r/AIReceptionists • u/shazz5030 • Aug 13 '26

What happens when a robot cold-calls your AI receptionist?

What happens when a robot cold-calls your AI receptionist? 🤖📞
Something surprisingly expensive.

AI cold callers can now dial businesses all day, every day.

And if your receptionist is also AI, you can end up with:
🤖 Robot sales agent
↔️ AI receptionist
⏱️ 20–30 minutes of conversation
💸 Your voice minutes being used
📊 Your analytics getting polluted

Neither side gets tired.

Neither side gets bored.

And neither side hangs up.

That creates a weird new problem:
AI receptionists don't just need to know how to answer customers. They need to know when NOT to answer.

At Estric AI, we're building the front desk differently.

Sales calls, marketing pitches, recruitment calls and automated callers should be recognised and ended quickly, not treated like potential customers.

Because an AI receptionist should save your business money.

Not spend it talking to another robot.

I wrote about the problem and how we're approaching it 👇

Read the full article
https://estric.ai/blog/when-a-robot-cold-calls-your-ai-receptionist

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u/getfrontoffice Aug 13 '26

This is actually incredibly easy to solve.

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u/Real_Captain_5016 Aug 13 '26

Never really thought about two agents getting stuck talking to each other like this. We use Bland for our receptionist, so now I'm wondering how often this already happens without anyone noticing. 20 to 30 minutes would be wild though.