1. Start with the calls your Chesapeake Beach team misses
The Census records Chesapeake Beach as a municipality in Calvert County, Maryland, with an estimated population of 6,456 for the 2020–2024 ACS 5-year period. This is geographic context, not a forecast of how many people will call your office. Your decision should begin with actual unanswered-call records: when calls arrive, how often callers reach voicemail, which calls are current-client matters, and which require an attorney or intake employee. Bosseo describes AI Answering as a 24/7 system that picks up when the firm does not answer within 20 seconds, including nights, weekends, holidays and overflow.
Recommended approach
Review several weeks of phone logs before choosing coverage. Separate unanswered calls from abandoned calls, wrong numbers, existing-client calls and prospective matters. Then decide whether the system should serve as an after-hours backstop, an overflow path, or both.
