AI Receptionist

AI Receptionist for Car Dealerships

Never miss a call. Never miss a lead.

Mako answers every inbound phone call and SMS — 24/7, in seconds. Sub-second voice latency, real conversation, real appointment-booking. Plugs into your existing phone line.

The problem

Dealerships miss roughly 30% of inbound calls.

Busy signal. After hours. Receptionist on lunch. Service advisor on another line. Every missed call is a customer who's now either (a) calling your competitor, or (b) gone for the day. Voicemail doesn't save them — fewer than one in five callers leave a message.

~30%

of inbound dealership calls go unanswered on a typical day.

After hours

is when a large share of internet-shopper calls happen. Voicemail is a black hole.

< 20%

of callers leave a voicemail. The rest just hang up and call your competitor.

Industry-typical figures. Your store's actuals will vary; we can pull a custom missed-call audit on the demo.

What an AI receptionist does

Greet. Qualify. Route. Schedule. Take a message.

Every call. Every text. Every channel. Every hour of every day.

Voice

Real-time voice agent with sub-second latency. Sounds human. Handles transfers, holds, three-way calls.

SMS

Texts back within seconds when a caller hangs up or asks to switch to text. Two-way SMS, opt-in compliant.

Chat

Embeds on your website with one script tag. Same brain, same context, same conversation if they call later.

Email

Replies to inbound email leads in the same voice and tone. Threaded follow-up. No more email leads dying in someone's inbox.

Sample call

What it actually sounds like.

Mako
Thanks for calling Forge1 Toyota — this is Mako. How can I help?
Caller
Hey, is that silver RAV4 still on the lot? The one with the moonroof?
Mako
Let me check… yep, 2024 RAV4 XLE in Silver Sky Metallic, moonroof package — still here. Want me to grab a few details so a sales advisor can have it ready to go for a test drive?
Caller
Yeah I could do tomorrow after work, like 6ish.
Mako
Tomorrow at 6 PM works — I have Marcus open. I&apos;ll text you a confirmation and a pin for the dealership. Anything else I should let Marcus know — trade, financing, anything specific you want to see?
Plug-and-play

Plug into your existing phone line — no rip-and-replace.

Keep your numbers. Keep your VoIP. Keep your call routing. Mako sits on top of Twilio, Bandwidth, RingCentral, Nextiva, 8x8, Zoom Phone, and most major PBX systems. It picks up whatever your team can't — busy signal, after hours, on hold too long — and hands off cleanly when a human is the right answer.

Twilio
Bandwidth
RingCentral
Nextiva
8x8
Zoom Phone
+ most enterprise PBX systems
The math

Hours saved. Appointments booked. Leads recovered.

20+ hrs
per week

Reclaimed receptionist + BDC time that used to go to routine inbound.

+12–18
extra appointments / week

Recovered from after-hours and missed-call leads alone.

100%
answer rate

Every inbound call gets a real conversation. No voicemail black hole.

Illustrative ranges based on typical mid-sized rooftop deployments. Actuals depend on call volume and store mix.

Call audio never leaves your dealership.

Every call is transcribed, redacted, and tokenized on the MakoNode appliance inside your store. Names, phone numbers, and addresses stay on your hardware. Mako Central only ever sees a sanitized event stream — never the raw call. Pull the plug on the appliance and we have nothing identifiable on your customers.

FAQ

AI receptionist, answered.

Hear the AI receptionist live.

Book a 20-minute demo. We'll call you with Mako so you can hear how it sounds, then walk through plugging it into your phone line.

  • Live voice demo on your real numbers
  • Plug into your existing PBX or VoIP — no rip-and-replace
  • Call audio and customer data never leave your dealership