Vol. 01 · Issue 01
New Studio · Now Accepting Pilots
The Bespoke Reception Issue

A receptionist platform built around your firm — in weeks, not quarters.

We pair senior US-based receptionists with an AI-accelerated stack to build your bespoke intake platform — while others are still taking notes.

Human Excellence

Elite Intake Squad

A senior Lemon Receptionist agent at her desk

AI-Accelerated

Built around your stack.

Most receptionist services hand you a phone number. We hand you a phone number and the software that turns every call into the next step.

— The Editors · Issue 01

Custom Platform

Bespoke CRM integrations.

Senior Receptionists

US-based intake professionals, hand-picked and trained on your firm's scripts, tone, and escalation rules.

24/7
Coverage
100%
US-Based
Live
Human Pickup
62% of callers hang up on voicemailA missed call = a competitor's customerAverage response time to win a lead: 5 minutes1 in 3 service calls go unanswered after hoursVoicemail kills 80% of inbound intent
62% of callers hang up on voicemailA missed call = a competitor's customerAverage response time to win a lead: 5 minutes1 in 3 service calls go unanswered after hoursVoicemail kills 80% of inbound intent
The Cost of Silence · Chapter 00

Every Ring You Miss
Someone Else Answers.

Voicemail isn't a safety net — it's a leak. By the time you call back, your lead has already booked the competitor down the street. We plug the leak with trained receptionists and custom AI workflows, so every opportunity is captured, tracked, and acted on within minutes.

Voicemail isn't a safety net. It's the sound of a customer choosing someone else.

Fix Your Leaks Free 15-min audit · No commitment
What changes when you stop missing calls →
01
More Booked Jobs

Inbound intent becomes calendar appointments — not callbacks.

02
Faster Response Times

Average pickup in under 8 seconds. Day or night.

03
Better Customer Experiences

A human voice, every time. Trained on your firm.

Section 00

Industries We Serve

Built for the sectors where every missed call costs real money.

Construction & Contracting

Dispatch crews, field contractor inquiries, and capture emergency calls before they roll to voicemail.

Logistics & Transportation

Track shipments, book loads, and keep drivers connected across time zones without a single dropped call.

Hospitality & Hotel

Handle reservations, guest services, and group bookings with the warmth and polish your brand demands.

Property Management

Tenant maintenance requests, leasing inquiries, and after-hours emergencies — all routed to the right person.

Healthcare Clinics

HIPAA-aware intake, appointment scheduling, and patient follow-ups with clinical precision and care.

Marketing & Advertising

Qualify inbound leads, book discovery calls, and never let a campaign-driven inquiry slip through the cracks.

See How Lemon Fits Your Industry + Professional services, legal, retail, and more.
Section 01

The Service

What Lemon actually does between 8am and the end of time.

Live Call Answering

Every call greeted by a trained, US-based receptionist in your company's voice. Humans up front; AI handles transcription, routing, and CRM updates in the background.

Booking & Intake

Lemon qualifies the caller, runs your intake script, and drops the appointment straight into your calendar of record.

Message Discipline

Structured messages delivered to email, SMS, or Slack within 60 seconds. Searchable. Audited. Never lost.

Bilingual Coverage

English and Spanish handled natively. Additional languages routed through our partner network on request.

After-Hours & Overflow

Use Lemon as your full-time front desk or only when your team is on the other line. Both are first-class.

HIPAA-Aware Workflows

Custom scripts, restricted-data handling, and signed BAAs available for medical and legal practices.

02 / How It Works

Your calls become booked work — automatically.

A live receptionist answers in your firm's voice. Our system captures, routes, and syncs every detail to your team in real time. You stay focused on the work that pays.

01
Caller dials in

Your number rings — never a voicemail, never a robot.

02
Lemon answers

A trained US-based receptionist greets, qualifies, and books.

03
System captures

Your custom workflow logs, routes, and pushes to your CRM.

04
Your team is notified

Slack, SMS, or email — the right person gets it in seconds.

Built around your firm

Not a template. A system shaped to how you operate.

Intake scripts, routing rules, escalation paths, and CRM handoffs — designed with you in 4–8 weeks and tuned every week after that. The receptionist you'd hire if hiring wasn't the bottleneck.

Real-time sync

Your team sees every call the moment it ends.

No refresh. No daily report. Every conversation pushes to Slack, SMS, email, or your live dashboard within 60 seconds — searchable, audited, and never lost in an inbox.

Section 02a

The Platform

The operational system behind every receptionist plan, built around your firm.

While Lemon answers your calls, we build the system that turns them into booked work, tracked leads, and clean handoffs.

Custom dashboards. Integrations wired to your existing tools. A mobile app that follows your team into the field. Built around your data and your roles — and included at every tier with no separate setup fee.

See The Full Build
Build timeline
4–8 weeks
Cost
Included
Ownership
Yours
Section 03

Who Answers Your Calls

Real people. Trained on your firm. Backed by AI that does the busywork they shouldn't.

Maria, a senior Lemon Receptionist receptionist, on a live call
Senior ReceptionistUS-Based · Live
The People

US-based receptionists hired for tone, judgment, and discretion before anything else. Never offshore, never contractor pools you've never met.

The Training

Every receptionist is onboarded onto your firm specifically: your greeting, your intake questions, your escalation rules, and the names of your partners. Calls are reviewed weekly by a team lead.

The AI

Behind the scenes, our system transcribes every call in real time, pulls caller history from your CRM, drafts the message, and books the appointment — so the human on the phone stays focused on the human on the phone.

The Coverage

Pods of 3–5 receptionists per account, so the same small team always knows your callers. 24/7 rotation across two US time zones — no offshoring, no overnight outsourcing.

Section 04

Why Firms Choose Us

A new studio, built by operators who know that the receptionist and the software behind her are one product — not two.

A Note From The Founder

"I sat in a partner's office and watched a major new client get sent to voicemail. I started Lemon Receptionist to build the service I wish I could have hired that day — senior humans on the phone, and modern software shaped around the firm answering it."

— Founder, Lemon Receptionist
Built for you
A custom operations platform per client
AI-accelerated
Weeks, not quarters, from kickoff to live
Senior staff
US-based receptionists trained on your firm
Confidentiality-first
HIPAA-aware workflows · BAAs on request
Hear A Real Pickup

Want to hear how your firm would sound? We'll send a 30-second sample call answered in your company's voice.

Request A Sample
Section 05

Pricing

Slide to size your plan by monthly talk-time. Every tier includes the full human-answered service plus AI-powered dashboards, mobile app, and integrations.

Talk-Time / Month
100
Live receptionist minutes included
33 calls at a 3-min average
Monthly Plan (Minimum)
$135/mo
Billed monthly · No setup fee · Cancel with 30 days' notice
Overage Rate
$1.20/min
  • Custom Dashboards
  • Mobile Apps
  • Integrations
  • Custom Platform Build-Out
Book a Free Consultation

* A "minute" = live talk-time with a receptionist, billed in 30-second increments. Hold time and AI handoffs don't count.

* Monthly rate is your minimum commitment. Unused minutes don't roll over. Additional minutes are billed at the rate shown.

* One-time onboarding & build-out (Dashboards, Mobile App, Integrations, Custom Platform) is included at every tier — no separate setup fee.

* Month-to-month. Cancel anytime with 30 days' notice.

File No. AFH—099 · Engagement

Stop sending
clients to voicemail.

Tell us about your firm. We'll have Lemon trained and live on your line inside 48 hours.

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