Ship an AI Voice Receptionist in 48h
ElevenLabs voice + Lovable admin + Lindy follow-up. Real numbers, real callers, real bookings.
Deliverable
What you'll have at the end
A live phone number that answers in your cloned voice, qualifies the caller, books the meeting, and emails the transcript before they hang up.
- ✓A real, working phone number you can put on your contact page
- ✓Calls auto-qualified into hot/warm/cold tiers
- ✓Calendly bookings with zero scheduling tag
- ✓Email transcripts with summaries in your inbox by Monday morning
The stack
Three tools, one weekend
ElevenLabs
Starter $5/mo (voice cloning + 30 min agent runtime)Best-in-class voice cloning + Agents that actually hold a phone conversation.
Lovable
Free tier works; Pro $25/mo unlocks Supabase integration.Spin up the receptionist's admin dashboard in 20 minutes with prompts only.
Lindy
Pro $49/mo for webhook + multi-tool steps.Glue: takes the call transcript, books on Calendly, sends a tailored recap.
Daily build prompts
The hour-by-hour plan
- 01Friday night · 2h
Clone your voice + provision the number
Sign up for ElevenLabs Starter. Record 5 minutes of clean audio, clone your voice. Provision a Twilio number ($1/mo). Wire the number to a placeholder webhook.
Use the elevenlabs course as your reference → - 02Saturday morning · 3h
Build the Receptionist Agent
In the ElevenLabs dashboard, create an Agent with the system prompt from the starter (paste agent-config.json). Test calls from your own phone — iterate on the script until it sounds human.
Use the elevenlabs course as your reference → - 03Saturday afternoon · 3h
Stand up the admin dashboard in Lovable
Prompt Lovable: a dashboard with a live calls table (caller ID, time, summary, intent), a settings page for the system prompt, and an export button. Deploy to a *.lovable.dev subdomain.
Use the lovable course as your reference → - 04Sunday morning · 2h
Wire Lindy as the post-call brain
Import lindy-closer-bot-starter.json. Point it at your ElevenLabs webhook. Configure Calendly + Gmail. Test: call the number, confirm Lindy books and emails you.
Use the lindy course as your reference → - 05Sunday afternoon · 2h
Polish + go live
Tighten the agent prompt with edge cases (caller is angry, caller wants pricing, caller is a vendor). Add a Slack notification. Tweet the number — see if it survives a Sunday-night onslaught.
Honest pitfalls
What trips people up
- !Clone quality matters — record in a quiet room, single take, no compression.
- !Twilio rate limits: international callers may need separate numbers.
- !Don't ship without a 'transfer to human' fallback for confused callers.