What is a small business answering service, and how is this one different?
It is whoever picks up when you cannot. Here that is an AI: it answers every call on your own number, plus the website chat, the e-mail and the web forms, day and night. Beyond taking a message, it asks your brief questions, books consultations and sessions, drafts quotes from your price list for your yes and follows up until the client replies.
Will it answer while I am photographing a wedding?
That is what it is for: an answering service for photographers that picks up while you shoot. Forward your line and every call is answered on your own number, in the caller's language. When a call should reach you, it is transferred with a word on who is calling and why; otherwise the AI takes the message and reads the callback number back before the call ends.
Can a video production company quote projects from its own price list?
Yes. Enter your shoot days, crew packages, editing days, motion graphics, add-ons and usage options as items with their prices, and every quote reads those numbers. The AI never invents or changes a price. Each new quote waits under Awaiting your yes, or you set a ceiling under which quotes priced entirely from your list go out by themselves.
Can a recording studio book rooms and engineers with it?
Yes. Each room, booth and engineer gets a calendar of its own, and the AI books tracking, mixing, voice-over or podcast sessions into them by phone, chat and web form. Confirmations and reminders go out on their own, AI Auto-Call confirms by phone, and a hold keeps a room reserved while an artist checks dates.
Which questions does it ask a new client?
Yours. You write them once: for a photographer the date, the venue, the hours and the kind of session; for a video producer the deliverables, lengths, locations and deadline; for a recording studio the number of songs, the instruments and the release date. The AI asks them in a natural conversation and keeps every answer on the client's record.
Will the AI promise a look, a sound or a discount?
No. It quotes only what is on your price list, offers no discounts and never judges a portfolio, a script or a mix. It writes down the client's references and ideas in full and passes the creative conversation to the photographer, producer or engineer your rules name.
What happens to the inquiries that come in at night?
They are answered the moment they arrive. A late call, a chat from a couple browsing galleries at midnight or a web form from a band on tour gets a reply under your after-hours rules, and the client's answers wait on one record when you open the dashboard in the morning.
Does it replace my studio management or editing software?
No. Shot lists, client galleries, call sheets, session files and edit review stay in the tools you use today. Zanus AI works in front of them as the front office: it brings in the work and organizes it before the shoot or the session, from the first call to the approved quote and the booked consultation.
Can it follow up on quotes clients have not answered?
Yes. AI Follow-up writes each reminder from the client's own details, the project, the date and what was quoted, and stops the moment the client replies on any channel. For past clients, e-mail campaigns go to a filtered group, such as last year's wedding couples or the artists who recorded an album with you in spring.
Which languages can it speak with clients?
The client's own. Phone calls are answered in the caller's language, the website chat speaks 40 languages by text or voice, and a call can be put through to the team member who speaks it. A talking avatar can also greet visitors on your portfolio and gallery pages.
How much does it cost for a small studio?
Zanus AI is priced per company, never per seat, so every photographer, producer, editor and engineer works under one subscription. You choose the modules your business needs, and the plans are on the pricing page. Start with the free trial, no card, to see which ones you would really use.
What is the difference between the 7-day free trial and the demo?
The free trial builds a private sandbox of your own business from your website and runs for 7 days, with no card. The demo shows the AI front office ready-made, needs nothing from you and arrives by e-mail in about 2 minutes. Watch the demo for a quick look; start the trial to hear it answer as your business.
