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AI-Powered First Call Answering

Every Family Deserves An Answer.

When a family calls your funeral home at 2am, they deserve more than voicemail. Tendru answers with compassion, collects the full first-call intake, and alerts your director — every time.

67%of families call after business hours
$8,400average revenue per funeral case
1 in 4after-hours calls go to voicemail
40%of families who reach voicemail call a competitor
NFDA-aware intake protocolFTC Funeral Rule compliantAI disclosure on every call48-hour setupNo long-term contractsSOC 2 Type II infrastructureCall recording compliance toolingPassare integration availableNFDA-aware intake protocolFTC Funeral Rule compliantAI disclosure on every call48-hour setupNo long-term contractsSOC 2 Type II infrastructureCall recording compliance toolingPassare integration available

The Problem

After-Hours Calls Don't Wait
for Business Hours

67%
of families call after business hours
$8,400
average revenue per funeral case
1 in 4
after-hours calls go to voicemail
40%
of families who reach voicemail call a competitor

Without Tendru

  • ✗A grieving family hears a ringing phone — then silence
  • ✗Voicemail captures nothing — families leave no message
  • ✗40% call the next funeral home on Google
  • ✗Director woken at 3am with incomplete information
  • ✗First-call data typed manually from memory the next morning
  • ✗No record of calls that never made it through

With Tendru

  • ✓Every call answered within 2 rings, 24 hours a day
  • ✓Warm, compassionate AI greeting — never a recording
  • ✓All 10 intake fields collected in a single call
  • ✓Structured SMS to on-call director within seconds
  • ✓Full transcript delivered to director's inbox automatically
  • ✓Zero missed first-call opportunities, ever

The Process

How It Works

From the moment a family dials your number to the moment you receive a complete intake report — Tendru handles everything.

01

Family calls your number

After hours (or 24/7 — your choice), calls forward to Tendru instead of ringing into a voicemail or waking the on-call director.

02

Tendru answers with compassion

The AI greets the family with a warm, unhurried tone. It discloses it is an AI assistant and begins the intake conversation at their pace.

03

All 10 intake fields collected

Using structured conversation — not a form — Tendru gathers every field needed for first-call documentation and reads it back to the family for confirmation.

04

Director alerted instantly

Within seconds of the call ending, the on-call director receives a structured SMS with all intake data and a full transcript email. No searching. No transcription.

Total time from call to director alert: under 5 minutes

Hear It Yourself

What a Family Hears

A real demonstration of Tendru handling an after-hours first call — compassionate, unhurried, complete.

Tendru Demo Call

After-hours first call intake

Tendru — First Call Demo
0:00 / 4:00

2:47am, Tuesday. A family member calls your funeral home number. Within two rings, Tendru answers. Over the next four minutes, all 10 first-call intake fields are collected through compassionate conversation — not a form. By 2:52am, the on-call director receives a complete SMS report. No voicemail. No missed case.

ROI Calculator

Calculate Your Missed Revenue

Adjust the sliders to match your funeral home and see exactly how much revenue Tendru protects each year.

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50500
$8,400
$4,000$15,000
25%
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You're leaving approximately

$0

per year on the table

Missed cases/year30
Tendru annual cost$5,964
Return on investment42.3x

Tendru pays for itself at 42.3x return

Pricing

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Every plan includes done-for-you setup. You're live in 48 hours or your first month is free.

Essential

After-hours coverage only

$297/mo
  • AI answers after-hours calls 24/7
  • Full 10-field first-call intake
  • SMS notification to on-call director
  • Call transcript via email
  • Up to 150 calls/month
Most Popular

Growth

24/7 full coverage

$497/mo
  • Everything in Essential
  • 24/7 AI coverage (business hours fallback)
  • Real-time pre-call director alert
  • Unlimited calls
  • Call recording archive
  • Priority onboarding (48-hour setup)

Enterprise

Multi-location + integrations

$797/mo
  • Everything in Growth
  • Up to 5 funeral home locations
  • Passare CMS auto-push
  • Custom AI voice persona
  • Dedicated account manager
  • White-label option available

No contracts. Cancel anytime. We set everything up for you.

Trusted By Directors

Funeral Directors Trust Tendru

“

We were using an answering service that was clearly reading from a script. Families would call back and say 'the person who answered last night didn't seem to care.' Tendru changed that completely.

MR

Michael R.

Owner, Riverside Memorial

Columbus, OH

“

I missed a first call at 2am — the family had to leave a voicemail. That case went to our competitor. With Tendru, that never happens. The intake record is waiting for me when I wake up.

SL

Sandra L.

Licensed Funeral Director

Nashville, TN

“

The setup was remarkably easy. Within 48 hours we had a fully configured AI handling our overnight calls. The first-call report format matches what we'd type manually — it saves us 20 minutes per case.

JP

James P.

Funeral Home Director

Phoenix, AZ

FAQ

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Setup takes 48 hours. No contracts. No missed first calls.

Every hour without Tendru is a first call that goes to voicemail.