How much is missing calls costing you? Calculate your AI ROI.
Most UK SMEs miss 30-40% of inbound calls. At £200-500 average customer value, that's £15K-50K/year of lost revenue. AI Receptionist catches them — including 11pm, weekends, lunch service, and when reception is busy. Calculate your specific recovery below.
Why missed calls are the most expensive line in your P&L.
The calculator uses four inputs that you can estimate for your operation: weekly call volume, percentage missed, average customer value, and conversion rate. The maths is straightforward:
Annual missed-revenue = (Weekly calls × 52) × Missed% × Customer Value × Conversion%
For a typical UK SME at 50 calls/week, 35% missed, £350 customer value, 20% conversion: (50 × 52) × 0.35 × £350 × 0.20 = £63,700/year of missed revenue.
AI Receptionist at the standard £150/month tier costs £1,800/year. Net annual benefit: ~£62,000 recovered. Payback: weeks, not months.
Your specific numbers depend on your operation. Run the calculator above for your real situation, then book a free consultation to validate the assumptions against your actual call data.
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Frequently asked questions
How accurate is the AI savings calculator?
The calculator uses your real inputs (weekly call volume, missed call percentage, average customer value, conversion rate) to produce a realistic indication of annual missed-revenue. The Telexico AI Receptionist cost (£150/month standard tier) is real published pricing. The maths is straightforward: if you miss X calls/year worth Y£ each at Z% conversion rate, the lost revenue is X × Y × Z. AI catches those missed calls. The calculator gives you a useful starting point; the definitive number depends on your specific operation.
Is 'missing 30-40% of calls' really typical?
Yes — for UK SMEs without 24/7 coverage, this is a defensible industry average. Sources include UK call-tracking platforms reporting on missed-call rates across SME data. The breakdown: most SMEs are open 8-10 hours/day. Calls outside those hours, lunch breaks, when staff are with customers, on other calls, or simply not at the phone — these typically aggregate to 30-40% of total inbound calls. Some operations (restaurants during service, dental practices during procedures, garages with engineers in workshops) miss substantially more — often 50-60%.
What's the AI Receptionist actually doing?
Answering calls 24/7 — including lunch breaks, evenings, weekends, public holidays, and when your team is busy. Trained on YOUR business (services, prices, opening hours, location, FAQ). Books appointments directly into your calendar. Captures lead details for human follow-up. Escalates urgent calls to a real human number. Handles common questions without escalation. Sends call summaries to email so your team sees every enquiry.
Why £150/month?
That's our standard tier — covers up to ~200 minutes of AI call handling/month, which is enough for most UK SMEs. Higher-volume operations move to higher tiers (£300/month for up to 500 minutes, £500/month for up to 1,000 minutes). Pricing scales with usage, not with arbitrary 'enterprise' tiers. Most UK SMEs find the £150 tier sufficient for typical missed-call recovery; pricing for your actual operation comes from the free consultation.
How fast does the ROI pay back?
Depends on your operation. For a dental practice with 50 missed calls/week and £400 average customer value at 30% conversion, AI Receptionist pays back in ~2 weeks. For a small office with 10 missed calls/week and £200 average customer value at 20% conversion, it pays back in ~3 months. For a restaurant losing 100 missed calls/week with £35 average order value at 25% conversion, it pays back in ~2-3 weeks. Run your numbers in the calculator above for a personalised estimate.
What if the AI gets things wrong?
Every AI interaction is logged. Every escalation reason is captured. You see complete transcripts of all calls — what the caller asked, what the AI answered, what was booked, what was escalated. If the AI handles something wrong, you tell us and we retrain it within the same week. The AI Receptionist is supervised, not unsupervised. Most operations stabilise to ~95% correct-handling within 2-3 weeks of going live. Edge cases — angry callers, complex multi-part questions, deeply technical product questions — escalate to human reception.
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