The AI receptionist for
Montreal small businesses.
When you run a small Montreal business, every call you miss while you're working is a customer you may never hear from again. Anova is an affordable, always-on bilingual front desk that answers in English or French, qualifies the caller, books the appointment, and syncs it to your tools — from $699/mo, no hiring, no payroll, live in about a week.
You can't answer the phone and do the work.
A solo plumber is under a sink. A clinic's only admin is with a patient. A landscaper is on a roof, an accountant is mid-meeting, a mobile groomer is driving across town. The phone rings — and it rings out. The caller doesn't leave a voicemail and wait. In Montreal, where the next listing is one search away, they simply call the next business that picks up. For a small operation, a handful of missed calls a week is the difference between a busy month and a slow one.
Hiring a full-time receptionist solves it on paper, but the math rarely works for a small business: a bilingual front desk in Montreal runs well past $40,000 a year with payroll and benefits, and still only covers nine-to-five. Anova removes the trade-off. Your agent answers on the first ring, around the clock, in the caller's language, for a flat monthly fee a small business can actually plan around.
Answer, qualify, book, and sync — for one flat fee.
Answers every call
Picks up on the first ring, 24/7, so a customer calling while you're elbow-deep in a job, with a client, or after hours still reaches a warm, professional front desk instead of voicemail.
Qualifies and books
Captures the name, number, and reason for the call, answers your common questions, and books the job or appointment straight into your live calendar — then texts you the details.
Syncs to your tools
Logs every contact and the full call to your CRM or a simple Google Sheet, so nothing falls through the cracks and you start each day with a clean list of who needs what.
Bilingual by default
Handles the whole conversation natively in English or Quebec French, following your language-priority rule — so you never lose a francophone or anglophone customer to a fumbled greeting.
Front desk, without the headcount.
Anova is designed for the people who are too busy doing the work to answer the phone — tradespeople, mobile services, salons and spas, small clinics, consultants, and solo professionals across Montreal. There's no employee to recruit, train, schedule, or cover when they're off. We build and configure the agent during onboarding, you approve how it sounds, and it's answering live in about a week. No tech skills, no contracts to manage, no payroll line to add.
And because it's a flat monthly fee from $699 — far less than a part-time hire — the cost stays predictable as you grow. When a high-value caller comes in, the agent can transfer them to you live with the context already loaded, so you pick up knowing exactly who's on the line and what they want.
Small business, answered.
Is it affordable for a small business?
Yes — built for small and solo operators, from $699/mo with a one-time $800 setup, a fraction of a salaried front desk with no payroll to manage.
Cheaper than hiring?
Almost always — a bilingual Montreal receptionist runs past $40,000 a year and covers only business hours; Anova answers 24/7 from $699/mo.
Do I need tech skills?
None — we handle the entire build during onboarding, and most small businesses are live within a week without writing anything.
English and French?
Both, natively, in Quebec French and English — switching to the caller's language automatically on every call.
Stop missing
customers.
Book a private demo and we'll configure a live agent for your business, route a real call through it, and show you the booking and sync — then walk you through how fast you can go live.
Book a private demo