What Relay does today
Relay at a glance
Everything below is live in Relay today. No roadmap items dressed up as features: this is what your business gets when you turn Relay on.
The short version
Twelve things Relay does for a service business, every day.
A voice agent answers every call, 24/7: holds a real, natural, turn-based conversation, qualifies the lead, and books the appointment with no human on the line.
Texting and website chat run on the same brain as the phone line, so a lead gets the same quality conversation however they reach out.
Books straight to Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 / Outlook, or Relay's own built-in calendar, with automatic conflict detection and a heads-up text to the owner if something looks double-booked.
Every confirmation includes a calendar invite the customer can add to their own phone in one tap.
Relay drafts a reply to every inbound business email automatically. Nothing sends until a human approves it. (Growth and Concierge Black plans.)
Instant payment links the moment a sale closes, sent by text and email, live from the conversation.
Self-serve signup and checkout, so a new customer can pick a plan and pay without talking to a rep.
One Command Center dashboard showing every call, text, chat, booking, and sale across the business, with live setup-health monitoring.
A monthly Executive Report: a plain-English summary of what Relay did last month, benchmarked anonymously against similar businesses.
Automatic lead follow-up and appointment reminders, so an interested customer never quietly falls through the cracks.
Smart human escalation exactly when it matters: big-ticket deals, an upset caller, a request for a manager, or after hours.
Multi-tier, self-serve billing with automatic recovery messaging when a card fails, and an easy win-back path if a customer cancels.
The full capability list
Organized by where it happens: the phone, texts, chat, email, your calendar, the dashboard, and everything around billing.
Call handling (phone)
- Answers every call to the business's number and holds a real, spoken, back-and-forth conversation.
- Custom greeting, agent name and persona, communication style, and voice, set per business.
- Automatically qualifies and scores every lead against that business's own criteria before booking.
- Escalates live to the on-call number when a deal is high-value, the caller asks for a manager, sentiment turns negative, or it's after hours.
- Takes a message when a live transfer goes unanswered, instead of dropping the caller.
- Calls a customer back automatically if the call drops unexpectedly, and resumes the same conversation.
- Each business gets a dedicated phone number, or can forward their existing business line.
Texting (SMS)
- Answers inbound texts with a lighter-touch agent suited to someone who already knows the business.
- Customers can confirm a booked appointment just by replying "yes" to a text.
- Automatically follows up by text with a stalled lead who showed interest but didn't book, and sends appointment reminders ahead of time.
- Texts the right payment link the moment a sale closes on a call or in chat.
Website chat widget
- An embeddable chat bubble any business adds to its own website with one line of code.
- Automatically switches to Spanish on Spanish-language pages.
- Runs the exact same agent as the phone line: same qualifying questions, same booking, same selling, just typed.
- Gently checks in once (at most twice) if a visitor goes quiet mid-conversation.
Email assistant
Available on the Growth and Concierge Black plans.
- Each business gets its own dedicated inbound email address to forward their inbox to.
- Drafts a reply to every inbound email automatically; a staff member approves or edits each draft before it sends.
- Automatically sends appointment confirmations (with a calendar invite attached), sale welcome and reminder emails, and payment-link emails.
- Emails the business about any call or chat that needs human follow-up, plus an optional summary of every finished conversation.
- Sends a monthly engagement email showing what Relay did, with an anonymized peer comparison and a branded PDF Executive Report.
Appointment booking
- Books a real event directly on a connected Google Calendar.
- Books a real event directly on Microsoft 365 / Outlook.
- For businesses without Google or Microsoft connected, books onto Relay's own built-in calendar, checking for conflicts against crew capacity and buffer time, and still books with a warning text to the owner if something looks double-booked.
- Automatically picks the right calendar system per business, with no manual switching.
- Configurable buffer time between appointments, how far ahead booking is allowed, and how many crews or technicians can be scheduled in parallel.
- Every booking confirmation email includes a standard calendar invite file, so the customer can add it to their own phone.
Lead intelligence
- Each business's own service list and live pricing, which the agent can quote and discuss.
- A custom set of qualifying questions per business, asked of every caller or chatter.
- A custom list of appointment types per business, such as "Free estimate" or "Service call."
- A nightly review of recent real conversations that surfaces concrete, actionable patterns for a human to review.
Sales and payments
- Relay sells itself through its own three-tier plans, closed by its own AI sales agent.
- The moment a sale closes, the right Stripe payment link goes out by text and/or email and shows right in the chat.
- A public, no-login signup page where a new customer can pick a plan and pay without talking to a rep.
- A fuller order-form flow that sets up recurring autopay for a new customer.
- Businesses can sell their own products or plans through Relay; the agent offers and closes those too, using that business's own payment link.
- Dedicated tooling for a human sales rep to close a new business directly, alongside the fully automated path.
Billing and subscriptions
- Automatic missed-payment sequence: reminder emails, a service pause, and cancellation on a defined schedule if a card keeps failing.
- A cancelled customer can reinstate at the current price, with an optional fee waiver in certain cases.
- Support for accounts deliberately kept outside standard billing, such as pilots, friends and family, or invoiced customers.
Admin and Command Center
- One dashboard showing every call, chat, booking, and sale across every business, plus live status and a setup-health checklist.
- Edit any business's services, qualifying questions, appointment types, sellable plans, agent persona, and greeting directly.
- Staff accounts with roles: an admin sees every business, a rep sees only their own.
- Provision, replace, or release a phone number per business.
- Tracks leads who started signup but haven't activated yet, so none fall through the cracks.
- A live interactive demo any prospect can call or chat with before signing up.
Reporting and monitoring
- A setup-health checklist watching every integration (phone, texting, email, payments, and background jobs), alerting only when something changes.
- A monthly plain-English Executive Report per business, with anonymized peer benchmarking.
- Per-business dashboard data available via API.
Public web and self-serve
- A guided public onboarding wizard that collects a new business's details and activates their agent.
- Public self-serve signup and checkout.
- A staff/teammate management page for logins and account administration.
On the roadmap, not available yet
We'd rather tell you what's next than pretend it's here. These are in development and not part of Relay today.
Call recording
Listen back to any conversation Relay had on your behalf.
Calendly integration
For businesses who already run their scheduling through Calendly.
Outbound prospecting
Help proactively find and reach new customers, not just handle inbound.
Hear it for yourself.
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