Your callers don't leave messages. They call the next name on the list.
Penny answers on the first ring and catches the booking while you are doing the work.
One missed call is bad luck. Missing them every week is how a good business stays small.
Penny is answering for a coaching practice today. Ask Penny to book you an appointment. Then ask what happens if it's urgent, and hear the exception work.
No surprises. $179 is $179. Unlimited.
Four bookings voicemail would have lost. One ordinary Tuesday.
The service
What Penny does
One job, done properly: catch the appointment while you are doing the work the appointment is about.
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First ring, every ringNot the fourth ring, and not the voicemail beep your callers have learned to hang up on. Penny picks up while you keep working.
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Books the appointmentPenny takes two preferred times from the caller and passes them to you. You confirm, so nothing is ever double-booked and no slot is ever invented.
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Takes the message you would takeName, number, what they need, and when they want it. The summary lands with you before the caller has hung up their coat.
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Every call becomes a clean recordWho called, what they wanted, the times they offered, and what happens next. Nothing lives only in your head or on a sticky note.
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The exception, handled liveFor the rare call that cannot wait, Penny calls your named person and hands the caller over live; if nobody answers, she takes the full message and alerts them instantly.
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Never quotes your pricesPricing stays yours to discuss with your client, in person, the way it should be. Penny books the conversation. She does not have it for you.
The story
A Tuesday afternoon
2:40 in the afternoon. The third estimate this month almost got away.He's on a ladder, both hands on the trim, when the phone rings in his truck. The first two estimate calls this month rang out the same way, mid-job, and he never even knew they had called. This one is different only because Penny is on it: she answers, and he never comes down the ladder. That is the whole difference between a slow month and a booked one: not one call, the pattern.
Hi, this is Penny. How can I help you today?
Hi, we would like an estimate on remodeling our kitchen.
Happy to set that up. Which two times work best for you?
Thursday at ten, or Friday at nine.
Both noted. I am texting him your name, your address, and what you would like done right now. He confirms with one tap, and you will hear back either way.
A sample, in the shape of a real one. This is the card a client forwards to the next owner whose phone rings on a ladder.
Penny by Number Please. Hear her work: (313) 546-0561
A stylist is mid-color, foils in, gloves on, and the phone is ringing in the back room for a cut next week. The chair is held before the timer dings.
A therapist is mid-session, phone on silent by design. Someone calling on a hard day reaches a calm voice instead of a beep.
Every call you miss while you work is a booking for somebody else.
The fit
Who it's for
Solo operators whose hands are the business. The owner is the phone, or the front desk stepped away one day and was never replaced. If that sentence describes your shop, every unanswered ring is a booking walking to the next name on the list.
Contractors and trades
The single carpenter on a ladder, the plumber under a sink, the electrician with both hands in a panel. The missed call is the job somebody else starts on Monday.
Hair stylists and salons
Mid-color, foils in, phone ringing in the back room. That call is next month's chair, and it does not wait for a rinse.
Massage therapists
Hands on a client, phone in the other room by rule. The booking goes to whoever answers first.
Therapists and counselors
In session, door closed, phone on silent. Someone reaching out does not leave a voicemail and hope. They book.
Caterers and food businesses
Plating a wedding when the phone rings about the next one. If nobody picks up, nobody books the tasting.
Landlords and property managers
Showing a unit or walking a property when a prospect calls. One row among many here, because the condition is the same: nobody free to answer.
Solo offices of every kind
Attorneys, accountants, insurance agents, repair shops, groomers, studios. When you are the whole staff, Penny is the front desk you never replaced.
The test
If Joe Contractor had an app or a website, he would still need this, because an app does not answer a ringing phone in a truck. If your work takes both hands, you are the market.
Number Please. Penny's got it.
The price
One flat price
Set up and tuned for you. You change nothing about how you work.
- A person at a desk costs hundreds a month before the first call comes in, and small shops stopped paying it. Penny answers every call for $179 flat, unlimited.
- Set up for you, not by you: we configure Penny for your business, your services, and your booking rules, and keep Penny tuned.
- Start free: Penny answers your real calls for 10 days before you pay anything. No card to start, and the minutes are on us.
- No contract games. The guarantee below is the whole pitch.
The promise
The guarantee, in plain words
Try Number Please for 30 days. If Penny is not right for your business, we refund the monthly fee. All of it. There is no fine print, because there are no overages to hide in it.
The referral
Introduce Penny to a friend
Know a fellow owner whose phone rings while their hands are busy? Introduce them to Penny at Number Please. When a fellow owner you send us finishes their trial and pays their first month, you both get a month on us.
Introductions stack, and the credit never expires. Send us enough friends and your year is free.
The pilot
Founding pilot
We are opening Number Please to three founding clients first, on founding terms. Small on purpose: each business gets Penny set up for their business, carefully, with weekly tuning during the pilot so Penny sounds like your office, not a script.
Founding clients start with the same 10 free days, on the terms in the price above.
When the three spots are filled, the pilot closes and normal signup begins.
Penny takes the founding inquiry herself, which is the best demo on the page: the first voice you hear is the one your callers will hear.
Questions
Honest answers
The questions everyone asks, answered the way we would want them answered.
Is Penny an AI?
Yes, and we say so. Penny is an AI appointment setter built to catch and book appointments. Callers get a capable, courteous answer every time, and we would rather you know exactly what she is than wonder.
Will Penny quote my prices?
No. Penny never quotes prices for your business. Pricing is yours to discuss with your clients, in person, the way it should be.
Can Penny double-book me?
Penny cannot, because she never books a final slot on her own. She takes two preferred times from the caller and passes them to you. You confirm the appointment, so a slot is only booked when you book it.
What happens when a call can't wait, or she can't handle it?
That is the exception path, not the service, and it is handled plainly: Penny stops, takes the key details, and calls your named person, handing the caller over live and staying on the line until someone has them. If nobody answers, she takes the full message and alerts them instantly. The service is catching appointments; this is simply what happens on the rare call that is not one.
What do I have to set up?
Nothing. Setup is done for you. We configure Penny for your business, your hours, your services, and the named person she should reach when a call cannot wait. On your line, Penny answers in your business's own name, greeting your callers as your front desk. The "Number Please" greeting in the sample transcript on this page is the demo voice on our showroom line, not the name your customers will hear. You keep working exactly the way you do now, except now the phone gets answered while you do.
Number Please. Penny's got it.