The 7:20 a.m. snow-day call. Sell every school the answer, under your name.
At 7:20 the office is closed; the voicemail box fills with the same snow-day question. Your voice AI agent answers under your name and reads the notice the office wrote.
to (802) 555-0117
A day on Cedar Knoll’s line.
Every call a school can’t afford to miss, answered under your name.
- 7:20AMSee this call ↓
The 7:20 a.m. snow-day call.
The office opens at 7:45; the voicemail box is already full of one question.
Your agentReads the notice the office published in its Weather and Delays scenario at 6:15: “two-hour delay, school starts at 10:25.” It never decides a closing.
Bring it upWhen the first hour of every snow day goes to the phone.
- 8:05AM
“Owen won’t be in today.”
Attendance calls land during visitor sign-in; the voicemail box is a transcription job.
Your agentTakes the parent’s name and number, student, teacher and reason as a message; the attendance clerk gets the alert at once and marks the absence.
Bring it upWhen the principal mentions the 8:00 rush at the front desk.
- 2:40PM
“Who handles the bus?”
Parents know one number, so the secretary plays switchboard for every department.
Your agentAnswers the bell schedule and late-arrival rule. “Who handles the bus?” is a warm transfer to transportation, briefed first, with the bus page by text.
Bring it upWhen they say the front desk has turned into a switchboard.
Three calls Cedar Knoll would have lost, answered under your name. On its January minutes, a day on its line is about 43 minutes: $19.35 at $0.45 a minute, on top of $99 a month.
What callers hear.
A snowed-in parent calls Cedar Knoll School before the office opens. Its agent comes from Quarrystone IT, an IT company that runs its customers’ phones on NetSapiens.
- 7:20 AM
Ottilie answers under Cedar Knoll’s number.
The before-hours answering rule points the main line at Ottilie’s extension, 40000, until the office opens at 7:45.
- 7:20 AM
It reads out the notice the office wrote.
The Weather and Delays scenario says what Gail published at 6:15: two-hour delay, school at 10:25, buses late.
- 7:21 AM
Answered, texted, filed.
The bus page link texted from the school’s number; recording and summary in the inbox by 7:45.
Ottilie’s call for Cedar Knoll School, as Quarrystone IT’s customer sees it in the inbox: the recording, the transcript with the tools it ran, and its summary. A caller reached Cedar Knoll School and Ottilie moved to the Weather and Delays scenario. Ottilie texted the caller.
Schools worry the phone will get a snow day wrong. Show the edit: the office writes the notice, hears it in the test panel, publishes, reverts in one click.
What you could charge.
The recommended price is $99 a month plus $0.35 to $0.55 a minute, and you set your own. Here is what Cedar Knoll would pay, with its January minutes.
The recommended price
$99 a month, plus $0.35 to $0.55 a minute.
You set your own.
Each school pays you $693 a month ($99 + 1,320 min × $0.45)
At the recommended price, that is $5,610 to $8,250 a month.
Sell it your way: per minute, with minutes included, or flat. The price your customers see is yours.
Integrations that matter for education.
What the agent connects to today. More on the way.
Your NetSapiens PBX
Deployed in three clicks. Answers before hours or when the desk is busy; transfers to departments or staff by name.
We set up the warm-transfer trunk. Dial-by-name needs Announce in Audio Directory on.
Texting, through your Bandwidth account
Bus page links by text from the school’s number; message-taken alerts to attendance and the office by email or text.
Your own Bandwidth messaging account, with a number per school.
Google Business Profile
Setup reads address and hours from the school’s listing or website; bell schedule, attendance policy and calendar from added files.
Cal.com
For a private school’s admissions line: Campus Tour, 45 minutes, booked during the call on the admissions calendar.
Questions providers ask about schools.
Short, true answers. The agent answers most of them itself on a call.
Only what the office wrote down: the day’s notice, typed into the Weather and Delays scenario and published, is what the next caller hears. It never decides a closing; with nothing published, it says so and gives the office hours.
No. It answers calls; it doesn’t run outbound campaigns. The school’s alert system still sends the announcement, and the agent reads the same notice to whoever calls anyway.
No. It takes the parent’s name and number, student, teacher and reason, and alerts the attendance clerk, who enters the absence. It doesn’t read or write student records; none is connected today. Specific compliance requirements? Bring them to the demo.
Yes. It speaks 25+ languages, Spanish included, and answers in the language the caller uses. Nothing to set up.
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