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AI phone answering service
It answers the calls you can't, in your business's name, asks what a good receptionist asks, and puts the appointment on your calendar. $200 a month, 300 minutes included, no contract.
You don't pay a cent until it gets you two leads. No card to start.
The old answering service took a message. This one runs the call the way your own front desk would - and it's the part after "hello" that matters.
Not "answering service, please hold." It picks up with your company name, tells the caller the call is recorded, and talks like someone who works there - because it knows your hours, your service area, whether estimates are free, how soon you can get out, and the things your customers always ask. All of that comes from a two-minute form you fill in once, in your own words.
What's going on, is it urgent, whose house, what address, and a callback number read back digit by digit. Then it offers two appointment times and books the one the caller picks. You get a text with the summary and a link to the recording, usually before the caller has put their phone down.
It does not pretend to be a person. If a caller asks, it says it's the automated receptionist for your business and that you'll follow up personally - then it keeps helping. Most callers don't ask; they want the leak fixed, not a philosophy discussion.
Three ways to handle the call you can't take. Only one of them ends with a job on the calendar.
Free, and most callers hang up on it. The ones who do leave a message expect a callback you'll make from a ladder, hours later, to a number you may have written down wrong. A lot of those callers have already called the next contractor on the list.
A real person takes a message and emails it to you. They usually don't know your policies, can't book into your calendar, and bill by the minute or the call - so a busy month costs more, and a spam call costs the same as a customer. You still have to call everyone back.
Answers every time, in your name, with your answers. Screens the robocalls and sales pitches so they never reach your summary. Books the job, not just the message. One flat price, and you pay nothing until it has proven itself twice.
Anyone whose hands are busy when the phone rings, and whose missed call is worth real money.
Roofers on a roof. Plumbers under a sink. HVAC techs in an attic in July. Electricians inside a panel. General contractors walking a job site with a client. Cleaners, landscapers, painters, handymen, garage door and appliance repair - and the one-truck operations where the owner is the whole office. If you've ever climbed down to find two missed calls and no voicemails, this is for you. The trade pages below show what the calls sound like for each.
300 minutes of answered calls included, 30¢ a minute after, no setup fee, no contract. Cancel any time from your account page.
Over 300 minutes it's 30¢ a minute, and you get a text before that happens. No setup fee, no contract. Cancel any time from your account page; you keep the month you've paid for, and months aren't refunded.
Live on your phone tomorrow. No card to start. Billing begins the morning after your second real lead - and you'll have the recordings of both.
Hear it before you payTwo minutes. Nothing to pay until it has earned it.
Our promise
A lead is a real customer it put on your calendar from a call you would have missed. You'll see every one, with the recording. Until there are two, you owe nothing. After that it's $200 a month, month to month, cancel any time from your account page.
Try itSame job, different result. A traditional answering service takes a message for you to act on. This answers in your name, asks the questions you'd ask, screens spam, and books the appointment onto your calendar - then texts you the summary and the recording.
Only the ones you miss, unless you want otherwise. Your phone rings first; conditional call forwarding sends unanswered calls to the receptionist instead of voicemail. If you pick up, it's never involved.
It introduces itself as the receptionist for your company, and it sounds like one. It won't pretend to be you, and it won't quote prices or promise work — it books the visit so you can. Anyone who asks for a human is told the truth and offered a callback or, for emergencies, a transfer to your cell.
It doesn't guess. During setup you tell us what it's allowed to say — a service-call fee, a range, or nothing at all — and otherwise it books the estimate. It will never invent a number and put you on the hook for it.
Screened out. You get a one-line note that it happened, and nothing lands on your calendar. For a lot of contractors that's most of the volume, and it's the part nobody misses.
Something better. You don't pay a cent until it gets you two leads. A lead is a real customer the receptionist put on your calendar from a call you would otherwise have missed. You'll see every one, with the recording. Until there are two, you owe nothing - no card, no invoice. The morning after the second one, we text you a link, and from then it's $200 a month, month to month, cancel any time from your account page.
A caller the receptionist took details from and booked onto your calendar - a name, a callback number, an address and a time. Whether they keep it or you take the job isn't part of it - we can only stand behind what happens on the phone. Spam and wrong numbers never count. You get the recording of every one.
Yes, every call is recorded so you can hear it. The receptionist tells callers the call is recorded where the law requires it, including states like Pennsylvania where everyone on the call has to know.
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