AI Answering Service that resolves the call
What is an AI answering service?
An AI answering service uses a voice AI agent to answer your business calls around the clock, understand the caller in natural speech, and handle the request. Where a traditional answering service takes a message, IrisAgent resolves the call: looks up the order, moves the appointment, answers the policy question, or escalates the emergency.
- Answers, not messages: routine requests resolved on the call, from your own data.
- Your number: cover after-hours, overflow, or every call on the line customers already know.
- Urgent calls escalate: on-call gets the transcript and caller details right away.
- No voicemail pile: everything else becomes a ticket with full context.
By Palak Dalal Bhatia, CEO & Co-founder, IrisAgent · Last updated November 6, 2026
Resolve the call instead of taking a message
The Hallucination Removal Engine validates every answer before it is spoken, so callers hear your actual policy.
Your number. Your stack.
Works with Zendesk, Salesforce, Intercom, Freshworks, HubSpot, and more. A helpdesk is optional. No phone system migration.
Escalate the urgent. Ticket the rest.
Requests that need a person but can wait become helpdesk tickets with an AI summary, so your team starts the morning with context instead of a voicemail list.
Quality on every call
Caller verification runs against your own systems through an API call, never the model. SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA controls, with PII redacted before storage.
When teams turn it on
Live in 24 hours on the number you already have. Expand once you see the resolution rate.
Nights and weekends
Cover the calls you cannot staff, without a night shift or overtime.
Peak and seasonal spikes
Answer every caller at once instead of building a hold queue.
Outage and incident days
Handle the same question hundreds of times while your team fixes the issue.
Replacing a message-taking service
Swap callbacks for answers on the calls your systems can resolve.
Voicemail vs an answering service vs IrisAgent
| Voicemail | Human answering service | IrisAgent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| After-hours caller gets | A beep | A message taken | The answer, on the call |
| Access to your systems | None | Usually none | Reads and updates them |
| Peak and overflow | Callers hang up | Limited by staffing | Many calls at once |
| Urgent calls | Missed until morning | If the script covers it | Escalated immediately |
| Your team's morning | Return voicemails | Return messages | Tickets with full context |
| Quality visibility | None | Spot checks | AutoQA on 100% of calls |
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Flexible pricing
Pick the model that matches your call volume. Telephony minutes stay with your carrier.
USAGE-BASED
$400
per month
From 2,000 included minutes, scaling to custom plans for higher volume.
RESOLUTION-BASED
$0.99 to $2
per resolved call
Your rate sits in this range based on monthly volume. Nothing charged when the call goes to a human.
Any questions?
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