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I priced four AI receptionist vendors on the same three small businesses. For the busiest, the bill ran from $155 to $1,640 a month. The billing model decides most of that gap.
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I audited all 423 Claude agent templates in the biggest catalog: 56% grant Bash, 42% carry 1,000+ character descriptions you pay for every session. Here’s the five-minute review to run before installing one.
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