Free missed-call test
We call your line after hours and send the recording. Proof before money, in that order.
An AI receptionist for a Russellville, Arkansas business answers every call around the clock in your business's voice, qualifies the caller by rules you write, books the job on your real calendar, and sends SMS follow-up. Arkansas Automated builds and manages it for $199 setup plus $499 a month, tuning included.
Arkansas Tech University, Arkansas Nuclear One, manufacturing, and service businesses covering the middle of the River Valley along I-40.
A Russellville service business spends a lot of its day on I-40. Dardanelle, Atkins, Pottsville, Clarksville, all of it is drive time, and drive time is exactly when the phone rings. Hands-free answering is not answering, because you cannot write down an address at 70 miles an hour.
The receptionist takes the call you cannot take and gives it back to you as a job card with the address already in it. For Russellville the second win is routing: it can ask where the caller is and slot them into the day you are already driving, instead of sending you back across the county tomorrow.
We call your line after hours and send the recording. Proof before money, in that order.
We map how your shop actually takes work: who is on call, what counts as an emergency, where jobs get booked, what an estimate follow-up should say. One-time $199.
Live on your real line for a week. You see every recording, booking, and follow-up before the first invoice.
$499 a month. No per-minute or per-call charges, no contract. The weekly summary shows exactly what it did.
$499/mo. The same price sheet everywhere in Arkansas. Full service detail and pricing.
Yes, and small is where the arithmetic is clearest. A one or two truck operation in Russellville has nobody at a desk, so it misses the highest share of its calls. You will hear it answer as your business on the free 15-minute assessment before you commit a dollar.
Yes: Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, or a plain shared calendar. The booking rules are set with you at the setup visit.
An answering service takes a message and hands the work back to you. The AI receptionist qualifies the caller against your rules and books the job on your calendar during the call, at any hour, for a flat monthly fee instead of per minute. We wrote a full side-by-side comparison in the guides.
It does not quote prices beyond the ranges you approve, make safety calls, or handle anything you mark human-only at setup. Those go straight to a person, by your rule.
Public workshop seats are not for sale. Start with the free missed-call test. Private on-site sessions in Russellville are available for teams and trade groups.
The free 15-minute assessment loads your Russellville business details and you listen to the receptionist answer as your company. No payment due, and we reply from a real address, usually within one business day.
Last updated August 2026. Written by Andre Brassfield, founder of Arkansas Automated.