Is it worth it for a fifteen-car limo company, or should I hire another person for the phones?

For most fifteen-car companies, the answer is both, not one or the other. A person on the phones and AI Chauffeur do different jobs, and many companies use both: your team takes the calls they can get to, and AI Chauffeur takes the calls they can't.

Here is what each one does.

A person on the phones works a shift. They know your regulars, sort out a problem trip and handle the calls that need judgment. When they are on another line, at lunch or off the clock, the next call rings out or goes to voicemail. Hiring adds hours on the schedule, and every hour has to be paid, trained and covered when someone is out.

AI Chauffeur does one job. Answers the call. Quotes your rates. Books the trip. When it's set up for a company, a call goes like this:

1. It answers in your company name.
2. It takes the whole reservation: the passenger, the date and time, the pickup, the drop off, and how many people and bags.
3. It quotes from your own rate sheet. A price that is not on the sheet is flagged for dispatch, never made up.
4. It reads the trip back to the caller and books it.
5. Right after the call, your dispatcher has the trip sheet, the recording and the transcript. If the caller needs a person, it can transfer the call live.

You pick when it answers: every call, or only the calls your team misses. That is why it fits next to a person instead of in place of one.

AI Chauffeur is $997 a month plus a $997 one-time setup. It is month to month, with no contract. The monthly price is the same for any size of fleet, so a fifteen-car company pays the same monthly price as a three-car company.

What stays with your team: your team handles dispatch, trip changes, cancellations and payment. AI Chauffeur makes sure the new trips that come in while they are busy get taken and booked.

The whole price is on the pricing page at aichauffeur.ai/pricing/.