A voicebot called EVA handles reservations, billing, and front-desk calls across major hotel brands.
PolyAI and Fourteen IP built a hotel concierge voicebot, EVA, that has been deployed across properties from Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, and Choice Hotels. It handles the routine guest calls that pile up at any front desk, reservations, billing questions, and housekeeping requests, so staff can focus on the guests standing in the lobby instead of the phone that will not stop ringing.
Hotels are a telling early adopter because the guest call is sacred to them, and they still chose to automate the routine parts of it. The front desk is open around the clock, the questions repeat endlessly, and a call lost at 11pm is a worse stay or a booking that goes to a competitor. That these brands trust an AI voice agent with that line is a strong signal the technology is ready for any business whose phone is effectively its front door.
Most small businesses have a front desk too. It is just a mobile phone in someone's pocket, and it goes unanswered far more often than a hotel switchboard ever would.
Hospitality was early to automate the front-desk line, where reservations, billing questions, and service requests arrive around the clock and a single missed call can mean a worse stay or a lost booking.
Under the hood, a modern AI voice agent is nothing like the old phone tree. It answers in under a second, understands natural, interrupted, real-world speech instead of "press 1 for sales," and holds a genuine back-and-forth, including the corrections and half-sentences people actually use on the phone.
Mid-conversation it pulls context from your calendar and CRM, checks real availability, and books or reschedules on the spot. It captures the caller's name, number, and reason for calling, hands off to a human only when something genuinely needs one, and the instant the call ends it texts you a summary and logs every detail. That is the same machinery behind every deployment on this page, just pointed at a different script.
An AI receptionist answers every call the way a great front-desk hire would, minus the salary, the turnover, and the sick days.
Whether you run a dental office or a pet-grooming studio, your version of the front desk is the phone. A receptionist agent answers it, books the appointment, and handles the routine questions a guest, patient, or client would ask, every time, without putting anyone on hold.
It also reframes what a front desk even is. The point of EVA is not to remove the human touch, it is to make sure the easy, repetitive calls never pull staff away from the guest standing right there. For a small business with no front desk at all, that trade tilts even further in your favor.
The difference for a small business is that you build none of it. We do. It starts with a 30-minute intake call where we capture your services, pricing, hours, and the questions your customers ask most. We write the scripts, build and train the agent, connect your calendar and CRM, and test every flow before it touches a live caller. Most agents go live on a dedicated number within five business days, and we keep tuning as your business changes. It plugs into the tools you already use: Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, your CRM, and SMS.
Most do not ask. The voice is natural and it answers in under a second. When someone does ask, they rarely mind once the call goes smoothly and they get what they called for. The fastest way to judge it is to call our demo line and hear it yourself.
Usually five business days from your intake call. We build, train, and test it for you, then it goes live on a dedicated number, with no DIY setup on your end.
Google Calendar, Outlook, Calendly, your CRM, and SMS, so it can check availability and book in real time and keep your records current after every call.
The brands above had teams and budgets. You get the same capability, done for you, on your number, in about five days.
Sources: PolyAI
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