We answer the phone for main street
Ansa is a small team from SMB software and voice AI, building the receptionist every busy owner wishes they could afford.
Never let a ready customer reach a beep.
Ansa started with a simple, annoying fact. The businesses that run on phone calls, plumbers, clinics, salons, law firms, miss about a third of the calls that come in. The caller does not leave a message. They call the next name on the list. A job that was theirs to win is gone before the owner even knows the phone rang.
Dana had spent years selling software to these businesses and heard the same story on every visit. Marcus had spent years making machines talk in real time and knew the technology had finally gotten good enough to actually help. They put the two together: a receptionist that answers in a natural voice, books the job, and texts back anyone who slips through.
We are not trying to replace your team. We are trying to make sure the phone is always answered, so the work your team does never goes to waste. That means being reliable when it counts and private by default. Those two things are the whole company.
Four things we do not compromise on
Reliability first
A receptionist that misses calls is worse than none. We build for uptime, redundancy, and fast failover, because a dropped call is a lost job. If Ansa ever cannot answer, your line falls back the way you set it.
Call privacy is not optional
Your callers trust you with their name, number, and problem. Calls and transcripts are encrypted, kept only as long as you choose, and never sold or used to train third-party models.
Built for owners, not developers
Our customer is a plumber, a dentist, a salon owner. No jargon, no setup marathon. If a busy owner cannot get value in an afternoon, that is our bug to fix.
Answer, then improve
We would rather ship something that answers real calls today and get better every week than promise a perfect system next year. Every call teaches us how to book the next one.
Small team, always on
The people building Ansa, from SMB software and voice AI. We keep the team small and the phone always answered.
Dana Whitfield
Co-founder & CEO
Spent a decade building scheduling and payments software for home-services businesses. Started Ansa after watching great shops lose jobs to voicemail.
Marcus Lindqvist
Co-founder & CTO
Voice AI engineer who worked on low-latency speech systems. Obsessed with the half-second that makes a call feel human instead of robotic.
Rosa Delgado
Head of Customer
Ran operations for a multi-location dental group. Makes sure every owner is live and confident, not just signed up.
Trevor Nakamura
Head of Trust & Privacy
Former security lead in fintech. Owns encryption, retention, and the promise that call data stays yours.
We hire people who have run a small business or built voice systems, and sometimes both. Remote-first across the US.
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