01AI Voice Agents · Edmonton, Alberta

AI Voice Agents in Edmonton

A natural-sounding AI receptionist that answers your phone 24/7, books real appointments, and never misses a call.

Agency7 designs and deploys AI voice agents for Edmonton service businesses. Built on ElevenLabs voice AI, OpenAI realtime models, and a custom knowledge base trained on your business, our voice agents handle the calls you miss — after hours, during lunch, when reception is on another line — and book real appointments directly into your calendar.

02What is an AI voice agent?

What is an AI voice agent?

An AI voice agent is a conversational AI that picks up your phone, sounds natural, and holds a real-time conversation with a caller. It is given a detailed knowledge base about your services, pricing, hours, and booking rules — and it can take actions mid-conversation like creating a Google Calendar event, logging a CRM contact, or routing a call to a real person.

Under the hood, the agent uses speech-to-text to understand the caller, a large language model (GPT-4 class or better) to decide how to respond, and natural text-to-speech (typically ElevenLabs) to speak. The whole loop runs in under 500 milliseconds, so conversations feel natural — not like the awkward phone trees people associate with old-school IVR.

The result is a tireless receptionist that never takes a lunch break, never forgets your pricing, and costs a fraction of a full-time hire.

03Who benefits most from an AI voice agent

Who benefits most from an AI voice agent

Any Edmonton business that misses more than 10% of its phone calls will see clear payback within a few weeks. Missed calls are missed revenue — especially for service businesses where speed-to-response determines who wins the job.

  • Dental and medical clinics — appointment scheduling, insurance questions
  • Home services — after-hours emergency calls, quote requests
  • Law firms — intake, qualification, new-client scheduling
  • Real estate — showing bookings, listing inquiries, open-house RSVPs
  • Trades and contractors — estimate requests, job dispatch routing
  • Auto dealerships and repair shops — service bookings, inventory questions
  • Salons, spas, and fitness studios — booking and rescheduling
  • Small-business owners who handle their own phones
04What is included

What is included

Custom voice agent

A natural voice, trained on your business. We tune tone, pacing, and vocabulary so it sounds on-brand and Canadian — not like a generic US call-center bot.

24/7 answering

Your agent picks up every call, every time. No voicemail, no busy signal, no missed opportunity after hours or on weekends.

Appointment booking

Integration with Google Calendar, Calendly, Cal.com, or your CRM calendar. The agent checks availability live and books in real time.

Lead qualification

Pre-qualifies callers with a short set of questions before passing warm leads to your team or routing by urgency.

Call transcripts and summaries

Every call is transcribed, summarized, and searchable in a dashboard. Sales and operations teams finally get call-level visibility.

Human handoff

Complex, high-value, or urgent calls route instantly to a real person — your phone, your team, or a paid live-answer service.

Keep your phone number

We port or forward your existing number so callers never see a change. No new numbers, no marketing updates required.

CRM and tool integration

Every call logs automatically into HubSpot, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, or whatever you already use — including tags for intent and outcome.

05How we build your agent

How we build your agent

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    We spend 60–90 minutes understanding your call volume, common caller questions, booking rules, pricing, escalation paths, and the scenarios where a human must take over.

  2. 02

    Knowledge base build

    We build a structured knowledge base covering your services, hours, pricing, FAQs, and any constraints. This becomes the agent's source of truth.

  3. 03

    Voice and flow design

    We pick a voice (or clone yours if you want), write conversation flows, and build the logic for escalation, booking, and CRM updates.

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    Testing and tuning

    We run dozens of real-world test calls — tricky accents, noisy lines, awkward questions — and tune the agent until it handles them gracefully.

  5. 05

    Go live

    Port or forward your number and watch calls come in. We monitor every call for the first week and tune continuously.

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    Ongoing optimization

    Weekly review of transcripts to catch edge cases, improve responses, and expand the knowledge base as your business evolves.

06What you can expect

What you can expect

  • 30–70% of previously missed calls now captured as real bookings.
  • Faster response to emergencies — critical for plumbing, HVAC, and urgent medical.
  • Lower receptionist load during peak hours and complete coverage after hours.
  • Searchable transcripts of every call for training, sales review, and compliance.
  • Measurable ROI from the first month. Most clients pay back the build inside 60 days.
07Investment

Investment

AI voice agents typically start in the mid four-figure range for the initial build — discovery, knowledge base, voice design, integrations, and testing — followed by a monthly hosting and tuning fee based on call volume.

Pricing scales with the complexity of your booking logic, the number of integrations, and how many languages or voices you need. A single-location clinic costs far less than a multi-location trades business with dispatch routing. We quote every engagement individually after a free discovery call.

08Why Edmonton businesses choose Agency7

Why Edmonton businesses choose Agency7

We are an Edmonton-based AI engineering team. Our voice agents sound natural to Canadian callers — no off-putting American-English quirks, and the agent understands local references like "Whyte Ave," "Jasper Avenue," and "the south side." Scheduling respects Alberta statutory holidays and local time zones by default.

Beyond accent and logistics, we build the whole stack ourselves — including custom integrations with the tools you already use. We have built and deployed voice transcription features using OpenAI Whisper, natural voice experiences using ElevenLabs, and production AI systems deployed for real businesses.

If you want a voice agent that sounds like a real member of your Edmonton team instead of a generic chatbot, we are the right fit.

09See it in production

See it in production

Case study · Rizmataz

We built Rizmataz — a voice-first social network for founders — on the same ElevenLabs + OpenAI + Cloudflare stack we use for business voice agents. Live conversational AI, voice cloning, thread memory, and sub-second latency. It is the most demanding voice-AI product we have shipped, and every lesson from it makes our business voice agents better.

Read the Rizmataz case study
10Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about ai voice agents

What is an AI voice agent?

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An AI voice agent is a conversational AI that answers your phone, holds a real-time conversation with callers, answers their questions, books appointments, and takes actions like creating calendar events or CRM records. It runs 24/7, sounds natural, and never misses a call.

Does it sound like a robot?

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No. Modern AI voices — especially those built on ElevenLabs — are almost indistinguishable from human speech in normal conversation. We tune tone, pacing, and vocabulary to match your brand and we test against real callers before going live.

Can I keep my existing phone number?

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Yes. We either port your number to the voice-agent platform or forward calls from your existing carrier. Callers see no change, your marketing and business cards stay current.

What happens if the AI does not understand a caller?

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The agent gracefully admits uncertainty ("Let me get someone who can help with that") and routes the call to a human — your phone, your team, or a live-answer service. We explicitly design every agent with escalation paths so callers never hit a dead end.

Can it book into my existing calendar?

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Yes. We integrate with Google Calendar, Outlook, Cal.com, Calendly, Acuity, and most CRM-embedded calendars. The agent checks live availability and books directly — no double bookings, no sync delays.

Is it secure? What happens to caller data?

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All calls are encrypted in transit. Transcripts are stored in your account — you own the data. We follow PIPEDA and Alberta PIPA compliance for Canadian clients and can sign BAAs for healthcare providers in regulated environments.

How long does it take to deploy an AI voice agent?

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A straightforward single-business voice agent takes 1–3 weeks from kickoff to live. Complex setups — multiple locations, dispatch routing, deep CRM integration — can take 4–6 weeks. We spend most of that time on discovery and tuning, not coding.

What does an AI voice agent cost?

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Build costs typically start in the mid four-figure range, with an ongoing monthly fee for hosting, call volume, and tuning. Pricing depends on complexity. We quote every engagement after a free discovery call.

Can the voice agent replace my receptionist?

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For most small businesses the agent handles repetitive calls — hours, pricing, booking, FAQs — and passes high-value or complex calls to a human. Most clients use it to catch the 30–70% of calls that otherwise go to voicemail, not to eliminate their team.

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