AI phone system for consultants, fractional executives, coaches, and professional service firms
AI phone system for consultants and professional service firms
Capture discovery calls, referral introductions, urgent client questions, proposal follow-up, workshop inquiries, and outbound nurture without putting your personal cell at the center of the business.
Meet Your Consultants AI Employee
PhoneMachine answers calls for consultants, qualifies the request, captures the details, routes urgent work, and gives your team the clean next step.
What it handles for consultants:
New discovery callCollect business type, problem, goals, urgency, budget range if volunteered, decision maker, and calendar preference.
Referral introductionCapture who referred them, relationship context, company, pain point, and best next step.
Proposal follow-upAsk proposal name, status, blockers, decision timeline, stakeholders, and callback preference.
Existing client questionCapture client name, project, urgency, question, due date, and whether escalation is needed.
Workshop or speaking inquiryCollect audience, date, location/virtual, topic, expected attendance, budget range, and organizer.
Outbound nurtureCall past leads or old clients with a simple check-in script and return only interested conversations.
Why consultants teams choose PhoneMachine
Consultants sell expertise, but the phone still rings while they are in client meetings, on workshops, traveling, or deep in billable work.
Capture
Billable work conflict
A consultant is leading a paid workshop when a referred prospect calls. The AI answers, captures the referral source and pain point, and books a focused callback.
Route
Proposal momentum
A buyer has scope questions before signing. The AI captures blockers and stakeholders before the deal goes cold.
Follow up
No personal-cell chaos
Clients and prospects use a business line that can route, summarize, and protect focused work time instead of ringing a personal phone all day.
Automate
Dormant pipeline
Old discovery calls and prior clients can be checked in on with controlled outbound scripts, returning only warm opportunities.
How it works
Answer, understand, route, follow up.
Consultants caller reaches you
Use a PhoneMachine number or forward the line customers already call.
AI handles the front desk work
It follows your consultants scripts, FAQs, escalation rules, and caller history.
The conversation becomes structured data
Transcript, summary, tags, urgency, contact updates, and next action are saved.
Your team gets a clean handoff
Call back, text, assign a task, route urgent work, or launch approved follow-up.
Consultants call handling, built in
Every vertical page keeps the current PhoneMachine system, with the scripts, boundaries, and intake fields changed for consultants.
Voice
Voice
Answers consultants calls 24/7 and captures intent.
Text / SMS
Text / SMS
Sends links, reminders, confirmations, and follow-up replies with consent controls.
Outbound
Outbound
Runs approved callback and follow-up scripts without inventing promises.
Knowledge
Knowledge
Uses approved consultants FAQs, policies, fields, and never-say rules.
Team handoff
Team handoff
Moves the conversation into your shared inbox with context and next steps.
Live call example
Hear the AI handle a consultants call.
Discovery call is the kind of scenario the page is built around.
Discovery call
CALLERI need help fixing our sales process.
PHONEMACHINEI can capture that for the consulting team. What kind of business is it, and what problem are you trying to solve first?
CALLERWe are a small SaaS company and leads are not converting.
PHONEMACHINEGot it. I will include sales conversion, SaaS, and your preferred callback window so the consultant can prepare before calling back.
The math
One captured consulting deal can cover the year.
Consulting retainers, audits, workshops, and fractional engagements are high-ticket. One saved referral or proposal follow-up can pay for the phone system many times over.
Guardrails for consultants
The AI uses the same PhoneMachine workflow with industry-specific safety and compliance boundaries.
Scope control
Custom proposals, guarantees, and contract changes stay with the consultant.
Client privacy
Project details and confidential business information should follow approved access rules.
Outbound consent
Follow-up calls should respect opt-outs, contact rules, and approved scripts.
AI Receptionist
Starter
AI answers, records, and summarizes calls for one-person businesses.
$39/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $49/mo
Start free trial- 120 AI voice minutes / mo
What's included
- 1 business number + 2 users
- Inbound SMS inbox + outbound SMS (after carrier approval)
- Call recording + transcripts
- Browser video links
- 25 fax pages / mo
Best ValueMost popular
Business
The full AI phone system for growing teams.
$99/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $129/mo
Start free trial- 300 AI voice minutes / mo · 500 SMS / mo
What's included
- 5 users + 2 numbers included
- AI auto-learning + knowledge base
- API keys + webhooks
- Team chat + internal video
- Review collection + SMS keywords
Outbound Automation
Business Pro
Outbound automation for teams that run larger calling lists.
$239/mo billed annually
Monthly option: $299/mo
Start free trial- 600 AI voice minutes / mo · 1,000 SMS / mo
What's included
- Unlimited users + 2 numbers included
- Power Dial Contacts & Campaigns (voice + SMS)
- SMS drip automation
- Sentiment + predictive follow-up
- Voicemail drop
Enterprise
Enterprise
Custom — built for your team.
Custom
Contact Sales- Custom voice + SMS pool
What's included
- Custom users and numbers
- SSO, SCIM, audit logs
- Dedicated account manager + custom AI training
Consultants setup
What the AI needs to know.
Discovery intake+
Business type, problem, desired outcome, urgency, decision maker, budget range if volunteered, and preferred next step.
Offer library+
Approved service packages, retainers, audits, workshops, fractional roles, coaching formats, and what requires human scoping.
Referral handling+
Referral source, relationship, urgency, company, project type, and whether to route with priority.
Client escalation+
Existing client, project name, deadline, urgency, deliverable, and who should respond.
Never-say rules+
Do not promise results, quote custom scope, bind contract terms, give legal/financial advice, or negotiate pricing.
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