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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "lucrovox",
 "name": "Lucrovox",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "lucrovox.com",
 "category": "Communication & Voice",
 "task": "Someone — or an AI — to answer the calls we miss",
 "summary": "AI phone agent for local service businesses — answers missed calls, books jobs and captures leads 24/7 for trades like HVAC, plumbing and roofing.",
 "best_for": "local service businesses — HVAC, plumbing, roofing, med spas — losing revenue to missed calls who want a 24/7 AI receptionist that books jobs straight into Google Calendar, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or Jobber",
 "skip_if": "your call volume is tiny (100 Starter calls is the whole point) or your callers expect a human — ring their live demo line first and judge the voice yourself",
 "honest_knock": "The meter is AI-handled calls: Starter’s 100 calls a month is roughly three a day, so a genuinely busy shop outgrows it quickly — and the steps are steep ($199 → $499 → $999). The ‘callers can’t tell it’s AI’ claim is the vendor’s own: they offer a live demo number, so test that before you commit.\n\nOne more thing to read carefully on the sibling product's page. LucroChat's ROI calculator reports its return “Based on Growth plan ($99/mo)”, while the plan table on the same page prices Growth at $59 a month (first read 24 August 2026, unchanged when we re-read it on 15 September 2026, and still there after the vendor told us that day it had been fixed). The $99 is the higher of the two, so nobody is being lured with a low number, but a page that quotes two different prices for one plan is a page whose figures you check at checkout rather than take on trust.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$199",
  "entry_price_terms": "Starter · per month for up to 100 AI-handled calls, with a 14-day free trial",
  "from_price_usd_month": 199.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-15 on lucrovox.com/#pricing and lucrovox.com/lucrochat, both read in a real browser with the pages fully loaded) The phone agent has three published tiers and the plan table is back on the page: Starter $199 a month for up to 100 AI-handled calls, Pro $499 for up to 500 calls with CRM integration and advanced lead qualification, Enterprise $999 for up to 2,000 calls with white-label branding and multi-location support. Higher volume is quote-only. Starter and Pro carry a 14-day trial, Enterprise 30 days. On our previous reading, 17 August, the pricing page opened with a missed-call ROI calculator and the tier list could not be retrieved at all; it is worth knowing that the plan table on this site comes and goes, and that the calculator's outputs ($500 average job value producing $750 a week and $39,000 a year of lost revenue) are illustrations rather than prices.\n\nLucroChat, the website chat product from the same vendor, sits on lucrovox.com/lucrochat with its own table metered on monthly conversations rather than calls: Starter $29 for up to 1,000 conversations on one website, Growth $59 for up to 3,000 conversations on up to three websites, Professional $199 for up to 10,000 conversations on unlimited websites, each with a 14-day trial and no card required. Its own FAQ agrees, describing pricing as starting at $29 a month for 1,000 conversations. One number on that page does not agree with the rest: the ROI calculator above the table reports its result “Based on Growth plan ($99/mo)” while the table prices Growth at $59. Read the plan table, not the calculator. LucroVox's partnerships team told us on 15 September 2026 that LucroChat had moved to $49, $99 and $249 and that the calculator now matches the table; we read both pages that same day and neither had happened. The table still prints $29, $59 and $199, the FAQ still says pricing starts at $29, and the calculator still reports $99. Those higher figures may well be where the product is heading, so if checkout quotes you $49, that is the vendor running ahead of its own pricing page. We publish what the page shows. Two products, two meters, one domain — price them separately.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-15",
  "source_url": "https://lucrovox.com/#pricing"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "LucroChat, the website chat product from the same vendor, sits on lucrovox.com/lucrochat with its own table metered on monthly conversations rather than calls: Starter $29 for up to 1,000 conversations on one website, Growth $59 for up to 3,000 conversations on up to three websites, Professional $199 for up to 10,000 conversations on unlimited websites, each with a 14-day trial and no card required.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-15",
   "source_url": "https://lucrovox.com/#pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Ruby",
  "why": "Ruby is the established human-receptionist service; Lucrovox is the AI route with published per-plan pricing from $199/mo — cheaper per call at volume, so decide how much ‘human’ your callers actually need"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/lucrovox.json",
  "review": "https://zerotouchsupport.com/lucrovox-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/lucrovox/",
  "vendor_site": "https://lucrovox.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.lucrovox.com/0whtc6de3h9c",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "lucrovox:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "lucrovox:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "lucrovox:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "lucrovox:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
 "offers": [
  {
   "offer_id": "lucrovox-reader-offer",
   "version": "aecbfac8b9",
   "offer_type": "price_discount",
   "benefit": "25% off your first month",
   "verification_status": "vendor_confirmed",
   "expires_at": null,
   "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/offers.json#lucrovox-reader-offer"
  }
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 "task_scope": {
  "scope": "ai_voice_agent",
  "label": "AI voice agent that answers calls",
  "why": "AI phone agent for local service businesses — answers missed calls, books jobs and captures leads 24/7 for trades like HVAC, plumbing and roofing.",
  "source": "our dossier",
  "phrases": [
   "voice agent",
   "ai answering",
   "voice ai",
   "ai calls",
   "ai to answer calls",
   "ai answers calls",
   "ai virtual receptionist",
   "ai answering service",
   "virtual ai receptionist"
  ]
 }
}