If you are weighing up Easy AI Agents, you should know exactly what they do before you decide, so here it is straight. A Christchurch outfit selling AI voice agents to the same trades and clinics we sell to, on a self-managed plan with a managed tier above it.
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.
Someone who wants to configure and maintain the agent themselves and would rather pay less for the privilege. Their self-managed plan is genuinely cheaper than ours on the sticker, their marketing is refreshingly free of nonsense, and they are the closest thing in this market to a straight like-for-like comparison with us.
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.
What a busy month costs. Ask for included minutes and the per-minute rate once you pass them, in writing, so you can model your own call volume before you sign.
Where the call data is stored. Ask whether audio and transcripts stay in New Zealand, and get the answer in writing rather than in a privacy policy that speaks generally about providers.
Who does the work when you want something changed, since that is the difference between their two tiers and the thing that quietly costs you time.
This is the comparison we take most seriously, because they are good and they are local. Ask both of us the same two questions, what 200 minutes costs and where the recordings live, and compare the answers side by side. Ours are on the pricing page and in the privacy policy respectively, in writing, before you talk to anyone.
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.
Nine of the questions we hear most. If yours isn't here, ring our live demo agent on 03 242 1262, it'll either answer or queue a callback from a human.
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