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Hire a Receptionist. Or Don't.

Compare the fully-loaded annual cost of a human receptionist against the AGNT/01 stack. Every assumption, the payroll loading, the tier price, is a number you can edit above the ledger.

The comparisonPer hour
Wage × hours × loadingvsSetup + monthly=Cost per covered hour

Every input is editable. Nothing hidden.

Missed call · Tue 6:12 PMAI receptionist
Sorry we missed you. How can we help?
Can someone come out this week?
Thursday 9 AM or Friday 1 PM. Which works?
Thursday
Booked: Thursday 9 AM. Reminder the day before.

The call that used to hit voicemail is now on the calendar.

Hourly wage
$
Hours worked per week
hrs
Payroll tax / benefits / turnover loading Assumption
%

Default of 35% is a common rule-of-thumb for CPP/EI, vacation pay, benefits and the cost of hiring again after turnover. Set it to your real number if you know it, it changes the ledger below directly.

AGNT/01 tier

Starter $697 + $497/mo · Foundation $2,497 + $1,197/mo (750 min) · Growth $4,997 + $1,997/mo (2,000 min). Enterprise is custom-quoted and not modelled here.

The LedgerAnnual
Loaded hourly rate$0.00
Hours covered / week40
Hours covered / year2,080
Human, annual cost$0

Cost per covered hour: $0.00

Setup fee (year 1 only)$0
Monthly × 12$0
Hours covered / week168 · 24/7
AGNT/01, year 1 cost$0

Ongoing annual cost (year 2+, no setup fee): $0 · Cost per covered hour: $0.00

Read This Before You Decide

AGNT/01 does not replace a receptionist's full job. A human receptionist greets walk-ins, reads a room, makes judgment calls, upsells in person and handles the exceptions no script anticipates. Cost-per-covered-hour comparisons like the one above make AI look artificially cheap if you read them as a straight swap.

What the AI system actually replaces is the after-hours and overflow gap: the 128 hours a week a 40-hour receptionist physically cannot cover, when calls currently go to voicemail. Most businesses running this calculator aren't choosing between a person and a machine; they're deciding whether to keep leaking the hours nobody is covering right now.

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