The diary you already live in, working the hours nobody is at a desk. Talkify is an AI receptionist for Google Calendar: it answers in a real New Zealand voice, checks what your calendar genuinely has open before it offers anybody a time, and writes the appointment straight into Google while the caller is still on the line.
Two permissions, and you choose the calendars. Talkify asks Google to see the list of calendars on your account and to edit events on them. Nothing else. Then, before a single appointment is read, we show you every diary on the account and you tick the ones the agent may use. Anything you leave unticked stays private.
Everything it does with the calendar your business already keeps, at the hours nobody is there to check it.
Six things happen while you are on a site, in a meeting, or gone home.
On the first ring, in a genuine New Zealand voice, using your business name and your greeting. No hold music, no menu, no "your call is important to us". Five people can ring at once and all five get answered.
The number is matched against your contacts before the agent speaks, so a customer of nine years is greeted by name rather than being asked to spell their surname to a phone.
Not a timetable in somebody's head. The agent works from your actual Google Calendar, so the times it offers are times that are genuinely open, and a morning that filled up yesterday is not offered today.
The agent checks before it offers, and Talkify checks again before it writes. A caller who asks for a time nobody offered them still cannot land on top of an appointment you already have. Double bookings are the fastest way to lose a customer you had already won.
The day, the date and the time read back out loud, then written into your Google Calendar with the caller and the details on it, and a Meet link if that is what the appointment needs. It shows up on your phone before you have got back to the ute.
The appointment is already in the calendar, so what reaches you is the context: a text summary within seconds, the full transcript and the recording, and anything the caller mentioned that a diary entry would never have held.
Your diary, your people and your hours, working on the phone at the times nobody is looking at it.
Every time it offers is a time your Google Calendar has open. The commonest way a phone booking goes wrong is promising a slot that has already gone, and it is the reason double bookings turn into an apology and a lost customer.
Google grants access to the account, not to one diary, because it has no narrower permission to offer. We do not use it that way. You are shown every calendar on the account and you choose. Leave your personal diary and the holidays feed unticked and they are never read, and taking a tick off later deletes what we had copied from it.
Connect a diary per person and the agent can answer that, then offer when they are next open. It is given free and busy and nothing else, so it can say Sarah is tied up until half two without saying she is at a specialist appointment. Off until you switch it on, one person at a time.
The agent reads Talkify's own copy of the diary rather than ringing Google mid-call, so a slow morning at Google never becomes a phone that will not answer, and a caller never sits listening to silence while something times out.
A weekly stand-up blocks out Monday mornings, not the next two years. Talkify asks Google for the individual occurrences rather than the repeating rule behind them, and drops the ones you have cancelled so that time comes back.
A company on Google Workspace connects exactly the way a one-person operation on an ordinary gmail.com address does. Sign in as you normally would, approve the screen, pick your calendars. Nothing to install, no add-on, no plug-in.
Ring our agent and put it through its paces. Ask for a time, change your mind about the day, ask whether someone is around on Thursday, try to catch it out. Most people ring expecting a robot and hang up having had a conversation. No sign-up, no card, answering around the clock.
Businesses buy an answering service for the evenings. That is not where the diary goes empty.
The busier the diary, the less able you are to pick up the phone that would fill it. You are in the meeting that is in your calendar, which is exactly when somebody rings wanting an appointment. They do not leave a message, because a person who wants to know whether Thursday exists is not going to wait until tomorrow to find out.
A Thursday afternoon nobody booked cannot be sold on Friday, unlike a product on a shelf. Two missed calls a day is a week of work a month. Work out what yours are worth on the missed call calculator.
The same agent, the same knowledge of your business, pointed in the other direction. Every one of these is live today.
Appointment reminders the day before so the slot does not sit empty. Win-back calls to the customers you have not heard from in six months. A review request the day after. You load the list, it makes the calls.
The same brain in a chat widget on your site, in text or voice, from $49 a month. It knows the same diary and the same prices as the one on the phone.
Phone campaigns that ring your customer list, ask how the job went or why they have not been back, and report the answers without anybody sitting on hold.
Connected to your Xero, the agent rings the invoices that have gone past due, in your name and your wording, and writes the outcome and any promise to pay onto the invoice. No commission, no collection agency.
The week everybody rings at once. Call centre plans answer five, ten or fifteen callers at the same moment, with no queue and no hold music.
The Personal Assistant answers one person's own line rather than the main number, screens the rubbish and texts you what mattered. From $89 a month.
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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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