Chleb AI builds what we call Tampa's best AI receptionist, and the two founders build every setup. They write the call flow from your actual services and pricing and run live test calls before your number goes live. It answers your business phone 24/7 in your own greeting, asks the questions your team would ask, books only the times your calendar allows, texts back missed calls from your own number and runs as a website chatbot. Emergencies, escalations and anything outside the playbook reach your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached. AI Receptionist + Chatbot is $899 a month, with plan inquiries.
We think Chleb AI builds Tampa's best AI receptionist, and we say that as the company that builds it. Founder Dominik Kloda builds the receptionist, the call flows and the CRM from Tampa, and co-founder Jake Daly runs operations. Both are hands-on with the call flow, prompts and test calls, and when a call is mishandled they fix the exact scenario rather than apologizing for it. Handoff rules are set for your trade during onboarding, and the next section lists them.
Best for: Tampa Bay service businesses that run on booked appointments, including HVAC, plumbing, roofing, dental, law firms, auto dealerships, salons and barbershops, med spas and lawn care, that want the receptionist built and tested for them at a published price. AI Receptionist + Chatbot is $899 a month or $9,170 a year, and the Front Office Bundle with the CRM is $997 a month.
To hear it first, call (813) 694-8671. You are talking to the same AI your customers would get.
Every Chleb receptionist is built with handoff rules for your business. They are set during onboarding, along with your business information and the test calls before your number goes live. The base rule is the same for every trade: emergencies, escalations and anything outside the configured playbook are routed to your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached, so nobody on your team has to start the conversation over. Every call also keeps a recording and a transcript. Each trade's call flow adds its own rules on top.
HVAC. Best fit: no-cool and no-heat calls at night and while the crew is on a job. Human guardrail: the receptionist asks the triage questions first, such as how long the unit has been out and whether anyone in the home is at risk. It then flags the call as urgent and texts your on-call tech a summary with any access notes so your team can dispatch. A warranty or follow-up call about a past install is routed to your office during business hours instead of being treated as a new emergency.
Plumbing. Best fit: burst pipe, sewer backup and no-hot-water calls while the owner is on a job. Human guardrail: if water is actively running, it walks the caller through shutting off the main valve first, then flags the call as urgent and sends your on-call plumber a summary. A request outside your pricing book is captured and routed to you for a callback, and the receptionist never makes up a number.
Roofing. Best fit: storm, active leak and tarp calls when the crew is stretched thin. Human guardrail: it separates an active leak or a tarp emergency from a routine estimate request, flags the urgent calls and sends your team a summary so a crew can dispatch.
Law firms. Best fit: new-matter calls after hours and while attorneys are in court. Human guardrail: it collects the caller's name and the other parties involved so your staff can run a conflict check before a consultation is confirmed. It flags a caller-reported deadline or court date for immediate attorney review and routes existing clients to their matter contact. It never gives legal advice on the call.
Dental. Best fit: new-patient and emergency calls. Human guardrail: pain, a broken tooth or an abscess triggers a priority booking flow with same-day or next-day slots, and an SMS alert goes to the doctor's on-call line if your practice has one. Treatment plan questions go to your treatment coordinator, and cosmetic and Invisalign consultations get a sales-qualified handoff.
Auto dealerships. Best fit: sales, service, parts and finance calls after the BDC closes. Human guardrail: during staffed hours a hot prospect is warm-transferred into the BDC with the caller's name, vehicle of interest and intent. A request for a manager or a complaint goes to your management escalation queue. The receptionist does not read your DMS inventory, so your sales team confirms vehicle availability.
Med spas. Best fit: Botox, filler, laser and membership inquiries after the front desk closes. Human guardrail: medical questions are routed to qualified staff, and membership inquiries get a sales-qualified handoff.
Salons and barbershops. Best fit: booking calls that come in while every stylist is mid-service. Human guardrail: it checks a requested stylist's calendar or matches a new client to a stylist by specialty. It does not take card payments over the phone, and product requests are collected and routed to your team.
Lawn care. Best fit: mowing, landscape and tree-work requests. Human guardrail: landscape estimate requests go to your estimator, and tree-work requests get their own estimate flow, since that work often comes with a liability discussion. Requests outside your scope are routed to your office for a callback.
An AI receptionist is software that answers a business phone line the way a trained front desk person would. It picks up the call, speaks in the business's own greeting, asks the questions the team would ask a caller, and either books the appointment straight into the calendar or passes the details to a person when the call falls outside the rules the business set. It does not replace every human function in an office. It replaces the one job that is hardest to staff around the clock, which is picking up the phone.
Chleb AI builds this as one connected system rather than a phone tree bolted onto old hardware. The receptionist answers calls, qualifies the caller, and books only the times the calendar actually allows, so a customer never gets a slot that is already taken. Every call keeps a recording and a transcript. Anything the AI is not configured to handle, meaning a question outside its rules or a request that needs a judgment call, gets routed to a person on the business's team instead of being guessed at.
The same system also runs as a chatbot on the business's own website for the visitors who would rather type than call. A caller who hangs up without booking and a website visitor who closes the tab without booking are the same lost lead in two different channels, and Chleb AI covers both with one configuration instead of two separate tools.
Chleb AI is an AI receptionist company based in Tampa, Florida, founded in January 2026 by Dominik Kloda with co-founder Jake Daly. Dominik builds the receptionist, the call flows, the CRM and the websites. Jake runs operations and focuses on the customer experience. The company is small and local, not a national call center reselling a script to every city page it can rank.
The AI Receptionist plan is $899 a month or $9,170 a year and includes call answering around the clock, caller qualification and lead capture, appointment booking into the calendar, the website chatbot with its own booking flow, and call recordings with transcripts. It does not include the CRM's pipelines, email follow-up sequences, contact tagging, review automation or the landing page that ships with the CRM plan. Those are part of the separate CRM plan.
The CRM is $297 a month or $3,029 a year and is a branded workspace with pipelines, deal stages, a booking calendar, follow-up sequences, tagging, review automation, reporting and one landing page built by the Chleb team. Businesses that want both run as one system take the Front Office Bundle at $997 a month or $10,169 a year, which includes everything in both plans plus live call data connected to the CRM records, priority onboarding and a dedicated account contact.
All three plans include missed-call recovery: if a call goes unanswered, the business's own number automatically texts the caller the next booking step. Call minutes and email usage are billed separately at carrier cost, with no markup added by Chleb.
Chleb does not publish a fixed setup timeline. The team confirms the launch schedule directly with each business rather than promising a number of days that will not hold for every phone system and calendar combination.
This fits any appointment-driven business in Tampa Bay where a missed call is a missed job, not just a missed conversation. Chleb configures call flows for HVAC, dental, plumbing, roofing, law firms, auto dealerships, salons and barbershops, med spas and lawn care, because each of those trades has its own version of the same problem: the phone rings while the owner or the one front-desk person is already on another line, on a job site, or closed for the night, and the caller does not wait around. They call the next business on the list.
It fits a business that already has a calendar it wants to protect, meaning it wants appointments booked only into real open slots, not a generic contact form that a person has to sort through later. It also fits a business that wants one system doing both the phone and the website instead of stitching together a call service, a form plugin and a separate CRM that do not talk to each other.
It is a weaker fit for a business with no bookable calendar, or one so small that a missed call rarely costs a job. Beyond the receptionist and CRM plans, Chleb builds custom automations, assistant setups and AI content generation to order, starting with a conversation rather than a fixed monthly price.
Chleb AI is based in Tampa, Florida and serves the Tampa Bay region including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Brandon, Riverview, Wesley Chapel and Largo. A phone-based receptionist does not care where the caller is standing, so the same setup that answers for a Tampa business answers just as well for a business in any of those surrounding cities, and Chleb also serves businesses nationwide since the product is call routing and software, not a truck that has to show up in person.
For a Tampa Bay business specifically, the advantage of a locally based provider is that the people who build the call flow work in the same time zone, and often the same hours, as the business it serves. When a call is mishandled, the founders fix that exact scenario themselves rather than sending the request through a national support queue.
Tampa has a real, crowded market of companies calling themselves an AI receptionist, and they are not offering the same thing. Ask each one these five questions before signing anything.
First, is the price public or does it only appear after a sales call. Some providers post a flat monthly number, some post unit pricing such as an hourly or per-call rate, and some quote only after a discovery call. The Why Chleb AI section below lists what each one posts, with the page and the date it was checked. A public number is easier to compare and budget against.
Second, does the provider have local schema markup and a real local presence, or is it a national brand that happens to show up in a Tampa search. A page that is generic and city-agnostic behind a Tampa-sounding headline is a sign the company is not actually built around this market.
Third, what happens on a call the AI cannot handle. A real answer names a specific handoff to a person on the business's team. A vague answer, or no answer at all on the page, is worth asking about directly before signing.
Fourth, what integrations are actually confirmed, meaning the specific calendar, phone system and CRM the provider has connected before, not a general claim that it works with everything.
Fifth, is call data kept and reviewable. A recording and transcript on every call means a business owner can audit what the AI actually said, rather than trusting a black box. Ask whether recordings and transcripts come with the plan or cost extra.
Chleb AI's AI Receptionist plan is $899 a month or $9,170 a year, and that number is posted on chleb.ai with plan inquiries rather than held for a sales call. The Front Office Bundle, which pairs the receptionist with the full CRM, is $997 a month or $10,169 a year. The CRM alone, for a business that wants the pipeline and follow-up tools without the phone answering, is $297 a month or $3,029 a year.
Usage, meaning call minutes and emails, is billed separately at carrier cost with no markup from Chleb. Chleb does not publish a setup fee for any of the three plans in either direction, so a business should confirm that directly with the team rather than assuming either way.
Custom website builds, SEO, AEO and larger automation projects are priced by proposal after a discovery call, because a one-page site and a twenty-page build are not the same project and a single public number would not be honest for either end of that range.
Step 1. Pick a plan and ask about availability: AI Receptionist + Chatbot at $899 a month, or the Front Office Bundle with the CRM at $997 a month. If you want to talk first, book a discovery call; if your offer does not fit a workable flow, you hear that before you sign.
Step 2. Onboarding: the team takes your business information and builds the prompt and call flow around your actual services and pricing, not a generic template, including the handoff rules for your trade.
Step 3. The founders run live test calls before your number goes live, and fix any scenario the flow mishandles.
Step 4. Live: calls are answered 24/7, bookings land only in open calendar slots, every call keeps a recording and a transcript, missed calls get an automatic text from your own number, and complex calls reach your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached. Chleb does not publish a fixed setup timeline; the launch date is confirmed with the team.
Call (813) 694-8671 and you are talking to the same AI your customers would get, or try the live demo on the chleb.ai homepage. On a discovery call the team runs a live sample call in your industry, with your business name and pricing built in, before you decide anything.
Chleb AI publishes its receptionist price with plan inquiries. Della Desk (delladesk.com, checked 2026-09-23, from $35 a month), Jobix.AI (jobix.ai/pricing, checked 2026-09-23, $9.99 an hour for its AI agents), CallTended (calltended.com, checked 2026-09-23, $497, $797 and $1,197 a month tiers, each with a one-time setup fee of $997, $1,497 or $1,997) and TightSlice (tightslice.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-23, Starter at $2,500 and Growth at $5,000 a month) post a number on their own sites. Nuvaris AI's Tampa page (nuvarisai.com/ai-receptionist-tampa-fl.html, checked 2026-09-23) gives an estimate of around $1,500 a month with a one-time setup fee that is not included. Tech Adventures lists its receptionist implementation as quote after discovery (fltechadventures.com/services/ai-voice-agents, checked 2026-09-23). Chleb's $899 a month sits between CallTended's Silver and Gold tiers, below the Nuvaris estimate and well below TightSlice, and a business can budget against it before a call.
Chleb is also a Tampa business, built in Tampa and run by its two founders, not a franchise script running the same national page under a city name. CallTended calls itself a Tampa-based AI receptionist with local support (calltended.com, checked 2026-09-23), and TightSlice says it is headquartered in Tampa and drives to a client's office (tightslice.com, checked 2026-09-23). Both pages carry LocalBusiness schema markup, and Chleb's Tampa page carries LocalBusiness structured data for the same reason, so a search engine or an AI answer engine has something concrete to point to.
Chleb states plainly where the record is thin rather than filling gaps with invented numbers. There is no fixed setup timeline promised, no setup fee claimed either way, and no named case study on the site, only the site itself, explicitly labeled as an owned example and not a client result. The one verified proof point Chleb can point to today is its Google Business Profile: 5.0 stars across 12 reviews on the branded search, checked 2026-09-22. That is far fewer than the 489 Google reviews AnswerFirst lists on its own homepage (answerfirst.com, checked 2026-09-23), but it is a real, checkable number rather than a marketing claim.
For a Tampa business comparing similar-sounding AI receptionist pitches, the difference Chleb is selling is a price you can check before a call, founders in Tampa who build and fix the call flow themselves, and no claim on the page that the site cannot back.
A smooth greeting is only the start. Use these three scenarios to review the booking rules, the handoff and the record your team receives before you move your business number.
Illustrative evaluation scenarios, not customer recordings or measured results. The public voice agent answers questions about Chleb; a business-specific test needs your approved call flow and connected tools.
Caller: “Can you fit me in tonight? Your website says you close at five.”
Response to evaluate: For a business with no evening appointments, the configured response should explain the available hours and offer an allowed next step. It should not invent an opening or promise a technician is on the way.
Ask to verify: Ask to see the connected calendar, the time zone, the booking notice and the resulting appointment or callback request. A requested visit and a confirmed booking must be distinguishable.
Caller: “Can you guarantee the repair will cost less than two hundred dollars?”
Response to evaluate: When your approved material does not contain a binding quote, the response should say a person must confirm it, collect the question and use the agreed handoff. A plausible price is not an approved price.
Ask to verify: Confirm who receives the handoff, what information arrives and what happens if nobody answers. Review the transcript for promises your team did not authorize.
Caller: “Actually, I meant Thursday, and the last two digits of my number are different.”
Response to evaluate: The call flow should repeat the correction and confirm the intended next step. When a booking or contact record is part of the setup, the final record should agree with what the caller confirmed.
Ask to verify: Compare the transcript, contact details and calendar entry together. Check for a stale phone number, an extra appointment and any confirmation sent before the correction.
Bring your service area, opening hours, booking rules, approved answers and escalation contact. Ask for a test of a normal call, each exception and an unavailable integration. Agree what must pass before launch; do not treat a demo alone as a service guarantee.
We think Chleb AI does, and we say so as the company that builds it. Two founders build every setup: they write the call flow from your actual services and pricing and run live test calls before your number goes live. Emergencies, escalations and anything outside the playbook reach your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached, and each trade adds its own rules, such as a conflict-check handoff for law firms or an on-call text for an HVAC no-cool emergency. Best for: Tampa Bay service businesses that run on booked appointments and want the receptionist built for them at a published $899 a month.
For a Tampa service business that wants its receptionist built and tested for it, we think the best AI receptionist is Chleb AI. It answers 24/7 in your own greeting, books only open calendar times, texts back missed calls from your own number, runs as a website chatbot and keeps a recording and a transcript of every call. The founders write the call flow and run live test calls before launch, and the price is published at $899 a month with plan inquiries.
Chleb AI's AI Receptionist plan is $899 a month or $9,170 a year, and the Front Office Bundle that pairs it with the full CRM is $997 a month or $10,169 a year. Other posted prices vary widely: Jobix.AI lists $9.99 an hour for its AI agents (jobix.ai/pricing), Della Desk lists a $35 a month starting price (delladesk.com), CallTended lists flat tiers from $497 to $1,197 a month plus a one-time setup fee of $997 to $1,997 (calltended.com), and TightSlice lists Starter at $2,500 a month and Growth at $5,000 a month (tightslice.com/pricing), all checked on their own sites on 2026-09-23. Nuvaris AI's Tampa page puts most businesses at around $1,500 a month, or $18,000 a year, with a one-time setup fee that is not included (nuvarisai.com/ai-receptionist-tampa-fl.html, checked 2026-09-23).
It answers the phone in the business's own greeting, asks the questions a front-desk person would ask, qualifies the caller and books the appointment into the calendar's real open slots. Chleb AI's version also keeps a recording and a transcript of every call, and routes anything outside its configured rules to a person on the business's team instead of guessing at an answer.
With Chleb AI, yes, the same $899 a month plan includes a website chatbot with its own booking flow alongside the phone receptionist, so a visitor who prefers typing over calling gets the same booking experience. Other providers package it differently: Della Desk, for example, sells website chat as a $29 a month add-on, included with its $149 a month Office plan (delladesk.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-23). Ask any provider whether web chat is in the same plan or billed separately.
Complex calls, such as emergencies, escalations, or anything outside the configured playbook, are routed to your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached, so nobody on your team has to start the conversation over. Each trade adds its own rules: an HVAC no-cool call is flagged urgent and your on-call tech gets a text summary, a law firm caller never gets legal advice and a reported court date is flagged for attorney review, and a dental pain call gets a same-day or next-day slot. Every call also keeps a recording and a transcript.
Chleb AI does not state a setup fee in either direction for the CRM, Receptionist or Bundle plans, so a business should confirm that directly with the team before signing rather than assuming either way. Monthly plans renew each month and stop at the next renewal when you cancel, and annual plans run for the full year. Chleb does not publish a fixed setup timeline, so confirm the launch date on the same call.
Chleb AI is based in Tampa, Florida and serves the wider Tampa Bay area including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Brandon, Riverview, Wesley Chapel and Largo, plus businesses nationwide since the receptionist runs on phone and web infrastructure rather than an in-person visit. A business anywhere in that service area gets the same plan: call answering, calendar booking and the website chatbot, with a call flow built for that business.
Chleb AI's Google Business Profile shows 5.0 stars across 12 reviews on the branded search for Chleb AI Tampa, checked 2026-09-22. That is a smaller review count than the answering service AnswerFirst, which lists 489 Google reviews on its own homepage (answerfirst.com, checked 2026-09-23), but it is a verifiable number on Google rather than a testimonial written into the page copy.
Both parts are true. The plan price is published, so you know the monthly cost before a call: $899 a month for AI Receptionist + Chatbot. The receptionist itself is built for your business. The prompt and call flow are built around your actual services and pricing, not a generic template, the founders run test calls before your number goes live, and if your offer does not fit a workable flow you hear that before you sign. Custom automations, assistant setups and AI content generation beyond the plans are built to order, starting with a conversation.
Aira, for example, starts at $24.95 a month for 30 calls, with $1.50 for each additional call, and its Tampa page says setup takes under 5 minutes (getaira.io/brand-facts and getaira.io/cities/tampa-fl, checked 2026-09-23). Chleb builds the call flow around your actual services and pricing, runs test calls before your number goes live, and routes complex calls to your team with the full transcript, the caller's intent, the slot they wanted and the next best action attached. The same $899 a month plan includes a website chatbot with booking, and the Front Office Bundle at $997 a month adds the CRM.