I Built an AI Receptionist for a Luxury Mechanic Shop – Part 1

A developer built an AI receptionist named Axle for his brother's luxury mechanic shop, which was losing revenue from hundreds of missed calls weekly. The system uses a RAG pipeline with scraped website data embedded as vectors in MongoDB Atlas via Voyage AI, and Claude for grounded response generation. Part 1 covers building the knowledge base, vector search retrieval, and ensuring accurate, hallucination-free answers about services and pricing.