If you are weighing up Automate AI, you should know exactly what they do before you decide, so here it is straight. A New Zealand automation consultancy that sells AI voice agents alongside its other work, priced as a monthly plan plus a one-off setup.
Talkify is the bigger machine sitting behind the same job: built in Christchurch by a studio twelve years deep in phone systems and integrations, running on a New Zealand line we sell you ourselves, connected to the software you already use, with your call recordings held in this country. Reception is one of nine things it does.
A business that wants voice answering as one part of a wider automation project and would rather have one supplier doing all of it. If you have workflows to rebuild as well as a phone to answer, a consultancy engagement is a reasonable way to buy. They also deserve a specific credit: of every provider selling AI phone answering into New Zealand that we looked at, they are the only one who states plainly on their own website what year they were founded and where. We think that should be normal, and we are not going to make a page about transparency and then skip past someone else being transparent.
We would rather you bought the right thing than bought from us. If the paragraph above describes your situation, go and talk to them.
Not gotchas, and not accusations. These are the three things about this kind of product that cost people money when they find out late. Ask us the same sort of questions.
The one-off setup fee that sits on top of the monthly, and what it buys you that carries over if you leave.
The per-minute rate past the included minutes, which they do publish, worked out at your real call volume rather than the advertised one.
Whether you are buying a product that keeps getting updated or a build that stays as delivered, since that is the real difference between a consultancy and a product.
Consultancy and product are different purchases. A build gets you exactly what you specified. A product gets you what every other customer asked for as well, shipped continuously, without a change request or an invoice. We are the second kind, with no setup fee, and we also own the phone line underneath. That is the trade worth weighing rather than the monthly.
We hold a direct commercial relationship with the New Zealand carrier our numbers ride on, so numbers are provisioned on our own account and the routing is ours to change. It also means we sell you the line: a real New Zealand business phone service, hosted here, with local numbers, seats for your team, published per-minute rates and the agent already sitting on it. One number, one bill, nobody to blame in the middle. Most AI receptionists are a layer of software sitting on top of a phone account somebody else sold you, which is invisible on a good day and is the whole game on a bad one. When something breaks at three in the morning, that is the difference between us fixing it and us logging a ticket with whoever can.
Every system we name has a connector we wrote and can point you at in code. Calendars, CRMs, accounting, job management, gym and workshop and salon software, plus a documented REST API, webhooks and Zapier for whatever we have not built yet. We keep a hard internal rule that nothing gets named on this website until the connector behind it exists, which is why our integration list is shorter than some and why every name on it is real.
Support is 0800 002 967, in New Zealand, in your timezone. You are not going through a chat widget to reach a partner agency, and you are not waiting overnight for a reply from a different hemisphere. The people who answer are the people who wrote the thing, which is the practical advantage of buying from a studio rather than a sales funnel.
Cost is deliberately not on this page. It lives on the comparison table, with a checked date against it, so there is one place to keep honest instead of twelve. See the rest of the market on alternatives.
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