OctoAIverse Keynote 2026: AI employees for the businesses that keep the world running

OctoAIverse began in the enterprise, building AI agents for large teams. At our 2026 keynote we announced the next step: putting the same technology in the hands of the contractors, clinics, salons and shops that keep the world running.

The problem we set out to solve

Every day, small businesses lose customers. Not to a better competitor, but to a missed call, an email that wasn't answered in time, or a customer who needed them at nine at night when nobody was there to pick up. The owner has mastered the work. The front desk, the phone, the inbox and the follow-up never stop, and there is never enough of them to go around.

We believe the smallest business should be able to answer like the biggest one. So we built AI employees: a team that never sleeps, never misses and never takes a day off.

OctoMail: the inbox

When a customer emails five companies for a quote, they rarely choose the cheapest. They choose the first to reply. OctoMail makes sure that's you.

• One tap to start. Connect Gmail, with nothing to forward or configure.
• It reads every new lead. It tells a real customer from noise and lays out what they want: the project, the budget, the timeline.
• It replies in your voice, within a minute, while competitors haven't opened the email yet.
• You stay in control. You approve the first reply, then it runs on its own. It never quotes a price or promises a date you didn't set.
• A briefing every morning: who's new, who replied and who needs you, with every lead in one calm list.

OctoReception: the phone

Every missed call is a customer who called someone else, usually at night, on a weekend or in the middle of a job. OctoReception is the easiest hire you will ever make.

• Point it at your website and in about five minutes it learns your services, hours and prices. No scripts and no IT team.
• Choose its voice and greeting, so your front desk sounds the way you want it to.
• It picks up every call, day or night. It answers questions, takes messages, books appointments and puts urgent callers straight through to you, in the caller's language.
• A summary the moment the call ends, by text and email, with every recording, transcript and booking in one dashboard.

You can talk to it yourself before you pay anything, right in your browser.

Priced for small businesses

OctoReception starts at $24.95 a month. OctoMail is free for 7 days with no card, then $99 a month. Cancel either one anytime. The kind of team that used to cost a salary now costs less than a phone bill.

OctoAIverse is now three

OctoReception, OctoMail and OctoAIverse for Enterprise, our custom voice and chat agents built to a company's own workflow. We took what powered the enterprise and put it in the hands of everyone, and we're only getting started: more voices, more languages and more to come.

Watch the full keynote above, or book a call to see what an agent would do with your calls.