What is Botlery?
Botlery is a founder-led small team of freelance developers that builds AI receptionists, AI chatbots, AI voice agents, AI phone agents and business automations for small businesses anywhere in the world. It is run by founder Rohail Nisar, who leads every build, rather than by an agency with account managers and a sales layer. Prices are flat and published: an AI chatbot is $10/month or $100/year fully managed, or $200 one-time on your own accounts; a website voice agent or a phone agent is $300 one-time. Automation work (Google Sheets, Excel, Zapier, Make and n8n, AI document processing and GoHighLevel) starts from $100, with a free fixed-price quote for every job. Every AI agent starts with a free working demo trained on your real services and prices, and you pay only if you're happy with it. You can hire Botlery directly through the form on this page or by email, or on Upwork, where Rohail is Top Rated with 100% Job Success. Pricing is quoted in USD.
How much does a Botlery AI receptionist, chatbot or voice agent cost?
A Botlery AI chatbot costs $10/month or $100/year (2 months free) fully managed, or $200 one-time, and a voice or phone agent costs $300 one-time. On the managed plan the chatbot runs on Botlery's accounts, so the monthly fee covers hosting, AI usage and maintenance with no hidden charges. The one-time builds run on your own accounts, so you own them and pay only your own usage, billed to you directly by your AI and phone providers (not Botlery) in proportion to minutes used, so a quiet month may cost only a few dollars and a busy one more. There is no per-minute or per-caller fee from Botlery and no payment up front: Botlery builds a free working demo first and you pay once you're happy. For comparison, agencies typically charge thousands of dollars to build the same thing plus a monthly fee, which makes Botlery far cheaper. See our cheapest AI chatbot and cheapest AI receptionist guides for the full comparison.
What's the difference between Botlery's monthly chatbot plan and a one-time purchase?
Botlery's fully managed chatbot plan is $10/month or $100/year and runs on Botlery's accounts, while a one-time purchase is $200 for a chatbot or $300 for a voice or phone agent and runs on your own accounts. On the managed plan Botlery hosts the chatbot, pays the AI usage costs, maintains it and updates your prices or services whenever you email a change; one small bill covers everything and you can cancel anytime. With a one-time purchase you pay once and own it forever, covering only your own usage costs, billed to you directly by your AI and phone providers (not Botlery) in proportion to minutes used, so a quiet month may cost only a few dollars and a busy one more. Botlery does all the building, training and installing either way, and one-time builds include 30 days of free fixes after handover. You can also start on the managed plan and switch to owning it later by paying the one-time price. See the full comparison.
Do I have to pay Botlery upfront for an AI agent?
No: Botlery takes no payment up front and needs no credit card to start, because it builds a free working demo of your AI agent first. You send your website and a few details about your services, prices and hours, and Botlery trains a working chatbot, voice agent or phone agent on that information. You then test it as one of your customers would, ask for changes to the answers, tone or booking rules, and watch it handle real questions. You pay only once you have seen it work and want to keep it: $10/month or $200 one-time for a chatbot, or $300 one-time for a voice or phone agent. If it isn't right for your business, you owe nothing and there is nothing to cancel. The same approach applies to automation projects, which start with a free fixed-price quote and are paid once they work on your real data.
Will Botlery's AI voice agent sound like a robot to my customers?
No: Botlery's AI voice agent, a $300 one-time build, speaks in a natural human voice, and the live voice demo on this page lets you hear it before you decide. It is built on a modern real-time voice model rather than a recorded phone menu, so it takes turns naturally, handles interruptions mid-sentence and responds to what the caller actually said. It can also reply in your customers' language automatically and adapt its phrasing to the region it serves. The same voice powers the AI phone agent that answers your business line, so what you hear in the demo is what your callers will hear. Some callers will still ask whether they are talking to an AI, and if they do, the agent says so. In practice many people care more about getting a clear answer at 8pm than about who gave it to them.
Are the answers and prices in Botlery's demo accurate?
The AI on Botlery's website is a demo that uses example information to show how it works, while your own Botlery agent is trained on your real prices, services, policies and documents. When you pick a trade in the demo, it role-plays a sample business with sample prices, so its figures are illustrative rather than quotes from any real company. Your agent is different: Botlery builds it from the details you provide, so it answers from your actual data, and when it isn't sure of something, it says you'll confirm rather than guessing. You test that before paying anything, and you can ask for any answer to be changed. Botlery's own prices, which the demo will quote if you ask about Botlery itself, are exact: $10/month, $100/year or $200 one-time for a chatbot, and $300 one-time for a voice or phone agent.
What can a Botlery AI agent actually do?
A Botlery AI agent, from $10/month for a chatbot or $300 one-time for a voice or phone agent, answers your customers 24/7 and turns them into leads and bookings. It answers questions about your services, hours, service area and policies, gives rough quotes from your real pricing rules, and captures each customer's name, phone number, email and job details. Every lead is saved to a Google Sheet and emailed to you instantly, with a text as well for phone leads, so you can follow up while the customer is still interested. It can book appointments onto your calendar, speaks multiple languages, and is guardrailed to stay on your business and hand off to you when a question needs a person. Everything it says comes from the services, prices and policies you give it, and Botlery updates them whenever your business changes.
What's the difference between an AI chatbot, a voice agent and a phone agent?
Botlery builds all three: an AI chatbot ($10/month or $200 one-time) chats by text on your website, an AI voice agent ($300 one-time) talks out loud with visitors on your website, and an AI phone agent ($300 one-time) answers your actual business phone line. The chatbot suits visitors who would rather type, and it installs on almost any website platform. The voice agent lets a visitor tap a button and simply talk, which works well for people browsing on a phone. The phone agent, often called an AI receptionist, answers calls in a natural voice on a number Botlery sets up, so calls you miss while busy become booked jobs instead of voicemails. All three answer questions, give quotes, capture leads to a Google Sheet, email you instantly and book appointments. Pick whichever matches how your customers reach you, or combine them.
Is Botlery an agency?
No: Botlery is run by founder Rohail Nisar with a small team of freelance developers, which is why its prices are $10/month to $300 one-time instead of the thousands of dollars agencies charge. Rohail leads every project, so you deal directly with the people building your AI, get quick email replies, and never go through an account manager or sales layer. Agencies carry salespeople, project managers and office overhead, and all of it ends up in the quote, usually with a monthly retainer on top. Botlery has none of that overhead, and it still takes no payment until you have tested a free working demo and are happy with it. Rohail is Top Rated on Upwork with 100% Job Success across 120+ completed jobs and 68 client reviews, and you can hire Botlery there if you prefer Upwork's payment protection, or directly through this site.
How long until my Botlery AI agent is live?
A Botlery AI agent is usually live within a few days of you sharing your details, and you pay nothing until it is: $10/month or $200 one-time for a chatbot, $300 one-time for a voice or phone agent. The first step is a short conversation or form about your services, prices, service area, hours and the questions customers always ask. Botlery then builds a working demo trained on that information and sends it to you to test. You try it as a customer would and ask for changes, and that round of adjustments takes as long as you want. Once you're happy, Botlery installs the chatbot or voice agent on your website with a small snippet, or connects the phone agent to a number it sets up, and your leads start landing in your Google Sheet and inbox straight away.
Do I need technical skills to get a Botlery AI agent set up?
No: Botlery does all the building, training and installing, so you need no technical skills for a $10/month chatbot or a $300 one-time voice or phone agent. You send your website link and a few details about how your business works, and Botlery emails you if it needs anything else. For a chatbot or website voice agent, Botlery adds a small snippet to your site on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy or a custom site. For a phone agent, Botlery sets up a dedicated phone number, and you forward your existing line to it or publish the new number. On a one-time build, Botlery sets everything up on accounts in your name and hands it over with simple instructions. On the managed chatbot plan there is nothing to hand over at all, because Botlery hosts and maintains it for you.
Will a Botlery AI chatbot work on my website platform?
Yes: a Botlery AI chatbot, $10/month managed or $200 one-time, works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy and custom-coded sites. It is a lightweight embed snippet that sits on the site you already have, so you don't need a new website, a plugin marketplace or any code of your own. Botlery installs it for you, so you never touch the code. The website voice agent, $300 one-time, installs the same way and runs in the visitor's browser with no app or download. A phone agent doesn't touch your website at all: it runs on a dedicated phone number that Botlery sets up. If your site runs on something unusual, send the link with your free demo request and Botlery will tell you how it would install before you pay anything.
What happens if my Botlery AI agent breaks after handover?
On Botlery's managed plan ($10/month or $100/year) Botlery fixes anything that breaks for as long as you subscribe, and a one-time build ($200 or $300) includes 30 days of free fixes after handover. Those 30 days cover issues caused by provider or API updates, not just mistakes in the original build. After that Botlery is still available for fixes and changes: it quotes a fair flat rate before any work, and you decide whether to go ahead. Because a one-time build runs on your own accounts, nothing about it depends on a Botlery subscription, so it keeps working even if you never contact Botlery again. You can also move from owning it to the managed plan, or the other way round, if your needs change. Full details are in our Terms of Service.
Is my business data secure with Botlery?
Yes: Botlery uses your business details only to build and train your own AI agent, and never shares them with other clients or sells them. On a one-time build ($200 for a chatbot, $300 for a voice or phone agent), the agent runs on your own accounts, so you control the data and the leads outright. On the managed chatbot plan ($10/month), Botlery hosts it on its accounts and uses the data only to run your chatbot. Leads land in a Google Sheet you own and in your email. Every agent is guardrailed to stay on your business and to hand off to you rather than guess. See our Privacy Policy for exactly what this website collects and how to have it deleted.
What is an AI receptionist or AI answering service?
An AI receptionist, also called an AI answering service, AI voice agent or AI phone agent, answers your calls and messages in a natural voice 24/7, and Botlery builds one for $300 one-time. It greets each caller, answers questions about your services, hours and prices, gives quotes, qualifies and captures the lead, and books the appointment, all trained on your real business information. Unlike a phone menu or a generic bot, it holds a real conversation and handles interruptions. Unlike a live answering service, it answers two calls at once and never bills by the minute. Botlery's AI receptionist comes in three forms: a phone agent for your business line, a voice agent for your website, and a text chatbot from $10/month. You can talk to ours live right now, and Botlery builds yours as a free demo before you pay.
Does Botlery work with businesses outside the United States?
Yes: Botlery works with businesses anywhere in the world, at the same USD prices everywhere: $10/month or $200 one-time for a chatbot, and $300 one-time for a voice or phone agent. Everything is delivered remotely, so your location makes no difference to how Botlery builds, tests or hands over your agent. The AI answers in your customers' language and adapts to local terminology and currency, so a caller in Sydney hears "postcode" and a caller in London hears prices in pounds. Botlery sets the agent's hours and bookings to your time zone, and phone agents run on a number Botlery sets up for you. The free working demo comes first wherever you are, and you pay only once you're happy. If you prefer a platform with payment protection for an international hire, you can also hire Botlery on Upwork.
Can Botlery automate Google Sheets, Excel or other business workflows?
Yes: besides AI agents, Botlery builds business automation for small businesses, from $100, with a free fixed-price quote for every job. That covers Google Sheets automation with Apps Script, Excel automation with VBA, Power Query and Office Scripts, Zapier, Make and n8n workflows, AI document processing for invoices, receipts and PDFs, and GoHighLevel setup. You describe the manual work, Botlery sends a fixed price for free, builds it on your own accounts, and you pay once it works on your real data. It pairs naturally with the AI agents: every lead they capture already lands in a Google Sheet, so the follow-up, reporting or CRM step can be automated too. To start, ask for a free quote with a short description of the job, or hire Botlery for it on Upwork.