If you are weighing up BizzyBoss, you should know exactly what they do before you decide, so here it is straight. A Canterbury operation building AI tooling around a business's own workflow, with a subscription plus usage and a separate chat product.
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 Canterbury business that wants something assembled around exactly how it works, from someone local who will do it for you, and is happy to pay setup plus usage for that. Custom beats product when your workflow is genuinely unusual. They publish their per-minute usage rate and their setup fee plainly, which we would rather see than a from-price with nothing behind it.
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.
That the plan price you are quoted is described as introductory, so ask what it becomes afterwards and when.
That there are no bundled minutes: usage is billed on top of the subscription, so the monthly is a floor rather than a total.
Whether the chat and review tools are included or separate monthly products with their own setup fees, since the bundles price differently again.
If your process is genuinely one of a kind, a custom build is the right call and we will tell you so. Most trades and clinics are not, and a product that already does it costs less and improves without a change request.
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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