> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.limecall.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.limecall.com/ai-receptionist/create-your-assistant.md).

# Create your assistant

Set up your first AI receptionist from scratch.

## Start

Open **AI Receptionist**. If you have no agent yet, the page shows **No agent yet** — choose **Create agent**.

## Pick your business type

You are asked what kind of business you run. The choices are:

* Home services
* Dental / medical
* Legal
* Real estate
* Auto / dealership

Pick the closest. Your choice pre-writes the scenarios and the qualifying questions for that industry — a dental practice is asked whether the caller is a new or existing patient; a dealership is asked whether there is a trade-in. Everything is editable afterwards.

If none fit, pick the nearest and rewrite the scenario. The template is a starting point, not a constraint.

## Let it read your website

If you gave your website address at signup, LimeCall will have scanned it to pre-fill what you do, your services and your hours.

Review what it found before going further. A scraper reads what is on the page, including out-of-date prices and a phone number you no longer use.

## Work down the menu

The left-hand menu is ordered roughly the way you should fill it in.

**1. Your Assistant** — its name, its language, and the opening message callers hear first.

**2. Knowledge** — the four pages under this group are what the assistant actually knows. Do these before anything clever. An assistant with a beautiful voice and wrong prices is worse than no assistant.

**3. Scenarios** — what it should do on a call.

**4. Voice & Tone** — how it sounds.

**5. Transfers & Escalation** — when to fetch a human.

Everything else can wait until the basics work.

## Set a transfer destination

Before you go live, set at least one number the assistant can transfer to, under **Transfers & Escalation**. An assistant with no escape hatch will keep a frustrated caller in a loop.

## Test it

Open **Test your agent** and call it from your browser. See [Test your assistant](/ai-receptionist/test-your-assistant.md) for what to listen for.

## Connect it to a number

Open **Phone Numbers**, and on the number you want it to answer, set **Who answers your calls** to your AI receptionist.

You can also send only *some* calls to it — for example using the **When busy** destination so it picks up overflow while your team handles what it can. See [Call forwarding & routing](/virtual-numbers/call-forwarding-and-routing.md).

## Version history

The editor keeps a **Version history**. If a change makes things worse, you can see what changed and restore an earlier version — useful when you have been editing the prompt heavily and the assistant starts behaving oddly.