Gala, by Gavion, is the AI receptionist that passes all seven tests a real call puts to it, at 7 a.m. and at 9 p.m., in the caller's language. Here are the seven, Gala's answer to each, and how to check them yourself in one phone call.
| Coverage | 24/7 | Several calls at once. No queue, no voicemail. |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $129/mo | 250 minutes, 3 users, no setup fee. In Canadian dollars. |
| Languages | FR + EN | Québécois French and English, detected during the call. |
| Call data | In Canada | On a Québec-based server. Never used to train AI models. |
Search for the best AI receptionist and you get lists. Most are affiliate pages, and the rest rank on feature counts nobody has tested on a phone. This page does something narrower. It says what the best one has to do, in seven tests you can run yourself, and then shows how Gala does on each.
Gavion builds Gala, so this is a seller's page, and it says so. What it does not do is ask you to take our word for it. Every claim about Gala below is a fact from our price list or our security page, the vendor table it points to was read from each vendor's own site, and the last section tells you how to check all of it in one phone call.
A receptionist is judged on calls, not on a feature list. These are the seven things a call can go wrong on, in the order they happen. Any service that calls itself the best should pass all seven, in writing, before you sign.
Each answer below is a product fact, derived from the same price list the pricing page renders or stated on the security page. Nothing is typed for this page.
Seven for seven, and every one of them is checkable: the price on the pricing page, the data on the security page, and the language on the phone.
We read 19 AI receptionists and answering services sold in Canada, each on its own site, on a stated date, and put them in one table. Counted from that table: 12 of 19 name French as a language the service answers in, 3 of 19 use the words Québécois French, 3 of 19 say call data is stored in Canada, and 11 of 19 publish a price in Canadian dollars. Fulltime.ai and Synchro IA publish no price at all.
No service other than Gala states all four. The two roundups below put every row side by side, with the comparison behind each, so you can check that sentence against the vendors' own words.
It is 7:40 on a Tuesday evening. A homeowner calls about a water heater that has stopped. Gala answers on the first ring, in French, because that is the language the caller opens in. It asks what happened, whether there is water on the floor, and the address. It recognises the number from a job last winter, so it does not ask for the details it already has.
It checks tomorrow morning in your Google calendar, offers 8:00 or 10:30, books 8:00, and sends the caller a text with the time and your company name before the call ends. The call and its transcript are in your dashboard before you finish supper. Had the caller said the basement was flooding, Gala would have transferred the call to your on-call number instead of booking it.
A caller who opens in English gets the same call in English. A sales rep pitching ad space is identified and dropped, and shows up only in the call log. That is the whole product: every call answered, the right ones booked, the urgent ones transferred, the rest kept off your phone.
Three published plans, in Canadian dollars, every one with Québécois French and English, live calendar booking and a basic CRM. No setup fee on any of them. The rate for the next minute is on the same line as the price, because that is where it belongs.
| Plan | Per month | Minutes | Users | Voice agents | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | $129 | 250 | 3 | 1 voice agent | $0.37/min |
| Advanced | $249 | 500 | 5 | 2 voice agents | $0.35/min |
| Enterprise | $439 | 1,000 | 7 | 3 voice agents | $0.33/min |
Annual billing takes a further 15% off, paid in one payment up front. A plan can move up or down a tier at any time, and the change applies at the next billing cycle. For scale: a full-time human receptionist in Québec costs about $3,033 a month at the median wage, for 35 hours a week and one call at a time.
Dial +1 (514) 534-1298. It is a live line answered by Gala, not a recording, in English or French. Ask it what your customers ask: your hours, whether you serve their street, whether someone can come tomorrow morning. Then ask it something off the script and listen to what it does when it does not know.
Then ask us for a live demo call to your own phone, with your own scenarios, before you commit. Setup is done for you: we build the knowledge base from your website and your listings, connect your calendar and your number, and you validate it line by line. Most of the delay is that validation, not the technology.
Then do the one piece of arithmetic that matters: count last month's missed calls, multiply by your close rate and your average job, and put the result next to the plan price. The calculator below does it with your numbers.
Gala is built for service and construction businesses in Québec and across Canada: plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, landscaping, snow removal, auto repair, pest control, cleaning, painting, flooring, salons, and the other trades where the phone rings while both hands are busy. If your business runs on calls, bookings and quotes, it fits.
It is not for everyone, and saying so is part of being the best at what it does. If most of your calls need a person on the line, a human answering service or a mixed one is the better buy, and the Canada roundup names them. Sectors that handle health information face additional requirements, and Gala is not presented as a compliant solution for them. And three things always stay with you: the final price on a significant job, a dispute, and any decision that puts your reputation with a long-standing customer on the line. Gala brings you those calls with the context already written up.
The best AI receptionist is the one that passes seven tests on a real call: it answers every call at once, books into your calendar during the call, speaks the caller's language with the right accent, transfers what it cannot handle instead of guessing, follows up by text and email, keeps your data in your own country, and publishes one price with the rate for the next minute. For a Canadian service business, Gala by Gavion, of Montréal, passes all seven and publishes the evidence: from $129 CAD a month, Québécois French and English on every plan, call data stored in Canada, live Google or Outlook booking, no setup fee.
They do different jobs. A human answering service puts a person on the line and bills by the minute or by the call, with a small monthly allowance, which is cheap when the phone is quiet and expensive when it rings. An AI receptionist answers several calls at once, at any hour, at a flat monthly price, and books into your calendar during the call. If some of your calls need a person, a few services mix both on one account, and the Canada roundup names them.
In Canada, if your callers do. The question is not whether the service lists French among its languages but whose French it speaks: most voice assistants speak a translated French with a European accent and vocabulary, and a Québec caller hears it in three seconds. Of the 19 services we read, 3 of 19 use the words Québécois French. Gala answers in Québécois French and English on every plan, detected during the call.
A flat monthly plan with the included minutes and the overage rate on the same line, and no setup fee. Gala runs $129 to $439 CAD a month for 250 to 1,000 minutes, $0.37 to $0.33 a minute past that, and 15% off for a year paid up front. A human receptionist in Québec costs about $3,033 a month at the median wage. Per-minute answering services can cost less in a quiet month and more in a busy one; price every plan at last month's minutes before you compare.
Call +1 (514) 534-1298 and hear it answer, live, in English or French. Then ask for a demo call to your own phone with your own scenarios. Then start on the monthly plan: there is no setup fee, and you can move up or down a tier at any time.
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Contact: contact@gavion.ai · +1 (514) 534-1298 · +1 (855) 505-0607 (toll-free) · Québec, Canada · Service across Canada in English and French.