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      <title>Coming soon: website sign-up callbacks and Zillow lead sorting</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Doors 2 and 3 are coming soon: your AI assistant will call back IDX website sign-ups and sort your Zillow and Realtor.com leads, with consent first.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<article><nav aria-label="Breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/">Home</a> / <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">News</a> / Coming soon: website sign-up callbacks and Zillow lead sorting</p></nav><h1>Coming soon: website sign-up callbacks and Zillow lead sorting</h1><p>Doors 2 and 3 are coming soon: your AI assistant will call back IDX website sign-ups and sort your Zillow and Realtor.com leads, with consent first.</p><p>Coming soon. By AetherFL. <time datetime="2026-09-29">September 29, 2026</time>.</p><h2>The short version</h2><ul><li>Door 2: Yara will call back people who sign up on your IDX website and agree to a call.</li><li>Door 3: Yara will call the Zillow and Realtor.com leads who agreed to be called, and sort them by how ready they are.</li><li>Neither is available yet. Door 1, answering your calls, is live today.</li></ul><p><em>(Coming soon)</em> Door 1, answering the calls to your campaign numbers, is live today. Doors 2 and 3 are next. Neither is available yet, and we have not set a date. Here is how they will work.</p><h2 id="door-2-website-sign-up-callbacks">Door 2: website sign-up callbacks</h2><p>Someone signs up on your IDX website and checks a consent box. The box starts unchecked and says plainly that calls may use an AI-generated voice. Yara then calls within a minute, while your listing is still on their screen.</p><ul><li>She opens with your name, says she's your virtual assistant and says the call is recorded.</li><li>She calls only from 8 AM to 8 PM. A sign-up at 11 PM hears from her at 8 AM.</li><li>A site visit alone never gets a call.</li></ul><p>Website sign-up callbacks are planned for <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">Pro and Team</a>.</p><h2 id="door-3-zillow-and-realtor-com-lead-sorting">Door 3: Zillow and Realtor.com lead sorting</h2><p>Your Zillow and Realtor.com leads already land in Follow Up Boss. Yara will call the ones who agreed to be called and find out who's serious: how soon they're moving, whether they're pre-approved and whether they need to sell first. Each answer goes into Follow Up Boss.</p><ul><li><strong>Ready now:</strong> she books a showing or a listing consult and texts you within 1 minute.</li><li><strong>Later:</strong> she checks in by call and text for months.</li><li><strong>Not a fit:</strong> she closes it out politely.</li></ul><p>On Zillow Flex, Zillow still makes the first call, and Yara takes it from there. If a lead's consent is unclear, you get it first. No consent, no call. Zillow lead follow-up is planned for Team.</p><h2 id="why-consent-comes-first">Why consent comes first</h2><p>Federal rules require prior express written consent for sales calls made with an AI voice, and Florida requires it for automated sales calls. Our <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/tcpa#tc-calls">TCPA page</a> explains how consent is collected and kept.</p><p>You can start with Door 1 today: <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">set up Yara</a>, and your 30-day free pilot runs on Pro. See <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/how-it-works#doors">how the three doors work</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">All news</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">Set up Yara</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">See pricing</a></p></article>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Coming soon: Yara in your own voice</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>We're working on an option for your AI assistant to answer calls in your own voice. It isn't available yet. Here is what it will change, and what it won't.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<article><nav aria-label="Breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/">Home</a> / <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">News</a> / Coming soon: Yara in your own voice</p></nav><h1>Coming soon: Yara in your own voice</h1><p>We're working on an option for your AI assistant to answer calls in your own voice. It isn't available yet. Here is what it will change, and what it won't.</p><p>Coming soon. By AetherFL. <time datetime="2026-09-29">September 29, 2026</time>.</p><h2>The short version</h2><ul><li>Coming soon: an option for Yara to speak in your own voice on your calls.</li><li>It isn't available yet, and we have not set a date.</li><li>Callers will still hear that she's your virtual assistant and that the call is recorded.</li></ul><p><em>(Coming soon)</em> We're building an option that lets Yara answer your calls in your own voice. It is not available yet, and we have not set a date. We'll post here when it is live.</p><h2 id="what-it-will-do">What it will do</h2><p>Today, Yara speaks in her own voice. With this option, you record a short sample of your voice, and Yara answers your calls sounding like you. The choice will be yours. If you would rather keep her own voice, nothing changes.</p><p>You can see <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/#your-voice">a preview on the home page</a>.</p><h2 id="what-it-wont-change">What it won't change</h2><ul><li><strong>She still says who she is.</strong> Every call opens with your name, the words &quot;virtual assistant&quot; and a recording notice, in any voice.</li><li><strong>She still won't pretend to be you.</strong> If a caller asks, she says she's your virtual assistant, not a person.</li><li><strong>The same rules apply.</strong> A voice made from yours is still an AI-generated voice. The FCC treats AI voices as artificial voices under the TCPA (<a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-17A1.pdf" rel="noopener">FCC 24-17</a>), and so do we.</li><li><strong>The rest of the job.</strong> The same questions, the same appointments and the same text summary within 1 minute.</li></ul><h2 id="how-to-follow-it">How to follow it</h2><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/#waitlist">Join the waitlist</a> to hear when it is ready. We also post every launch in this newsroom, and the <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news/rss.xml">news feed</a> brings each one to your reader. Tell us what you would want from it on the <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/feedback">feedback board</a>.</p><p>Until then, you can <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/#live-call">have Yara call you</a> and hear her voice today, or read <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/ai-receptionist#call">how a call goes</a>, step by step.</p><h2 id="sources">Sources</h2><ol><li>Federal Communications Commission. <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-17A1.pdf" rel="noopener">Declaratory Ruling FCC 24-17, AI-generated voices under the TCPA</a>. February 8, 2024.</li></ol><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">All news</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">Set up Yara</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">See pricing</a></p></article>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Meet Yara: the new name of our AI assistant</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Our AI assistant for Florida real estate agents has a new name. What she does, how she introduces herself and the prices did not change.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<article><nav aria-label="Breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/">Home</a> / <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">News</a> / Meet Yara: the new name of our AI assistant</p></nav><h1>Meet Yara: the new name of our AI assistant</h1><p>Our AI assistant for Florida real estate agents has a new name. What she does, how she introduces herself and the prices did not change.</p><p>Update. By AetherFL. <time datetime="2026-09-29">September 29, 2026</time>.</p><h2>The short version</h2><ul><li>Our virtual assistant is now called Yara, across the site and on the demo calls.</li><li>Nothing else changes: the same job, the same rules and the same prices.</li><li>Callers still hear up front that she's a virtual assistant and that the call is recorded.</li></ul><p>Starting today, September 29, 2026, our virtual assistant has a new name: Yara. You'll see it across aetherfl.com, and the demo calls on this site now introduce her as Yara.</p><h2 id="what-changes">What changes</h2><p>Only the name. Her page is now <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/ai-receptionist">aetherfl.com/ai-receptionist</a>, and old links to it forward there.</p><h2 id="what-stays-the-same">What stays the same</h2><ul><li><strong>The disclosure.</strong> Every call opens with the agent's name, the words &quot;virtual assistant&quot; and a recording notice. If a caller asks, she says she's not a person.</li><li><strong>The job.</strong> She answers the calls to your campaign numbers that you miss, asks the LPMAMA questions, books the appointment and texts you a summary within 1 minute.</li><li><strong>The limits.</strong> She won't value a home, negotiate or promise anything. Those questions become an appointment with you.</li><li><strong>The plans.</strong> Starter is $99 a month, Pro $199 and Team $399, with a 30-day free pilot on Pro.</li></ul><h2 id="hear-her-for-yourself">Hear her for yourself</h2><p>Enter your number on the home page and <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/#live-call">Yara will call you</a>, so you hear what your callers will hear. Or read <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/ai-receptionist#call">an example call</a>, from the greeting to the text you get afterward. The exact greeting rules are on our <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/tcpa#tc-answer">TCPA page</a>.</p><p>Ideas for what she should do next? Post them on the <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/feedback">feedback board</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">All news</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">Set up Yara</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">See pricing</a></p></article>]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>AetherFL is live for Florida agents</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>On September 28, 2026, aetherfl.com opened to the public. Florida real estate agents can now have an AI assistant answer the calls to their numbers.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<article><nav aria-label="Breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/">Home</a> / <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">News</a> / AetherFL is live for Florida agents</p></nav><h1>AetherFL is live for Florida agents</h1><p>On September 28, 2026, aetherfl.com opened to the public. Florida real estate agents can now have an AI assistant answer the calls to their numbers.</p><p>Launch. By AetherFL. <time datetime="2026-09-28">September 28, 2026</time>.</p><h2>The short version</h2><ul><li>aetherfl.com opened to the public on September 28, 2026.</li><li>Door 1 is live: Yara answers the calls to your campaign numbers that you don't pick up.</li><li>You start with a 30-day free pilot on Pro, set up for you within 48 hours.</li></ul><p>On September 28, 2026, we opened aetherfl.com to the public. Florida real estate agents can now set up Yara, our virtual assistant, to answer the calls their marketing brings in.</p><h2 id="what-is-live-today">What is live today</h2><p>Door 1 is live. Each postcard, sign or ad gets its own campaign number. Calls to it ring your cell first, for about 20 seconds. Press 1 to take the call yourself. If you don't pick up, Yara answers instead of your voicemail.</p><ul><li>She greets the caller in your name, says she's your virtual assistant and says the call is recorded.</li><li>She asks the LPMAMA questions one at a time: location, price, motivation, agent and mortgage.</li><li>On Pro and Team, she books a showing, a listing consult or a callback in your calendar and logs the call in Follow Up Boss.</li><li>Within 1 minute of the hang-up, you get a text with the whole call and a link to the recording and transcript.</li></ul><h2 id="plans-and-the-free-pilot">Plans and the free pilot</h2><p>Starter is $99 a month, Pro $199 and Team $399. You start with a 30-day free pilot on Pro, on your own campaign numbers. We set up your numbers, call forwarding, calendar and Follow Up Boss for you within 48 hours. The <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">pricing page</a> lists what each plan includes.</p><h2 id="what-else-went-up">What else went up</h2><ul><li><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/#live-call">Have Yara call you</a>: enter your number and hear what your callers will hear.</li><li>The <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/blog">blog</a>, with guides on missed calls, speed to lead, call tracking and the rules for calling leads. Every number links to its source.</li><li>The <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/feedback">feedback board</a>, where you can suggest ideas for Yara and vote for others.</li></ul><h2 id="what-comes-next">What comes next</h2><p>Calling back website sign-ups and working Zillow and Realtor.com leads are <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news/website-callbacks-and-zillow-lead-sorting">coming soon</a>, as are calls in Spanish and more CRMs. We will post each one here when it is live.</p><p>Want to see it on your own numbers? <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">Answer a few questions</a> in 5 minutes and we set it up for you in 48 hours.</p><p><a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/news">All news</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/demo">Set up Yara</a> · <a href="https://www.aetherfl.com/pricing">See pricing</a></p></article>]]></content:encoded>
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