For years my phone rang at the worst moments: on a ladder, mid-coat, a roller in one hand. I'd call back an hour later and hear the same line. "Oh, we already booked someone."
- Most people who reach a voicemail don't leave a message. They call the next business.
- An AI receptionist answers every call, asks the right questions and books the job into your calendar.
- You stay in charge: it texts you every booking and hands anything unusual to you.
The call you didn't hear
It's never one big loss. It's a missed call on Tuesday, another on Thursday, one on Saturday while you're at your kid's game. Each one was somebody ready to pay, and each one went to whoever picked up first.
When I finally looked at my call log, the missed calls weren't the odd one out. They were a pattern: early mornings, lunch, and every evening after six. Exactly when I was working, or exactly when I'd stopped.
What callers do instead
Think about how you hire a plumber. You search, you tap the first number that looks decent, and if nobody answers, you tap the second. You don't leave a voicemail and wait. Your customers don't either.
"The phone always rang when I was on a ladder."Davis, on his painting years
So the problem was never the quality of the work, or even the price. It was the first ten seconds of a phone call.
When the AI picked up
We set up an AI that answers in our name. It greets the caller, asks what they need, where and when, and books a quote straight into the calendar. Then it texts me the details. Here's what one of those calls looks like:
Watch it workA Tuesday, 7:42 pm. Davis is up a ladder.
- 1The phone rings
- 2The AI answers in your company's name
- 3It asks what, where and when
- 4It books the quote into your calendar
- 5It texts you the details
A sample call, played back.
It doesn't pretend to be me. If a call is unusual, like an insurance job or a client who's upset, it takes the details and sends them to me right away, so a person handles it.
What it costs, and what it saves
On our pricing page the AI receptionist is $150,000 a month, a sample price for now. One extra job a month pays for it several times over. A full-time receptionist costs far more, and still goes home at five.
The bigger saving is the one you don't see: the evening you didn't spend calling people back, and the job that didn't go to the next name on Google.
Try it yourself
The easiest way to judge it is to hear it. Our own contact page runs the same AI. Talk to it out loud, ask it anything, and see how it books.
