Rosie answers the phone. This works the list.
Rosie is a $49 answering service. That is not an insult. That is the product they sell, in those words, on their homepage. If all you want is a voice that picks up at 2 a.m. and texts you a summary, buy Rosie. If you want the quote from March worked and the job booked, you are not shopping for an answering service. You are shopping for an employee. From $500 a month. No per-seat. No annual required. Open the live demo and try to make it sound like a bot.
Or call 813-733-5997 — you get the person who built it.
The table
| ROSIE (HEYROSIE.COM) | KRAYON | |
|---|---|---|
| What you are buying | They call it “the easiest AI answering service for small business.” Inbound call answering, FAQs, booking, message-taking. HVAC FAQ: she cannot dispatch technicians. | Not an answering service. An employee. Missed-call text-back and the old list — March quotes, tune-ups, maintenance due. |
| Price model | Minute plans: Professional $49/mo (250 min), Scale $149/mo (1,000 min), Growth $299/mo (2,000 min). Website texting add-on $50/mo (25 conversations, then $1 each). Go over minutes and they auto-upgrade you to the next plan (their terms). | Trades from $500/mo. Flat. No per-seat. No minute meter published. |
| Inbound vs outbound | Inbound answering. No published “work last year’s customer list” offer on heyrosie.com. | Inbound (missed call / inbound text, ~90 seconds) and outbound on the list you already paid for. |
| Human backup | Pure AI. Scale+ can warm-transfer or live-transfer to your people. Growth adds waterfall transfers. Their own vs-Smith page: escalate to a human employee at your business. No Rosie-staffed agent floor published. | Silent handoff to you. We are not a call center. That is the point. Founder answers 813-733-5997. |
| Live demo | Sample call recordings on the homepage. 7-day free trial, self-serve. Site phone 412-569-0026. After setup they tell you to call Rosie and test. No public “try to make it sound like a bot” live employee. | Live demo at /demo. In-browser. Four minutes. Default is a fake Tampa roofer. Transcripts not stored. |
| Contract | Marketing: cancel anytime; annual = 2 months free. Terms: 30-day subscription, auto-renews, cancel effective end of current billing cycle. Free trial converts unless you cancel first. | No annual contract required to start. |
| SOC 2 | Unknown. Not published on heyrosie.com. Privacy describes cloud + AWS AES256. | Not SOC 2. Published on the homepage. Tampa. You should know that on call one. |
| Who trains it | Google Business Profile + website, in minutes. Custom docs on Growth. | Built inside a working business. Rules in plain English you can change. Not a Google-listing brain. |
The offer itself is at /trades. If you already hated a $49 bot, /not-a-bot is your page. Weighing the one with the human floor instead? Krayon vs Smith.ai.
Open the live demo at /demo
If it sounds like Rosie, hang up. If it does not, call 813-733-5997 — you get the person who built it.