AI receptionist & online bookingPortland, Oregon · AI receptionist for local businesses
Our AI receptionist answers the calls you miss, as your business, and offers the caller a time. The request lands on your phone.
Calls you don't pick up go on to your Almora line. You keep your number, and switching it on takes about 5 minutes on your end.
It greets the caller with your business name, finds out what they need, takes their name and number (and the address, if you go to them), and offers them a time from your hours.
The booking or the request reaches you by text or email, with the caller's details. Every call it answers is in your login, with a summary and transcript.
Thanks for calling your business! Just so you know, this call may be recorded. How can I help you today?
Every call opens with your business name and a note that it may be recorded, since every call is transcribed. If your business is in California, Colorado, Maine or Utah, it also says up front that it's an AI, and anyone who asks is told so.
Recording is switched off on your line. You get a written transcript instead, with every number in it blanked out, so a card number read out on a call is never stored there. Calls to our demo number are recorded.
The website and booking page we designed and built for Kanpai Kocktails, a mobile cocktail bar for weddings, company parties and milestone events around Portland. Scroll it, click around and try the booking.
You are looking at a copy of what we built, kept on our own site. The booking page is a working demo: nothing you enter is sent.
“Your design was streamlined and the graphics were a really nice touch. You were able to capture our brand to a T and I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a better brand image”
Published research
What published studies, none of them ours, found about a proper website, a fast reply and online booking. The headline figures are here; every chart and source is one tap further.
Nearly4 times
the revenue growth over a year, for the most digitally advanced small businesses against those with no website.
Deloitte for Google, 2017
Nearly7 times
as likely to qualify the lead when the firm replies inside the hour, rather than an hour later.
Harvard Business Review, March 2011
21 times
the odds of qualifying the enquiry when it is answered at five minutes rather than thirty.
Lead Response Management study, Prof. James Oldroyd, MIT, with InsideSales.com
Not how fast a page loads. What each one does to the business. The first panel is what a proper website is worth in money earned and staff taken on. The second is what a booking system is worth, and the research points the same way: the value is in catching the customer at the moment they are ready, not in the page they looked at. Published studies, none of them ours.
The website is how they find you and judge you. The booking system is how they book you at eleven at night.
Deloitte surveyed more than 2,000 US small businesses for Google. Set against a business whose whole online presence is an email address, the most digitally advanced ones came out like this.
| Measure | Multiple |
|---|---|
| A business with no website | 1 times |
| Revenue per employee | 2 times |
| As likely to be taking on staff | 3 times |
| Revenue growth over the year | 4 times |
| As likely to have grown the team | 6 times |
Deloitte for Google, Connected Small Businesses in the US, 2017
A study led by an MIT professor on a sales-software company's records tracked 15,000 enquiries and more than 100,000 follow-up calls. Replying inside the first hour, rather than after it, changed the odds this much.
| Measure | Multiple |
|---|---|
| Replying after the first hour | 1 times |
| Chance of reaching the customer at all | 10 times |
| Odds of qualifying the enquiry | 6 times |
Lead Response Management study, Prof. James Oldroyd, MIT, with InsideSales.com
Nobody has measured what online booking is worth to a small local business, so this panel shows the two things that have been measured: what each delay costs once a customer has asked, and, in one survey of homeowners hiring home-service pros, how many look for booking before they choose.
| Comparison | Effect | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Answered at five minutes rather than thirty | 21 times the odds of qualifying the enquiry | Lead Response Management study, Prof. James Oldroyd, MIT, with InsideSales.com |
| Answered inside the hour rather than an hour later | nearly 7 times as likely to qualify the lead | The Short Life of Online Sales Leads, Harvard Business Review, March 2011 |
| Answered inside the hour rather than a day or more later | more than 60 times as likely to qualify the lead | The Short Life of Online Sales Leads, Harvard Business Review, March 2011 |
80%
of homeowners in that one survey factor in online booking when choosing a home-service pro.
80 of every 100 homeowners surveyed.
Housecall Pro survey of 1,040 US homeowners, October 2025
A booking-software vendor's survey. Sample and method are published; the question wording is not.
Harvard Business Review, March 2011; Lead Response Management study, Oldroyd, MIT; Housecall Pro, October 2025
“Firms that tried to contact potential customers within an hour of receiving a query were nearly seven times as likely to qualify the lead … as those that tried to contact the customer even an hour later—and more than 60 times as likely as companies that waited 24 hours or longer.”
These are industry studies about the web in general, not results we are claiming for Almora. The response studies measured web enquiries to companies with sales staff, not to local service businesses; that a form answered in seconds sits at the far end of the same curve is our inference, not their finding. The homeowner survey is a booking-software vendor's own. We are young enough that we have no averages of our own worth quoting, and someone else's audited numbers beat our invented ones.
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The agency
Almora is an independent agency in Portland, Oregon: an AI receptionist, websites and online booking for local businesses. It exists because small businesses get treated as an afterthought online: a stock photo, a phone number buried three scrolls down, calls that ring out, and no way to book at eleven at night.
Your site is designed for your work, fitted to your services and where you work, wired to take bookings, hosted by us, and looked after for as long as you are with us. There is no hand-off between the people who design it, the people who build it and the people who answer your email.
Your site is designed for your work, fitted to your services and where you work, wired to take bookings, hosted by us, and looked after for as long as you are with us. There is no hand-off between the people who design it, the people who build it and the people who answer your email.
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Can you change the consultation to $169?
Done. It's live on your site.
Consultation$169Published
What every site we build is made around.
For when you can't get to the phone
$149a month
Your website and online booking included.
Plus a one-time $199 setup fee, charged with your first month.
500 call minutes a monthNo per-minute charges. We'll talk to you before you go over.
Get started, AI Receptionist planCall AlmoraCall Almora: (971) 342-9332
The Solo plan is the whole site: the booking system, hosting, changes and someone to email, with no AI receptionist on your calls.
| Plan | SoloOne person gets the booking alerts |
|---|---|
| A month | $79 |
| One-time setupCharged with your first month | $199 |
| People on alertsHow many people the plan covers on the booking alerts | 1 person |
| Sites | 1 site |
| Texts included | 300 a month |
| Changes and supportEmail what you want changed and it is done for you | Email support from the people who built it |
| Next step | Get started, Solo plan |
Texts count per message. Never cut off mid-month.Texts count per message, not per part, and nobody is cut off mid-month.
Texts count per message, not per part, and nobody is cut off mid-month.
Something here not answered?
Email us directlyThe AI Receptionist plan is $149 a month, with your website and online booking included. A website on its own, without the receptionist, is $79 a month on the Solo plan. Both plans also have a one-time $199 setup fee, which isn't refundable. You approve the finished site before any card is taken. The day you sign up, the setup fee and your first month are charged together, and the monthly renews from there. The site is live within seven days of your go-ahead. Cancelling is one email to hello@almorasites.com with no fee. Your content is yours from the start, a domain you bring stays yours, and the site stays live for as long as you subscribe, hosted and looked after by Almora.
The AI Receptionist plan includes 500 answered call minutes a month. Nothing is billed by the minute, and we'll talk to you before you go over. If a month ever does reach 500, the receptionist stops picking up and new calls ring through to the direct or backup number you gave us until the next month starts, and we tell you when that happens. Your login shows how many minutes you've used so far this month.
After the ten-minute form, a few minutes to give us a backup number for calls it can't take and what it may say about your prices and urgent calls. Switching it on then takes about 5 minutes: from your business phone you dial a short code we send you, wait for the tone, then make one test call with us. If your phone company doesn't publish a code (AT&T doesn't, and landlines and office phone systems each do it their own way), you switch it on in your phone's settings or ask them to, which can take 10 to 20 minutes. Some phone companies count forwarded calls as airtime, so it's worth checking your plan.
You keep it. Customers call the number they already have, and your phone company passes the calls you don't pick up to your Almora line, a second number we set up for you, where the receptionist answers as your business. Your phone still rings first, so if you answer, it's an ordinary call. If you'd rather it answered every call, you can forward them all instead. Turn forwarding off and your phone works exactly as it did before.
Call (971) 342-9332 and judge for yourself. Almora's own AI receptionist answers: ask it anything about us, or have it answer as your business to hear what your callers would. If we've emailed your business about it, call from your business phone and it answers as your business from the first word. On your own line, it never pretends to be a person: anyone who asks is told it's an AI assistant for your business, and if your business is in California, Colorado, Maine or Utah, it says so at the start of every call.
Anyone hurt or in danger is told to call 911. If you go out to customers, it also takes an urgent caller's name, number and address first and sends it to you flagged as an emergency straight away. If you give us a number for urgent calls, it can also try to put the caller through to you.
Yes. Cancelling is one email to hello@almorasites.com, with no fee (the setup fee isn't refundable). To switch it off for a while, email us and we pause it; your monthly continues while it's paused. While it's paused, calls ring through to the direct or backup number you gave us. If your subscription is cancelled or stays unpaid, it pauses by itself the same way.
Usually within a few days of your request, as a link to a finished scrollable site rather than a mockup or a slide. As for what we need from you, the form below is enough to start. Photos, a logo or an existing address all help, and if you have none of them the demo uses clearly labelled stand-ins you can replace later.
On yes, you fill in a short form, the site launches under your name and Almora manages it month to month, with booking requests routed to your phone, or to your inbox if a text cannot go out. On no, nothing happens and nothing is owed.
Three pages and a review, about ten minutes, on your phone if you like. Everything saves as you go. It asks for the things only you can give us: the business name and number, any license number your work needs, whether customers come to you or you go to them, the number and email that should get your alerts, your services and what each starts at, your hours and their time zone, and your address or the area you serve. Most of those boxes are already filled from what we know, so you check them rather than type them. The wording, your slogan, your story, photos and reviews are all marked optional: leave any of them blank and we write or source it. If something does not apply, type NA.
Send the address with your request and the demo becomes a direct comparison rather than a pitch. In practice two things change. Your phone number stops being buried three scrolls down, and there is finally a way for someone to book you at eleven at night. The published research above is the honest reason that matters more than how it looks.
No. Every demo sits behind a five-digit password that only you and Almora hold, and until it is typed the page is not handed over at all: a wrong code returns nothing, not a blurred preview. After a handful of wrong tries it stops answering. Demos are also kept out of search results. And the moment your site goes live the password is lifted automatically, so a customer of yours is never asked for one.
Almora hosts and serves it, so you never touch a server. Your booking requests are kept with your business in the database, and your login opens only your own, so no other business can see them. Your booking link is a signed link that expires, which is also why you can confirm a booking in one tap without logging in to anything.
