A short, structured assessment that gives you a personalised picture of how AI could realistically help your business. You complete an 8-minute assessment and get your readiness score instantly. We then talk through it together on a free 30-minute call and deliver a written report within 24 to 48 hours.

How much does the AI audit cost?

Nothing. The assessment, the call, and the written report are all free. No payment details, no trial, no fine print.

There isn't one. Some of the businesses we assess ask us to build what the plan finds, and that paid work is how we keep the assessment free. If you take your plan and act on it yourself, that outcome works for both of us.

Am I obligated to hire you afterward?

No. There's no pitch built into the call, and we hold nothing back in the plan. Some owners run with it themselves, some ask us to build it. Both are normal.

Who is the AI audit for?

Small and mid-sized service businesses, typically two to fifty people. Any industry. You don't need any technical background.

How long does the whole process take?

Under a week in most cases. The assessment takes about 8 minutes. The discovery call is 30 minutes. The written report lands within 24 to 48 hours of the call.

Do I need any technical knowledge?

No. The process reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable friend, in plain English throughout.

What happens during the discovery call?

We walk through your business, workflows, bottlenecks and customer journey in detail. The assessment gives us the starting point.

What will my report include?

A written document covering the specific opportunities we identified, tools that fit your stack, an implementation path, and next steps. You're free to take it anywhere.

Is my business information kept confidential?

Yes. We don't share or resell your responses, and the report is yours alone.

What if I'm already using AI in my business?

That's common. The audit maps where you are against where you could be, and surfaces gaps that experienced users miss.

Comparisons

Retell vs Lindy: AI voice agents compared (2026)

Daksham BugrejaJuly 6, 20266 min read

Retell and Lindy answer the same need, an AI that handles your business phone, from opposite directions. Retell is a developer platform: the most control over the conversation, priced per minute, and it assumes a technical builder. Lindy is a no-code AI assistant with phone calling as one skill among many: faster to launch, easier to change, less precise at the edges. A small business without technical staff should trial Lindy or hire a builder for Retell.

Whether a voice agent belongs in your business at all is the prior question, and we wrote an honest fit test in should a robot answer your phone. If your missed-call math says yes, these two platforms come up first, and the choice between them is mostly a choice about who does the building.

Head to head

	Retell	Lindy
What it is	Voice-agent infrastructure for builders	No-code AI assistant, phone included
Setup	Technical: flows, prompts, API wiring	Templates and plain-English configuration
Pricing shape (2026)	Per minute (roughly $0.07–$0.31/min all-in)	Subscription tiers plus usage credits
Conversation control	Fine-grained: interruption handling, latency tuning, custom logic	Good defaults, less tunable
Beyond the phone	Phone-focused	Email, scheduling, CRM tasks in the same assistant
Best for	High call volume, custom flows, agencies building for clients	Owner-managed setups, moderate volume

The build-vs-buy line hiding in this choice

Retell being "better at conversations" is true and can mislead. The precision is only available to whoever configures it, and a mis-configured powerful agent embarrasses you on more calls than a modest well-tuned one. In practice the Retell route for a small business means a consultant or agency builds and maintains the agent, which adds a build cost (commonly $2,000 to $10,000, per our consultant pricing guide) and gets you the version demos promise. The Lindy route means you own it yourself: live in days, adjusted by whoever manages your tools, and best kept to a modest job description like after-hours answering and booking.

Costs at real volumes

At 300 call-minutes a month, Retell's usage lands around $20 to $90 depending on configuration, before anyone's build fee. Lindy's equivalent typically falls inside a $50 to $200 subscription tier. At ten times that volume the per-minute model starts winning, which is why high-volume businesses and agencies gravitate to Retell.

What we tell audited businesses

Start with the smallest agent that touches your actual loss, usually after-hours answering with calendar booking, and judge it on transcripts after two weeks: read every call it took and count the ones you would have handled differently. Both platforms give you those transcripts; reading them is the management job the brochure omits.

And confirm the phone is your expensive leak before buying anything for it. The free AI readiness assessment ranks your phone against your other seven workflows in about 8 minutes; on the follow-up call we match the platform choice to your call volume, stack, and who you have to run it.

Frequently asked questions

Are there other voice agent platforms worth a look?

Yes: Vapi and Bland compete with Retell on the developer side, and vertical products (like Goodcall or industry-specific receptionists) compete with Lindy on the done-for-you side. The developer-vs-no-code split in this post maps onto those alternatives too.

How natural do these agents sound?

Close enough that callers stop noticing when the call goes well. Latency, interruptions, and edge cases give the game away, and Retell offers more knobs for exactly those. Either way, the agent should admit it is an AI when asked.

Can the agent book directly into my calendar and CRM?

Both support it. Lindy connects through its built-in integrations; Retell through whatever its builder wires up. Booking is the single highest-value skill to configure first, for the reasons in our scheduling guide.