Building & SalesSep 2025–Mar 2026VentureSold
AI Receptionist Agency
Founder
- Founding to exit
- 6 mo
- Exit
- 5-fig
- Qualified leads
- 25+
- Conversion rate
- +50%
Context
Small businesses miss calls, and every missed call is a lost lead. I built an AI receptionist that answers, qualifies the caller and books them in, and sold it to businesses directly.
My role
Founder. I ran sales end to end and outsourced the build.
What I did
- 01Built the whole sales funnel myself: cold outreach, lead generation, client calls and closing.
- 02Sold contracts before the product was finished, then built what customers had paid for.
- 03Ran the CRM and B2B pipeline, turning outreach into 25+ qualified leads.
- 04Outsourced the build to a dev team across China and India, which freed me to sell and lifted conversion by 50%.
- 05Reached a stable four-figure MRR, then sold the business for a five-figure sum.
Outcome
Sold within six months of founding.
How a call is handled
A customer calls the business
The voice agent answers and works out why they're calling
- Book
- Checks the calendar
- Books the slot
- Texts a confirmation
- Question
- Looks up the business's answers
- Replies: hours, prices, location
- New enquiry
- Qualifies the lead
- Takes name, number and need
- Adds it to the CRM
- Urgent
- Transfers to the owner
- No answer? Takes a message
After every call: transcript and summary to the CRM, and a note to the owner
Tools
- n8n
- ElevenLabs
- CRM
- Cold outreach
- B2B sales