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Businesses don’t buy software.
They hire workers.
ErgonHQ is an operating system for a digital workforce. Each worker has a real identity — a phone number, an email, a calendar — plus persistent memory and the tools to act. You manage an org chart, not a menu of apps — one flat salary per worker.
What a worker is
Not a chatbot. An employee with a brain, an identity, and hands.
Judgment on every call, three kinds of memory underneath: an auditable log of everything done, facts about your customers, and learned playbooks that make the worker better every week — an asset that appreciates instead of depreciating.
A phone number customers call. An email and calendar. A name and a role. When you hire a worker, we provision the identity — like IT onboarding a new employee, done as an API call.
Your calendar, your CRM, payments, dispatch. Workers don’t summarize work for a human to finish — they finish it: the appointment booked, the invoice chased, the ETA texted.
The workforce
Start with one hire. Grow a team.
Answers every inbound call and text, books jobs on your real calendar, sends ETAs, handles reschedules, and remembers your customers between calls.
Sends invoices, chases late payments politely and persistently, negotiates payment plans, and flags accounts likely to go bad before they do.
Runs your ads, adjusts bids, writes landing pages, and re-engages customers who haven’t called in a while.
Manages the other workers: reviews their numbers daily, sets direction, reallocates effort — and escalates to you only when something needs a human.
How Sarah works today
A real employee’s job, done by software that never sleeps.
Sarah picks up 24/7 with your greeting and your voice. Nights, weekends, and the Tuesday lunch rush all sound the same to her: answered.
She checks live availability on your Cal.com or Google Calendar, offers real slots, books the visit, and reads it back to the caller before hanging up.
Repeat callers get recognized — the leaky sink, the old water heater, the gate code. Sarah keeps the notes a great dispatcher would.
The outcome ledger
Every job she books links to evidence you can click.
| Outcome | Evidence | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Job booked — leaking kitchen sink | Calendar event · Tue 2:00 PM | verified |
| Job booked — water heater install | Calendar event · Thu 9:00 AM | verified |
| After-hours call — message taken | Transcript on file | no charge |
No attribution hand-waving. An outcome only exists after we re-verify it in a system you trust — the appointment on your calendar, the transcript on file. If it isn’t verifiable, it isn’t counted. And every action a worker takes is logged with its reasoning, so you can audit any decision later.
Pricing
A salary per worker. No surprises.
- Every call answered in English or Spanish — days, nights, weekends, holidays
- Bookings on your real calendar, confirmations texted, customers remembered
- Every booked job logged in a verifiable ledger, so you see what she earns you
- Add more workers as you grow — billing ($39), reputation ($39), sales ($590), SEO ($850), manager ($49) — each priced like a hire. 14-day free trial, cancel any time.
A human dispatcher runs $3,000+ a month and sleeps. Sarah costs $250 — one booked job usually pays for her many times over, and you only add the workers you need.
Built for trust
Compliance isn’t a footnote. It’s a feature.
Every caller is told they’re speaking with an automated assistant, in the greeting, every time — even in your custom greeting. Bot-disclosure and outbound rules (TCPA) are enforced in the runtime, not bolted on.
Input, reasoning, action, outcome — every step a worker takes is written to an append-only log you can read. When you wonder “why did she do that?”, there’s an answer.
You set the thresholds. Anything above them — refunds, exceptions, judgment calls — escalates to a person. Workers handle the routine; you keep the authority.
Where this goes
From one hire to a marketplace of proven workers.
- Phase 1 — nowOne worker, one vertical
Sarah the Dispatcher for home services: answering, booking, remembering. Live today, billed on booked jobs verified in the ledger.
- Phase 2The second hire
Mike joins accounts receivable — and the platform underneath (identity provisioning, memory, metering) becomes the OS every future worker runs on.
- Phase 3The workforce
Workers collaborate over an internal bus, hand off warm leads, share what they learn. Olivia manages the team; your dashboard becomes an org chart.
- Phase 4The marketplace
A trained worker is an appreciating asset. Their learned playbooks — never your customer data, which is architecturally severed — can be cloned, certified, and hired by the next business, with performance history attached.
Who hires ErgonHQ
An AI front desk for local service businesses.
Home services
Plumbers, HVAC, electricians, and contractors — never miss an after-hours emergency call or a quote request again.
Clinics & medical
Answer patient calls, book and remind, and keep the front desk covered during lunch and after close.
Law firms
Capture new-client intake 24/7 and route consultations onto the right attorney’s calendar.
Salons & med-spas
Book and confirm appointments, fill cancellations, and ask happy clients for reviews automatically.
Agencies
Qualify inbound leads, send follow-up, and let an AI handle the repetitive front-office work.
Any phone-first business
If a missed call is a missed job, a worker that answers every time pays for itself.
Questions
Frequently asked.
What is an AI receptionist?
An AI receptionist is a virtual employee that answers your business phone 24/7, understands what the caller needs, answers questions about your services and hours, and books appointments straight onto your calendar. ErgonHQ’s dispatcher, Sarah, does this in English or Spanish with a real phone number, and always tells callers they’re speaking with an automated assistant.
How much does an AI phone answering service cost?
ErgonHQ is priced per worker, per month — like a salary. The front-desk dispatcher starts at $250/month; other workers (billing, reputation, sales, SEO, manager) range from $39 to $850/month. You only pay for the workers you hire, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial.
Can the AI book appointments on my calendar?
Yes. Sarah connects to Google Calendar or Cal.com, checks real availability, offers open slots, and books the appointment during the call — then sends a confirmation and a calendar invite. Every booking is recorded with evidence in an audit-ready ledger.
Does ErgonHQ work for Spanish-speaking businesses?
Yes. Workers answer calls, qualify callers, and book appointments in natural Latin-American Spanish, and the platform interface is available in Spanish. You choose the language per worker.
Will callers know they’re talking to an AI?
Always. Every caller and correspondent is told they’re dealing with an automated assistant — it’s built in and can’t be turned off. You can choose whether the disclosure is stated upfront or when a caller asks, but it’s never hidden.
What kinds of businesses use ErgonHQ?
Local service businesses that live and die by the phone and by follow-up — home services (plumbers, HVAC, electricians), clinics and medical practices, law firms, salons and med-spas, and agencies. Any business that misses calls after hours or loses jobs to slow follow-up.
About ErgonHQ
ErgonHQ is a platform where small businesses hire AI workers — a receptionist that answers the phone and books appointments, a billing assistant, a reputation manager, an SEO specialist, a sales assistant, a social media manager, and an ads manager — each working under your approval and reporting back in one dashboard.
With your permission, ErgonHQ connects to your Google services to do this work on your behalf: Google Calendar to book and manage your appointments, Google Search Console to analyze how customers find your website, and Google Ads to create and manage the ad campaigns you approve. ErgonHQ accesses only the data needed for these features, never sells your data, and you can disconnect any Google service at any time. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.