--- title: "Want to try an AI receptionist? Call ours on +31 598 79 90 09" description: "Our AI receptionist is live on +31 598 79 90 09 and answers 24/7. Call it yourself, ask a real question and let it book an appointment. Here is what you hear." url: https://vanborg.com/en/blog/call-our-ai-receptionist locale: en type: article published: 2026-09-03 author: "Nicolaas Sterenborg" tags: [ai-receptionist, phone-agent, demo, voice-ai] --- # Want to try an AI receptionist? Call ours on +31 598 79 90 09 ## Can you try an AI receptionist yourself? Yes. Our own AI receptionist is live on **+31 598 79 90 09** and answers 24/7. There is no form to fill in and nothing to request: you pick up your phone, dial that number and talk to exactly the agent we install for customers. Trying it yourself takes two minutes. Call it with a real question. What does an AI phone agent cost, do you work in my region, what happens when it does not know something. Those are the questions it is trained on, and it is a fairer test than a recorded demo where everything happens to go right. If you would rather first hear how such a call sounds in your own trade, listen to the examples on the [demo page](https://vanborg.com/en/demo). ## What does the AI receptionist do during the call? The AI receptionist answers your question, records who you are and books an appointment on the spot if you want one. It asks about your company, your trade, your town, your name and your email address, and it writes that down during the call rather than afterwards. If the matter is urgent, it transfers you to a person. The booking happens live, on the phone. It reads out the free slots from the calendar, you pick one, and the confirmation is sent before you hang up. That is the difference with an answering service: one takes a message, this one actually puts the appointment in the diary. If you do not need the phone line but do want your website and WhatsApp to answer, [the same agent covers those channels too](https://vanborg.com/en/blog/ai-receptionist-on-whatsapp). ## Does the caller know they are talking to an AI? Yes, and that is how it should be. Our agent says so in its first sentence: "Hello, you've reached Van Borg Agency. I'm an AI assistant." No small print afterwards, no confusion halfway through. Since 2 August 2026 it is also simply the law. The European AI Act puts it this way in Article 50(1): "Providers shall ensure that AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons are designed and developed in such a way that the natural persons concerned are informed that they are interacting with an AI system." Under Article 113 that obligation applies from 2 August 2026. See the [text of Article 50](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/). In practice this is a relief rather than a brake. Callers who know they are speaking to an assistant ask shorter questions and get to the point faster. ### Why it never spells out "AI" letter by letter A small choice with a large effect: in Dutch the agent says "kunstmatige intelligentie" instead of the two English letters. A Dutch voice stumbles over loose English letters, and one odd sound in the opening line sets the tone for everything after it. ## How fast is the call, and what if it does not know? It keeps moving, sticks to two sentences per turn and asks one question at a time. Interrupt it and it stops. If it does not know something it does not invent an answer: it says it will check, records your details and makes sure you get a call back. That last part is deliberate. An agent that guesses at a price or a lead time costs you a customer, not just a call. Why we would rather have it say "I don't know" than produce a plausible sounding answer is set out in [what an AI agent does when it does not know](https://vanborg.com/en/blog/what-if-the-ai-agent-does-not-know). It speaks Dutch just as happily: open in Dutch and it switches with you. ## What does an AI receptionist on your own number cost? The Phone Agent costs **€595 setup and €349 per month, including 400 call minutes**, then €0.39 per minute. If you want the same agent on your website and WhatsApp as well, that is the AI receptionist: **€795 setup and €495 per month**, also with 400 minutes included. Everything is rental and cancellable monthly. Ordered separately, phone and chat come to €890 setup and €528 per month, so the bundle costs less than its parts. What your own combination costs is worked out with the [calculator on the pricing page](https://vanborg.com/en/pricing). The full role with every channel is on [the AI receptionist page](https://vanborg.com/en/services/receptionist), and how our prices compare with the rest of the market is in [what an AI receptionist costs in 2026](https://vanborg.com/en/blog/ai-receptionist-cost). *Prices updated: September 2026, excluding VAT.* Just give it a ring. **+31 598 79 90 09**, day or night. If you like what you hear, we put the same agent on your number, with your rates and your calendar behind it.