separate and it is your setting: storing call recordings is a checkbox in your dashboard, with a master switch for the business and one per assistant, and recordings are stored only when both are on. Both are on by default, so switching it off is a deliberate click and it applies from the next call. It stops the audio being stored; transcripts and summaries are separate mechanisms and keep working. Recording consent in the US is state law, and California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington and others require every party on the line to consent rather than just one, so whether that applies to your calls is for you and your counsel to decide. fonea creates no voiceprints or biometric profiles of callers.