AI for small business

The phone gets answered while you work.

You can't serve a customer and pick up the phone at the same time. Your AI Employee can. It answers the call, books the job, follows up, and sends you the notes.

A small business owner at work in her shop
  • Answers calls
  • Books jobs
  • Follows up

An AI phone assistant for small business

When you're with a customer, the phone still rings. Your AI Employee picks up, so the customer in front of you and the one on the phone both get looked after.

Answers while you work

Day, night and weekends.

Books into your calendar

Google Calendar, Calendly or Cal.com.

Sends you the notes

Every call saved with a transcript and a summary.

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Ticked three or more? An AI Employee will save you time from day one.

The real problem AI Employees solve for small businesses

The core constraint in a small business is not usually capital. It is bandwidth.

You are on every client call, every candidate screen, every partner check-in. Not because those calls are all high-value, many of them are not, but because there is no one else to handle them. You cannot delegate intake calls to an assistant you do not have.

So they pile up, and either you are the bottleneck or some of them fall through.

An AI Employee solves a specific version of this problem. It handles the repeatable, structured interactions where a defined process matters more than improvisation. Client intake calls. First-round candidate screens. Weekly check-in calls with recurring clients. Follow-up after a demo.

For each of these, you write the brief once. The AI Employee joins the call with that context loaded. It runs the process, captures what happened, and delivers structured output afterward.

You still review the output. You still make the call on what to do next. But you are not the one spending an hour on a first-round screen for a candidate who is not a fit. The AI Employee handled that. You read the summary.

What DelegateWorker looks like in practice

You write a brief for the AI Employee in plain language. This is the closest analog to an onboarding document: what does this AI Employee need to know to be useful in this specific type of call?

Then you add it to a meeting invite the same way you would add any attendee. It joins the call. Participants can see it in the participant list. There is no hidden recording layer.

After the call, you get the structured output. The format depends on what you briefed the AI Employee to capture.

Setup takes under 10 minutes. There is no IT department required.

What you still need to do yourself

An AI Employee is not a replacement for the relationship. Clients who want a human voice and human judgment in key moments still need that.

It also does not replace creative judgment, strategic decisions, or anything where the right answer depends on context you have not yet translated into a brief.

What it replaces is the operational layer underneath those things. The data capture, the follow-up structuring, the consistency across 20 candidates or 12 client calls.

That is a meaningful difference for a small team. You get the structured execution layer that larger companies have from junior staff or coordinators. Without the hiring, onboarding, and management that come with it.

An AI assistant for small business, priced for small business

  • Starter

    $8/month

    To try it out.

  • Go

    $39/month

    For a few calls a week.

  • Most businesses start here

    Operator

    $99/month

    For daily calls and bookings.

  • Scale

    $299/month

    For busy lines, every day.

How to set it up

  1. Step 1

    Talk to Jordan.

    Tell our onboarding AI Employee about your business, your hours and your services. It sets up your AI Employee from the call.

  2. Step 2

    Review and publish.

    Check the setup in your account and press Publish.

  3. Step 3

    Point your phone at it.

    Forward your business line, or use a new number.

  4. Step 4

    Get back to work.

    Every call is answered and saved with a transcript and a summary.

Sasan Zarrin, founder of DelegateWorker

Who built this

DelegateWorker is founded by Sasan Zarrin.

Sasan sold enterprise software at Oracle, Salesforce and DocuSign, and has delivered projects to over 200 large enterprises. He built DelegateWorker to give every business an AI Employee that does real work.

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Questions about AI for small business

How can AI help a small business?
The fastest win is the phone. An AI Employee answers calls you would miss, books jobs, reminds customers and follows up on invoices.
What is an AI phone assistant for small business?
It is AI that answers your business phone. Your AI Employee picks up, answers questions, books into your calendar, and sends you the notes.
Do I need a new phone number?
No. Forward your business line, or use a new number.
Will callers know it is AI?
Yes. It never pretends to be a person. It tells callers it is an AI Employee working for your business.
Which plan should I start with?
Most businesses start on Operator at $99 a month. Starter at $8 is there to try it out.
How long does setup take?
One call with Jordan, our onboarding AI Employee. Then you review the setup and press Publish.