School Answering Service That's Also Your Phone System
Parents and families reach your front office first. When nobody can pick up, the AI receptionist answers 24/7, handles routine questions, books tours, routes urgent calls to staff, and logs every call, human or AI, in one inbox.
Keep your current number: port it over, or simply forward it.
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InboxAllAI answeredYour team
AI
Pickup question before the bell7:40 AM
What time does early pickup end today?
Answered instantlyAI answered
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Enrollment tour8:30 AM
I'd like to enroll my 3-year-old, can we visit?
Tour bookedFront office answered
AI
Schedule question12:20 PM
Does my daughter have the field trip today?
Answered from your infoAI answered
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Sensitive matter1:45 PM
I need to talk to someone about my child.
Routed to staffPrincipal's office answered
AI on a call now
Here's a Monday. You barely touched your phone.
A real-shaped day. Every call rang your team first. The AI took the ones nobody could, and every call and text landed in one inbox.
7touch points
1tour booked
0parents on hold
7:40 AM
CallPickup question before the bellAIAI answered
“What time does early pickup end today?”
Answers from your schedule the moment the phone rings, so the front office isn't fielding it during drop-off.
Answered instantly
8:30 AM
CallEnrollment tourFFront office answered
“I'd like to enroll my 3-year-old, can we visit?”
Rang the office; staff picked up live on the business number, and the tour was booked and logged automatically.
Tour booked
10:15 AM
TextParent texted about an absenceAIText · AI replied
New text · 10:15 AM
my son Leo is out sick today
Thanks for letting us know, I've logged Leo as absent for today. Hope he feels better!
A customer texts your business number instead of calling. The AI replies in seconds and logs the absence to the right student. The thread lands in the same inbox as your calls.
Replied in seconds · absence logged
12:20 PM
CallSchedule questionAIAI answered
“Does my daughter have the field trip today?”
Answers from your calendar, so a routine question doesn't pull the office off something urgent.
Answered from your info
1:45 PM
CallSensitive matterPPrincipal's office answered
“I need to talk to someone about my child.”
Anything sensitive routes straight to your team by your rules; the call rang the office and was picked up live.
Routed to staff
3:10 PM
CallAfter-dismissal questionAIAI answered
“Is aftercare open until 6 today?”
Answers from your program info and logs the call, so parents get a straight answer without a callback.
Answered · logged
6:05 PM
CallEvening enrollment inquiryAIAI answered
“What curriculum do you follow?”
Answers after the office closes, texts the details, and offers a tour, capturing the family instead of losing them to voicemail.
Info texted · tour offered
Monday morning
No more scrolling. Just ask about it.
Ask Fast Response reads every call, text, chat, task and contact on your line. Type a question and get the answer with links to the actual conversations, plus quick actions you can act on.
Get a Fast Response number and give your front office backup.
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Never Miss a Parent
Calls, texts, and chats — our mobile and desktop apps let you reach anyone, on your website or calling and texting. Not available? AI responds automatically.
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Qualify & Book Automatically
Fast Response qualifies parents wanting to enroll and gathers the details you need before booking a tour directly onto your calendar.
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Automatic Outreach
Confirm tours, send reminders, or share school-wide announcements with parents — in one send.
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Unlimited Calls
When the line's busy, AI handles the call right away — even if hundreds of parents call at once.
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Spam Blocking
Bothered by telemarketing calls? No more — your calls get filtered for spam so the office isn't disturbed.
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Dynamic Call Transfers
AI and in-person calls let you transfer to any phone number or team member.
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Answer FAQs
“What are your hours?” “What program do you follow?” “When can we visit?” All handled automatically so your office can focus on what matters.
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Gain 100% Visibility
In-person and AI calls are recorded, transcribed, and logged to your Fast Response CRM, along with each contact's texts, chats, notes, and files.
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Share & Manage Phone Numbers
Working in teams? Get multiple numbers, or share one number across several teammates.
Running more than one business or location?Switch between them from one login, with one inbox across all of them.
Multi-business · all plans
What's different from forwarding calls to an AI receptionist?
Most AI receptionists just forward the calls you miss to their AI, so they only ever see those. Fast Response is the business line itself, so every call lands in one place.
Forwarding to an AI
Only the calls the AI takes are loggedYou forward the calls you miss to their bot, so that's all it ever sees.
Calls your office staff answers leave no recordPick up on a cell and there's no recording, transcript, or summary.
Automations fire on the AI's calls onlyRules can't act on a call the system never handled.
Phone line and AI dashboard stay separateTwo tools, two inboxes, nothing joined up.
Fast Response
AI and team calls in one logWhoever answers, the call lands in the same place.
Every call recorded, transcribed & summarizedFiled on the contact automatically, with the texts and chats.
Automations on every call, AI or humanText a booking link to a caller who didn't speak, or text your own rep the second a hot lead comes in.
One business line and inboxCalls, texts, and web chat together, not scattered.
The AI handles the call. Automations act on what happened in it: the category, the summary, the transcript, whether it was resolved. Pick a recipe, edit the text, turn it on.
Call trigger
When a text mentions an absence, tag the contact Attendance and text the front office.
Call trigger
When the summary mentions enrollment or a tour, add the caller to Prospective families and assign the office.
Call trigger
When a text from your own number starts with ANNOUNCE, text everyone on a list (early dismissal, closures).
Call trigger
When a caller sounds upset, text the office the summary and a link to the call.
Pay as you go after your allowance, from a prepaid wallet you control. See full pricing
Schools, in depth
How much does a missed call cost you?
Why do schools use an answering service?
Because the front office fields the same questions all day and still needs to reach parents when something urgent hits. Human answering services cost $200-500 a month and just take a message. Fast Response answers on your own line, handles routine questions, books enrollment tours, routes urgent calls to staff, and texts a summary. Anyone in the office can pick up any call live from the app, and those calls are logged exactly like the AI's.
A missed call from a prospective family is an enrollment tour that never gets booked.
A call center runs $200–500 a month to relay messages your front office still has to return. Fast Response is $29 for the line and AI answering, $79 with team accounts that route attendance and enrollment calls, $249 with outbound reminders. Unlimited staff on one number, no per-seat fees, no contract.
During drop-off, dismissal, or an early closure, the phones don't stop. Fast Response answers every call at once, no busy signal, giving parents the right pickup time or schedule answer from your info. Anything sensitive routes straight to your staff by rules you set, and every call is logged so the office always has context.
Fast Response starts at $29/mo, and $79/mo covers your whole office with no per-seat fees. No contract. Most schools are live in about 5 minutes. See full pricing →
Yes. You decide which calls go straight to your staff, and AI handles the routine questions so your office can focus on what matters.
Yes. The AI answers enrollment questions, qualifies interested families, and books tours straight onto your calendar with a reminder.
One-to-one texts are included on every plan. Mass outbound calling and texting — reaching every parent at once, like a power-outage early pickup — is on the Scale plan and requires A2P registration.
Yes. The AI answers evenings and weekends, so an enrollment question at 6pm is captured instead of lost to voicemail.
Yes. Every call is transcribed, summarized, and logged so your office always has context.
Yes. You can port your existing number over to Fast Response, or keep it where it is and forward missed calls to your AI assistant. In our mobile app, your personal calls and Fast Response calls are clearly labeled on the call screen, so you always know which is which.
Yes. On any plan you can place calls and send single texts from the web or mobile app, and the AI can send one-to-one follow-up texts on your behalf. Mass outbound calling and texting — importing a list and launching campaigns — is on the Scale plan and requires A2P registration (approval usually takes 2–3 weeks). You're always in control of what goes out.
The AI answers calls in up to 40 languages and switches to the caller's language automatically. Transcripts are accurate in 10 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian and Dutch.
All data is encrypted in transit and stored on U.S.-based servers. Your recordings, transcripts, and summaries stay private unless you choose to share them, and we never sell your data.
Stop sending customers to voicemail
Get your AI business line answering calls, texts, and chats in about five minutes. Keep your current number: port it or forward it.
