“Implementing their AI agents completely transformed our customer support pipeline. Hands down the best tech integration we’ve done this year.”
Sarah Jenkins
CEO at NexaFlow
What an AI agency in Chicago actually does
An AI agency builds and runs the systems that used to need a person at a desk. For a Chicago business, that means two main things. An AI voice agent is software that answers or makes phone calls, understands what the caller says, and responds in a natural voice, the same way a trained employee would handle a call. Workflow automation is software that moves information between your tools without someone re-typing it, for example pulling a new lead from your website into your CRM, booking it on a calendar, and sending a confirmation, all without a person touching it.
We do not sell a single product. We design the specific voice agent, automation, or application your business needs, build it on tools like Claude, Retell, and n8n, and hand it over working. Chicago runs on logistics, finance, and healthcare, industries where a missed call, a slow handoff, or a manual data entry step has a real cost. An AI agency's job is to remove that cost: agents that answer every call, workflows that move data the moment it arrives, and internal tools built around how your team already works, not the other way around.
Hire AI developers for your Chicago business
We are a remote team, based in Brooklyn, New York and St. Petersburg, Florida, with no physical office in Chicago. That is by design, not a limitation. Chicago runs on Central time, one hour behind our home base and well inside a normal US working day, so every call, review, and check-in happens live, during your business hours, not overnight or across a 12-hour gap.
Engagements start with a short discovery call where we map what you actually need: which calls or workflows are costing you time, which tools you already run, and what a working system looks like in 30, 60, or 90 days. We then build in stages, sharing a working version early rather than disappearing for months, so you can react to real output instead of a slide deck.
Every project ends with a proper handover, not a black box. You get documentation that explains what was built, how it connects to your existing tools, and how to change it later, whether that change is made by us or by someone on your own team. If you already have an internal developer or IT contact, we work directly with them, so the system is never dependent on one person who might leave.
AI services for Chicago companies
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AI Voice Agents
Inbound and outbound phone agents that answer calls, qualify leads, and book appointments in a natural voice, built on Retell and tuned to your scripts.
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Workflow Automation
We connect your CRM, calendar, and inbox with n8n so leads, bookings, and follow-ups move automatically instead of being re-typed by hand.
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AI Agent Development
Custom agents built on Claude and LangGraph that handle multi-step tasks like scoring leads, triaging inquiries, or routing documents to the right person.
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AI SaaS & App Development
We design and build software products from scratch, from an internal tool for your team to a customer-facing app you can sell.
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Web Development
Fast, clean websites built to load quickly and convert visitors, wired into the same automations and voice agents you use elsewhere in your business.
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IT & Business Consulting
We audit your current tools and processes, then recommend what to automate first, what to skip, and how to sequence it for real return.
Built for Chicago industries
Chicago is built on logistics, finance, and healthcare, three industries where the phone still runs the business and a missed call or a slow handoff costs real money. Our voice agent work for OraFacePass handles 250,000 calls a day, including CRM-to-calendar booking and spam and scam detection, the same problem a Chicago logistics dispatcher or a finance call center runs into at a smaller scale.
For healthcare, our Flowstate build automates appointment booking, patient report handling, inquiry triage, and document handling with OCR, work that maps directly onto a Chicago clinic or multi-location practice. On the sales side, our Knock platform trains sales teams through AI roleplay, relevant to any Chicago company that runs a phone-heavy sales floor.
We have also built multi-agent lead-scoring pipelines, like our Quantum project for a development finance broker in Australia, the kind of system a Chicago finance or lending business could adapt locally. None of this is generic software. Each build starts from your actual call volume, your actual tools, and your actual team.
What is an AI voice agent?
An AI voice agent is software that handles a phone call the way a trained person would, but automatically. It answers or places the call, listens to what the caller says using speech recognition, decides how to respond using a language model, and replies out loud in a natural-sounding voice, all within roughly a second.
A well-built voice agent can qualify a lead, book an appointment directly onto a calendar, answer common questions, detect a likely spam or scam caller, and hand the call to a human when the conversation needs a person. It runs on the same logic day and night, so calls get answered at 2am on a Saturday the same way they do at 10am on a Tuesday.
Evolvv AI builds voice agents on Retell for calling and Claude for reasoning, connected to a business's existing calendar and CRM through n8n. One live example, OraFacePass, handles 250,000 calls a day, including CRM-to-calendar booking and spam and scam detection. It is not a recorded menu tree; it understands language and can act on what it hears.
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AI services in other US cities
We work with businesses across the United States from Brooklyn, New York and St. Petersburg, Florida. There is no Chicago office, and we would rather say so than imply one.
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Frequently asked questions
Do you have an office in Chicago?
No, we do not have an office in Chicago, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Evolvv AI is based in Brooklyn, New York, with a registered office in St. Petersburg, Florida. We serve Chicago businesses remotely, the same way most software and automation vendors do today. What you get instead of a local office is a team that works inside your Central time working hours, meets over video call, and hands over full documentation for anything we build, so nothing depends on someone being physically in your building. If your project genuinely needs someone on-site, for example wiring hardware into a physical space, tell us early and we will say plainly whether that is something we can support remotely or not. For voice agents, workflow automation, agent development, and software builds, remote delivery is standard practice across the industry, not a workaround.
How much does an AI voice agent or automation cost?
We do not publish flat pricing, because the honest answer depends entirely on scope. A single inbound voice agent that answers calls and books appointments is a smaller build than a multi-agent system that qualifies leads, scores them, and pushes them into a CRM pipeline, so quoting one number for both would be misleading. What we can tell you is how we get to a number: a short discovery call where we map exactly what you need, followed by a scoped proposal with a fixed cost for that specific build, not an open-ended hourly retainer with no ceiling. That way you know what you are paying for before any work starts, and you are not billed for exploration time. We also tell you plainly if something is a bad fit for us, rather than taking on a project we cannot deliver well. If you want a number for your Chicago business, book a 30-minute call and describe what you need automated.
Can you build something specific to our stack, or only generic automations?
Specific to your stack. Most of what we build connects directly into tools a business already runs, rather than replacing them. Our stack includes Claude for reasoning, Retell for voice infrastructure, n8n for workflow automation, HubSpot and Airtable for CRM and data, Clay, Apify and Phantombuster for data enrichment, Twilio for calling infrastructure, and LangChain and LangGraph when a project needs custom multi-step agent logic. We pick the combination that fits what you already have, rather than pushing one platform on every client regardless of fit. Before we start building, we look at what you run today, your CRM, your calendar, your support inbox, and design the automation or agent to sit inside that setup. The goal is always a system your own team can operate afterward, not a black box that only we understand.
What is the difference between an AI voice agent and a chatbot?
A chatbot, in the common sense of the term, is text-based: a visitor types a question on your website or in a messaging app, and it types back. An AI voice agent does the same underlying job, understanding a request and responding usefully, but over a live phone call, in real time, using a synthesized voice instead of text on a screen. That difference matters more than it sounds. A phone call has no typing, no pause to think, and a caller who hangs up if the response is slow or robotic-sounding, so a voice agent needs faster response times and a voice that does not sound obviously synthetic. It also needs to handle interruptions, background noise, and accents gracefully, none of which a text chatbot ever has to deal with. We build both. For a Chicago business already running a website chatbot, adding a voice agent usually means covering the calls that never reach the website.
Does Illinois law affect voice cloning and voiceprints?
Illinois has a real law here, called BIPA, the Biometric Information Privacy Act. It treats a voiceprint, a stored, identifiable model of someone's voice, as biometric data with specific consent and disclosure rules. That matters if a Chicago business wants to clone a real person's voice, for example a founder, rather than using a standard AI voice. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice; talk to an Illinois attorney about your specific use case before cloning anyone's voice. On our side, we build in controls that responsible use generally needs: clear disclosure that a caller is talking to an AI, no covert voice cloning without documented consent, and the option to use a standard voice instead of a cloned one. We flag anything in a request that looks like it needs legal sign-off before we build it, rather than building first and asking later.
