Human Add AI help center covers call forwarding setup for every major US carrier (Verizon, AT and T, T-Mobile, Spectrum, Comcast, RingCentral, Google Voice, OpenPhone, and twelve more), PWA install instructions for the mobile dashboard, knowledge base editing, and account management. Most setup guides take under five minutes to complete.
Dialpad handles forwarding from the same app you make calls in. You can forward your personal line, a main office number, or only after-hours calls.
The quick version
In the Dialpad app or dialpad.com/app, go to Your Settings → Routing Options (or Office Settings for the main number), and add your forwarding destination.
For your own line: click your avatar → Your Settings → Business Hours & Status. For a main office line: Admin Settings → Office → Phone Numbers → pick the number.
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Under Routing Options or Call Forwarding, enable forwarding and enter the destination number. Dialpad supports both "Ring this device + forward" and "Forward only."
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Pick a trigger. Options include Always, After X rings, When offline, or Outside business hours. Choose what fits - Always is simplest.
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Save.
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Test by calling your Dialpad number.
Alternative: Forward only outside business hours
Dialpad has a clean "Business Hours" feature. Set your business hours on your user profile, then set the after-hours routing to forward to your AI. During business hours the call rings Dialpad; after hours it goes straight to the AI.
Things worth knowing
Dialpad's AI features (transcription, sentiment analysis) continue to work on forwarded calls up until the call leaves Dialpad. Once the external forward picks up, Dialpad is out of the picture.
You can forward to any US number included on your Dialpad plan's outbound allowance.
For Dialpad Support/Sell (the contact-center products), forwarding lives under Admin → Contact Centers → Queue Settings rather than the standard phone-number settings.
Forwarding to an AI receptionist?
The whole reason you're reading this is probably to stop missing calls. If you're setting up call forwarding to send calls to a voice assistant, an answering service, or an AI, the steps above are the same - you just enter their number as the forward-to destination. Human Add AI gives you a dedicated AI receptionist that answers 24/7, captures every caller's intent, and texts you the details. Try it free for 7 days →
Troubleshooting
Calls still ring the old way. Most VoIP systems take 30 - 60 seconds to apply forwarding changes. Wait and test again. If it still doesn't work, sign out and back in, or restart the desk phone.
You saved the rule but don't see it. Dialpad usually applies rules to one specific number or extension. Make sure you're editing the right one - business accounts often have multiple numbers on the same login.
Callers hear "number not in service." Double-check the destination number you entered. Dialpad often requires the full 10-digit US format, sometimes with a +1 prefix.
You want some calls to stop forwarding. Most Dialpad plans support conditional rules (forward only after X rings, forward only from Y caller ID, etc.). Look for "Advanced" or "Rules" in the forwarding settings.
Every Human Add AI trial gives you a dedicated local phone number with a fully custom AI receptionist on the other end. Free for 7 days, $10 refundable activation.
Human Add AI runs three flat monthly plans with no setup fees and no annual contracts. The Starter plan at $497 per month covers up to 250 answered calls, single-location service, and the core conversation engine that books appointments and qualifies leads. Most single-truck operators, solo practitioners, and one-shop businesses fit comfortably inside Starter for the first six to twelve months.
The Professional plan at $997 per month covers up to 750 answered calls, multi-location routing, real-time CRM sync into Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Clio, Lawmatics, Dentrix, Open Dental, and twenty other systems, and after-hours emergency escalation rules. This is the most common plan once a business clears about a hundred answered calls per week.
The Enterprise plan at $1,997 per month covers unlimited inbound calls, dedicated agent tuning, white-label phone numbers, and direct routing to your on-call dispatcher. Enterprise also unlocks outbound calling for missed-call callbacks, lead nurturing, and appointment reminders, billed at $0.14 per outbound minute.
Every plan includes the same conversation quality, the same booking and CRM functionality, and the same 24/7 uptime. The differences are call volume, location count, and outbound capability. No plan has hidden seat fees, per-minute inbound charges, or transcript fees. The first call you take pays for itself in most service businesses, and the platform breaks even for the average operator inside the first three weeks.
Questions operators ask before signing up
How is the call quality measured?
Three quality signals get tracked on every call. The first is conversation completion: did the agent successfully complete the intake or did it transfer to a human. The second is booking conversion: of completed calls, what percentage resulted in a booked appointment. The third is post-call sentiment: a brief categorization (positive, neutral, negative) based on the caller's word choice during the conversation. All three roll into the weekly summary, with per-call detail in the dashboard.
What happens when a caller asks for a price?
The agent quotes the prices the operator entered during onboarding (flat rates, hourly rates, service-specific ranges). For services where pricing depends on a site visit or a custom scope, the agent says so explicitly and offers to book the free estimate. The platform never invents a price the operator did not provide, which protects both the operator from underquoting and the customer from over-promising.
Does the agent handle Spanish or other languages?
The agent handles Spanish natively at no extra cost. The caller can switch language at any point in the conversation; the agent picks up the language change automatically. Other languages (Vietnamese, Mandarin, Portuguese, French, Korean, Arabic) are available on the Professional and Enterprise tiers with onboarding-time setup. The booking confirmation SMS and the lead alert SMS go out in the caller's preferred language.
What if my call volume spikes?
The platform handles concurrency without queuing. Every inbound call gets its own agent instance, so 25 callers dialing simultaneously each get answered in two rings without any of them hearing hold music or a busy signal. The pricing tier governs monthly call volume, not concurrent-call capacity. If a tier's monthly cap is exceeded, the platform keeps answering calls and the dashboard surfaces an upgrade recommendation; calls are never dropped at the tier boundary.
How is missed-call callback different from outbound calling?
Missed-call callback is a specific outbound use case where the agent calls back any caller who hung up before reaching the agent (usually within 90 seconds). It is enabled by default on Professional and Enterprise. General outbound calling is broader (appointment reminders, lead nurture, review collection, post-service follow-up) and is billed at fourteen cents per outbound minute on a transparent meter. The missed-call callback uses outbound minutes but operators rarely cap it because the ROI on a missed-call callback is the highest of any outbound use case.
Do I have to switch my existing phone number?
No. The forwarding model preserves the existing business number entirely. The caller dials the same number they always dialed; the carrier silently forwards the call to the Human Add AI number behind the scenes; the agent answers. The caller-facing number, the existing phone listings, the Google Business Profile, and any print marketing all stay exactly the same.
How does it handle existing customer calls vs. new lead calls?
The agent recognizes existing customers via the inbound number lookup against the CRM. When a known customer calls, the agent greets them by name (using the CRM record) and routes the conversation to the appropriate path (existing-customer support questions, follow-up scheduling, billing questions). New leads get the full intake script. The split is configured during onboarding and adjustable from the dashboard.
What does the support team look like?
A real human at Human Add AI responds within four business hours on Starter, within two business hours on Professional, and inside one business hour on Enterprise. Support covers script edits, integration questions, billing questions, and any urgent issue with the live agent. The support contact is the same human who built the agent during onboarding, which means no ticket-handoff between front-line support and engineering.
What changes after the first month on the platform
After thirty days on Human Add AI, three things have changed for the typical operator. First, the recovered-revenue math has compounded into a concrete dollar number that the operator can see in the dashboard and in the bank account. For most single-location service businesses, the first-month recovered revenue lands between $6,000 and $25,000, against a $497 to $997 plan cost. The platform has paid for itself many times over, and the operator mental model has shifted from "evaluating a new vendor" to "operating a critical revenue tool".
Second, the agent has been tuned to the specific cadence of the business. Tuning continues forever (every business evolves, every season brings new call patterns, every new service line needs new intake questions), but the bulk of the agent customization is done in the first 30 days. After that, the operator can edit the knowledge base from the dashboard for most changes and only needs to ping the Human Add AI team for the larger script revisions.
Third, the operator has started thinking about the second-order use cases the platform unlocks. Outbound missed-call callback usually goes live in month two for operators on Professional or Enterprise. Appointment reminder calls usually go live in month three. By month four, the platform is doing both inbound and outbound work that previously required either a part-time staffer or a separate scheduling service, and the operator is running a tighter business with the same overhead.
What the platform does not try to do
Being clear about scope matters because every platform has things it intentionally does not do, and the operator should know those up front. Human Add AI does not try to be a unified CRM. It integrates with the CRM the operator already uses (Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Salesforce, HubSpot, Clio, Dentrix, twenty more) but does not try to replace it. The platform sends the right data into the right system; it does not try to be the system of record.
It also does not try to be a marketing automation tool. There is no email sequence builder, no landing-page builder, no funnel analytics dashboard. The platform handles the phone (inbound and outbound calls plus SMS lead alerts) and stops there. Operators who want marketing automation use a dedicated tool for that and integrate the two via webhook.
It does not try to be a workforce management platform. There is no shift scheduling, no time tracking, no payroll integration. The platform delivers leads to the operator and the operator dispatches them through whatever workforce tools they already use. The narrow scope is intentional: Human Add AI is built to be the best at one specific job, not adequate at five jobs.
What the operator sees on a typical Monday
The weekly summary email arrives Monday morning at 7 a.m. local time. It is one screen of plain-language metrics: how many calls came in last week, how many were answered (almost always 100 percent), how many resulted in a booked appointment, how many qualified as emergency-routed to the on-call dispatcher, the dollar value of recovered missed-call revenue based on the average ticket size, and a comparison against the previous four weeks.
For most operators that email is enough. The operator scans it for any anomaly (a sudden drop in bookings, an unusually high emergency rate, a spike in after-hours calls) and either responds to the anomaly or moves on with the rest of the Monday. The dashboard sits behind the email for any deeper investigation: drilling into a specific call, listening to the recorded conversation, reading the transcript, reviewing the agent confidence score on a particular interaction, or tuning a specific intake question.
The Monday email also surfaces the outbound activity for operators on Professional and Enterprise: how many missed-call callbacks fired, how many connected, how many appointments came out of the callbacks, and the same metric for appointment reminders and review-collection calls. The outbound numbers usually drive the second-order conversation between the operator and the Human Add AI team: should we expand the outbound use cases, should we adjust the callback timing window, should we change the appointment-reminder script.
