Launch your own AI receptionist service.
The software is built, and it's free. Linedesk is a finished, open-source AI receptionist. Put your name on it, set your own price and run it for every client from one install. No license, no fee per client: you pay your providers for the calls, about $0.03 a minute, plus your server.
No contract and no license fee to run it for clients. Rather not run servers? Linedesk Cloud is coming soon.
Example data. Cost is the provider estimate at list prices.
Finished like a product. Free like open source.
There are two usual ways to start an AI phone answering service. Linedesk is the third.
Build on a voice API
Weeks of prompts, telephony and calendar glue before the first client is live. Every edge case after that is yours to fix.
White-label a closed platform
Ready fast, but you pay a fee per client every month, and the terms are someone else's to change.
Linedesk
A complete receptionist with inbox, booking and handover. No license fee, no per-client price, and the code under AGPL-3.0 is yours to keep running.
The receptionist they'll want to keep
Your name is on it, so it has to be good. This is what your clients see.
Every call picked up
On the first ring, day and night. Nobody waits on hold.
Jobs booked into their calendar
Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, inside their hours, with buffers and minimum notice.
Urgent calls put through
To their on-call number with a short briefing first. If nobody picks up, the call is flagged for a callback right away.
Every call in one inbox
Recording, transcript and a short summary of what the caller needs, ready for the callback.
Their name on the line
The receptionist's name, voice and greeting are the client's. Callers never hear about Linedesk.
Their own number
Forward the number they already have, or give them a new one.
One install, every client on their own line
Set up the next client in an afternoon, and look after all of them from one place.
A workspace per client
Own inbox, receptionist, voice, greeting, hours and team. Clients only ever see their own calls.
Your logo in the portal
Your agency's name and logo in front of your clients, with a small "Powered by Linedesk".
One admin view
Calls, minutes and estimated cost per workspace and per provider, for this week and this month.
Spending caps
A monthly cap per workspace. Owners get an email at 80% and 100%; over the cap, callers hear a polite line and get a callback.
Support without sharing logins
Open a client's workspace as an admin to fix a greeting or check what the receptionist said.
The client's own carrier
Connect each client's Twilio or Telnyx account so their calls are billed to them, or use numbers on yours.
Your own server today. Linedesk Cloud soon.
Same product, same features. Pick by who you want looking after servers and phone numbers.
Your own server
Free · AGPL-3.0 · available nowRun one install for all your clients. Allowed and welcome.
- You pay only your server and your providers
- If you change the code and offer it as a service, publish your changes under AGPL-3.0
- About 1.5 GB of RAM for the whole stack
Linedesk Cloud
Coming soonWe run the servers, numbers and updates. You set up and look after your clients.
- Priced close to cost, phone line included
- The same price whether you run one workspace or fifty
- Move any client to your own server, with their data
We only use your email to tell you when Cloud opens for partners. Privacy
You pay for calls and a server. That's it.
No license, no fee per client. Self-hosted, you pay your providers' list prices and your server. What you charge your clients is up to you.
$9.81 per client · about $0.033/min at list prices, plus your server
Coming soon, priced close to cost and the same for everyone. Join the partner waitlist
Self-hosted: Telnyx, Deepgram, OpenAI and Cartesia list prices, November 2026, paid directly with your own keys.
Find a partner, or become one
Agencies and MSPs that set up and look after Linedesk for businesses. Each one lists the region and the industries they know.