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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "orateur",
 "name": "Orateur",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "orateur.ai",
 "category": "Communication & Voice",
 "task": "Someone — or an AI — to answer the calls we miss",
 "summary": "AI phone receptionist for small businesses in Switzerland and French-speaking Europe: answers calls around the clock, books appointments in Google Calendar or Outlook, takes messages and transfers calls.",
 "best_for": "small businesses in Switzerland and French-speaking Europe, such as clinics, salons, fiduciaries and law offices, that miss calls and want an AI receptionist to answer, book appointments and take messages around the clock",
 "skip_if": "you need an English-language interface and support, pricing in euros or dollars, or calendar sync beyond Google Calendar and Outlook",
 "honest_knock": "The site is in French only and prices are in Swiss francs; Orateur is clearly built for Swiss and French-speaking businesses (its testimonials are from Lausanne and Geneva). Annual totals are not written out on the pricing page. The FAQ answers about languages, data security and what happens to your number when you cancel did not load in our reading, so those points are not confirmed. Calendar sync is named for Google Calendar and Outlook only.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-03 on orateur.ai/pricing, shown in Swiss francs on the French-language site; we did not see a price list in another currency) Orateur prices by plan, each with an allowance of AI agent time. Creator costs CHF 49 a month with 4 hours of agent time, 1 user, a free phone number, call history and analytics, and email support; extra minutes cost CHF 0.24. Pro costs CHF 99 a month with 9 hours, 2 users and priority support; extra minutes CHF 0.22. Scale costs CHF 199 a month with 19 hours and 5 users; extra minutes CHF 0.20. Enterprise is custom priced through sales. Paying annually gives two months free, according to the pricing toggle; we did not see the annual totals written out. You start with 100 free minutes and no commitment. The page has a cost calculator: at 500 minutes a month it recommends Pro, and shows Creator at CHF 111.40 once the extra minutes are added.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-03",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 49.0,
   "currency": "CHF",
   "description": "Creator, Creator billed monthly: 4 hours of AI agent time a month, 1 user, a free phone number, extra minutes CHF 0.24; Pro CHF 99 (9 hours), Scale CHF 199 (19 hours); annual billing gives 2 months free; 100 free minutes to start. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-03.",
   "page": "https://zerotouchsupport.com/orateur-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Lucrovox",
  "why": "Lucrovox is in our dossiers as an AI phone agent too: on 30 October 2026 it started at $199 a month for 100 AI calls. Orateur starts at CHF 49 a month for 4 hours of agent time and is aimed at French-speaking Swiss businesses"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/orateur.json",
  "review": "https://zerotouchsupport.com/orateur-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/orateur/",
  "vendor_site": "https://orateur.ai"
 },
 "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://orateur.ai/?red=aibuil",
  "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": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "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.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "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."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "orateur: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": "orateur:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "orateur:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "orateur: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_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "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"
  }
 }
}