Swift Solution vs Hey Jodie
Hey Jodie is a good product and, for a lot of businesses, the cheaper answer. The comparison only gets interesting once you count the things it does not do.
The honest starting point
Hey Jodie sells an AI receptionist you set up yourself: pick a plan (Basic £49, Professional £99, Premium £199 a month at the time of checking), train it from a web dashboard, and point your calls at it. Unlimited minutes on every plan, a seven-day free trial, no setup fee and month-to-month billing. That is a genuinely competitive offer and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Swift Solution is a different shape of thing. The AI receptionist is one component of a managed plan that also builds and runs your website, a trained chatbot, missed-call text-back and the follow-up pipeline behind all of it, with a person reviewing what it is doing each month. It costs more because it is more, and because someone other than you is responsible for it working.
The comparison
| Hey Jodie | Swift Solution | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Self-serve AI receptionist | Managed plan: receptionist, website, chatbot, follow-up |
| Monthly cost | £49 / £99 / £199 | £497 / £897 (receptionist plans) |
| Setup fee | None | £750 / £1,500 / £2,500 |
| Who trains the AI | You, in a dashboard | We do, from your real services and prices |
| Included minutes | Unlimited | 200 (Growth) · 400 (Full Managed) |
| Website included | No | Yes, built and hosted |
| Website chatbot | No | Yes, trained on the same knowledge |
| Follow-up after the call | Notification to you | Automated chasing until it converts |
| Monthly human review | No | Yes, with a report |
| Contract | Month-to-month | Rolling monthly, 30 days' notice |
| Trial | 7 days free | Free 20-minute call, live demo on it |
| Best for | Owners happy to set up and tune it themselves | Owners who want the whole enquiry problem handled |
Competitor figures read from the supplier’s own published pricing page, September 2026. Where none is published we say so. Prices change — check theirs before deciding.
So which should you pick?
If the only problem you have is unanswered calls, and you are the kind of person who will spend an evening training a dashboard and another one every time something changes, Hey Jodie is the better-value choice and you should take the free trial. If the receptionist is one piece of a leaky enquiry process — calls, web forms, quotes that never get chased — and you would rather pay one supplier to own all of it, that is what we are for. On the receptionist alone, Hey Jodie is cheaper; on the whole problem, it is usually not.
One plan, everything included
Website, AI, automation and ongoing management in a single monthly fee. No contracts — 30 days' notice.
- ✓3–5 page professional website
- ✓AI chatbot trained on your business
- ✓Lead capture + instant alerts
- ✓Automated enquiry follow-up
- ✓Missed call text-back
- ✓Online booking & monthly reporting
- ✓Everything in Starter
- ✓5–8 page website with live chat
- ✓AI voice receptionist — 200 mins/mo
- ✓Full lead & sales pipeline
- ✓Client onboarding automation
- ✓Invoice chasing & weekly reporting
- ✓Everything in Growth
- ✓Unlimited page website
- ✓AI voice receptionist — 400 mins/mo
- ✓Staff onboarding automation
- ✓Social scheduling & knowledge base
- ✓Priority support & strategy calls
All plans include hosting, edits, updates and ongoing management. Cancel any time with 30 days' notice. Full pricing details →