Obaid Ahmed is the founder of Ringing.io, an AI virtual receptionist that answers business calls 24/7 for small businesses in plumbing, dental, legal, real estate, and other appointment-driven industries. He built the platform end-to-end (engineering + product) and works directly with SMB customers on the operational reality of customer phone calls. Available to comment on: AI voice technology, SMB customer service automation, the economics of AI versus human virtual receptionist services, missed-call recovery (67% of business leads happen after standard business hours), voicemail-to-text transcription accuracy in real-world deployments, and how conversational AI is changing front-office work for small businesses.