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Turn Memorial Inquiries Into Scheduled Arrangements AI small business answering service for memorial sites and monument companies

Families need a thoughtful response quickly, but our team cannot always answer every inquiry immediately.

Zanus AI is the small business answering service for memorial sites and monument companies that meets a family's first call with patience, on your own number, day and night. The same AI replies in the website chat, the e-mail and the web forms, turns each memorial inquiry into a scheduled meeting with the right person, drafts headstone quotes from your own price list for your yes, and puts a family through to a person whenever they ask.

  • Every call, chat, e-mail and form answered at once, at any hour and in the family's own language, on the number already on your sign and your website
  • Memorial garden visits, niche viewings and headstone design consultations booked into the right person's calendar, then confirmed and reminded
  • Monument and marker quotes drafted from your own price list and sent only on your yes, with gentle follow-ups that stop the moment the family replies
Try free 7 days: A free 7-day trial, ready in about 2 minutes, with no credit card. Priced per company, never per seat; have the website of your memorial or monument business and an e-mail on the same domain ready.Just a demo: Nothing to set up: tell us where to send it and the AI demo reaches your inbox in about 2 minutes.
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Your complete next-gen AI solution for your memorial site or monument company

Each module below is shown at work at a memorial site and in a monument company's showroom. Choose one to see its own screen, then run the full set free for 7 days or ask for the AI demo.

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Every module, at work for memorials and monuments

More than an answering service for small business: every module at work

A family's first call about a memorial is rarely easy to make, and it often comes while your designer is with another family or your grounds team is out at a dedication. One AI stands behind every door of your business: the phone, the website chat, the e-mail and the web forms, the consultation calendar, the quotes and follow-ups, the requests from cemetery offices and funeral homes, and the answers your staff look up. A family hears the same patient, accurate reply wherever they reach you, and your people give their attention to the family in front of them. Each module is shown below at work at a memorial site or in a monument company with its own screen: try the complete solution free for 7 days, get the AI demo, or open the module's page for every detail.

Answers & books: every memorial inquiry answered and scheduled

Calls, chats, e-mails and forms from families answered at once, with the design consultation, the niche viewing or the dedication placed on the right calendar.

AI Phone

Every family's call about a monument answered, day or night

AI Phone picks up on the number your monument company already prints on its sign, from the first ring and at any hour, in the language the caller speaks. As a small business answering service it does more than take a message: it books or moves a design consultation during the call, answers from the facts you approved, and hands a funeral director's call to the advisor on duty, saying who is on the line and why. When nobody is free, it notes the callback number and reads it back.

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Small business answering service for monument companies: hold music, voicemail and call recording, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Phone, phone settings, seen closer.

AI Booking

Showroom meetings and memorial site tours booked in open slots

AI Booking fills the free hours of each designer, each family advisor and the private viewing room, at the showroom and at the memorial site alike. A family can reserve from a phone call, the website chat, a form or your own booking page, and can move or confirm the time the same ways. Each person is verified before the meeting enters your book, and a reminder reaches them before the day, so a grieving family is never left unsure of when to come.

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Small business answering service for memorials: a design consultation set up as its own calendar, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Booking, The service editor, every rule of one service, seen closer.

AI Webchat

Questions about headstones answered in the website chat

AI Webchat answers the visitors of your monument website by text or by voice, in 40 languages, using only your own pages and the documents you approved: the granite colors you carry, how long engraving takes, which markers a lawn section allows. It is the part of your small business answering service that works on the screen, and it can book a showroom visit without leaving the conversation. When a visitor asks for a person, or the AI is not certain, it offers one of your staff.

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Small business answering service in a monument website chat, replying to a family by text or voice, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Webchat, the full chat her answer written as it arrives, seen closer.

AI E-mail

Monument inquiries by e-mail sorted and drafted for your staff

AI E-mail reads each message that reaches your memorial business, from a daughter asking how to add a second name to a family stone to a quarry confirming a delivery of black granite, and files it with the right department. For each one it drafts a reply from your approved information, in the writer's own language. The kinds of mail you pick, such as directions to the showroom or opening hours, go out on their own; anything sensitive waits for a person, with the draft already written.

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Small business answering service inbox for a monument company, every family e-mail sorted and drafted, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI E-mail, add mailbox, seen closer.

AI Web Forms

Inscription requests from the web form answered the moment they arrive

AI Web Forms replies to a family the instant they send your form, in their language, and asks up to five questions of your own: the cemetery, the section, the lettering style, the stone they already have. The form can take a photograph of an existing monument or book a time with a designer, reads the screening rules you set, and creates the contact record, so a request about a loved one's memorial never sits unread in a mailbox.

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Monument web form documents handed out to families and the files they send back, kept on the contact, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Web Forms, Files, the documents your forms hand out, seen closer.

AI Avatar

A talking face on your monument website that greets each visitor

AI Avatar puts a face in your website chat whose lips move with her voice. She welcomes a visitor to your memorial site's pages by voice or text in the visitor's own language, explains the columbarium niches, the benches and the dedication trees from your approved pages, and passes the conversation to the family advisor when the visitor wants a person. She never claims to be one of your staff, which matters to families who want to know who they are speaking with.

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Talking AI avatar greeting a visitor on a memorial site's website, ready to speak or type, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Avatar, what she says the four opening lines and the keyword buttons, seen closer.

Sells: headstone quotes and follow-ups handled with care

Monument, marker and inscription quotes drafted from your own price list for your yes, a stock piece held for a family, and follow-ups that stop as soon as they reply.

AI CRM

One record for every family, monument order and funeral home

AI CRM writes its own records from the calls, chats, e-mails and forms your monument company receives, so nobody types a family's story twice. Each conversation lands on one record with where it came from, the language and the family's time zone, which helps when relatives live in other states. Staff from the same funeral home or cemetery office are grouped together, and the moment a family asks about a companion stone or a bench, a deal opens for your designer.

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Monument CRM call list: one row per family to call back, with their local clock and the reason, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI CRM, contacts leads resellers, seen closer.

AI Quoting

Bronze marker and upright headstone prices, quoted for your yes

AI Quoting prices a request for a monument from your own price list, whether it came by phone, chat, e-mail or a purchase order from a cemetery association. A flat bronze marker with a vase, a final date cut into a companion stone, the cleaning of an older headstone: every line follows your list, and nothing reaches the family before you approve it. They accept on their own quote page and pay the way you already take payment; the AI never handles a card.

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Monument quote and invoice settings that shape each headstone quote sent for your approval, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Quoting, settings invoices, seen closer.

AI Proposal Studio

Community and veterans memorial proposals written from your rates

AI Proposal Studio handles the larger requests: a town planning a veterans memorial wall, a church adding a columbarium, a cemetery association redesigning its entrance monument. It reads the request and every attached document page by page, asks no more than three questions, writes from your own knowledge and prices each line from your rate card, then prints the whole proposal on your letterhead. A manager approves it, a person sends it, and the proposal is tracked from then on.

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Memorial proposal open beside its request, sections and approval gate before a person sends it, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Proposal Studio, The commercial model: the internal table on the left, the customer's projection on the right, seen closer.

AI Inventory

Benches, vases and ready monuments in stock, held for a caller

AI Inventory is your list of what your monument business sells: the ready granite pieces in the yard, bronze vases, memorial benches, urns and plaques, each with its picture, its price and the quantity on hand. When a family asks on the phone or in the chat whether a gray bench is still available, the AI answers with the stock and the price written on its card, e-mails them its page and keeps it aside for the hours you set.

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Monument stock rules: pickup, delivery and how many hours a piece is held for a caller, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Inventory, internal department parts counter, seen closer.

AI Gift Cards

Gift cards for headstone cleaning or a dedication, given by relatives

AI Gift Cards lets relatives and friends give something lasting: a card for an amount, or for a named service such as a headstone cleaning or a tree dedication in your memorial garden. Cards sell on your own gift page, by phone, in the chat and at the showroom desk; a purchased card never expires and carries no fee. Print QR cards for sympathy envelopes, redeem them on a call or at the desk from any phone, and quote ten or more as one order for an employer.

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Memorial gift card report for the month: cards sold, redeemed and still open by channel, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Gift Cards, the settings, seen closer.

AI Follow-up

Gentle follow-ups for monument quotes that went quiet

AI Follow-up writes to the families whose inquiry or quote was left open, and each e-mail is composed fresh from what that family told you: the name they wanted carved, the stone they liked, the date of the unveiling they mentioned. No two notes read alike, because no two families are alike. The moment a family answers, the sequence stops and their reply goes straight to the designer or advisor who knows them.

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Follow-up plans for monument inquiries, each a ladder of steps with its day, stopped by a reply, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Follow-up, The plan editor, the steps and the guide of a funnel, seen closer.

AI Marketing

Seasonal letters to families who asked to hear from your memorial site

AI Marketing sends e-mail campaigns to the group of contacts you filter, for example families who asked for news of the spring grounds care at your memorial site, or the funeral homes you work with before a new garden section opens. Each message is written from your approved knowledge, in every reader's language, and goes only to people whose consent allows it. Replies are answered from the same knowledge or handed to a person on your staff.

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Memorial campaign picture test: which photos the AI would show a family for the words they use, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Marketing, Link a video, seen closer.

AI Auto-Call

Calls that confirm who will be there when the monument is set

AI Auto-Call rings families from your own number, many at once and in each family's language, to confirm what your staff arranged: the morning the monument is set, an appointment to sign the lettering proof, a visit to the columbarium. It listens for yes, no or another day. A yes confirms the time, a no frees it, and a request for another day goes to your office. Every answer is written into the log.

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Monument installation confirmation calls placed from your number, each family's answer logged, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Auto-Call, main auto call, seen closer.

AI Demo

A personal presentation of memorial options for families far away

AI Demo builds a personal presentation from your own pages, photographs and videos, for a family who cannot come to the showroom or a funeral home weighing your memorial garden. You release each one, and Lisa presents it live on a personal link, in the family's language, walking through upright, slant and flat monuments. They can stop her at any moment with a question; anything she cannot answer is written to your gap log for your staff to fill.

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Signals a personal memorial presentation leaves on the family's contact record, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Demo, Pending approval and the figures of the last thirty days, seen closer.

AI Live Meetings

A private online room for reviewing granite colors with a designer

AI Live Meetings opens a room carrying your monument company's name. The family joins from a link in the browser, with nothing to install, while your designer keeps the granite samples, photos of past work and design videos a click away. STAND BY hides the designer's screen while another family's private file is opened. Lisa's notes wait for your confirmation, and screen sharing helps a relative who is lost on your website during a support call.

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Monument design meetings held live in a branded room, the completed sessions listed, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Live Meetings, live demos demo templates, seen closer.

AI Online Meetings

Online meetings so the whole family can review a design together

AI Online Meetings brings brothers, sisters and grandchildren in different towns into one conversation about a family stone, each in their own browser with no install and no account. They wait in your branded waiting room until your designer admits them. Pick a template for a design review or a lettering approval, and Lisa writes the summary, the decisions taken and the next steps, which appear for your yes before anyone acts on them.

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New online meeting form for a family monument design review: guest, template, host and agenda, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Online Meetings, A new meeting, one form from the guest to the room, seen closer.

AI Partner Portal

Funeral homes and dealers who refer families, approved on one link

AI Partner Portal gives the funeral homes, florists and retail monument dealers who send families your way one link to apply, or your personal invitation. The AI researches each applicant on the web for your review, and you approve them with the scopes you choose and a status that ends on its date. Dealers can buy on wholesale tiers, and the Approved tab counts the demos and sales each partner brings to your monument business.

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Partner settings for funeral homes and monument dealers: scopes, statuses and wholesale tiers, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Partner Portal, Invite a reseller, seen closer.

Supports: every family request followed to the end

Inscription changes, final-date engravings, settling markers and grounds concerns, each one a tracked request for the person who handles it, checked against your warranty rules.

AI Tickets

A sunken stone or a missing vase, followed by the right person

AI Tickets turns each call, chat, e-mail or form about a problem at the memorial site into a tracked request, with the whole conversation attached and the family identified: a stone that has sunk after the winter, a vase gone missing, lettering that needs touching up. The AI answers what your knowledge already covers, such as how long new ground must settle, and the rest waits for the person you name, so the family does not have to call again.

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Memorial site help desk: the questions the AI could not answer, grouped by topic for your staff, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Tickets, Tickets · the page as it opens, the Pending tab, seen closer.

AI Returns & Warranty

Monument warranty claims checked against the rules you wrote

AI Returns & Warranty starts by helping the family understand what they see, such as a hairline crack in the base or bronze that has darkened. Then it finds the order in your records, works out whether the warranty covers the piece, checks the claim against the rules you wrote in plain words and asks for anything missing, like a photograph of the stone. No claim goes ahead without your yes, and every e-mail to the family is written for you.

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Monument warranty claim in review: the order found, each rule checked and your decision to make, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Returns & Warranty, RMAs · a request in review, identified, judged against your rules, your decision, seen closer.

AI Calls Transcripts

Your designers' own calls with families written down on the record

AI Calls Transcripts writes down the calls your people take themselves, on the computer, in the phone app and on every call the AI transferred to them, and adds a summary to the family's record beside what the AI said earlier. A designer back from a monument installation can read what a widow asked for an hour ago, in her own words. Recording stays off until you decide to switch it on.

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Archive of transcribed calls at a monument company, summaries kept for the AI's retraining, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Calls Transcripts, auto retraining settings, seen closer.

AI Calls Teleprompter

The cemetery's rule on screen while a family is still talking

AI Calls Teleprompter works beside your family advisor: while the caller explains what they hope for, the answer from your knowledge appears on the advisor's screen with the document it came from, whether that is the height a lawn cemetery allows, the lead time for a bronze memorial or the wording rules for a veterans marker. It never speaks on the call. Your advisor remains the voice the family hears, with the facts ready.

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On-call teleprompter for monument advisors, the answer from your knowledge shown with its source, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Calls Teleprompter, ai assistant takes the mail desk, seen closer.

Helps your team: cemetery rules and design records at hand

Each cemetery's marker rules, your granite and bronze options, warranty terms and forms answered from your own documents with the source shown, and training courses written by talking.

AI Team Assistant

Answers for your monument staff from your own files and records

AI Team Assistant answers the questions your staff ask, using only your documents and the records each person is allowed to open, never the internet. An engraver asking which font a family approved, or a new advisor checking the foundation size a cemetery requires, gets the answer with the document and page it came from. When nothing on the subject is written down, it says so plainly and logs the gap for someone to fill.

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Morning briefing for a memorial site's staff: yesterday, today's bookings and who needs a person, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Team Assistant, Who receives the morning briefing, seen closer.

AI Chat for your team

Web research for your memorial business with every source shown

AI Chat for your team searches the web the way your staff would ask: the published visiting hours of a town's municipal cemetery, the care advice a granite quarry publishes, the history of a symbol a family wants carved on their monument. It reads the pages, shows where each fact came from and checks it before anyone relies on it. It never reads your family records, so outside research and private files stay apart.

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Giving a monument employee a personal team chat link: who, how long and which devices, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Chat for your team, Personal chat links, New access: who, how long, which devices, how he gets it, seen closer.

AI Knowledge

One tree of monument facts behind every answer the AI gives

AI Knowledge gathers your website, your published prices, each cemetery's marker regulations, your warranty terms and your house rules into one tree that the phone, the chat and the e-mail all answer from. A question it cannot answer is left for your staff rather than guessed. The rules are tested every night, and nothing new is used with families until a person on your team approves it.

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Memorial knowledge base videos the phone, chat and e-mail answer from once a person approves, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Knowledge, catalog, seen closer.

AI Team Training

New engravers and advisors trained by the person who knows the job

AI Team Training lets your most experienced engraver or family advisor explain a job once, by talking or by typing: how to measure for a monument foundation, how to take down an inscription with care. Lisa then teaches it to every new hire by voice and on screen, through a personal link. The newcomer can interrupt to ask a question, answers a spoken test at the end, and you see who has finished.

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Training book editor for new monument engravers: chapters, sections, the test and linked pictures, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Team Training, The book editor, a section open with its media beside it, seen closer.

AI File Cabinet

Family files, cemetery permits and design proofs in one cabinet

AI File Cabinet is one archive built like a real cabinet: a drawer for families, one for cemeteries, one for suppliers, with a file for each and folders inside. Every signed design proof, permit copy and invoice is read as it arrives and found again at its exact page. You set the rights and the retention of each drawer, and every opening of a file is audited, which matters when a family's memorial records go back decades.

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Memorial records cabinet: a family's file open in its drawer with folders, documents and story, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI File Cabinet, A file selected in a drawer, its pane with the fields, the counts and the story's channels, seen closer.

AI Time Machine

The whole story of a family's memorial, in the order it happened

AI Time Machine builds a timeline from your own records for one family or one monument order: the first call, the showroom visits, the letters from the cemetery, the proofs, the installation notes, each at its date. When a granddaughter calls years later about adding a name, your advisor sees what was promised and when. It informs the person on the call; a person still makes every decision.

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A monument family's history on one timeline: every call, mail and follow-up at its date, real Zanus AI screen
Real Zanus AI screen (demo data): AI Time Machine, A contact open, his journey and his timeline, seen closer.
A day at the front desk

A day of memorial inquiries, from the showroom to the garden

From the first call before the showroom opens to the last message after the memorial garden's gates close, families, cemetery offices and funeral homes reach you in many ways. One AI answers at each door, and your designers and family advisors are handed only what needs a person.

A call before the showroom opens

A widow calls a monument company early, hoping for a companion headstone with her husband's name and room for her own. The AI answers on your own number in a calm, unhurried voice, takes her details, reads her callback number back and books a design consultation with your designer for Wednesday morning.

Questions about the memorial garden, in Spanish

A family browsing your memorial site's website asks in the chat, in Spanish, about the niches in the columbarium wall, the hours the garden is open and whether a bench can carry a plaque. The chat replies by text or by voice from your approved pages and books a visit with the family advisor.

The morning inbox, sorted

A cemetery office sends its foundation rules for a new section, a family e-mails the dates for an inscription, and a funeral home asks when a marker can be set. AI E-mail sends each message to the right department and drafts every reply; the ones you chose to review wait for a person.

A headstone request on the web form

A son fills in your website form about an upright granite monument with an etched portrait of his father. He has a kind reply within seconds, the AI asks your questions about the cemetery, the size and the lettering, and a quote drawn from your own price list waits for your yes.

Tomorrow's visits confirmed

Reminder calls reach the families coming tomorrow to approve an inscription proof at the showroom and those attending a tree dedication in the memorial garden, each in their own language. A yes keeps the time, a no frees it for another family, and a wish to move it lands on the office list.

A new designer gets ready

In his second week, a new designer prepares for tomorrow's first consultation. He asks the team assistant what the family's cemetery allows for a flat bronze marker and reads the answer beside the rule it came from, then opens the family's record: every call, message and draft, so nobody repeats a word.

Your rules

Where the AI stops and your people take over

Families reach memorial sites and monument companies at tender moments. You write the limits once, and the AI keeps to them at every door and at every hour.

No legal, financial or religious advice

It answers only from what you approved. Questions about estates, wills, benefits, payment plans or faith customs go to the person you name, never to a guess, and it offers no grief counseling, only the support resources you chose to list.

Prices only as you publish them

The AI shares the prices you chose to publish and nothing more. A monument or marker quote is drafted from your own price list and waits for your yes, and the AI takes no card payment.

A person whenever a family asks

A caller who asks for someone reaches them: the AI transfers the call to the advisor or designer on duty and says who is calling and why, or takes a message and reads the number back.

No design or date approved by the AI

No inscription proof is approved, no installation date fixed and no niche or bench reserved by the AI on its own. It books the meeting, holds what your rules allow and passes the rest to your staff.

Permits and records stay with your people

No cemetery installation permit, deed or memorial record is requested, issued or released by the AI. The request is written down in full and handed to the person responsible for it.

Your rules for each department

Design, installation, the memorial garden and the office each run as AI only, AI first or a person first, with always-say and never-say rules for the words that matter most to grieving families.

Compared

An answering service for small business, compared with the usual choices

When the phone rings during a consultation or while the crew is out setting a marker, memorial sites and monument companies weigh the same choices: more hours at the front desk, a call-center answering service, voicemail with a contact form, or one AI front office.

What the memorial site or monument company needsThe front desk aloneCall-center answering serviceVoicemail and a contact formZanus AI
A family calling after hoursClosed until morningA message taken by a stranger reading a scriptA recording and a long waitAnswered with patience, a person reached when the family asks
Design consultations and garden visits bookedWhen someone can call backA note passed to the officeA callback requestBooked into the designer's or advisor's own calendar
Headstone and marker quotesWritten up after hoursNot coveredWaiting in an inboxDrafted from your own price list, sent on your yes
Questions on the website and by e-mailAnswered between appointmentsNot coveredA form nobody has opened yetAnswered from your approved pages, the rest held for staff
Calls from cemetery offices and funeral homesOn hold while you sit with a familyA message slipVoicemailPut through to the right person, with who is calling and why
The family's own languageWhoever on staff speaks itDepends on the agent on shiftThe language of the greetingThe caller's language on the phone, 40 in the website chat
Set-upHiring and trainingContracts and scriptsA greeting to record2 minutes, from your website

A message service writes the call down and a voicemail box keeps it. Zanus AI answers the family, schedules the consultation or the visit, drafts the quote for your yes and keeps one record of every call, chat, e-mail and form, with a person ready wherever your rules or the family ask for one.

Set-up

Set up your memorial or monument business in 2 minutes

Forward the number families know

Families keep calling the number on your showroom sign, your memorial garden's gate and your website. You forward it as you would to any answering service; nothing is ported and nothing is installed.

Tell Lisa about your business

Name your designers and family advisors, your hours, the cemeteries you work with and who answers after hours. Lisa reads your website for everything else and shows you each change before it goes live.

Write the words that matter

Say which calls go straight to a person, which questions only a designer or an advisor answers, and the always-say and never-say rules for the way you speak with families.

See it work

Two ways to see it work for your memorial or monument business

Try it free with your own business

Give Lisa your website and she builds a private sandbox for 7 days: a phone line that answers as your memorial site or monument company, your website with Lisa on it, and a dashboard with your own people, calendars and hours. Your real phones and website stay as they are.

No card. One trial per company, with an e-mail on your website's domain.

TRY FREE 7 DAYS

Just a demo, nothing to set up

Watch the AI front office answer a family, book a design consultation and draft a headstone quote, with nothing to configure. Tell us where to send it and the link reaches your inbox in about 2 minutes.

No sales call. The demo comes to your inbox.

JUST A DEMO
Frequently asked questions

Questions memorial site and monument company owners ask about an AI answering service

What is a small business answering service, and how does it fit a memorial site or monument company?

It is the service that picks up when your own people cannot: after hours, on weekends, during a consultation or while the crew is out at an installation. Zanus AI does it as an AI receptionist for small business on your own number, and it also answers the website chat, the e-mail and the web forms, books consultations and visits, and keeps one record of every family for your staff.

Can it answer families who call at night or on a holiday?

Yes. It answers at any hour on your own number, gently, and takes the caller's name, the name of the person they are remembering if they offer it, and a callback number read back to them. Your rules decide the next step: a transfer to the person on call, or a message at the top of the morning list.

Will a family who is grieving have to talk to a machine?

Only for as long as they choose. Anyone who asks for a person is put through at once, and the AI tells your designer or advisor who is calling and why, so the family never has to explain twice. You can also set a line to a person first, with the AI picking up only when nobody can.

Can it book design consultations and inscription proof approvals?

Yes. By phone, chat and web form it books each meeting into the calendar of the designer you choose, or of the showroom or a garden visit, and sends the family a confirmation. The day before, AI Auto-Call can ring to confirm: a yes keeps the time, a no frees it for another family.

Can the AI quote a headstone, a marker or an inscription?

It drafts the quote from your own price list, with the size, the stone, the lettering and the extras the family asked about, and it waits for your yes before anything reaches them. Follow-ups go out gently and stop the moment the family writes back. A price you have not published is not shared.

Does it know each cemetery's rules for monuments and markers?

It knows what you give it. Upload each cemetery's marker rules, your foundation requirements and your warranty terms, and the AI answers families and your team from those documents only, with the source shown to your staff. A question your documents do not answer goes to a person.

Can cemetery offices and funeral homes reach the right person?

Yes. The AI knows your departments and who works in them. A cemetery office calling about a foundation date is put through to your installation lead, or a message is taken with the details read back; a funeral home asking about a temporary marker becomes a tracked request for the office.

What happens when a family reports a problem with a marker?

The request is written down in the family's own words and checked against the warranty rules you set, then it becomes a tracked ticket for the person who handles it, whether the marker has settled, the lettering has faded or a vase has gone missing. The family hears back without having to chase anyone.

Does it replace our design software or our memorial records?

No. Zanus AI is the front office in front of them: it answers, books, quotes for your yes, follows up and keeps the record of every conversation with families and partners. Your design files, memorial records and contracts stay exactly where they are today, and record requests become tracked tickets for the people who keep them.

Can we keep the number families already know?

Yes. The number on your showroom sign, your memorial garden's gate, your website and your funeral home partners' lists stays yours. You forward it to the AI with no porting and nothing to install, and you can switch the forwarding off whenever you like.

Which languages can it speak with families?

Their own. On the phone the AI answers each caller in the language they speak, the website chat works in 40 languages, and a call can be routed to the colleague who shares it. For a family choosing the words to carve in stone, being understood the first time matters a great deal.

How much does a small business answering service like this cost?

Zanus AI is priced per company, never per seat, so every designer, advisor, engraver and office lead works under one subscription. You pick the modules your business needs, and the plans are on the pricing page.

What is the difference between the 7-day free trial and the demo?

The free trial builds a private sandbox around your own website for 7 days, with no card: a phone line that answers as your business, your site with Lisa on it and a dashboard. The demo shows the AI front office ready-made, asks nothing of you and arrives by e-mail in about 2 minutes.

How are family details looked after?

You decide. Call recording is off as shipped, each department receives only its own transcripts, and every staff member sees only the departments given to them. Whether your set-up meets your own privacy obligations is for your business and its advisors to judge.

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