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Straight answers for growing businesses choosing a line and a receptionist: real pricing, per-minute math, and what to look for.
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| Published | Guide | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Your District AI Number Is Now Answered in Your RegionCanadian, European and Asia-Pacific businesses: the numbers you get from District AI are now answered in your region, US ones included. Nothing to set up. | 4 min read | |
| Why We Open-Sourced the District AI Apps, and What You Can Build With ThemThe District AI apps for iPhone, iPad, Android and Linux are open source under Apache-2.0. Why we published them, and what you can build from the code. | 8 min read | |
| We Checked Our Own Homework. Three Times.We checked our privacy promises against our software for Quebec, Europe and Canada, and worked through 68 gaps. Here's what it means for your business. | 4 min read | |
| Why a Phone Company Publishes Its CodeDistrict AI runs on open-source software, and Distronode publishes its own the same way: two Apache-2.0 projects, and fixes sent back upstream. | 4 min read | |
| A New Voice Engine, and Six Canadian French VoicesDistrict AI adds Cartesia Sonic as an optional voice engine: seventeen voices, six in native Canadian French, and first audio in about a fifth of a second. | 4 min read | |
| A New Website, a New Portal, and Scheduling Built InDistronode's redesigned website, the rebuilt District AI dashboard, and District Scheduling: booking pages on your own hostname, in your own region. | 5 min read | |
| Europe End to End, and a Canadian Voice EngineDistrict AI can now run a European workspace's calls in Europe end to end, and Canadian workspaces gain an optional voice engine that runs in Montreal. | 4 min read | |
| One Login, Many Businesses: Multi-Workspace EnvironmentsRun several District AI workspaces from one login: a chooser at sign-in, a dashboard switcher, and separate numbers, team, billing and region for each one. | 3 min read | |
| Your Contacts Are Your Caller ID: How We Rebuilt Contact ImportingWhy 13% of imported phone numbers were silently broken, how the new preview-first import fixes it, and where contact sync goes next for Outlook and Google. | 3 min read | |
| AI Receptionist for HVAC: Surviving the Heat Wave RushHVAC phones spike the week nobody's AC works. What an AI receptionist does with an overflowing call queue, what it books, and what it costs at $39 a month. | 4 min read | |
| How Much Does an AI Receptionist Cost in 2026? Real Prices From 10 VendorsAI receptionist pricing in 2026 runs from $29 to $399+ per month. Real prices from 10 vendors, the four pricing models, and the overage traps to avoid. | 3 min read | |
| AI Answering Service Pricing Compared: Per-Minute Rates for 2026Side-by-side per-minute pricing for AI answering services in 2026. Effective rates run $0.16 to $0.48 per minute; here is the math vendors don't show you. | 3 min read | |
| AI Receptionist for Plumbers: Stop Losing Jobs to Missed CallsPlumbers miss a quarter or more of inbound calls, and most callers won't leave a voicemail. How an AI receptionist answers, books, and screens for $39/mo. | 3 min read |