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From missed calls to booked appointments, in three steps.

No hardware, no engineers, no scripts. Ringmere only ever says what you approve.

Step 1

Connect your number

Keep the number your customers already know, we point its calls at Ringmere in a couple of clicks, or we include a fresh local number free. You choose whether Ringmere answers every call, or only the ones you miss.

  • Bring your own number, or get a new one free
  • Answer every call, or fall back to AI only when you’re busy
  • Live the same day
app.ringmere.com, live call
Incoming call · 07700 900431
Ringmere answering…
Live
Booked, Cut & blow dry
Tomorrow, 2:30pm · with Amy
Confirmed
38
Calls answered
24
Booked
£1,940
Recovered

Step 2

Teach it your business

Add your services, prices, opening hours and FAQs, or import them from your website or a price list in seconds. Ringmere only ever offers what you approve, and never invents a price or a policy.

  • Import services from your website in seconds
  • Set opening hours, staff and buffers
  • Approve exactly what the AI can say
Cut & blow dry
45 min · £42
Balayage
2 hr · £120
Opening hours
Mon–Sat, 9:00–18:00

Step 3

Go live

Ringmere answers every call, books straight into your calendar, captures leads, and escalates anything sensitive to your team with full context. You watch it all, transcripts, bookings and recovered revenue, from your dashboard.

  • Books, reschedules and cancels into Google Calendar
  • Escalates emergencies & complaints to a human
  • See every call, booking and £ recovered
app.ringmere.com, live call
Incoming call · 07700 900431
Ringmere answering…
Live
Booked, Cut & blow dry
Tomorrow, 2:30pm · with Amy
Confirmed
38
Calls answered
24
Booked
£1,940
Recovered

What a call sounds like

Natural conversation, not "press 1 for bookings".

Ringmere greets the caller, understands what they want in plain English, checks real availability, confirms the details, and books, then texts a confirmation. If it hears an emergency or a complaint, it stops and puts a human on.

Watch and hear it happen, in 73 seconds.

Under the bonnet

How does an AI receptionist work?

When your number rings, the call is answered by software instead of a person or voicemail. It listens to the caller in real time, works out what they want, and acts on it using only the information you approved: it checks live availability in your calendar, books or moves the appointment, quotes your prices, and takes a message when there is nothing to book. Anything it should not handle, an emergency, a complaint, a clinical question, it hands to your team straight away, with a summary of the call so far.

You decide how much of the phone it takes: every call, only the calls you miss, a separate line, or a text conversation instead of a spoken one. The four ways to run an AI receptionist walks through each with the setup steps.

How does an AI receptionist work?
It answers your business number in a natural voice, understands the caller in real time, and acts on what they need using only the information you approved: it checks live availability, books or changes appointments in your calendar, quotes your prices and takes messages. Urgent, sensitive or unhappy callers are handed to your team immediately with a summary of the call.
Do I need new hardware or a new phone number?
No hardware. Keep the number your customers already know and point its calls at Ringmere with a forwarding code, or take a free UK number from your plan. Either way you are usually live the same day.
Can it answer only the calls I miss?
Yes. Ringmere can answer every call, step in only when you are busy, unanswered or closed, sit on a separate line, or move a missed call to a text conversation instead of a spoken one. You choose in Settings and can change it any time.

Ready to stop missing calls?

Set Ringmere up today and hear it answer your line in minutes.

Call answered2:47am · first ring
Booked in your calendarCut & blow dry · 2:30pm
£42 recoveredWhile you slept
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